Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kancho (2nd nomination)


 * 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. Stifle (talk) 12:09, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Kancho
AfDs for this article: 
 * ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log)

Last AfD in 2007 closed as "keep but add sources" Since then, none have been added except for two unreliable blogs. I have searched all over but cannot find a single reliable source for this act. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 23:20, 1 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 23:34, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * sigh Non-material popular culture is hard to reference, in any language. In a foreign language ... —Quasirandom (talk) 21:09, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * OK google news archive has this: which looks to be on-topic. And also this  which has a link to the wikipedia article, funnily enough. Juzhong (talk) 23:54, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Publications that took their information from Wikipedia in the first place are not sources.  The second article explicitly links to Wikipedia, but the first turns out to have taken its information from Wikipedia, too. Uncle G (talk) 18:00, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep I don't know quite what sources are expected to be found on this, especially since it isn't an English phenomenon. Even the Japanese page only has four links on it - none of which are national news sources (and are all in fact in English), but obviously it is still notable and does exist.Tom (talk) 11:50, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The nomination, and indeed Wikipedia policies and guidelines, state reliable ones. So where are they?  The Japanese Wikipedia article links to four WWW pages, one of which is merely quoting another WWW page that doesn't exist, one of which itself doesn't exist, and the remaining two of which have no identifiable authors with reputations for fact checking and accuracy (one doesn't even give any indication as to authorship at all and is clearly, from its claim to be a "university", not an attempt to be accurate documentation that can be trusted; the other author hides behind a generic pseudonym, and even if xe could be identified as an author that could be trusted, xe hasn't actually written anything other than an anecdote, not real documentation of a social phenomenon). Uncle G (talk) 18:00, 3 January 2009 (UTC)


 * ''' I'm in Japan, and this is an EXTREMELY common teasing game children play. I did find an entire site dedicated to it though, and added a reference.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Takatoriyama (talk • contribs) 12:23, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Can you find anything in reliable sources like newspapers or serious books? I see there are many hits in google news archives Juzhong (talk) 15:26, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:22, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * DELETE funcraft--Yung Dong-Kung (talk) 01:11, 6 January 2009 (UTC) — Yung Dong-Kung (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Keep. It seems established enough as a social practice to warrant keeping. But it would help to get some kind of coverage in educational or sociological texts. There's nothing I can find via Academic Search Complete (which includes ERIC and Sociological Abstracts), but I'm thinking there's got to be something verifiable in Japanese, which at least could help pin it down a little better. Jlg4104 (talk) 03:07, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Something like a Japanese version of this, which includes an entry for "Wedgie," would help, e.g. Jlg4104 (talk) 03:10, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep--Article in eight different languages. Notable enough for me. This is a social pratice of
 * Keep--Sources are available but hard to find. Translated version of a magazine article, 1. Search using the Japanese word: カンチョ --Jmundo (talk) 04:16, 6 January 2009 (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.