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The result was Speedy Keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Let'srun (talk) 21:53, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- Nancy Raffa (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:SIGCOV. Obviously a very accomplished woman, but unfortunately I was unable to locate any independent RS from a reliable publisher. Tulsa Ballet's blog is a self published source and the ABT is her employer. Everything I could find only mentioned her in passing.4meter4 (talk) 01:08, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
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- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 02:21, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep I found multiple articles covering Raffa's work in reliable sources, including the New York Times[1] and the Boston Globe.[2] This story in a Kentucky newspaper is additional coverage.[3] I put these citations, and more, into the article. DaffodilOcean (talk) 07:28, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- Withdrawing and speedy keep. @ DaffodilOcean You are a gem. Thank you so much for these and improving the article.4meter4 (talk) 08:31, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
References
- ^ Dunning, Jennifer (1985-01-20). "THIS DANCE COMPETITION DOES MORE THAN GIVE PRIZES". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
- ^ Temin, Christine (5 November 1981). "THE MAKING OF A BALLET STAR; AT 17, NANCY RAFFA LEARNS THAT SUCCESS BRINGS MIXED BLESSINGS". Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext) ; Boston, Mass. p. 1 – via Proquest.
- ^ Winer, Linda (1980-11-23). "Overworked, underpaid ballet dancers ask whether it's worth it". The Lexington Herald. p. 80. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
- Keep though that's probably not necessary now that the nominator has withdrawn it. As she was a principal dancer with Ballet de Santiago and Ballet National Francaise, I would expect to find coverage in Chile in Spanish and in France in French. I'll see what I can find. RebeccaGreen (talk) 13:19, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
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The result was delete. asilvering (talk) 21:07, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
- Cynthia_Akanga (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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I believe Cynthia_Akanga fails the WP:GNG criteria. Person has brief bios on both linkedin and imdb but very little independent coverage. SallyRenee (talk) 05:57, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
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- Delete: could not find any reliable source to establish notability most sources are primary and IMDb FuzzyMagma (talk) 17:54, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep: I believe the relevant guideline is WP:ENTERTAINER. It says that the person may be considered notable if the person has had significant roles in multiple television shows or stage performances. Akanga has had multiple roles, two to be exact: a stage performance and a role in a television show. Wikipedia does not have a lot of articles about Togolese women. Conscious of the WP:Systemic bias, I vote keep. Ruud Buitelaar (talk) 03:54, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- can you share the source(s) for these performances?
- In general, WP:ENTERTAINER does not override WP:BASIC. FuzzyMagma (talk) 18:37, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep per Ruud Buitelaar and per WP:ENT. She had significant roles in multiple notable productions. – Anne drew (talk · contribs) 04:12, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- She had an appearance on a podcast and was a substitute jury for an obscure show. What notable productions? FuzzyMagma (talk) 18:41, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 06:17, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
- Delete: The French sources are the same as the ones used here, only confirming she was a judge on a TV show, not unlike American Idol is. I don't think that's enough for notability. They are simple "meet the celebrity" articles. Oaktree b (talk) 17:00, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
- Delete - terrible sources; only two shows are not multiple shows. One of the shows she appeared is a reality television show; we don't have articles on jurors or those who don't place in the top three. Her 15 minutes of fame was in 1998. I'm aware of systemic bias, but we have deleted lots of articles about White and male contestants, too, like Tyler Neasloney. Bearian (talk) 15:53, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
Keep,I insist. I have added a few more references. Akanga was choreographer for Cirque du Soleil and Circo Price. She choreographed shows in Israel and Spain.Ruud Buitelaar (talk) 03:59, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- you cannot vote twice! FuzzyMagma (talk) 20:48, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: It is OK by me, @FuzzyMagma, to strike out my vote, but please note that after @Liz relisted the AfD to generate a more thorough discussion, I found new information and references. I think that part at least you should not strike out. Ruud Buitelaar (talk) 03:52, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry for that. I amended my edit above. FuzzyMagma (talk) 10:18, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks! Ruud Buitelaar (talk) 15:44, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry for that. I amended my edit above. FuzzyMagma (talk) 10:18, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Delete I voted Keep yesterday, on the basis that she had been a choreographer for Cirque du Soleil, Circo Price, Cirque Zumba Zumba, Illusia. However, doing a web search on "Cirque du Soleil" and Akanga shows that she was one of five assistants to the choreographers in 2013, a year before she claimed to have been a choreographer with them. Searching for "Notre-Dame de Paris" and Akanga shows that she was a dancer in that show, not a lead role or a choreographer. So we are left with choreographing Illusia for Imagination Circus in Israel, and Pasión sin puñales for Teatro Circo Price (and co-choreographing at least one other show for them). WP:CREATIVE requires that "The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews" . It's not clear that the shows she choreographed are significant or well-known, or have multiple reviews, so I don't think she meets that. RebeccaGreen (talk) 04:05, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for being thorough. I took the sources at face value FuzzyMagma (talk) 11:16, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: It would be nice to get a review of the recently added sources to the article.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 05:35, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- Delete I came here to close this, but seeing there's been no further discussion per Liz's relisting plea, I'll have a go at it. First of all it is really hard to judge these spammy entertainment sites because they have so many ads it wants to lock up my computer when I open multiple tabs. Just grousing. letempstg.com is an interview with some facts interspersed. It is a weak source. www.telestar.fr seems to be the same as letempstg, so this is a single source. ynetnews is strictly a casual mention. Same with artezblai.com. I can't access Programme-tv.net. purepeople.com is another casual mention, although at least it gives one single biographical fact about the topic. Therefore we have one weak source for this BLP topic, as my other searches turned up nothing else, I don't think this meets any of Wikipedia's notability standards, including BASIC or GNG. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 19:28, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
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The result was no consensus. Sandstein 14:03, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- List of music and dance anime (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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I'm not an expert with the Anime WP, but the term "music and dance anime" seems not to satisfy WP:NLIST: it's not a specific category on the wiki, the self-imposed criteria of not contain[ing] strictly idol anime, OVAs and ONAs but may contain anime that use idol setting or themes as part of a bigger plot would seem to be so vague and indefinite as to make the list difficult to populate or understand what makes an entry eligible. There is also no sourcing to support list entries. VRXCES (talk) 02:44, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
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- Keep but rename to List of musical anime I'll try to fix and redefine it. WP:TNT is also an option . Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 07:10, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- With respect, the two options you've presented are polar opposites. Just clarifying - do you think the list as currently drafted can satisfy WP:NLIST? VRXCES (talk) 07:36, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
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- "the self-imposed criteria of not contain[ing] strictly idol anime, OVAs and ONAs but may contain...", the autor of the article here, is because there already is a list of idol anime and manga so there is no need to duplicate things. Also majority of people are not into both, they are either into idol things or are not. You could divide music anime/manga genres into two broad subgenres: idol subgenre and non-idol subgenre. There are examples for "not strictly idol, but uses idol setting as part of a bigger plot": Heroines Run the Show: The Unpopular Girl and the Secret Task. A girl works for an idol and in idol setting but the story is not about being an idol or becoming an idol. The other is Key the Metal Idol. Also in idol setting but there is a conspiracy behind the curtain and existential crisis of a robot - now compare it to run of the mill idol stories like Pretty Rhythm or D4DJ. There is also anime like Samurai Jam -Bakumatsu Rock-, Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle Rhyme Anima and Paradox Live the Animation for which you could say are idol stories because of the characters but the story is not about being an idol. I don't think it's vague. It's just a question of is there a story about sth other than being (becoming) an idol in the story.
You stated "Inexplicably it also looks like the list contains manga as well." It does NOT. You should't misguide people and not provide examples. Everything on the list is/has an anime/OVA/ONA, but the "problem" is that not many anime have their own articles or (anime-)links redirect to a manga page. It would be ridiculous to expect than a 1 ep OVA has an article. I tried to have as many blue links as posssible so it's possible there are links to a manga but it DOES have anime/OVA/ONA.
There is "dance" in the name of the article because there are anime that revolve around dance, rather than just singing and playing instruments, namely Hula Fulla Dance, Brave Beats and Tribe Cool Crew.
"no sourcing" - not sth that cannot be done after the fact and there is a reason for that. not justification, but for majority of entries there is a blue link to the main article that has all the sourcing you can get so it's not sth I pulled out of my ass. I choose not to source, primarily, because I knew there were bound to be dense people, I was right, and there is likelihood for the article to be deleted, so potentially not to lose extra time I made that decision. A list like this, and this is quite a comprehensive list, takes quite a bit of time to make, more than you could guess. Setenzatsu.2 (talk) 23:45, 28 December 2024 (UTC)- Thanks, I have omitted the misleading statement in the nomination. I appreciate the time it's taken to create this. WP:NLIST and WP:SALAT is a concern because the list is manually assembled and has an unclear scope. When looking at pages like List of idol anime and manga you can see there's a sourced background and exploration of its scope. Without that here, it's hard to reliably figure out what qualifies an entry for the list other than loosely having a music and/or dance focus. The idol point is a concern because it would be quite WP:ARBITRARY to consider what goes in and out of this article based on an editor's subjective assessment of how much the anime involves an idol plot. That's why external sourcing about this as a clear genre or category is important. Others may consider that this is a very clear and established genre category and if so that's ok and all that needs to be done is better support this in the article. VRXCES (talk) 00:47, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
- Rename per Miminity. Georgethedragonslayer (talk) 09:23, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting. User:Setenzatsu.2, I take it that your comment is a vote to "Keep" this article? Also, an AFD can not close with an outcome of "Rename" as that is an editing decision. If that is what you want to happen. then vote to Keep this article and then a potential rename discussion can occur.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 03:20, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep. Addendum to my comment/argument presented above: "the self-imposed criteria of not contain[ing] strictly idol anime, OVAs and ONAs but may contain..." was already addressed in my first comment, but to expand upon it (and address VRXCES's answer to my comment: "The idol point is a concern because it would be quite WP:ARBITRARY to consider what goes in and out of this article based..." ), EVEN IF that is a problematic point of the list it only really concerns 2 to 5 anime out of close to 100 on the list. So it's not an argument for deletion of the entire list. Those entries could just be removed or a discussion could be held if those entries should be kept.
Now addressing "the list is manually assembled and has an unclear scope....hard to reliably figure out what qualifies an entry for the list other than loosely having a music and/or dance focus" I would argue that the scope is not unclear, and that it's not "loosely" focused on music. With two or three exceptions where the story is told with music (no dialog and the story is performed against a background of songs, like in A-Girl or My Oldies Are All Color) every other entry has an individual or a group (band, orchestra...) that PERFORMS music pieces. That is the scope - CHARACTERS PERFORM and are in-world artists in most cases (the same is for the two dance entries), except those few (I believe 2 or 3 at most) works where dialog is replaced with music, but for those music is essential to tell the story. That's the reason, I choose for it to be only an anime list - you can see and hear characters perform music/dance which in manga you cannot, but also while reading manga you cannot even imagine it because you don't know what the songs are, which is a bit different from other types of manga where you can imagine things based on description.
edit: I realised that on the surface "characters perform" excludes anime music videos (that are longer than 15 minutes if we stick to the requirement given for the list) but the same argument could be made for anime music videos as the argument given for titles like A-Girl or My Oldies Are All Color. edit: Another criterium: Music is part of the plot or drives the plot (for titles like A-Girl or My Oldies Are All Color, or music videos.). Setenzatsu.2 (talk) 14:36, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
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