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 was Speedy Keep per debate and fixing up of the article by other editors. No point continuing this thread. Pedro :  Chat  22:11, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tourism in Japan (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

WP:NOT a travel guide. Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:11, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete or move to WikiTravel, but also keep in mind that numerous "Tourism in..." articles exist, so we should perhaps consider a holistic approach and look toward eliminating or reforming all of them. Biruitorul (talk) 20:23, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. —Quasirandom (speak) 20:46, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• This isn't a travel guide. There's nothing here from which I could plan my vacation with. Quoting from WP:NOT#TRAVELGUIDE:An article on Paris should mention landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, but not the telephone number or street address of your favorite hotel or the price of a café au lait on the Champs-Élysées. Wikipedia is not a place to re-create content more suited to entries in hotel guides, culinary guides, popular eating guides, gazeteers, travelogues, and the like. Notable locations may meet inclusion criteria, but Wikipedia does not list every tourist attraction, restaurant, hotel, venue, etc. This article hews very closely to this guideline of sticking to the high-level details. Keep. —Quasirandom (speak) 20:49, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

keep, and what's your justification for wanting to delete a whole series? Chris (クリス) (talk) 20:57, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, I restubbed the article [1] with a view towards making it into a history of the tourism industry in Japan, which is perfectly appropriate for an encyclopedia. I added one very good source for this which I found by Google Books; surely we'll find others if we spend more than 5 minutes looking. cab (talk) 21:02, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note that I agree strongly with the nominator's contention that the initial travel guide-style version of the article was inappropriate for Wikipedia; however, we fix such problems by editing, not by deletion. cab (talk) 21:05, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy keep Japan's tourism is notable. Tim Q. Wells (talk) 21:03, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy keep. This is not a travel guide. It's a perfectly legitimate encyclopedic article about tourism in Japan.-h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 21:24, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy keep per HisSpaceResearch. --Blanchardb-^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}-timed 21:47, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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