Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kaoru Yamaoka


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The result was   delete. J04n(talk page) 23:14, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Kaoru Yamaoka

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The article was "created" years ago by plagiarizing some retailer's page. When the plagiarism was noted, it was cut back to a single sentence. A variety of people and bots have fiddled with it since, but none has expanded it. We're told that the subject was a documentary photographer. Very possibly she was. "Kaoru" could be written in a number of different ways in Japanese, but "Yamaoka" is almost certainly 山岡. When I poll a search engine for the combination of 山岡 (her probable surname) plus 写真家 (i.e. "photographer") plus one or other of the keywords mentioned in the original, copyright-violating article, I find nothing. An unreferenced substub for which the chance of expansion seems remote. -- Hoary (talk) 13:01, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Photography-related deletion discussions. Hoary (talk) 13:07, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. Hoary (talk) 13:10, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete: This could probably be deleted under WP:CSD. It's longevity means that there's no real harm in an extra 7 days, but if Hoary can't find anything in Japanese language search, and I can't find any in English, I think it's time to delete this. Qwyrxian (talk) 14:44, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment. When I made the nomination, I quite forgot to look up this name within the book 日本の写真家 (ISBN 4-8169-1948-1), which also has the title Biographic Dictionary of Japanese Photography though its content is Japanese only. Any Yamaoka would appear on p.415, between Yamaura and Yamagishi. (The entries are ordered kind-of-alphabetically; but the alphabet, if you call it that, is not the Roman alphabet.) No Yamaoka appears. This fairly hefty dictionary (price 9,500 yen plus tax) includes 839 Japanese photographers born no later than 1929. Occasionally a notable photographer slipped past the editors (at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography). But not many. (So far, I've encountered just one: redlinked but article-worthy Kōtarō Kumagai [ this fellow]). The reality of Yamaoka is looking less likely. -- Hoary (talk) 10:19, 25 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete - Nothing under multiple variants of the name, ノコ倶楽部 (Noko Club, except a site peddling birch sap). On the face of it, this should be deleted outright on the basis of WP:NOTMEMORIAL for the legacy version of the article. Jun Kayama 21:43, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. I tried a whole bunch of other combinations using 山岡 and birth years, era names, place names, etc. and came up with nothing. If it is not in Hoary's dictionary and no where on the net, it just is not notable enough. Michitaro (talk) 17:56, 3 March 2013 (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.