Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yumemi Kobo

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 on a Deletion review nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Keep. Physchim62 21:03, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Yumemi Kobo

This article seems to have been speedy deleted, and then undeleted per WP:VfU. IMO it is not a speedy candidate. Per the usual procedure in such cases it is beign listed here. DES ^(talk) 06:38, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

A minor correction. The article was recreated by the anon author, not undeleted. The VfU discussion has not yet concluded. Rossami (talk) 06:42, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep This is a useful article and should have never been deleted. 64.200.124.189 19:07, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless a verifiable source that does not appear to be the press release of the creator of this product is cited in the article. DES ^(talk) 06:38, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per above. -- Kjkolb 08:04, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
• keep, verifiable. Kappa 09:04, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: correct title seems to be "yumemi kobo". Kappa 09:27, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. The product certainly appears to exist (see the company's website from the link), and that's what merits the article; the product's claims don't have to be valid or verifiable for the article to exist. As Kappa said, the article should be renamed. In a Google search, I jumped forward to page 30 and the hits were still relevant to this product. Fg2 10:35, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn. Appears to be vapourware - the few refs there are are from early 2004. Did it ever make it beyond being a dream of a potential manufacturer? Apparently it did! Dlyons493 Talk 10:53, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
• Takara is a big cheese in the world of Japanese toys, for example they sell the popular "Licca" doll. The Japanese page gives a list of shops where it is on sale[1]. Unfortunately nowhere near me, so I can't check directly, but it appears to be a badly written article about a real product, hence Keep. Tomorrow is my son's birthday, so I'm going to a local toy shop. I'll see if they stock the product, since that page is out of date. --DannyWilde 11:32, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Further to the above, the product is on sale at Amazon Japan. --DannyWilde 11:50, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Real product and notable based on Danny's evidence. Not a speedy by a long shot. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:31, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: I have just performed a page move to Yumemi kobo. encephalon 14:37, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
• Sorry, I should have updated you folks earlier. I rewrote the page. I think the best outcome really would be an eventual merge in Takara Toys, which at the moment is a poor article. But keeping Yumemi as is for now wouldn't be a bad thing. encephalon 16:09, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and/or merge. The current rewrite is quite satisfying. --Jacquelyn Marie 00:58, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, this sounds interesting. — JIP | Talk 10:33, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as above. Trollderella 19:56, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. mikka (t) 19:11, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, certainly verifiable, but article at present is very close to an advertisment. Alphax ^τεχ 01:50, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Keep although a definite product, it verges on advertisement --Reflex Reaction 13:46, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, it's a verifiable product and a decent quality article. Editing is the cure for articles that read too much like advertising, not deletion. Unfocused 14:46, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and improve. It's more real than the Bajoran wormhole and is probably of more universal usefulness than D2jsp. Pedant 20:51, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep for the reasons stated above. Science3456 23:11, 21 October 2005 (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.