Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ichirō Kosaka


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The result was delete. Yunshui 雲 水 10:17, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Ichirō Kosaka

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Rationale borrowed from my previous similar AfD of Keizaburō Saeki, which itself was largely borrowed from (courtesy ping) at Articles for deletion/Hideki Kasai. Keizaburō Saeki, Hideki Kasai, and this currently-nominated article are all identical bot-created articles. I have nominated several others for deletion.

To quote Cckerberos: "This article is a generic stub, generated by a bot in 2007. It makes no specific claim to notability; it appears that similar stubs were created for every photographer listed in 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers, all with the format "Name (years) is a renowned Japanese photographer" (compare the nominated article with Gen Ōtsuka, for example). Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography states that the sole criteria for inclusion in the book was to have a single photograph in the museum's permanent collection at the time the book was published. That doesn't seem to meet WP:CREATIVE."

In addition to Cckerberos's excellent commentary, I'll note that I've done as thorough a WP:BEFORE check as possible for an English-speaker: Google searches of both the English and Japanese order of the English transliteration of his name, and of the Japanese name. In this case I found one Google book result, and theTokyo Photographic Museum website which confirms he has photos there.

There were no other results for either version of the English name, or the Japanese name. He is absent from the reasonably thorough The History of Japanese Photography. The Japanese Wikipedia has no article about him, so there are no sources to be borrowed from it.

In the absence of reliable sources, we cannot verify that this person is notable, so the article, like many of the previous bot-generated photographers before it, should be deleted. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 10:24, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 12:12, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Photography-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 12:13, 31 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. I see no evidence of meeting WP:GNG. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 21:30, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Daask (talk) 20:05, 4 September 2018 (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.