Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nankai earthquakes
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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 no consensus. A possible merge or redirect can be discussed on the article's talk page. Randykitty (talk) 15:41, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nankai earthquakes
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This article's title is ambiguous with Nankai megathrust earthquakes, and that's because this article is merely about a subset of the other topic. Both of them are about Nankai megathrust earthquakes. I don't see a reason for this to exist as a separate article. — BarrelProof (talk) 21:00, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Science and Japan. — BarrelProof (talk) 21:00, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
- Delete: ATD Merge to Nankai megathrust earthquakes, anything sourced and unique. The lead states, "are great megathrust earthquakes." Improper split as too similar. The lead of this article states, "are major megathrust earthquakes". -- Otr500 (talk) 22:38, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
- Keep or be consistent and merge all three applicable articles to Nankai megathrust earthquakes. There are three types of Nankai megathrust earthquakes, distinguished by the region of the Nankai Trough in which they occur. The three regions are Tōkai, Tōnankai, and Nankai, so we have different articles on Tōkai earthquakes, Tōnankai earthquakes, and Nankai earthquakes. While both Nankai earthquakes and Nankai megathrust earthquakes have "Nankai" in the title, Nankai earthquakes is no less notable and no less distinct a topic than the other two. Dekimasuよ! 19:25, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- If we're going to keep it, the article should have a clear and distinct title. Right now it has a title that is completely confusing with the Nankai megathrust earthquakes topic. Both articles say they are about megathrust earthquakes of Nankai. Should the four articles be merged? How about Nankai megathrust earthquakes of the Nankai region or Nankai Trough earthquakes of the Nankai region? — BarrelProof (talk) 01:33, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
- Redirect or merge. It looks like the redundancy issue would be settled by just having one article at least for the two main articles in question. My first thought is that Nankai earthquakes actually might be a good target overall (which would include content from the megathrust article). That way you could have the article split itself up by the subtopics discussed so far internally or have a sort of WP:NATDAB. Basically get people to the general topic through the search bar first and then figure out additional navigation like explaining the megathrust content, etc. I'm not an earthquake person though, so do you think that approach would work BarrelProof? If it's too generic of a title to house the two I could understand that, but at least in my first superficial glance through, this seems like it works. KoA (talk) 21:39, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
- I'm not an expert either. Dekimasu had some good comments. I just don't think things should stay the way they are. — BarrelProof (talk) 07:40, 28 April 2026 (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.