Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bow Wow (manga)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Satellizer   (´ ･ ω ･ `)  07:28, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Bow Wow (manga)

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Non-notable series AFAIK DragonZero  ( Talk  ·  Contribs ) 06:30, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The page has improved from the two sentence article it once was and I see no problem keeping it. DragonZero  ( Talk  ·  Contribs ) 07:46, 14 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete --Star Log, Lfrankblam, Kirk Out (talk) 07:07, 2 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep Search Bowwow Terry YamamotoFoxy1219 (talk) 08:40, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * WP:GNG DragonZero  ( Talk  ·  Contribs ) 09:20, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:38, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
 * True, we would need to know if any of the sources provided in the search can help the article are reliable and can help the article comply with WP:N. If you (Foxy129) could provide use with some specific sources to evaluate that would be helpful.--69.157.253.160 (talk) 01:08, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:38, 3 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. Unsourced article with no indication of notability. Does not satisfy the basic notability criteria outlined at WP:GNG. --DAJF (talk) 02:49, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I add some sourse. Foxy1219 (talk) 03:21, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Could you list some of them here? That way it can bs assessed if the sources sre reliable or not.--69.157.253.160 (talk) 05:15, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Manga Updates is an scanlation indexing site and therefore not an appropriate source and Anime Vice is user edited and not usable either. Neither would show notability anyway. SephyTheThird (talk) 10:14, 6 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep. It's got entries in both The Anime Encyclopedia and ANN. The title should be changed to Modern Dog Tales Bow Wow. Upload I get it now. Modern Dog Tales Bow Wow is the translated version of the anime. There isn't a good reason to have a separate article on the manga, which was never translated. Confabulationist (talk) 12:33, 8 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Note: ANN Encyclopedia section is not a RS, Confabulationist. I did find, however, some sourcing: at Google Books. Gabriel Yuji (talk) 18:11, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
 * You know that you are linking to the same source that I already gave? It is a reference to the anime version, not to the manga. Confabulationist (talk) 00:40, 9 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 08:05, 10 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment: I'd recommend making a series page for the manga and the anime. I'm looking at the Japanese entry via Google Translate and it looks like the series was fairly well loved in Japan, as it spawned a 40 episode animated series, a theatrical film, and a Super Nintendo game. I'll try to merge this into the article, as that shows a pretty high notability threshold for Japanese manga that there were so many adaptations of the work. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   06:02, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. This is kind of troublesome: we don't really have any sources and given the common-ness of the title and the obvious language barrier, finding sources is fairly difficult. All I can really go on for notability are the various adaptations. If it was just that the series had an OAV or one film, I'd be inclined to say that we should delete the page. However what we have in this instance is a manga series that not only had a theatrical film (albeit a short one), but had an anime series on one of the most well-known Japanese television networks and a video game adaptation of the series. It's not Ranma 1/2 or anything, but this isn't really the norm for most manga series out there- especially manga series released before the current advances made it far cheaper and easier to produce animation and video games. The existence of these things shows me that this series enjoyed far more attention than some of the other manga series of the era and I'd be extremely, extremely surprised if it ended up that the manga had a TV series, film, and video game but never received substantial media attention. In this instance I'd say that the amount of adaptations gives the reasonable argument that these sources do exist but never made it on to the Internet. It's not the way I usually like to vote for inclusion on Wikipedia since I'm very much a "show me the sources" type of editor, but a 80s/90s manga series getting an animated adaptation, film, and a video game is pretty out of the norm for earlier manga series to the point that this in and of itself would show notability. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   06:45, 11 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep - I'll admit, sources for this are hard to come by, even in Japanese. But the fact that it got an anime adaptation, let alone one that's 40 episodes long, is probably enough for it to gain notability. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 08:29, 11 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment: I don't give notability opinions, but I posted these at WT:ANIME and no one seems to have noticed:   Tezero (talk) 02:46, 17 November 2014 (UTC)


 * I saw them, I cant read reference 1, reference 2 can only be used as an external link as it is not reliable and reference 3 I also cant read. So of those three two are possibly good to use. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 00:07, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.