Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kuniyuki Takahashi


 * 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. – filelakeshoe (t / c) 07:17, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Kuniyuki Takahashi

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does not meet notability for music Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 13:32, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:39, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:39, 10 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment. First, I think the article on Koss should be added to this AfD since it is the same person (these should have been merged long ago). Second, it was not easy searching for articles on this fellow in Japanese because the kanji for his name were not initially clear. There are actually two musicians named Kuniyuki Takahashi active in Sapporo. But I don't think this article is referring to this fellow, who has a Japanese Wikipedia article: ja:高橋邦幸. It seems that it is referring to this guy. Even in Japanese, he uses the romaji "Kuniyuki" or occasionally "高橋クニユキ". Assuming it's the right person, there are some other articles on him: ., . Oricon has I think two entries on him, but shows charting in neither case: , . Unless others can find more RS, this does not seem to pass WP:NMUSIC. Michitaro (talk) 19:38, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment I have replaced the Koss article with a redirect to Kuniyuki Takahashi, since the Koss article was much shorter. Bensci54 (talk) 21:47, 10 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Oppose deletion. It's obvious this is the electronic music artist/DJ as per the official Discogs links underneath. He is well known to followers of the deep house and electronic/future jazz scenes, and has played not just across Japan, but also internationally, regularly. He's also got a pretty extensive release catalogue (as can be seen on Discogs) with releases and remixes on a great many Japanese, European, and US labels, and also was one of the main DJ's at the Sapporo club called Precious Hall, which many of the big NYC, London, et al. DJ's (AFAIR, NYC DJ François Kevorkian commented about how good it was, for example) considered to have the best sound-system in world. I don't think deletion is appropriate, as he is a notable act within his scene, though obviously not outside of the underground music scene – and we do not single out smaller artists with decent back catalogues for deletion under WP:NMUSIC guidelines. I can agree with merging the Koss article into this one though, given it's simply one of his pseudonyms that makes sense, but completely eradicating his article is a definite no. Jimthing (talk) 21:18, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I've moved the Koss into this one, and done some quick mass edits to make the article more appealing. Though more could be done to flesh-out the page, I think it can now be left, and this AfD closed for the time being accordingly, after seven days are up. Jimthing (talk) 00:23, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. The article appears to be entirely sourced from the user-compiled Discogs site, and given the total absence of any reliable third-party sources or in-depth coverage, the basic notability criteria don't appear to be satisfied. --DAJF (talk) 15:02, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
 * That's very incorrect. To start with I added the artist's full discography from Discogs, where the info is verified across a number of users to maintain very high degree of accuracy, hence it's use on WP. Other sources are on the net so just need adding accordingly, but as said before, the article is stubbed so needs EXPANDING and not deleting – given the long discography, they are notable enough under WP guidelines. Just because you don't know their work does not mean many others do, hence are valid for inclusion here. Jimthing (talk) 10:29, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. This guy is pretty well known in electronic music circles, but it's not easy to find any real evidence of him meeting WP:MUSICBIO. For starters, even though Mule Musiq is a reasonably big label, it's still a redlink here, which kind of points to it NOT being considered as "one of the more important indie labels." The best I could find for independent coverage in reliable sources was a review and a news article at Resident Advisor. Sadly, I don't think that's enough, but I'd love to be proven wrong. — sparklism hey! 15:39, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, slakr  \ talk / 01:57, 19 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep Premiere feature, RA & XLR8R reviews , Canadian mag textura , MTV Hive . Various news stories like . Lots on the label too, e.g. & reviews in RS of their samplers & comps, often with Kuniyuki/KOSS mentions.78.19.84.172 (talk) 20:45, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep Per the above comment. Gabriel Yuji (talk) 18:30, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep - given the sources presented above, there's enough independent coverage in my view to support an article/meet WP:GNG.  Gongshow   talk  09:27, 24 June 2014 (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.