Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shinji Maejima


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The result was keep. Nominator withdrawal - WP:BEFORE check was flawed. (non-admin closure) Kirbanzo (talk) 20:27, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Shinji Maejima

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Seems to be WP:PROMO. No sources, so the claim of significance of creating the first Japanese translation of One Thousand and One Nights cannot be verified as true. May fail WP:GNG and WP:NBIO as well. Kirbanzo (talk) 18:03, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep It seems like this nomination is based on scanning the database for "unsourced" as it shows no indication of an adequate WP:BEFORE. The nominator needs to explain how WP:PROMO applies to a factual description of a person who is not living. The claim of being the first translation is easily verified, for example from the first page of a Google Books search. Maejima was a pioneer in Islamic studies and Arabic literature in Japan, and easily passes WP:AUTHOR and WP:PROF (though not via the usual GS citation pathway). As a WP:VOLUNTEER there's only so much time to spend, but here's a 1972 review of one of his many books, found with a trivial Google search, if it helps . Bakazaka (talk) 19:53, 26 September 2018 (UTC)


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