Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yoshikazu Takeuchi


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was KEEP, however weakly. postdlf (talk) 15:15, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Yoshikazu Takeuchi

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Recreation of a page deleted under PROD. Concern was "No evidence of notability" and no references to show notability have been added. – Allen4names 16:06, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
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 * Comment I'm leaning to keep. Two of his novels have been made into movies.  There's appears to be a perfectly good ref in KansaiScene.  I have a feeling there are some Japanese language refs out there.  The Japanese Wikipedia page shows refs, but I don't read Japanese. Bgwhite (talk) 22:49, 23 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. Not seeing sufficient in-depth third-party coverage or sourcing to establish notability. Note that what may appear at first glance to be "reference" on the Japanese Wikipedia are mostly just editorial notes (as often seen in Japanese Wiki articles) and not actual reference sources, so the level of sourcing is little better than here. --DAJF (talk) 05:53, 24 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment The sourcing with English information to establish notability appears to be a problem but I am inclined toward keeping it. I will watch for further editing. Stormbay (talk) 22:07, 24 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Weak Keep. It seems there are a lot of mentions of him in Japanese on the net, especially in blogs and on 2ch, but those are not RS. What exists as RS on the net is marginal. Beyond the KansaiScene piece, I've found this interview in Japanese, but not many others. His radio show with Kitano Makoto seemed fairly popular, but most pieces on the net talk about Kitano, not him. I personally knew of his book on Daiei TV, but since that first came out in the 1980s, it's hard to find reviews of that. His co-authored work with the right-wing manga artist Yoshinori Kobayashi does have mentions here and there, but the focus is usually on Kobayashi. In the end, I think the main argument for keeping this is the second criterion for notability in WP:AUTHOR: "The person has created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work, that has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews." Since his novel has been made into two feature-length films (the two versions of Perfect Blue), that would seem to satisfy the conditions. Michitaro (talk) 23:03, 27 May 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) 00:12, 30 May 2012 (UTC)




 * Keep ‣ I added a find sources for his name in Japanese at the top of the page, although note that there appear to be several other high-profile individuals with this name. But see for example this J-Cast article where he is interviewed about the cancellation of another radio show.  (Though I can't read Japanese, I'm relying on Google Translate.)  WorldCat shows his works and the adaptations of his works in dozens of libraries and I assume that's not covering libraries in Japan because it isn't showing me any.  The coverage, library holdings, and the fact that his works were well-regarded enough to be adapted into films satisfies notability for me. -- ▸∮ truthious ᛔ andersnatch ◂ 00:02, 31 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Weak Keep It probably could be a straight keep but the lack of English sources makes that a guess. (see my previous comments). Stormbay (talk) 20:23, 31 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Weak Keep The article is fairly new, and AfD's can always occur down the line if more sources have not been found. The article does have sources in Japanese that seem to support Notability it will take time though to work on translating them and finding possible ones in English. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 03:24, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
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