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 Delete I notice with interest that canvassing took place(whether misguided or not) on the ja.wiki. Given this I spent a great deal of time looking for any associations between keep opinions and the canvassing, I found very little direct response(one probable) though others not directly contacted may have responded. Those with a keep opinion indicated that both the term and its use are recent inflammatory neologism.

This article has a very close appearance to that of an attack page, most of the listed article dont even discuss any dispute on naming origins interestingly Akita Inu actually says the bread originated from dogs that were introduced to mainland Japan after the First Sino-Japanese War. which took place on the Korean penninsula. Given this and the canvassing by User:Michael Friedrich I discounted keep opinions which offered nothing to address the issue of WP:NOT, WP:RS and WP:OR Gnangarra 13:01, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uriginal[edit]

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This is basically an exercise in quote-hunting: find a place where some Korean (any Korean or Korean-related group, not necessarily a notable one) made some laughable claim that X is of Korean origin, and add it to the list. The sources are mostly random websites; even the ones which are from reliable sources like newspapers turn out to be opinion pieces or quotes, not newspapers themselves claiming these things as facts. In short, a list of indiscriminate information bordering on WP:OR. Also, the title itself is a neologism with only a few hundred GHits (Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL). But even moving it to a real title like "List of things which Koreans claim to have invented" wouldn't save it. cab 08:02, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Closing admin please note: the page creator User:Michael Friedrich appears to be violating WP:CANVAS over on jawiki with a large number of messages which specifically solicit keep votes and refer to this AfD as a "crisis" (危機). [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] cab 06:38, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I didn't know that was against the rules. I used the word "crisis" imitating [Chosun Ilbo article] on Liancourt Rocks ("위기(危機)", meaning "crisis"), which promped the readers to vote.--Michael Friedrich 09:52, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The uriginal phenomenon is well-known especially in Japan. Even All Japan Kendo Federation([19]) and Kodokan[20] officially refer to it. It is true that the name "Uriginal" is not common outside Japan but it is not something made by either minority ultra-nationalist groups or a very specific group. If they were, AJKF and Kodokan would have ignored them. But this is one of Japanese-Korean disputes, which is so big a phenomenon that they couldn't ignore. (Actually, uriginal is also known as "Korean-Original theory", which is the most common name in Japan[21].
You can find a lot of books which refers to this issue. The most famous one is Manga Kenkanryu. Others include Korea vs Japan: World of fictional history (published by Shogakukan), Korean's Fictional History (also published by Shogakukan), Medicine for the Koreans (published by Oakla Publisher), etc... If you look closer, you can understand that this article doesn't contain any original resource.
If the title "Uriginal" is not suitable, why don't we move it to "List of things which Koreans claim to have invented"? I cannot find any problems.
The article only has reliable sources such as Chosun Ilbo, is not neologism (Google shows 29,500 hits for "ウリジナル" [22]) and does not contain original research or unverified claims. In short, there's no reason to delete this article.--Michael Friedrich 15:48, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I would certainly call the Japanese' version of Chosun Ilbo, which is what's cited in the article, minor. More to the point, none of these sources validate the central claim of the article, which is that "many" Koreans believe these things. The official site of the Podunk Yudo Association may be an excellent source on the views of the Podunk Yudo Association, but it has no status to tell us about anything beyond that; and the viewpoints of obscure civic organizations are not generally of encyclopedic merit. Now, if there had been a systematic poll of the Korean population (South, North, overseas) which showed that a substantial percentage believed these things -- now that would be interesting. But I don't see any evidence of this in the article; it is illuminating that so many of the sources are actually from Japan or China. -- Visviva 17:28, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It is not true that "so many of the sources are actually from Japan or China." 8 out of the 12 sources of Uriginal are from Korea or the United States. English-->[23][24][25], Korean-->[26][27][28][29][30], Japanese-->[31][32], Chinese-->[33]--Michael Friedrich 10:05, 28 June 2007
Sorry for my ignorance,I didn't read japanese,so after check several english links,I found no serious english websites,news agency or academic journals.--Ksyrie(Talkie talkie) 20:23, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Michael Friedrich asked that I reconsider my !vote. I looked carefully at the article. Unfortunately, my vote is unchanged. Sources are shown to say that somewhere, some Korean has made a claim. Sources are not always shown that the claim is false; if they are, they are not presented as competing claims. Thus the article fails WP:NPOV in that regard. But more important, it fails WP:NPOV#Undue weight because we have nothing to tell us how notable these claims are, except the introduction to the article suggesting that Japanese commonly consider Koreans to make these claims.
In essence, this is not an article about false or mistaken Korean claims, because there is nothing to indicate that they are representative vs. cherry-picked. There is no expert telling us how common these claims are, how authoritative the claimants are, how well accepted they are by Koreans, or even whether there are any Koreans who dispute the claims at all. (Certainly there must be some!) What this is is an article about a Japanese prejudice against Koreans, but it is not presented as such.
Still, even there it simply presents nothing about Japanese attitudes, authority of those attitudes, or acceptance or dispute of them. It merely tries to present "evidence" of false Korean claims. Thus the article is synthesis of one group of facts (potentially random or irrelevant Korean claims) as evidence in favor of something else (justification of Japanese prejudice).
Summary: the article fails WP:OR and WP:NPOV standards. My !vote remains delete. --Dhartung | Talk 21:06, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
>Sources are not always shown that the claim is false
Is that so? Do you even need sources that is against such claims as "Korea is the suzerain of all the languages in the world" and "Koreans are the ancestors of English people"? If you do, just delete those uriginals from the list. That will solve the problem. You don't need to delete the whole article.
>There is no expert telling us how common these claims are, how authoritative the claimants are, how well accepted they are by Koreans, or even whether there are any Koreans who dispute the claims at all.
This article is only half-finished. If you can wait several months, I think I can find some books that give an answer to your claim.
>even there it simply presents nothing about Japanese attitudes, authority of those attitudes, or acceptance or dispute of them.
I showed you that even All Japan Kendo Federation had to refer to the issue. I also introduced some books on the issue. I'm busy right now but if you can wait, I can show you what those book say.
>It merely tries to present "evidence" of false Korean claims.
Isn't that enough? What do you need more?--Michael Friedrich 13:57, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Even the Japanese name of this page "韓国起源説" ("Korean origin theory", which you allege is such a widespread and notable concept in Japanese, only gets 202 Ghits [34]. When you subtract out "Wikipedia" "blog" "2ch", that drops to 77 GHits: [35] cab 01:27, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That's not true. "韓国起源説" gets 951[36]. When you subtract out "Wikipedia" "blog" "2ch", that gets 1240 GHits[37].--Michael Friedrich 10:43, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, that is true, which is proved by the links I gave. Try clicking through to the last page to see how many results there really are (with duplicates filtered out). cab 11:33, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Nope. That's NOT true. There is a space after "韓国起源説" in your search[38]. If you delete the space, you can get 651 Ghits. And in your search, Google SafeSearch is on. You can get 951 Ghits when you turn it off.--Michael Friedrich 13:03, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Whose POV? Korean POV or Japanese POV? I can't find any POV but simple truth in the article.--Michael Friedrich 13:57, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Doesn't matter whose POV, every entry on the table in that article has some sort of POV, usually against the use of that particular word or phrase. And please stop leaving messages all over Wikipedia to campaign about this debate! Realkyhick 14:16, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There is an item called "ウリジナル" in Japanese various encyclopedias. The former is a link of a simple encyclopedia for Japanese general families, and the latter is a link of the items of basic education for engineers. It is wide, and, in Japan and Southeastern Asia and Far East Asia (China / Taiwan / Japan), the forgery is known in this way in the Korean origin, and it is it with an object of the criticism. --Sanchaman 05:49, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • User-editable dictionaries a la Urban Dictionary (notice the very prominent "新規キーワード作成" link) are not reliable sources. You will not find this term "ウリジナル" in any reliable sources or real published Japanese dictionaries, only from internet users and comic books with an obvious axe to grind. cab 05:57, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Also please do not make personal attacks on other users as you did with this edit [41] on your talk page at jawiki accusing Korean-descent users of banding together to distort Wikipedia. Incidentally, as far as I know none of the people suggesting deletion of this article are of Korean descent, so not only are you racist, you're hilariously off base. cab 09:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment, Probation What about renaming this article and putting it on 6 months' probation? This article is only half-finished as I mentioned above. If it is still considered to be POV or an original research then, I won't oppose a deletion.--Michael Friedrich 07:21, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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