Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa


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The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) FOARP (talk) 09:14, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa

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Google, Google News, Google Books etc. all draw blanks for any coverage at all of this book/documentary in independent reliable (i.e., non-blog) sources. There's a review on Popmatters.com but this appears to be a blog. There's also a publicity piece written by the agent on Publisher's Weekly but this isn't independent. Lacks notability, verifiability per WP:GNG and WP:V FOARP (talk) 16:48, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
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 * Keep as a quick Google search finds reviews in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times , and Chicago Tribune . Newspaper archive search finds several more in newspapers across the country. Book alone easily passes WP:NBOOK. Documentary info and coverage (e.g., a separate Los Angeles Times review of the documentary ) is a bonus. Bakazaka (talk) 08:15, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Weird, searching for the name didn't bring up anything, I guess it was because I was including the colon in the search. Nomination withdrawn - thanks Bakazaka. FOARP (talk) 09:03, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
 * That happens sometimes. The article had some close paraphrasing/copyvio issues anyway, so it was a good opportunity to fix those issues and add some citations. Bakazaka (talk) 09:07, 19 November 2018 (UTC)


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