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A non encyclopedic cross categorisation and an indiscriminate amount of information. Very few entries have encyclopedia articles. Does not meet
WP:LISTN as the topic has not received significant RS coverage from independent, 3rd party sources. First AfD closed as no-consensus in 2013, so I believe it's a good time to revisit.
K.e.coffman (
talk)
02:36, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep. Everything in the list can be easily and reliably sourced. The list was split from the main
AKB48 article some years ago cause the article was getting too large. Given the cult status of the girl group and the abundance of reliable sources discussing which member left and when, the list must be present in Wikipedia in one way or another. (As an alternative, you can consider merging it to the "
List of AKB48 members". It will be safer there.) --
Moscow Connection (
talk)
03:04, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep – The article presently has 41 links to standalone biography articles. I myself don't view this number as "very few", as stated in the nomination. The article would benefit from copy editing, but it qualifies as per
WP:NOTDUP relative to
Category:AKB48 members. Also meets
WP:LISTPURP as a valuable information source and navigational aid, as evidenced in part by the
3,551 page views it has received in the last thirty days. North America100005:40, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep and trim. A lot of the details should be removed. This should really be a simple list of the name of the member and the time they were in this group. If you want to split between graduated members and other members, you could but it doesn't need to be split by Team as members have bounced around all sorts of teams. No election results as those should go to the individual members where notable.
AngusWOOF (
bark •
sniff)
16:46, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Nom's comment -- There are entire sections that are uncited and contain no wiki links, such as:
At a very rough estimate, it appears that the list contains about 260 names. Given that 40 names are blue links, that makes perhaps 15% of the names on the list as having stand-alone articles. Some of those that I looked at do not appear to be independently notable, such as
Sumire Satō. Pageviews are not generally taken into account when determining notability on Wikipedia.
Judging by the related article, the bands and their singles are notable, but the performers, out of a rotating cast of dozens (hundreds?), are unlikely to be so, with perhaps a few exceptions. Combining the names into a list is an
indiscriminate collection of information and does not have encyclopedic value in the current form of the list.
K.e.coffman (
talk)
23:35, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
"Some of those that I looked at do not appear to be independently notable, such as Sumire Satō." Sumire Sato is notable (
WP:GNG at least:
Google News search,
[1],
[2],
[3], etc.), as are many more members mentioned on the list. By the way, she also was / has been a member of 2 independently notable musical groups. It's just that there aren't many people on the English Wikipedia willing to write a proper article about her and everyone else. --
Moscow Connection (
talk)
00:36, 4 November 2017 (UTC)reply
I would actually prefer to have one list of members (including the former ones) and to have an additional template with the current roster (something as small as possible, with smaller font size etc., maybe collapsible) you can put in the main AKB48 article. But I don't think here is the right place to discuss it. Cause you just want to delete the information completely, that's not right. --
Moscow Connection (
talk)
00:45, 4 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep we cannot call 41 items very few with a wave of hand, this contradicts nom statement wbo claimed very few have articles. Second although many don't have article, one of the
purpose of list is development. Non linked titles in lists (and DAB pages) serve almost similar function as redlink, because they help overall development of Wikipedia. I said this as addendum to what has already been confirmed by many people above that the contents is indeed
verifiable and referred in RS. For any other concern it can be trimmed or reorganized but
deletion is not solution here. —Ammarpad (
talk)
10:28, 4 November 2017 (UTC)reply
I disagree on the point of development. The link supplied,
WP:PURPLIST also includes:
"Wikipedia is optimized for readers over editors, any lists which exist primarily for development or maintenance purposes (such as a list that consists entirely of red links and does not serve an informational purpose; especially a list of missing topics) should be in either the project or user space, not the main space."
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.
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.
A non encyclopedic cross categorisation and an indiscriminate amount of information. Very few entries have encyclopedia articles. Does not meet
WP:LISTN as the topic has not received significant RS coverage from independent, 3rd party sources. First AfD closed as no-consensus in 2013, so I believe it's a good time to revisit.
K.e.coffman (
talk)
02:36, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep. Everything in the list can be easily and reliably sourced. The list was split from the main
AKB48 article some years ago cause the article was getting too large. Given the cult status of the girl group and the abundance of reliable sources discussing which member left and when, the list must be present in Wikipedia in one way or another. (As an alternative, you can consider merging it to the "
List of AKB48 members". It will be safer there.) --
Moscow Connection (
talk)
03:04, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep – The article presently has 41 links to standalone biography articles. I myself don't view this number as "very few", as stated in the nomination. The article would benefit from copy editing, but it qualifies as per
WP:NOTDUP relative to
Category:AKB48 members. Also meets
WP:LISTPURP as a valuable information source and navigational aid, as evidenced in part by the
3,551 page views it has received in the last thirty days. North America100005:40, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep and trim. A lot of the details should be removed. This should really be a simple list of the name of the member and the time they were in this group. If you want to split between graduated members and other members, you could but it doesn't need to be split by Team as members have bounced around all sorts of teams. No election results as those should go to the individual members where notable.
AngusWOOF (
bark •
sniff)
16:46, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Nom's comment -- There are entire sections that are uncited and contain no wiki links, such as:
At a very rough estimate, it appears that the list contains about 260 names. Given that 40 names are blue links, that makes perhaps 15% of the names on the list as having stand-alone articles. Some of those that I looked at do not appear to be independently notable, such as
Sumire Satō. Pageviews are not generally taken into account when determining notability on Wikipedia.
Judging by the related article, the bands and their singles are notable, but the performers, out of a rotating cast of dozens (hundreds?), are unlikely to be so, with perhaps a few exceptions. Combining the names into a list is an
indiscriminate collection of information and does not have encyclopedic value in the current form of the list.
K.e.coffman (
talk)
23:35, 3 November 2017 (UTC)reply
"Some of those that I looked at do not appear to be independently notable, such as Sumire Satō." Sumire Sato is notable (
WP:GNG at least:
Google News search,
[1],
[2],
[3], etc.), as are many more members mentioned on the list. By the way, she also was / has been a member of 2 independently notable musical groups. It's just that there aren't many people on the English Wikipedia willing to write a proper article about her and everyone else. --
Moscow Connection (
talk)
00:36, 4 November 2017 (UTC)reply
I would actually prefer to have one list of members (including the former ones) and to have an additional template with the current roster (something as small as possible, with smaller font size etc., maybe collapsible) you can put in the main AKB48 article. But I don't think here is the right place to discuss it. Cause you just want to delete the information completely, that's not right. --
Moscow Connection (
talk)
00:45, 4 November 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep we cannot call 41 items very few with a wave of hand, this contradicts nom statement wbo claimed very few have articles. Second although many don't have article, one of the
purpose of list is development. Non linked titles in lists (and DAB pages) serve almost similar function as redlink, because they help overall development of Wikipedia. I said this as addendum to what has already been confirmed by many people above that the contents is indeed
verifiable and referred in RS. For any other concern it can be trimmed or reorganized but
deletion is not solution here. —Ammarpad (
talk)
10:28, 4 November 2017 (UTC)reply
I disagree on the point of development. The link supplied,
WP:PURPLIST also includes:
"Wikipedia is optimized for readers over editors, any lists which exist primarily for development or maintenance purposes (such as a list that consists entirely of red links and does not serve an informational purpose; especially a list of missing topics) should be in either the project or user space, not the main space."
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.