Wiki143:Articles for deletion/Glossary of Japanese history

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The result of the debate was KEEP. Splash 18:13, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Glossary of Japanese history

It's only just been created, but I can't see this ever working, and I'm not sure that it's been done for any other countries. History of Japan would presumably contain anything that goes here, and theres no other Wikipedia glossaries right now. Hedley 01:51, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep valuable resource started by contributor with a long history of developing significant articles. Wikipedia has enormous numbers of lists (and a glossary is a list with a more specialized name and function) that organize information in ways that other articles do not. History of Japan is too long and organized by period. Fg2 01:58, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
  • I don't see how this glossary counters that, a glossary is just a duplicate of content, and Wikipedia's convention is History of.. articles. Hedley 02:06, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - I am not sure why this fails to work. While I am afraid that it might get too long in the future, we still have to see this for a while. I created this in the same manner as Glossary of object-oriented programming and similar glossaries in math. I agree that this may be unprecedented, but then that might mean that we need similar glossaries for other countries as well. Finally, as Fg2 pointed, this is certainly differently from History of Japan as this one lists historical terms not narrate the story. -- Taku 02:14, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. TakuyaMurata, given his prolific output, would naturally find glossary pages a useful tool. They aren't common on Wikipedia, but they provide an efficient means for grouping together lots of related (but different, and hence unlistable) articles. Binadot 02:25, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - I see no criteria on Wikipedia:Deletion_policy that would justify deleting this page. Glossaries are clearly encyclopedic. -- Rick Block (talk) 02:56, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, but suggest a rename to List of terms in Japanese history, or something similar, which would clarify its place in Wikipedia. At present, this is not a "glossary" as I understand it -- it does not define terms except by their Japanese equivalent. -- Visviva 02:57, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep 'nuff said. David Hoag 06:08, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep There is at least one other Wikipedia Glossary: Glossary of game theory --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 08:53, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I think, however, it needs a lot more terms listed (including perhaps ones without Wikipedia links!) to warrant keeping in the long term. TheDeadlyShoe 08:56, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The Wikipedia already has a large number of glossaries (see [1]), and knowing the creator of this page, I have no doubt that this glossary will prove to be useful and encyclopedic. BlankVerse ∅ 11:55, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. needs alot more links, but no reason for deletion, just for editing. Uber nemo 15:59, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep The difference from the main history articles is perfectly clear. CalJW 13:54, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - wow. Just found this. Nice. - Tεxτurε 19:09, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

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