Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yoshihiko Itō


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The result was keep. Withdrawn - obviously there's more of substance here than I initially saw. I appreciate the work put in to reference and improve the article. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:41, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Yoshihiko Itō

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Rationale borrowed from my previous similar AfD of Keizaburō Saeki, which itself was largely borrowed from (courtesy ping) at Articles for deletion/Hideki Kasai. Keizaburō Saeki, Hideki Kasai, and this currently-nominated article are all identical bot-created articles.

To quote Cckerberos: "This article is a generic stub, generated by a bot in 2007. It makes no specific claim to notability; it appears that similar stubs were created for every photographer listed in 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers, all with the format "Name (years) is a renowned Japanese photographer" (compare the nominated article with Gen Ōtsuka, for example). Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography states that the sole criteria for inclusion in the book was to have a single photograph in the museum's permanent collection at the time the book was published. That doesn't seem to meet WP:CREATIVE."

In addition to Cckerberos's excellent commentary, I'll note that I've done as thorough a WP:BEFORE check as possible for an English-speaker: Google searches of both the English and Japanese order of the English transliteration of his name, and of the Japanese name. There were absolutely no results for either version of the English name, not even trivial ones. The results for the Japanese name were hardly better: for the most part they were trivial mentions in books about photography, and in one or two cases there was not enough context to tell if it was the same Yoshihiko Itō. The Japanese Wikipedia has no article about this person, so there are no sources to be borrowed from it.

In the absence of reliable sources, we cannot verify that this person is notable, so the article, like many of the previous bot-generated photographers before it, should be deleted. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 23:38, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment I was able to find the Tokyo Museum collection by switching my search language to Japanese. The resulting collections page was 1/2 English, 1/2 Japanese.96.127.242.226 (talk) 05:31, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
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 * Comment Subject had a solo exhibition at Photo Gallery International (PGI), a small but respected Tokyo gallery, in 2017. See http://www.pgi.ac/exhibitions/2766/, also short review of exhibition published at Artscape.jp http://artscape.jp/report/review/10133325_1735.html Bakazaka (talk) 01:57, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep Article certainly can be expanded and improved, but as he has had exhibitions in Japan, Taiwan and as part of a group in the US , and whose work has been collected  , he may qualify under WP:ARTIST. Hzh (talk) 10:29, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
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 * Keep The National Museum of Modern art in Tokyo has 26 of his works in their permanent collection. He's also in another significant public collection in Arizona, so he meets WP:NARTIST. I added these and some other material to the article.96.127.242.226 (talk) 05:28, 20 July 2018 (UTC)


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