Talk:Nippon (disambiguation)

Partial title matches

I think that none of the items on this disambiguation page pass the "Partial Title Matches" test. I think that this entire page should become a redirection to "Names of Japan". However, I don't know the subject matter or the appropriate style nearly enough to feel comfortable making that determination. Signless (talk) 00:57, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

I agree strongly with the above comment from eight years ago, and the problem has only gotten worse since then. The overwhelming majority of the items on this page cannot be referred to as "Nippon". I will remove them now. 59.149.124.29 (talk) 23:41, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: Move and redirect to Japan. Jafeluv (talk) 06:04, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

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Nippon → Nippon (disambiguation) – Seems there is a clear primary topic. Many other native names redirect to the country Deutschland, Polska, Soomaaliya, Zhongguo with a disambiguation page linked by hatnote where needed Deutschland (disambiguation), Polska (disambiguation). At best, this is a list of barely ambiguous partial title matches. At worst, the page should be deleted or perhaps moved to List of things with Nippon in the name. older ≠ wiser 11:57, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

• Comment. Nihon, the other name for Japan, already redirects there. This seems to be the convention to redirect native-language country names to the English language page, with hatnotes at the top for disambiguation. I tried several—Schweiz, Suisse, Italia, Osterreich—redirect to the country. However, Espana is a DAB, while Espanya, a misspelling of España, redirects to the country. Typical Wiki-inconsistency. What are the criteria for determining which is used for a particular country? I wonder what percentage of English-speaking readers would as their first option type a foreign-language name in the search box. I suspect most searching these names will end up clicking on the hatnote. What started all this is that I was editing List of collectibles, one of those "list of" articles full of WP:OVERLINKs to plain-English words that I don't care for, to deal with a link to hardware, when I noticed [1] a DAB needed tag for Nippon. I didn't find anything at the Nippon DAB either, so I went searching the full text for articles containing "Nippon porcelain", and was lucky to find Noritake. Figuring a link to Nippon Toki Kaisha, Ltd. might help the next guy searching for "Nippon" china, I added it to the DAB, which immediately came to the attention of the nominator because I committed the sin of adding it to the DAB before I created the redirect. Sorry if I'm getting too long-winded, but this is my way of explaining that I feel that moving this to a "List of things with Nippon in the name" is not something that would be useful. Wbm1058 (talk) 16:28, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
  • As an aside, I don't think Espanya can be called a "misspelling". It is the name of Spain in Catalan, Aragonese, and Tagalog and other Philippine languages.[2] —  AjaxSmack  01:06, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

• Comment. There is a similar request at Talk:España. Wbm1058 (talk) 17:27, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
• Support Pretty clear primary topic. --BDD (talk) 20:36, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
• Support it is a clear alternate name for Japan in English as well. You see "Nipponese" in WWII-era works -- 76.65.128.252 (talk) 13:14, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
• Support per nom. bd2412 T 11:38, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.