Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fumio Nakahira

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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 delete. -Royalguard11(Talk·Review Me!) 01:54, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fumio Nakahira

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This one is interesting... It is an article about a Japanese holdout who supposedly surrendered in the Philippines in 1980. The problems with this article are the lack of any verifiable material. A Google search pulls up only one line mentions here and there, plus a bunch of Wikipedia mirrors. Other Japanese Holdouts who (verifiably) were found earlier than Fumio have fairly large ammounts of material on them online. "The most famous" one, Hiroo Onoda who was found in 1974, had international media attention and a presidential pardon. If Fumio had been found a full six years later, how come nobody cared? How come there is practically zero information anywhere on this guy? The one external link goes to a website on holdouts, at http://www.wanpela.com/holdouts/. It is a good resource with plenty of info and archival photos on several notable holdouts, but Fumio gets just one line midway down this page. That there is a lot of mentions out there on Fumio suggests that he may have existed. That all the mentions don't have any kind of source of their own, and that there is so little information suggests that he never existed. Keep if we can conjur some verifiable sources, delete if we can't. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 18:24, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete, article is unreferenced since creation 2(!) years ago and there are no indications that this will change. Blatant failure of WP:A AlfPhotoman 18:32, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete unless someone can find sources. I couldn't find any after about 15 minutes of searching in Japanese, although it was made somewhat harder by the fact that we don't know the kanji for his first name. Appears to be no article on the JA Wiki. Dekimasuよ! 02:13, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. The most convincing source I've found so far is the Philippines government home page for tourism [1], where he is mentioned. That is barely enough to think that it is not a hoax (other ghits seem to have been around since 2001 or earlier, too), but, perhaps not enough to meet WP:A. By the time 1980 rolled around, the novelty of Japanese holdouts was wearing off, so it is not such a surprise that the 1972 and 1974 events have garnered more attention. (And, the fact that Onoda was actively shooting people until shortly before his surrender also added to his infamy).Neier 05:39, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete based on lack of quality sources. If we are hard pressed to establish his existence, then surely he is not sufficiently notable for an article.--Kubigula (talk) 16:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.