Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shinko Matayoshi

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 of the debate was Keep. An adequately sourced article. --Tony Sidaway 00:22, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shinko Matayoshi

Prodded on grounds No sources and no assertion of notability, fails WP:BIO; deprodded as sounds notable. Bringing to AfD. Verifiability is a major issue here, although the notability raised by the original prod is certainly salient. Eusebeus 11:41, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep I find short biographies for this good man in Dutch [1], Spanish [2], German [3] and English, [4], which is pretty impressive for a Japanese guy who has been dead for nearly 60 years, I think. David Sneek 13:21, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and expand per David Sneek; those sources would make a fine group of material for fleshing out this fellow's article. Kuzaar 14:20, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Comment the basic problem with those links (well, the 2 I could read anyway) is that they in no way explain how he meets WP:BIO. I tagged the article for context before the AfD. He introduced Kobudo to Japan. The case for the significance of this has not been made in a way that is demonstrable to anyone not versed in martial arts history.--Isotope23 18:27, 26 April 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.