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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. Jayjg ^(talk) 02:30, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and this page has no information other than various transliterations of the same name. As far as I can tell, the issue of how the name is pronounced is not particularly notable or contentious, and Wikipedia has no similar articles (see Special:PrefixIndex; the ones that are listed are mostly redirects, and of the non-redirects none of them are about placenames). PROD was contested with the rationale that the article should be "moved to Names of Hong Kong", but I don't see any reason for that either, as the article includes nothing but different transliterations of the same name. And apparently this was AfDed in 2005, but the encyclopedia's standards have changed a lot since then and none of the keep arguments from that debate look very convincing to me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rjanag (talk • contribs)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Hong Kong-related deletion discussions. —Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 16:25, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 16:27, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
~~Comment~~. Delete. Cf. Hong Kong#Etymology. — Rankiri (talk) 16:42, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, this whole article is redundant to the little box in that section, which I mentioned here when I was removing a link to this article. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 17:51, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 18:16, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Rename to Names of Hong Kong (See Talk:Pronunciation of Hong Kong) and expand as a standard "Name of" article. There's no reason why Hong Kong shouldn't have a "Name of " article, like other localities, and this is a good starting point. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 19:57, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per nom. On renaming even renamed it's still just a dictionary entry, the interesting bits of which are well covered in Hong Kong#Etymology and that article's infobox.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 20:11, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment it is not a dictionary entry if it is used as the starting point of a greater article, so I don't see why that would be a problem. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 21:24, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Nothing especially notable, or interesting, is asserted about the topic so that a stand alone article is called for. The information belongs in Hong Kong, if not already there. Steve Dufour (talk) 21:29, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or move to Names of Hong Kong if there is really enough info for such an article (more needed than this article + Hong Kong: Etymology). — AjaxSmack 05:23, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Dee-leet. Bearian (talk) 04:24, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or merge to Hong Kong as some name/etymology/etc. section. fetchcomms☛ 20:48, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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.