Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Koji Yokogawa

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 WP:SNOW + already been deleted + officegirl's comments, something fishy here and I see no harm in deleting the article. W.marsh 17:50, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Koji Yokogawa

Koji Yokogawa (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Seems to have been deleted twice before [1]. Rex the first ^{talk | contribs} 00:01, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. Previous deletions were for lack of content and notability. This may still not reflect notablility, but there's content this time; it's not a repost. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 00:53, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Clearly fails WP:PROF. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 00:53, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

  Comment. Good point, it is not a direct re-post (but similar), I meant to include not notable. Is WP:PROF or WP:PROFTEST a fair test as they aren't policy? Rex the first ^{talk | contribs} 10:56, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

• Comment They are "fair" in the sense that they reflect current practice on AfD. Anyways, he or his area doesn't seem to be notable enough for reliable sources to report about him (even in Japanese), so he's no better than the average professor. ColourBurst 23:26, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy delete — no assertion of notability. 00:55, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Doesn't look More notable than the average professor. -- Fan-1967 00:57, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete NN, per above --Steve _(Slf67) ^talk 01:02, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, with a possible protect so we don't have to delete it again in two weeks. Ultra-Loser Talk / Contributions 01:08, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete fails WP:PROF. JChap2007 01:18, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. Borderline speedy. MER-C 01:25, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete failed the professor test, lock it up (protect) so it can't come back.--John Lake 01:28, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete — Delete per nomination. –- kungming·2 | ^(Talk·^Contact) 02:08, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions. -- Norosu 03:55, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete — As per all. Nothing is furnished with the article to prove his notability. Nileena joseph ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 04:01, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, per all.--Seadog 04:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable, possible vanity. Spinach Dip 08:40, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete vanity. Atlantis Hawk 10:35, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. The problem here is that other sites are now using this article as a primary source. After a quick review, there is no evidence whatsoever that Koji Yokogawa exists, other than the WP article and sites which have cited this article. Jcam 15:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The comment "there is no evidence whatsoever that Koji Yokogawa exists" is refuted by the journal article cited in the Wikipedia article under discussion: "RATIONALITY OF MODULI SPACES OF PARABOLIC BUNDLES. HANS U. BODEN and KÔJI YOKOGAWA. Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 59, Issue 02, April 1999, pp 461-478.doi: 10.1112/S0024610799007061." Also Googling "Ochanomizu University" Yokogawa and I find "Phys. Rev. B 61, 8496 (2000): Kobayashi - Superstructure induced ...Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Ochanomizu University, ... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank K. Yokogawa for useful discussions and forshowing us ...link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.61.8496" The university site is in Japanese. Too bad no one here is apparenty able to read the faculty listings there to determine whether they list him as a professor. There should be no blocking the article, since someone literate in Japanese might wish to properly document the notability of the professor. The only question is the extent of his notability, not his existence. Edison 16:07, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment I believe he exists (although your source links are broken). I believe there is (or has been) some statement of notability in the article, but I don't believe he meets WP:PROFTEST or any other notability standard. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 17:29, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• WEAK delete STRONG AND SPEEDIEST DELETE ASAP AND SALT THE PAGE-- Based on my searches for the subject's name with "Hodge Theory", this sentence from the article is believable: "He is considered one of the world's foremost experts on Hodge theory." But the problem is that I don't know how to find documentation of that assertion. If someone knows a source where this can be proven and provides it on the article, then we should keep. The subject is a living person apparently working in a University in Germany. To those people who are working on the article or want to keep it-- have you considered just contacting the fellow and asking him if he keeps a scrapbook of articles that have featured himself? OfficeGirl 15:34, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

UPDATE As per my own suggestion, I sent an e-mail to Dr. Yokogawa at his university. He resonded to me immediately, saying:

Please delete the page!!!!

The contents on the page is nonsense!

I am very angry!

That just about sums it up from the foremost authority on Koji Yokogawa, Koji Yokogawa himself. That is why I am changing my vote to STRONG AND SPEEDIEST DELETE ASAP AND SALT THE PAGE. OfficeGirl 17:23, 15 November 2006 (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.