Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Japanese School Dhaka


 * 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 merge to Nihonjin gakkō. Daniel (talk) 00:57, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Japanese School Dhaka

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 * Japanese School Dhaka
 * ダッカ日本人学校

Primary and unreliable source. No notability. Doesn't meet WP:GNG and Notability (schools) guideline. ➤  Tajwar – thesupermaN! 【Click to Discuss】  14:49, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 15:15, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 15:15, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep. Schools for children of the rich (in this case, expatriate and diplomatic families) tend to be better documented than other schools. Did you search in Japanese? Eastmain (talk • contribs) 19:33, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep - there are two sources in Japanese, courtesy of CiNii (Japanese academic database), listed with "ダッカ日本人学校" in the title:
 * 丸田 豊通 and 高橋 将人. "小さくてもキラリと光るダッカ日本人学校." 遡河 (17), 83–85, 2014. 遡河編集部. See profile at CiNii.
 * 中村 哲. "バングラデシュ ダッカ日本人学校に勤務して." 地理学報告 (49), p49-51, 1979–12. 愛知教育大学地理学会. See profile at CiNii. on core.ac.uk
 * I have not seen any evidence that the first has any connection to the school. The second is a report of a person from a school in Japan (豊橋市立福岡小学校) who worked in the Dhaka Japanese School.
 * WhisperToMe (talk) 19:07, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neither source provides significant coverage of the school. Fails WP:SIGCOV. Not convinced that sources are likely to exist. The fact that the Japanese wiki is lacking an article is telling. Additionally, we need to uphold the RFC at WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES that schools must show significant coverage in independent refs in order to be kept.4meter4 (talk) 20:27, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Do you read Japanese? Have you read the sources? I can't see how neither source has Significant coverage (""Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content. Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material.") since the name of the school is in the title of each source, that means the school is the main topic, which means by definition the source must provide significant coverage. Working in a Japanese school can be freely read online, and without a doubt gives SIGCOV. WhisperToMe (talk) 13:17, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwaiiplayer (talk) 12:26, 30 September 2021 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep, has received significant coverage in Japanese sources.Jackattack1597 (talk) 19:02, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment Kudos to for finding the three sources in Japanese. The 1979 source says when it was established, who the first teacher was, the initial number of students, what the facilities and teaching supplies were like, when the second teacher arrived, etc. It is significant coverage. The 2005 source and the 2014 source are offline, so I don't believe any of us have read them. WhisperToMe's argument that from their titles and length they are likely to contain significant coverage is persuasive. However,  makes the point that WP:GNG and WP:ORG call for independent sources to establish notability. The 1979 source is written by the school's first teacher. The 2005 source, according to WhisperToMe, is written by former employees. And one of the authors of the 2014 source, Toyomichi Maruta, is the principal of the school (or was as of 2013). So none of the sources is truly arms length. --Worldbruce (talk) 19:16, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge to Nihonjin gakkō as an alternative to deletion. There isn't much content to merge, but that article's list of schools is a good place to record its name in Japanese, year it was established, and what sources are available. Although the resulting redirect would lead to little information specific to this campus, it would give readers useful information about this specialized type of school that they otherwise might not find. I can't recommend keep because of the absence of independent sources. --Worldbruce (talk) 19:27, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   10:20, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
 * There hasn't been further discussion since I noted last week that none of the Japanese sources are truly independent, all having been written by former or current employees of the school. Is everyone still committed to their original position? --Worldbruce (talk) 03:44, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment: Sadly I do think Worldbruce made some good points in his rebuttal, so I think a merge may be the best I can hope for. WhisperToMe (talk) 04:48, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment. I think Worldbruce's analysis has strengthened the case for deletion. However, I am ok with a merge to Nihonjin gakkō as an WP:ATD.4meter4 (talk) 16:17, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Merge I also agree with Worldbruce that we should merge this with Nihonjin_gakkō.Advait (talk) 09:19, 21 October 2021 (UTC)


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