Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mephisto Award


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The result was   delete. ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 20:54, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Mephisto Award

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Unsourced, non-notable award given by a non-notable magazine, only claim to importance is the publisher. Already deleted by prod once and refunded Jac 16888  Talk 23:16, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions.  — Frankie (talk) 17:37, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.  — Frankie (talk) 17:37, 10 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. Not seeing any reliable third-party sourcing or coverage to demonstrate notability. --DAJF (talk) 00:17, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm translating the Japanese Wikipedia page of the article and it's going fairly slowly since I'm low level when it comes to Japanese. I'm in the process of trying to get translators with high proficiency in the language so it will be more concrete and thorough so I would appreciate a month or so to try to get more people to help out with the page since if you've checked the edit history of the page I've done most of the work. 1Q84 (talk) 23:15, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
 * The issue is nothing to do with the translation, its that the article has nothing to suggest any notability of the subject, in particular 3rd party reliable sources, and neither does the japanese article-- Jac 16888 Talk 10:39, 12 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:50, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BusterD (talk) 02:12, 23 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. Non-notable award by a non-notable magazine with predominantly non-notable recipients. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 06:28, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. It seems like this should be notable, but the only source I could find in Japanese was this passing mention in the Asahi Shimbun. I regretfully !vote "delete" until more sources turn up. —  Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 15:26, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per Alan Liefting.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  05:06, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep I know approaching nothing about Japanese literature, but the Japanese wikipedia page has > 100 incoming links to it, which speaks to it's notability to me. Stuartyeates (talk) 10:45, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
 * How does page links = notability? It probably just means that whoever created the page went round and added links to it on the page of everybody who won, and any other page they could think of. Add to that the template at the bottom of the page which means all those articles link to it as well, and it means the number of incoming links is irrelevant-- Jac 16888 Talk 11:01, 29 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Just reading your post here makes it kind of obvious that you didn't even bother looking at the Japanese Wikipedia page to begin with, because then you would have noticed that all the links aren't just to past winners. It's harder to come across people to translate entire Wikipedia pages nowadays, but I feel even without all the links to past winners there's enough information on the Japanese Wikipedia page that would make the English article "notable". 1Q84 (talk) 05:08, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
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