Talk:弓 (disambiguation)

foreign word disambiguation page

@RHaworth: The reason this disambiguation doesn't make sense is it's a foreign word. Wikipedia is not a translation dictionary. Obviously there are foreign words and phrases adopted into English, and they have entries. But this isn't one of them.

The way foreign words are sometimes handled is with redirects using the tag {{R from foreign language}}. In this case, the entry for 弓 doesn't even use that classification. It redirects to Radical 57 and uses {{R from unicode}}.

It isn't appropriate to have a disambiguation page for a foreign language word that is considered a unicode character in the English language. To anticipate an argument a bit, you might argue that the redirect should use {{R from foreign language}} instead of {{R from unicode}}, but that would not justify a disambiguation page for the word. There is strong policy (see the Purpose section documentation for {{R from foreign language}}), which limits which words from foreign languages should use these redirects. This word doesn't meet those criteria, and if it doesn't pass the hurdle for a foreign language redirect, it certainly doesn't pass the hurdle for having a disambiguation page. — Coastside (talk) 15:49, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

• Why are you picking on this page? How does it differ from all the others in category:disambiguation pages with Chinese character titles? We have a separate discussion page for redirects but if you wish to pursue this matter, I think WP:AfD is the right place. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 16:37, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Please continue discussion of proposed deletion of 弓 (disambiguation) on the talk page. — Coastside ([[User talk:Coastside|talket]) 16:41, 14 January 2019 (UTC) [originally posted to user talk:RHaworth]

• It is your turn now! I asked a question above. Please answer it and, additionally, explain your objections to proposing the deletion on the appropriate deletion discussion page. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 21:16, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

My post on your talk page linked to this talk page, where I had posted my reasoning for the proposed deletion. I was asking you to discuss here. I don't have any objection to discussion (WP:AGF please).

Thanks for pointing me to that category. I wasn't "picking on" this page (WP:AGF please). It appeared to me to be an isolated errant foreign language page. I was drawn to this page in particular, because the primary topic was a redirect to a unicode character and the ambiguous term was a foreign word. Most of the pages in the category you mentioned have a primary topic that is the disambiguation page rather than a redirect. I'll take more time to learn about the category you shared. It's not clear to me why we have foreign language disambiguation pages, but I'll no doubt learn something. Coastside (talk) 07:45, 15 January 2019 (UTC)