Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of manga artists


 * 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The result was   keep or "nomination withdrawn", take your pick. Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:18, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

List of manga artists

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Unmaintainable list. List is extremely broad in scope as there are thousands of manga artists. Even if the list's scope was limited to just the manga artist articles, maintaining the list will be an unenviable task as articles are created, deleted, or redirected. —Farix (t &#124; c) 10:52, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Withdrawn I'll admit to a snow job when I see one. —Farix (t &#124; c) 13:15, 26 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions.  -- —Farix (t &#124; c) 10:52, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Listing all of them that have Wikipedia articles aids in navigation. More useful than a category, easier to sort through.  Lot of articles like this exist  and have for years.    D r e a m Focus  11:51, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, but limit to manga artists with articles. As I told the nominator on his talk page, other lists with an equally broad scope are maintained (for instance, List of science fiction authors). As his whole arguement for deletion is that the list is too large to be maintainable, and that can't be true because people successfully maintain other lists with equally broad scope, I see no reason for deletion.  I don't see this as an WP:OTHERSTUFF arguement, because I'm not argueing that the list should be kept merely because other stuff exists, but that the high quality in some of those other lists shows that a high quality could be maintained in this list.  Furthermore, there are a whole class of articles on Wikipedia that are alphabetical indexes, many with very broad subjects (all the articles linked from Portal:Contents/Index and many other articles tagged as being in the scope of WikiProject Index).  While I don't know if indexes in general have support on Wikipedia, I feel that it is inappropriate to discuss one index on a clearly notable subject by itself.  Either it is appropriate to have an alphabetical index article for a notable topic or it isn't, and that should be discussed in a location that will get more participation than this AfD. Calathan (talk) 14:05, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Calathan's arguement. Knowledgekid87 (talk) 19:02, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 10:07, 23 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment&mdash;I don't think the criteria to include an artist on the list should be that they have an existing wikipedia article, because that could unnecessarily bias the list. But the list should be specifically restricted to those artists that have been commercially published. It would also make the list more useful if it showed significant awards won by each artist and their life span.&mdash;RJH (talk) 16:04, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:09, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep; it seems like a reasonable topic for an article per standard practice (List of SF authors is hardly the kind of exception that OTHERSTUFF is meant to prevent being cited). I leave it to the interested editors to discuss how to limit inclusion, but I would point out that a criterion like 'has an article' is necessary - even just authors who have published one thing once probably runs into the dozens of thousands if you go back to the 1940s or earlier as any real history of manga would have to. --Gwern (contribs) 19:38 25 December 2010 (GMT)
 * Keep per Calathan and Gwern, and expand to include other useful, sortable criteria such as year of birth (and death) in order to make the list even more useful. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WikiProject Japan ! 23:13, 25 December 2010 (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.