Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kyabetsu Taro


 * 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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was keep. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:12, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Kyabetsu Taro
Non-notable Japanese snack food. Googling "Kyabetsu Taro" or "Kyabetsu Tarou" shows no English references to this food. Also, it is not notable enough to have its own article in the Japanese Wikipedia.


 * Delete or merge to a new article on Japanese snack food. Dforest 06:28, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable, IMO.  Ban e  s  10:13, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Google gives 19,500 hits for it in Japanese. Fg2 10:52, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Something tells me that if this was an American or English snack we wouldn't be having this conversation ... CES 12:18, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * "Something" is wrong. --Calton | Talk 13:11, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable snack food. --Calton | Talk 13:11, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, of interest to users. This is what wikipedia is paid for. Kappa 16:02, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * What interest? --JAranda &#124; yeah 16:45, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom --JAranda &#124; yeah 16:45, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Good little stub about popular Japanese snack. Capitalistroadster 18:23, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable snack food - sold EVERYWHERE in Japan. Is a children's snack, only known in Japan, hardly surprising that it doesn't show up on English Google. Actually, astonishingly famous - try asking any Japanese person about it. Should not be deleted any more than Momoe Yamaguchi should be - if you haven't heard of Momoe, it is hardly surprising. If you can find a single Japanese person who HASN'T heard of her - even more astonishing. Same goes for "cabbage taro". --DannyWilde 22:15, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The issue is whether it is notable enough to have its own article in the English Wikipedia. Regardless if they are popular, are all snack foods inherently notable? The absence of English Google stats is relevant here.  Dforest 09:43, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * So what you're arguing is that if it doesn't already appear in English, it isn't worth mentioning about. --DannyWilde 10:24, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * What I am arguing is that it is a regional snack food that is rarely exported outside Japan. Searching Google in English (or romaji) seems to be a good way to judge international interest in the food, which in this case appears to be virtually non-existent. I don't think all regional snack foods deserve their own articles, or we would have thousands of stubs on Japanese snack foods alone. Even in Japanese, I don't think an article on Kyabetsu Taro has much potential for being more than a stub. Dforest 00:45, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Compare Cheez-It or a dozen others.  Chick Bowen 22:21, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * "Cheez-it" returns 80,000 Google hits and "Kyabetsu Taro" returns 9, none of which refer directly to the food. Dforest 09:55, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * You'd have to search with Japanese characters to get an accurate Google count. Chick Bowen 13:56, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Please note my 11 October comment above. Dforest 14:11, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * keep and please stop trying to erase famous snack foods kappa is right Yuckfoo 22:44, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * keep' though it really needs a clean up, a nice illustration of this snack would be nice. --Isolani 23:17, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, you can't rely on English language Google to judge a Japanese snack food. Keep per Japanese Google results and Danny's comment. - Mgm|(talk) 09:32, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge We definitely need an article on Japanese snack foods, but do we really need a bunch of individual stub articles?  I don't think so.  A redirect to a larger and more comprehensive article on Japanese snack foods would serve just as well until someone is both able and willing to write an full atricle on this particular snack food and its culrutal signifcance in Japan.  Caerwine 22:44, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge per Caerwine, and similar comments here and in Don Tacos Neier 11:53, 11 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.