Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iriya Yoshiaki

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The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 06:38, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Iriya Yoshiaki
Yoshiaki Iriya, who is supposedly a Japanese author, appears to be extremely non-notable. delete. Tokek 04:18, 13 August 2005 (UTC) His works are extremely non-notable. Google Japan searche counts for his works: The 3 sites are either Aozora Bunko or a copy of the Aozora Bunko listing. Links to his works are all offline. He is less than 50 years old. I don't know what kind of quality control Aozora Bunko has against self promotion. —Tokek 15:37, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep stub. Fg2 08:04, August 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: There may be all kind of transcription issues here, but I find no relevant hits in the LoC or BL catalogues. The Japanese form of the name gives only one Google hit, and googling for the Latin alphabet form seems only to find Wikipedia mirrors. I am abstaining until someone with knowledge of Japanese language and literature can look into this. Uppland 10:27, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I realized that Tokek does know Japanese. Delete, unless somebody else can demonstrate this writers notability (or even existence). Uppland 10:34, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I've added titles of works, and a link to the Aozora Bunko article. He gets Google hits in Japanese, though not a whole lot (Google reports 475, but about the first 40 seem to be for him). So yes, he exists... Fg2 10:57, August 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * {"入谷芳彰" "三つのエチュード"} returns 5 hits (3 sites)
 * {"入谷芳彰" "大伽藍"} returns 5 hits (3 sites)
 * {"入谷芳彰" "センティメンタル"} returns 5 hits (3 sites)
 * Delete as per Tokek. Fernando Rizo T/C 16:55, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; total unknown Erwin Walsh
 * Delete nn.  Grue   07:05, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
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