Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shōwa era (daikaiju eiga)


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The result was   delete. L Faraone  05:53, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Shōwa era (daikaiju eiga)

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This has no sources and may possibly be original research. TTN (talk) 02:05, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete I agree with the nominator's concerns, and can't find any sources that would back this myself. Heisei era (daikaiju eiga) and Mireniamu era (daikaiju eiga) also have the same problem., do you think those two should be added to this deletion nomination?  S ven M anguard   Wha?  06:25, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep: I have seen the concept dicussed in at least five different books on Godzilla and kaiju, and it is the general terminology for this series. The concept seems generally notable for me in the context of Godzilla-movies, and by extension the kaiju-genre as such. Godzilla_(franchise) actually has this already covered better than this article. Most likely influenced by Godzilla the Gamera franchise uses this as well (there are DVD sets for Showa and Heisei Gamera movies, named as such), and the eras are used on Wikipedia to distinguish between the different eras of the Gamera franchise(Template:Gamera) with only the articles in question as a reference. I would advise to rework the articles into something more usable. Right now they are an unsourced mess, but I think there is at least some notability there. Alternatively one could merge the relevant information into the article on Kaiju. 188.95.26.178 (talk) 09:55, 18 November 2013 (UTC) — 188.95.26.178 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * delete Even to the degree that these terms can be documented (and if they cannot be documented as transliterated terms in English texts, there's no point to having them in an English Wikipedia), I'm not seeing how they wouldn't just be sections within a timeline of Godzilla movies. Mangoe (talk) 14:43, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
 * the reason is actually simple: the terms are specific concepts that are used in English texts to describe a certain expression of a genre (the Kaiju genre). In English texts I have so far only noticed them being used to describe the era in monster movies, but they are used for this exact purpose. The reason why it wouldn't be sections within a timeline of Godzilla movies is because works focussing on the Gamera movies use them as well. Gamera was created by a different company. 31.183.114.163 (talk) 22:22, 18 November 2013 (UTC) — 31.183.114.163 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * So put it in one of the other articles mentioned, assuming that it isn't just some fan's made-up thing. Mangoe (talk) 00:15, 19 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete. In the absence of any reliable sources, this is simply unsourced original research. --DAJF (talk) 23:52, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

I've nominated the other two for deletion. See Articles for deletion/Heisei era (daikaiju eiga) and Articles for deletion/Mireniamu era (daikaiju eiga).  S ven M anguard  Wha?  04:13, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
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