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• Hokkaido Colliery and Railway Company --Sushiya (talk) 13:49, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
• Kamon Tatsuo, singer-songwriter. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 23:34, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
• East Asian Sleddog (found) Suspected hoax. Tagged for speedy deletion as vandalism. Fg2 (talk) 05:08, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
• List of National Treasures of Japan just a disambig. article to connect to the Japanese and Gan-Chinese language lists. -- bamse (talk) 11:47, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
• Tokyo prefectural election, 2009 --Asakura Akira (talk) 14:15, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
• Ashikaga murder case (found). Watarase River (stub). Fg2 (talk) 10:38, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
• Mayuko Irie actress ♥ Fg2 (talk) 06:27, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
• Help:Installing Japanese character sets, split and expanding slightly from Help:Japanese. ···日本穣^? · Talk to Nihonjoe 06:15, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
• Futako-Shinchi Station --Izumi5 (talk) 05:32, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
• Shin-Yakushi-ji bamse (talk) 21:49, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
• Twelve Heavenly Generals bamse (talk) 21:49, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
• Category:Wards of Sakai and brief articles on the wards. Fg2 (talk) 04:05, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
• Demographics of Japan before Meiji Restoration (found) Fg2 (talk) 11:35, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
• Ritsuko Nemoto, actress Fg2 (talk) 05:51, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
• List of National Treasures of Japan (sculptures) bamse (talk) 14:39, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
• Gō, 2011 NHK Taiga Drama Fg2 (talk) 10:58, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
• Monthly Shōnen Sunday, manga magazine. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 04:47, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
• Tokyo's 18th district, opposition stronghold in "upstate" Tokyo. --Asakura Akira (talk) 13:27, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
• Yoshika Yuhnagi (found). Sources are not online so it's difficult to confirm. Fg2 (talk) 05:22, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
• Sakamoto International Cemetery in Nagasaki Fg2 (talk) 06:13, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
• List of National Treasures of Japan (paintings) bamse (talk) 00:02, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
• Tsutomu Shirosaki (found) Tags question neutrality, original research; point out lack of sources. Fg2 (talk) 16:46, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
• Category:Former districts of Kanagawa Prefecture. Don't know why we didn't have this category. Included red links for creating article, and links to Japanese Wikipedia, for each former district. Also, took Tsukui District, Kanagawa, which had been an article but was redirected to Sagamihara, Kanagawa when the district was abolished, and put the article in the category. Fg2 (talk) 10:54, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
• Kamakura Museum of National Treasures, oops, just discovered Kamakura National Treasure House which is about the same thing. Merged the two articles. bamse (talk) 10:11, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
• Tokyo's 6th district, elecotral district with lowest voting weight in ’05 Asakura Akira (talk) 14:33, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] Japan

[edit] Mimori

Mimori (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View AfD)

Non-notable minor writer. No third-party references to verify notability claims have been added in the 2+ years since the article was created, and the Japanese version of the article is similarly bare of any reference sources. DAJF (talk) 23:57, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 00:05, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete as I can find nothing which indicates notability. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 16:57, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete While it is quite normal for the Japanese Wikipedia to lack sources, this illustrator seems to be entirely non-notably. I could only find very trivial mentions when looking for sources. --Apoc2400 (talk) 10:42, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] FORUM8

FORUM8 (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View AfD)

Most content has no relevant source. One reference in other language. Most references to company site.  Cargoking  talk  18:43, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 03:27, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 03:27, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. —Fg2 (talk) 11:11, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
• Keep I find coverage in reliable sources [1] [2] [3] [4] (フォーラムエイト=FORUM8) That the coverage is in Japanese is not a problem. --Apoc2400 (talk) 11:21, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

References in Japanese don't really help.  Cargoking  talk  11:47, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Per WP:V, foreign language references are acceptable. English is preferred, but if only foreign is available, that is fine. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:07, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

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• He said they didn't help, not that they weren't allowed. I too have issues with things I can't read being used as sources. Is it really WP:V if I can't verify it? Niteshift36 (talk) 07:56, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Arguing that a source that you in particular can't read because it's in a language you can't read isn't verifiable is like arguing that a source you in particular can't read because it's in a magazine from the 1960's that hasn't been digitized yet isn't. And no, that's not a strawman argument, because I've seen editors argue just that, multiple times -- if it's not something they can read with a single click then it's not a real reference, according to them. Which blatently flies in the face of what WP:V actually says. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:19, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

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• Speedy Delete as this article is pure spam. Aside from the issue of self-promotion, an extensive search for English language sources shows that Forum8 is the subject of self-published sources, but coverage manufactured by the company itself does not confer notability. The is no verifiable evidence to suggest that this company or its products meet the requirements of WP:CORP. --Gavin Collins (talk|contribs) 13:34, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
• As someone who translates articles from foreign-language Wikipedias to English, I want to say that it's established custom and practice on Wikipedia that foreign-language sources are fine, provided they're reliable. Frankly, I don't want to see my hard-written material deleted just because the five or six editors at an AfD don't speak the language and can't figure out Google translate, so I want that to be clearly understood.

  Having said that, in this case Gavin.collins has the right of it, and I think the Japanese-language sources in this case do not establish notability. Delete.—S Marshall ^Talk/_Cont 13:51, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

  • Not just custom and practice -- it's policy. —Quasirandom (talk) 18:13, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
• Google Translate is not always accurate.  Cargoking  talk  14:33, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

• That's true, it isn't. Always best to get someone who speaks the language to check.—S Marshall ^Talk/_Cont 14:53, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Anime and manga

[edit] Kuso Miso Technique

Kuso Miso Technique (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View AfD)

An unreferenced manga by a redlinked artist taffed for notability since last year. - Altenmann >t 09:39, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

• Keep I have sources.

http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/4140919/ Manga is ranked 11th in a survey asking which manga is the most interesting.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080209214547/http://www.zakzak.co.jp/top/2008_02/t2008020901_all.html Article dedicated to the manga. Mentions the social impact of this manga ("even child molesters use its lines"). Touches on the mysterious author.

http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/3951096/ A wrestler entered the stage in the costume of this manga's character, accompanied by the character's "theme song" that people made on the internet.

http://gigazine.net/index.php?/news/comments/20081117_yaranaika_shirts/ Yaranaika t-shirts.

_dk (talk) 10:36, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0712/28/news035.html The manga's catchphrase, "Yaranaika" was one of 2007's "most used phrases on the (Japanese) internet". It was ranked 16th in a survey for "Net Slang of the Year" for 2007. _dk (talk) 10:47, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 12:16, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

• Hmm. Only one of _dk's links directly addresses any criterion of WP:BK, but the others support the continuing notability and influence of the manga (including five years later!), enough so that I'd count them towards satisfying the general notability guidelines. One-shots are rarely notable, but this one appears to be: Keep. Incidentally, arguing that an author is non-notable solely because there is no article on him/her is extremely dubious: Wikipedia still has massive holes in its encyclopedic coverage, and one of the largest is arts and artists outside the Anglosphere. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:22, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

• I could swear I read something discussing how this was one of the earliest examples of homosexual pornography done in the manga format, and quite influential. No idea where that link is or what language it might be in, but this title probably has more notability than the meme alone suggests. Keep. Doceirias (talk) 14:50, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mimori

Mimori (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View AfD)

Non-notable minor writer. No third-party references to verify notability claims have been added in the 2+ years since the article was created, and the Japanese version of the article is similarly bare of any reference sources. DAJF (talk) 23:57, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 00:05, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete as I can find nothing which indicates notability. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 16:57, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete While it is quite normal for the Japanese Wikipedia to lack sources, this illustrator seems to be entirely non-notably. I could only find very trivial mentions when looking for sources. --Apoc2400 (talk) 10:42, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Federico Colpi

Federico Colpi (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View AfD)

Article that came to my attention as an unsourced BLP (unsourced since 2006). Both reading the article and searching through news archives convinces me that there are not independent reliable sources writing primarily about him. I don't think that he passes the general notability requirements Peripitus (Talk) 08:57, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:04, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

• Comment: If either that he was the first foreign publisher to sign a license with Shueisha or the claims of his influence in spreading manga in Europe can be verified, I would argue it would be a sufficiently notable achievement that we do not need sources writing primarily about him -- his doing it would be enough. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:07, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

If all we can say, while meeting the standards here, is that he exists then we have a very very poor article. - Peripitus (Talk) 21:51, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Per policy, being a poor article is not a crime. That's the thing about collaborative volunteer projects -- sometimes you have wait a while for someone who knows about the subject (or is sufficiently motivated to learn) to swot things into shape. —Quasirandom (talk) 22:30, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

By Poor article I mean that all we can write from the reliable sources that exist today is that he exists. We can say the same about a vast number of people but that hardly makes for an encyclopedic article. - Peripitus (Talk) 03:08, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

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[edit] Nightmare phase

Nightmare phase (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View AfD)

Fails to meet notability guideline. This would need sources and information from neutral sources, instead of just the author, who appears to be the sole contributor. Kotiwalo (talk) 06:52, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

• Delete: I haven't checked GOOG but certainly this would not be difficult to recreate if deleted but justfiable for inclusion later. Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 11:04, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete Per nom. Parkerparked (talk) 11:45, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 12:01, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

• Delete This article revision alone justify the deletion. Wikipedia is not the place for promoting homemade manga. The article creator is the same one of that manga plus its sole contributions are on this article Special:Contributions/ShadowLovely. Clear case of self promotion. --KrebMarkt 12:14, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete, WP:NFT. 159.182.1.4 (talk) 12:24, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
• Filtering to just applicable uses of the title isn't the easiest process in the world, but this self-published work does not seem to have received any attention at all, let alone from the reliable sources Wikipedia guidelines require. Fails WP:BK = delete. —Quasirandom (talk) 19:27, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:NFT, also fails Wikipedia:Notability (fiction). --Junius49 (talk) 00:57, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
  • WP:BK would be the relevant subject-specific notability guideline, both because it's a book and because it's an actual guideline instead of (again) a proposal. —Quasirandom (talk) 22:33, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
    • It isn't EVEN a book. See http://www.nightmarephase.blogspot.com/. 159.182.1.4 (talk) 18:14, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
• - Was not trying to self promote manga. This page was requested by several readers. Did not mean to violate any guidelines and would love to know how to fix.--ShadowLovely 9:49, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
  • 1) You can start by striking the "keep" vote. 2) Acquaint yourself with WP:COI as well as the aforementioned WP:NFT. 3) And you can stop calling it "manga," it isn't no matter how hard you call it that. At BEST it would be OEL manga, though I object to the very existence of that term (if it isn't Japanese, its a comic). 159.182.1.4 (talk) 18:18, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
  • To have the article kept, you need to show that the work meets one of the inclusion guidelines for books, which in this case almost certainly means the first one: that multiple third-party (people who are not connected with the publication and so have no stake in promoting it) reliable sources have talked about the work, be it in published reviews or scholarly analysis. Since these disucssions last five days, you have a couple more; if you can't complete that in the time limit, you can always request that the closing administrator copy the article to your userspace before it's deleted. —Quasirandom (talk) 18:21, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
• I apologize for any confusion or inconvenience my article caused. I use the term manga because not many people are educated to the proper terms about comics, manga, and other literature. If it's this big of a deal, I will remove the page, no harm done to me. Like I stated previously, this wasn't to promote anything, simply requested by some readers. ShadowLovely (talk) 01:35, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per Wikipedia is not for things made up one day and Wikipedia is not a webhost. I also recommend deleting the article creator's userpage because Wikipedia is not a repository of links. --Farix (Talk) 03:38, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Anime and manga categories, templates, and misc

• Template:Blood The Last Vampire at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2009 June 28#Template:Blood The Last Vampire (28 June 2009 – 6 July 2009) Delete

[edit] Proposed deletions

• Wanga manga (via WP:PROD on 6 July 2009) Speedy deleted per CSD G3
• Kaoru kasumi (via WP:PROD on 1 July 2009) Speedy deleted per CSD G3