The result was delete. Sandstein 18:38, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
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Cckerberos (courtesy ping) at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hideki Kasai, which was an identical bot-created article:
"This article is a generic stub, generated by a bot in 2007. It makes no specific claim to notability; it appears that similar stubs were created for every photographer listed in 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers, all with the format "Name (years) is a renowned Japanese photographer" (compare the nominated article with Gen Ōtsuka, for example). Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography states that the sole criteria for inclusion in the book was to have a single photograph in the museum's permanent collection at the time the book was published. That doesn't seem to meet WP:CREATIVE."
In addition to Cckerberos's excellent commentary, I'll note that I've done as thorough a WP:BEFORE check as possible for an English-speaker: Google searches of both the English and Japanese order of the English transliteration of his name, and of the Japanese name. The results for the English names were pitiful, and the results for the Japanese were hardly better: trivial mentions in credit sections of books, or lists of copyright holders of things. Japanese Wikipedia has no article about this person, so there are no sources to be borrowed from it.
In the absence of reliable source, we cannot verify that this person is notable, so the article should be deleted. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 19:31, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
The result was delete. Sandstein 18:38, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
[Hide this box] New to Articles for deletion (AfD)? Read these primers!
Rationale borrowed from
J04n
Cckerberos (courtesy ping) at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hideki Kasai, which was an identical bot-created article:
"This article is a generic stub, generated by a bot in 2007. It makes no specific claim to notability; it appears that similar stubs were created for every photographer listed in 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers, all with the format "Name (years) is a renowned Japanese photographer" (compare the nominated article with Gen Ōtsuka, for example). Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography states that the sole criteria for inclusion in the book was to have a single photograph in the museum's permanent collection at the time the book was published. That doesn't seem to meet WP:CREATIVE."
In addition to Cckerberos's excellent commentary, I'll note that I've done as thorough a WP:BEFORE check as possible for an English-speaker: Google searches of both the English and Japanese order of the English transliteration of his name, and of the Japanese name. The results for the English names were pitiful, and the results for the Japanese were hardly better: trivial mentions in credit sections of books, or lists of copyright holders of things. Japanese Wikipedia has no article about this person, so there are no sources to be borrowed from it.
In the absence of reliable source, we cannot verify that this person is notable, so the article should be deleted. ♠ PMC♠ (talk) 19:31, 14 June 2018 (UTC)