Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iou Kuroda


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The result was   keep. WP:SNOW Peter Symonds ( talk ) 00:41, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Iou Kuroda

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Unnotable manga artist. Fails WP:N and WP:CREATIVE. No significant coverage in third-party sources, no major achievements, no really notable series. -- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 14:29, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. -- --  Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 14:36, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep: One of his short stories was adapted as a animated feature film, and a series of his won a major prize and was adapted as a live-action TV series. That's two clearly notable series, and so passes WP:CREATIVE as far as I'm concerned. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:50, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Its article claims it won a single award with no citation backing it up. And manga/anime/short stories being adapted into a film doesn't make the author notable, only minor notability on the series. Either way, though, Creative does not confer notability for creating two small semi-notable series (or even two notable ones). Neither has been the subject of "multiple independent periodical articles or reviews" and neither has been the subject of other films nor books. Adapted to isn't the same as being the subject of.-- Collectonian  (talk · contribs) 15:01, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I do believe that http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/2002/manga/000401/index.php would be the citation you probably didn't look for. 159.182.1.4 (talk) 17:15, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Citations for all Japan Media Arts Festival award winners can be found using the reference links at the bottom of the award's article. —Quasirandom (talk) 23:36, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep as per others. BTW, we should add these citations to the articles of the winners. WhisperToMe (talk) 00:55, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It's been on my plate to propagate out references for the Japan Media Arts Festival award winners ... as soon as I finish compiling the actual tables of winners. Which has been on my plate for ... over a year. :-( —Quasirandom (talk) 01:18, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I will give it a go tomorrow. --KrebMarkt 21:01, 27 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep as per Quasirandom. Multiple examples of notability. Edward321 (talk) 15:52, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep His works are notable enough to have wikipedia articles for them. Policies are guidelines, you don't follow them exactly, if it overrides common sense.  That's what the wikipedia says.   D r e a m Focus  15:55, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep keep per all above rdunn  PLIB  15:59, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep A top dog of the Japan Media Arts Festival held by the Agency for Cultural Affairs so that not some cheap & homebrew not notable award unless you think that Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs is incompetent for manga. --KrebMarkt 18:07, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: Nasu has been licensed in French, and Sexy Voice and Robo has been licensed in English (ANN review, IGN review, Mania review) and Spanish. Even without looking in those other languages, that's already multiply reviewed. Given the major award for Sexy Voice and Robo in Japan, for which winners usually get significant media coverage, we can presume that there was also coverage there. —Quasirandom (talk) 23:53, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep — extremely notable manga artist, who has won several major awards, as detailed comprehensively by Quasirandom, KrebMarkt and others. ··· 巌流 ? · talk to ganryuu 00:03, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Obviously notable manga artist. Movie based on his work, and a major work translated into English -- one that I'm sure has several highly positive reviews. Doceirias (talk) 03:03, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions.  —Fg2 (talk) 03:17, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep I suppose due to the sources provided, I sincerely hope that they constitute as "reliable" sources. JBsupreme (talk) 09:10, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That should placate the RS issue Copyrights held by the Agency for Cultural Affairs anyone contesting this website as RS should commit Sepuku. --KrebMarkt 11:07, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The reliability of ANN, Mania, and IGN have all been vetted, yes. For awards in general, the website of the awarding body is, like that of charting records, always considered the best possible source. —Quasirandom (talk) 13:39, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 28 February 2009 (UTC)


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