User talk:Natsume Soseki

Asian fetish
Welcome to Wikipedia. If you want to add your point so that other editors won't delete it (or that editors like me will restore it if they do), you need to write it specifically as someone's opinion, best if it is from someone credible/notable. See my comment on the Talk page there, but the form is usually: "Prof. Jones of Blip University writes "blah, blah, blah" in an article on ...". This deals with WP:RS, WP:V, and WP:NOR. -- Gnetwerker 19:44, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

I doubt that your AfD will be successful. Far more successful would be for you to edit down WzHao's extended diatribe on "origins" of the term. However, the two are not mutually exclusive. -- Gnetwerker 17:30, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Articles should be put up for deletion only if you believe that Wikipedia should not have an article about that subject at all. If you have a dispute over content, please consider Requests for comment. If you really want to nominate for deletion again, see Template:Afdx. Please keep your reasons for deletion brief. Gazpacho 17:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Just to be clear, I removed the text from the original afd page because I didn't realize it was a new nomination. I won't interfere if you nominate the article using Template:Afdx. Gazpacho 17:37, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Natsume, I understand your position, but without reasonable Asian voices editing the article, it is difficult for (white) editors like myself to try to maintain NPOV without being accused of racism myself. As my comments in the archived Talk pages should show, I have tried to be very sensitive to racism issues, but WzHao wants to make the page a poster for his rage at anti-asian stereotyping, bolstering it with arcane academic quotes from fringe literary theory. I don't think exposing the truth of anti-Asian bias is really served by this. The problem I think you'll find with the AfD is that, unlike in January, the article has been hard-fought into something that's not very good, but isn't horrid enough to be deleted either. -- Gnetwerker 18:05, 28 April 2006 (UTC)