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Nagai and Garo are strongly associated. Needs documentation on independent notability. Many books mention Nagai but it is always focused on his work with Garo and hardly mention anything about his own life. Recommend redirect to Garo.
AngusWOOF (
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00:59, 16 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep While it might be different if those sources only mentioned him in passing, they specifically talk about how the person himself set up Garo and the lengths he had to go to. (like getting funding from Sanpei Shirato) It is the case for many notable figures that they will always be mentioned in the context of their major discovery, but as the jawiki article shows, there is much to write about Nagai himself. Looking at the sources already in the article I can already see information that is relevant in the first one: "whose sunken cheeks showed the effect of decades of bouts with tuberculosis and hard living". I think it'd really just be an issue of hunting down sources and there'd certainly be more Japanese-language ones. I also think the second point of
WP:ANYBIO applies: "The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in his or her specific field." Garo was very influential in the history of manga and many artists today got their start there. It would be a shame to have no information on the man behind it all, especially when unlike so many other ventures, it really was mostly a one-man show.
Opencooper (
talk)
03:47, 16 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete - There's nothing in the Japanese Wikipedia article for Nagai other than errata, like how he ran a bar in
Asakusa for half a year. His professional life centers on Garo unless his abortive foray into becoming the head of a now-extinct minor software publishing firm called Zeit is counted as
WP:N. I would actually push for a Merge if this article was substantive as the Japanese one in terms of assessing Nagai's cultural impact, but this is a stub and has minimal merit as a stand-alone article. Jun Kayama06:06, 20 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment - From what I can tell, I think the best possible argument against deletion or a merge with Garo is to argue that Nagai made another, somewhat separate contribution by founding Seirindō
ja:青林堂, the publisher. True, Seirindō was primarily focused on Garo at first, but it also published monographs, first of the important manga artists featured in Garo, such as Yoshiharu Tsuge, but also of film criticism, politics, etc. It got into a somewhat notorious split, which formed Seirin Kōgeisha (which has taken over publishing manga). Seirindō continues as less a manga publisher than as a publisher of some of the more notorious right wing revisionist literature, such as the now internationally notorious Toshiko Hasumi's anti-refugee book
[2][3].
Michitaro (
talk)
17:36, 24 December 2015 (UTC)reply
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
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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.
Nagai and Garo are strongly associated. Needs documentation on independent notability. Many books mention Nagai but it is always focused on his work with Garo and hardly mention anything about his own life. Recommend redirect to Garo.
AngusWOOF (
bark •
sniff)
00:59, 16 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep While it might be different if those sources only mentioned him in passing, they specifically talk about how the person himself set up Garo and the lengths he had to go to. (like getting funding from Sanpei Shirato) It is the case for many notable figures that they will always be mentioned in the context of their major discovery, but as the jawiki article shows, there is much to write about Nagai himself. Looking at the sources already in the article I can already see information that is relevant in the first one: "whose sunken cheeks showed the effect of decades of bouts with tuberculosis and hard living". I think it'd really just be an issue of hunting down sources and there'd certainly be more Japanese-language ones. I also think the second point of
WP:ANYBIO applies: "The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in his or her specific field." Garo was very influential in the history of manga and many artists today got their start there. It would be a shame to have no information on the man behind it all, especially when unlike so many other ventures, it really was mostly a one-man show.
Opencooper (
talk)
03:47, 16 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete - There's nothing in the Japanese Wikipedia article for Nagai other than errata, like how he ran a bar in
Asakusa for half a year. His professional life centers on Garo unless his abortive foray into becoming the head of a now-extinct minor software publishing firm called Zeit is counted as
WP:N. I would actually push for a Merge if this article was substantive as the Japanese one in terms of assessing Nagai's cultural impact, but this is a stub and has minimal merit as a stand-alone article. Jun Kayama06:06, 20 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment - From what I can tell, I think the best possible argument against deletion or a merge with Garo is to argue that Nagai made another, somewhat separate contribution by founding Seirindō
ja:青林堂, the publisher. True, Seirindō was primarily focused on Garo at first, but it also published monographs, first of the important manga artists featured in Garo, such as Yoshiharu Tsuge, but also of film criticism, politics, etc. It got into a somewhat notorious split, which formed Seirin Kōgeisha (which has taken over publishing manga). Seirindō continues as less a manga publisher than as a publisher of some of the more notorious right wing revisionist literature, such as the now internationally notorious Toshiko Hasumi's anti-refugee book
[2][3].
Michitaro (
talk)
17:36, 24 December 2015 (UTC)reply
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
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