The result was delete. ✗ plicit 12:09, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
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I'm nominating this page for deletion based on it being WP:DISPUTED and it lacking notability. I already marked it for normal deletion on the 19th, but it was removed by an admin a day later on the basis that its talk page merits an Articles of Deletion discussion be had. And I mean totally deleted, not a redirection or anything. The word "hitaikakushi" must be expunged.
The current Talk page is in agreement, however, that the article is both unnotable and flagrantly misleading at best. As was already stated there, the minuscule article's content has already been present in entirety on Yūrei for a while. Pretty sure this is WP:NOPAGE. It fits better within context in Yūrei. The article of clothing here does not even has its own Japanese page, as was stated before on the talk page.
Aside from all of that, it's just plain wrong (as was also discussed about in the talk page). The term "hitaikakushi" (額隠し) used in reference to this article of clothing is incredibly obscure to non-existent in Japanese sources. As shown in the talk page (yeah IDK if I have to keep restating that), the most comprehensive Japanese dictionaries do not list the triangular headpiece that yūrei wear as a definition for 額隠し. If you search up "額隠し" on Google you will not find any pictures of that headwear from Japanese results. The only currently proposed source that claims "hitaikakushi" is a valid word used to describe this head garment is Zack Davisson on both his blog [1] and book Yūrei: The Japanese Ghost. However, these non-academic, uncited sources seem to cross the threshold into WP:DUBIOUS. I also noted that "hitaikakushi" was among the last of a list of words he chose to describe this cloth.
The actual most commonly accepted name for this headwear is tenkan (天冠). In fact, it's the first word Zack Davisson uses in both of his writings on the topic. I don't think changing the article's name is enough. It should be deleted. There is an absolute dearth of reputable sources on the topic in Japanese. The only one I could find is [2] (again, 天冠 is used most here). I can find zero sound sources in English. The reason I proposed deletion in the first place was because I kept seeing this article of clothing being referred to as "hitaikakushi" in pop culture fandom spaces (basically the only other place besides academia that widely discusses these things). Everywhere on the English WEB calls this thing "hitaikakushi", a word Japanese people don't even use in that context, and it all traces back to this Wikipedia page. What's more interesting is that Zack Davisson's blog post and book were made in 2011, 5 years after the "Hitakakushi" page was originally created. He may have gotten it from here. Given how long it's been I wouldn't be surprised if it found its way into other English published media. This citogenesis can not go on any longer.
I originally planned to mark the page for Speedy Deletion before regular Deletion since I thought the case was clear-cut. I'm miffed that it's gone all the way here. In the end you'd be hard pressed to find any good sources for this article of clothing. Your best bet would be Japanese research papers and scholarly publications. Even then, I believe there wouldn't be enough content to add to the article to make it notable. It's weird that this stub has persisted for over 15 years and weirder that it's this hard to delete when it's been actively propagating misinfo. Apologies in advanced for my breaking of any of Wikipedia's myriad etiquette norms or rules or the like. I'm new (made an account solely for this) and never thought there'd be this many bureaucratic hoops to jump through. Hisouhihisouten ( talk) 05:52, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
The result was delete. ✗ plicit 12:09, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
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I'm nominating this page for deletion based on it being WP:DISPUTED and it lacking notability. I already marked it for normal deletion on the 19th, but it was removed by an admin a day later on the basis that its talk page merits an Articles of Deletion discussion be had. And I mean totally deleted, not a redirection or anything. The word "hitaikakushi" must be expunged.
The current Talk page is in agreement, however, that the article is both unnotable and flagrantly misleading at best. As was already stated there, the minuscule article's content has already been present in entirety on Yūrei for a while. Pretty sure this is WP:NOPAGE. It fits better within context in Yūrei. The article of clothing here does not even has its own Japanese page, as was stated before on the talk page.
Aside from all of that, it's just plain wrong (as was also discussed about in the talk page). The term "hitaikakushi" (額隠し) used in reference to this article of clothing is incredibly obscure to non-existent in Japanese sources. As shown in the talk page (yeah IDK if I have to keep restating that), the most comprehensive Japanese dictionaries do not list the triangular headpiece that yūrei wear as a definition for 額隠し. If you search up "額隠し" on Google you will not find any pictures of that headwear from Japanese results. The only currently proposed source that claims "hitaikakushi" is a valid word used to describe this head garment is Zack Davisson on both his blog [1] and book Yūrei: The Japanese Ghost. However, these non-academic, uncited sources seem to cross the threshold into WP:DUBIOUS. I also noted that "hitaikakushi" was among the last of a list of words he chose to describe this cloth.
The actual most commonly accepted name for this headwear is tenkan (天冠). In fact, it's the first word Zack Davisson uses in both of his writings on the topic. I don't think changing the article's name is enough. It should be deleted. There is an absolute dearth of reputable sources on the topic in Japanese. The only one I could find is [2] (again, 天冠 is used most here). I can find zero sound sources in English. The reason I proposed deletion in the first place was because I kept seeing this article of clothing being referred to as "hitaikakushi" in pop culture fandom spaces (basically the only other place besides academia that widely discusses these things). Everywhere on the English WEB calls this thing "hitaikakushi", a word Japanese people don't even use in that context, and it all traces back to this Wikipedia page. What's more interesting is that Zack Davisson's blog post and book were made in 2011, 5 years after the "Hitakakushi" page was originally created. He may have gotten it from here. Given how long it's been I wouldn't be surprised if it found its way into other English published media. This citogenesis can not go on any longer.
I originally planned to mark the page for Speedy Deletion before regular Deletion since I thought the case was clear-cut. I'm miffed that it's gone all the way here. In the end you'd be hard pressed to find any good sources for this article of clothing. Your best bet would be Japanese research papers and scholarly publications. Even then, I believe there wouldn't be enough content to add to the article to make it notable. It's weird that this stub has persisted for over 15 years and weirder that it's this hard to delete when it's been actively propagating misinfo. Apologies in advanced for my breaking of any of Wikipedia's myriad etiquette norms or rules or the like. I'm new (made an account solely for this) and never thought there'd be this many bureaucratic hoops to jump through. Hisouhihisouten ( talk) 05:52, 26 May 2022 (UTC)