Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ordinary life in Japan during WWII
or '''Smerge''' to Home front during World War II Japan's home life is a notable subject, as shown by the refs recently added as a list at the end of the article. But the article is full of doubtful or unreferenced claims that were there long before the recent addition of books about Japan's WW2 home life. It said and still says, without a reference, "In Hokkaido, the government decided to replace iron rail lines with wooden lines, for older trains with engines powered by soot recovered from other coal-burning engines." Railroads even in the 1850's had iron or iron clad rails. Locomotives require a huge amount of high heat value fuel to run. I have grave doubts that wood could support even "older" (but still late 19th century) locomotives or that "recycled soot" would fuel one. It also claims that matches were made with a head at each end, to save wood or something. We do not source articles by just listing books about the subject at the end of an article which was (per the talk page) apparently translated from different sources originally in Japanese. An article could now be written from the newly added sources, but it might differ quite a bit from the old one if statements had to be referenced with inline cites to satisfy . If deleted, or if redirected or merged, there should be no barrier to recreation from the refs added and from other reliable sources. The topic is notable, but the statements in the present article seem like a hoax magnet and a miscellaneous collection of supposed factoids of unknown origin
— User:Edison, 04:39, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:V (Wikipedia:Verifiability)