Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Japanese pop culture in America


 * 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   keep. L Faraone  19:35, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Japanese pop culture in America

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I initially redirected this article to Japanese popular culture twice, but the creator reverted it both times (I didn't do it a third time because I didn't want to violate WP:3RR). I was then going to ask for assistance at WP:3 but considering what the creator wrote in this edit summary, it's clear that s/he doesn't quite understand what Wikipedia is all about. Erpert (let's talk about it) 18:30, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Article needs perhaps a retitle and some cleaning up, but as a subject it is clearly notable as being covered by many scholarly sources. See  and  as newspaper sources, this one here:  is a book length treatment of the topic, here is an NPR podcast.  Had the OP done WP:BEFORE merely by typing the title of the article into google, as I did to find these, it would have confirmed this seems to be a perfectly deep enough topic for an article.  -- Jayron  32  19:09, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. I tend to agree. Unless there is another article on this topic to merge to, this is a big topic that needs an article. Abductive  (reasoning) 19:21, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:32, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep The writer does seem to have had little experience with WP, hence their plea when such is useless, but I get the distinct impression from their plea that their sense of what it is has become quite clear, if it was not before. The failing here is in the nom not being able to use Google, not the author's writing ability. WP writers got scooped by an English writing project - Snap!. So what's it going to be? Hubris or humility? Anarchangel (talk) 19:56, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * What? Erpert (let's talk about it) 06:50, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
 * And? Anarchangel (talk) 12:14, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I meant I didn't understand what you said. Erpert (let's talk about it) 21:52, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Anyway... Keep - The article seems large enough and has the potential to expand sufficiently to warrant its own article. Which I believe was the OP's rationale for deletion/merge. Pol430  talk to me 14:01, 13 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete This article is just flat out original research. In fact, this edit summary proves the point that this is someone's research paper. —Farix (t &#124; c) 14:40, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
 * While I agree that wikipedia is not a place to post your own work, the impact on Japanese pop culture in America is big and goes beyond just anime and manga so in a way its ironic that this topic was made by someone who was just doing an english paper. I feel this article just needs to be rewritten and have some TLC for it. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 16:54, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Farix, a research paper is presumably heavy on the research part as well as containing some OR... --Gwern (contribs) 22:40 16 December 2010 (GMT)


 * Keep - seems like an analogous article (if simultaneously broader and more narrow in scope) to anime and manga fandom or Japonisme, and seems like a potentially notable topic. I'm disappointed that there doesn't seem to have been an attempt to explain why the redirect was done, and I'm disappointed by the tagbombing of the article, rather than any of the alternatives explained by the editing policy.  This is precisely the kind of bitey behaviour which leads to Wikipedia not retaining new editors.  Susan J. Napier's From Impressionism To Anime: Japan As Fantasy And Fan Cult In The Western Imagination may assist in the building of the article. --Malkinann (talk) 04:13, 15 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep Japanese pop culture has had a huge impact on America in the last decade that goes on strong today, I fully see potential in this article, although parts of it need to be rewritten and sourced. Knowledgekid87 (talk) 16:43, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Like Malkinann, I wonder if we don't already cover this topic already under another name or perhaps as a very big section of another article; Japanese pop culture's reception and uptake in the USA is such a legitimate and obvious topic that it seems hard to believe it only got an article in December 2010. --Gwern (contribs) 22:39 16 December 2010 (GMT)
 * Keep It is a notable topic. I'm sure there are books written on the subject, and news coverage listing something about this.  There is an interview linked to and referenced in the Exo-Squad article, where the American creator of this animated series said he was influenced by Japanese anime style.  That's the only thing that comes to mind right away.   D r e a m Focus  22:51, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - Notable topic, and the majority of the information in the article is capable of being sourced even if it's not at present. - DustFormsWords (talk) 00:41, 17 December 2010 (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.