Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Akiko Ichikawa (fashion consultant)


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The result was delete. No independent coverage in reliable sources has been presented. Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 13:28, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Akiko Ichikawa (fashion consultant)

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There is no claim of notability. Book authors are not inherently notable and reporters do not inherit notability from the magazines they write for even if those are notable. The article does not include any coverage by independent reliable sources. the references are articles written by the subject or her own web page. Fails WP:GNG and WP:AUTHOR. Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 19:57, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete - no evidence of any notability, (although I have to rely on Google translate for the refs). Fails WP:GNG Appears to be a simple advert or paid editing at work.  Velella  Velella Talk 10:23, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete a non-notable "fashion consultant".John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:38, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. Found her quoted in Newsweek here, mentioned in prominent cultural blog Spoon & Tamago and here's her chapter on an art book in Asia Art Archive. Would it also help to change the article's title to "Akiko Ichikawa (Japanese writer)"?--A21sauce (talk) 21:55, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment - the Newsweek source is simply a quote from her which does not convey any notability and the second is an article written by her. Nothing written about her by an independent reliable source. If these sources conveyed notability then every budding journalist from the novice cub reporter upwards would be notable.  Velella  Velella Talk 22:27, 10 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Response - You make her sound like a millenial blogger working from her bedroom at her parents' house. She seems older than a "budding journalist" (your sexism is showing BTW) and has written alot for Japanese fashion magazines and from the experience of having lived in the U.S. I think this is an important perspective, given both America and Japan's regionalisms. And the second source is not an article, but a chapter in a book.--A21sauce (talk) 01:15, 13 March 2020 (UTC)


 * There is no sexism in "budding journalist" it is a gender neutral expression about journalists learning their trade. Budding refers to a tree bud which later produces a leaf and later a branch developing as they go. Wow!  Velella  Velella Talk  08:15, 13 March 2020 (UTC)


 * It was belittling, and you know it. You compared her to a "budding journalist" and a "novice cub reporter" when the article I've composed, plus a little Google digging, would show she has been doing her reporting for some time. Thus the need for this article!--A21sauce (talk) 16:02, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Being a journalist that "has being doing her reporting for some time" is not enough to meet WP:GNG or WP:AUTHOR. For inclusion, there needs to be in-depth coverage from multiple reliable sources independent from the subject. --Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 18:57, 13 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete no evidence of notability. Fails WP:GNG. KartikeyaS (talk) 16:28, 15 March 2020 (UTC)


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