Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Koga-ryu/rough

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. Radiant_>|< 00:49, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Koga-ryu/rough

At first glance, I don't know what this is supposed to be. Looks very haphazard. Could be a draft for some article that was meant to be in user namespace (as suggested by "/rough"). (But if so, why not stub?) I say userfy (if necessary) then delete. Wwwwolf 22:57, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

I took maybe a bit more time than a quick glance at it. (The external link was very helpful to help me make a first guess.) It's an article about a school (ryū) of ninjutsu, with the original article being ja:甲賀流 (Kōka-ryū, Kōga-ryū); it was probably machine-translated, explaining the hap-hazardness. According to the article ninja, the article should be titled Kōga-ryū. The “/rough” likely is a non-standard transliteration of “ryū” (major school). I would say categorize, stubify, move, and retranslate.—Wing 23:52, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Thinking about it a bit more, perhaps "/rough" does mean "rough draft". Perhaps the current title means “a rough draft of an article on ‘Koga-ryu’”. The article is not mentioned in the original contributor’s user page, though, so perhaps he/she has forgotten about it.—Wing 00:39, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

• Comment needs major cleanup, then renaming. Probably no need to delete. Fg2 01:20, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and clean up - I see some improvements have been made. My Japanese was not good enough to work out what the original was about, but I think that this seems a worthwhile topic if some of our Japanese speakers can make a better go of it. --MacRusgail 16:28, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.