Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/I Am a Japanese School Teacher


 * 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 no consensus, defaulting to keep. Can&#39;t sleep, clown will eat me 19:53, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

I Am a Japanese School Teacher
I'm just not sure if this article is notable enough. Basically it's a web phenominon and has not appeared in any newspapers. I can't find any notability review things (just some template that will get ignored) so I am listing it here so if I see lots of delete votes I can save the information in a text file, rather than coming back months later and finding it deleted when I wasn't watching. Anomo 12:05, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep for now. Looking at it, the article is certainly popular in the world of the web, but that doesn't always make it notible. I'd say that it just passes WP:WEB, becuase of the hits I got on google, MSN, and Yahoo, but I am worried about WP:V being upheld. I will change my vote if I find out any more important information, both on the web, and in this vote. Th ε Halo Θ 12:19, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Re-read the criteria on WP:WEB. It says nothing about the number of hits; it talks about being referenced in multiple non-trivial news sources, winning major awards, or having content being redistributed by major sources. --Kunzite 16:46, 13 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions.   -- TheFarix (Talk) 13:51, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete this boils down to some guy's blog. Blogs are only rarely notable and this isn't one of them. If it had some significant publicity, or possibly a reaction from the JET program, then it might qualify as notable. Opabinia regalis 15:51, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Although I usually vote delete for articles without references, this is an interesting phenominon within the anime community. LinaMishima 17:41, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete:  Keep Interesting, yes. Funny, yes. Popular on blogs and forums, yes. Meets any guidelines for web notability, no. Not even close in fact; all I could find on Google was one reference on Comedy Central's Insider "What's Funny on the Web" section, surprising given how popular it seems. Mitaphane talk 18:10, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * After seeing Badlydrawnjeff's much better Google query. I see that the site in question has been mentioned by much more notable sources, MSNBC being one of those. I take back my suggestion to delete. Mitaphane talk 21:30, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Could you give the MSNBC link please? Anomo 23:00, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Right here. Turns out its a MSNBC blog by Will Femia. Probably not as notable as a story, but still much better than a forum posting. Mitaphane talk 23:26, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete very popular on the web but per Mitaphane fails to meet any of WP's guidelines for web pages. :( Danny Lilithborne 20:55, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. For a blog, this is extremely notable.  Just google its name and see that its been featured on Comedy Central and been mentioned in many other major sites and publications.  It also gets 10 million google hits. &mdash;   Da rk Sh ik ar i   talk /contribs  23:23, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Correction for the above with a correctly formed google search string (also removing forums - add another 10k or so with forums), it's only 20,000 - but almost all of them are about the site in question (judging from the first 50 results) and even allowing for significant duplication (50%), that's still 10,000 websites refering to this. Comedy Central and VG Cats are in the first 10 results.
 * Delete blog is not noteworthy Fg2 01:25, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. --badlydrawnjeff talk 12:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless sources found I think that this is a wonderfully insightful column to the Gaijin phenomenon in Japan, but... there are no references that I can find in LexisNexis, and I've tried searching every name combonation. Perhaps merge some to Gaijin. --Kunzite 16:46, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak delete; no obviously reputable sources. The "mainstream" references people have found turn out not to be so mainstream after all: the MSNBC reference is from a blog, while the Comedy Central reference consists of all of three sentences - a passing note, not a review or an article. The majority of the links seem to be from other blogs... &mdash; Haeleth Talk 15:07, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Haeleth. Sandstein 20:05, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per Fg2, this blog looks notable enough for inclusion. Yamaguchi先生 08:58, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep Notable blog, plenty of google hits, relatively well written article (compared to all the random 'web directory' articles that pop up on AfD all the time). - Wickning1 14:30, 17 August 2006 (UTC)


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