Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard M. Tachibana


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The result was Delete. Michig (talk) 06:44, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Richard M. Tachibana

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Fails WP:MILPEOPLE notability guidance. – S. Rich (talk) 23:46, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete, unless there are any other facts, the subject clearly fails to meet notability of the project.-- Surv1v4l1st (Talk 01:29, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose the subject is notable as a Japanese-American internee who nevertheless volunteered to join the USAF and was killed while on active service. There are numerous other pages on Japanese-American former internees which are of limited notability and few references, such as: Hideo Date, Kaneji Domoto, Henry Fukuhara, Satoshi Hirayama, George Hoshida, Yamato Ichihashi, Tomoko Miho etc. and so I don't see why this page is singled out. Mztourist (talk) 03:55, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Reply by OP – I did not single him out for AFD (I've been working on the BLP living backlog). When looking at his military record, it is not notable. The only feature which distinguishes him is the ethnicity and the way he was swept up into the camps. By comparison, look at the Japanese-American service in World War II. Overall, that is a notable topic. But we do not have a WP article for each of those 10,000 or so who served. Because Tachibana was very much post-WWII I do not think he meets notability standards. – S. Rich (talk) 04:32, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Being post-War is notable. The members of the 442nd RCT and other Japanese-Americans who served during WWII did so to prove that they were good Americans and not loyal to Japan at a time of national mobilisation, whereas there was no such imperative postwar. Mztourist (talk) 09:27, 3 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete - While I am very grateful for Mr. Tachibana's service and regret the gross imposition on Japanese-American internees, I do not think that this fact or the fact that similar articles have slipped through reviewers justifies the ongoing maintenance of this article.--Rpclod (talk) 04:09, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not meet WP:SOLDIER and no other reason for notability. His ethnicity is utterly and completely irrelevant unless he was the first Japanese-American to have served as a pilot in the USAF. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:58, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
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