Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ken Kitashiba

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. alphaChimp^(talk) 14:58, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ken Kitashiba

Seems like it might be a hoax, I can find only one Ghit which clearly refers to this person (aside from mirrors). The claims in the article as it stands now are somwhat fantastic. I've just deleted an article related to this as per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Duke Kita -- Deville (Talk) 22:19, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - he does exist, but that doesn't make him notable and this article doesn't provide any sources. Yomangani^talk 22:27, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

*Delete, even if it's not WP:BALLS, it still fails WP:BIO. --Kinu ^t/_c 23:18, 4 September 2006 (UTC) Recommendation rescinded per information below. --Kinu ^t/_c 13:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Keep. Try searching his Japanese name, which gets 202k or so hits [1]. Sources do not only have to be in English to qualify for WP:V, but I'm having trouble locating them on the Japanese page. I think the Japanese do believe he's notable (and notability is not specific to language; see WP:ECHO) as an author, at the very least. ColourBurst 23:28, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

The references on the JP article (all in Japanese) are :

• bacilico
• 株式会社ペルソン
• クリエイティブ メディア エージェンシー　Yomangani^talk 23:37, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions. -- Aeusoes 04:28, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as notable. Searching for his name on Amazon.co.jp brings up at least seven books he's written that are available through normal channels (not zShops or the like) on Amazon.co.jp. One of them is ranked #706 in sales on the site, this one is ranked #533 in sales, this one #823, this one #2090, this one #1199, and this one #2493. I think that should establish his notability. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 06:18, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: Nihonjoe demonstrates pretty conclusively that he meets WP:BIO. To delete an article just because there is little information available in English would be a textbook example of the kind of systemic bias we want to avoid. This needs cleaning up, not deleting. — Haeleth Talk 10:21, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: (I nominated Duke Kita for deletion, but I disagree here.) He is notable despite any qualms about the quality of parts of the Japanese article, and the quality of the translation by the original contributor. Dekimasu 13:19, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. If you are researching notability, at least have the common sense to search for the person's name IN the person's native language (or the languages in which they are most popular). Not doing this is, frankly, completely negligent and irresponsible. --Rankler 14:11, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

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