Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Minazo (2nd nomination)

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 --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 11:51, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Minazo

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A performing seal who died in a zoo in Japan in 2005, and the subject of the "i has a bucket' image macros. Article was created as an offshoot of Lolrus, an article on the aforementioned meme, also currenly on afd. Absolutely no indication or assertion of notability. -- Vary | Talk 17:23, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, not notable (as I originally tagged shortly after the article was created). Realkyhick 18:56, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect Agreed, on second checking Minzano unfortunately isn't quite notable enough as a stand-alone seal (walrus). Searches on Japanese news may turn up more but I have no idea of how to do so with Kenji or other character sets. Redirect to lolrus, as that AfD appears headed for a Keep result. This can be a subsection of that article, and the few sources that exist for Minzano will bolster that even further for a fairly robust short article. Has you seen my redirect to lolrus? • Lawrence Cohen 19:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually, for the record, as poorly referenced and lacking in notability as this article is, lolrus is even worse, its only decent source being one passing reference in an article primarily about lolcats. And right now that discussion is at best heading for a no consensus: the mixture of 'deletes' and 'redirects' do outnumber the 'keeps,' and there have been very few arguments stronger than WP:ILIKEIT. -- Vary | Talk 23:07, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

• Delete I really dont see the historic notability as required by WP:NOT#NEWS Corpx 19:50, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Not Notable. Djmckee1 - Talk-Sign 21:04, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable. -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 00:00, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to Minazo Vol. 1 (or Minazo Vol. 2) — Not notable on its own. However, it is clearly notable to either of these 2 Merzbow albums.--Endroit 02:49, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable animal. Keb25 09:23, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
• Definitely no merge to lolrus. The animal was marginally notable in Japan (its death was on the news, and probably in the papers, if Japanese news sources had any sane way to search archives; but, I digress). The point being, it was notable before lolrus. I was going to suggest Redirect to Enoshima Aquarium,　but, that article is a red link. Japanese wikipedia has a section of the aquarium article devoted to the seal. The kanji is 美男象, and hiragana is みなぞう if anyone else is interested in tracking down sources. [1] is a news article about the death, and [2] is a scientific report about the cause of death; but, that's not probably enough to keep the article as a standalone. Maybe the best thing is to create a DAB page between the aquarium and the albums. Neier 09:36, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to Japanese wikipedia article on Minazo per Neier. Seal is notable as the subject of an album by Merzbow and as the subject of an internet meme.Aharon 18:43, 2 September 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.