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The Reason I Can't Find My Love

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Non-notable drama series that likely only has an article due to its use of songs by Namie Amuro. Both the English and Japanese versions of the article are almost completely unsourced. Performing a search for Japanese-language sources only results in product listings, streaming sites and forum posts, not reliable coverage. MidnightMayhem 06:00, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television and Japan. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 06:20, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. No reliable sources to prove its notability. Warriorglance(talk to me) 06:25, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I found an article from Oricon stating that the first episode had a 17% nationwide viewership. Mantan Web reports that its final episode had an 18.4% nationwide viewership. It seems to have been highly viewed in Japan. lullabying (talk) 07:08, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- Correction: they're not nationwide viewerships, but overall viewerships in the Kanto region of Japan. lullabying (talk) 07:11, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per the sources found by Lullabying, which seem to provide notability for the minimum WP:BASIC criteria. ⋆｡˚꒰ঌ Clara A. Djalim ໒꒱˚｡⋆ 10:19, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yutaro Yoshino

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With 7 J3 appearances, [1], he doesn't seem notable, but as he played in Brazil briefly there may be stuff out there. RossEvans19 (talk) 13:07, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete – Corresponding article on Japanese Wikipedia only consists of routine announcements. ⋆｡˚꒰ঌ Clara A. Djalim ໒꒱˚｡⋆ 14:54, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep - Have fleshed out article with two in-depth articles detailing his time in Brazil, as well as multiple other smaller articles. Meets GNG. Zênite (talk) 16:05, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Oh wow, fantastic additions Zênite! I would be very happy to keep the article now after the WP:HEY. I can't speedy close this due to Clara's delete but I will ping @Clariniie: to ask her to look at it again :) RossEvans19 (talk) - 17:41, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Two sources from Targma seem to have significant coverage: 2020 and 2024. I'm just not sure if the source is reliable. ⋆｡˚꒰ঌ Clara A. Djalim ໒꒱˚｡⋆ 11:29, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep – I found this in Brazilian media [2], [3], basically talking about his signing by Sport Capixaba in 2016 and summarizing his time in Brazil. I don't know if it's enough, but it can certainly help. Svartner (talk) 05:34, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Transfer announcements do not count as significant coverage. ⋆｡˚꒰ঌ Clara A. Djalim ໒꒱˚｡⋆ 11:29, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep per sources above which show (apparently - AGF!) notability. Giant Snowman 17:42, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Masato Hashimoto

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Prod previously declined. 13 J3 appearances before playing the rest of their career in non league. Has not played since 2023. Fails GNG. RossEvans19 (talk) 13:03, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete – Corresponding article on Japanese Wikipedia only consists of routine announcements. ⋆｡˚꒰ঌ Clara A. Djalim ໒꒱˚｡⋆ 14:53, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Just one single source to verify, fails WP:GNG. 🦅White-tailed eagle^{Talk to the eagle}Stalking eagle 21:09, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Fails in WP:GNG. Svartner (talk) 05:42, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. PS don't think there's a 'non league' as we know it in Japan... Giant Snowman 17:41, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yutaro Masuda

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Prod previously declined. Made only 13 professional appearances, the rest are non league. [4] Fails GNG. RossEvans19 (talk) 13:02, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete – Played mostly in the Japan Football League, which is not fully professional, and does not have signal of WP:SIGCOV. Svartner (talk) 05:28, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Corresponding article on Japanese Wikipedia only provides two references that are routine. RossEvans19 forgot to mention that this article was created by a user who ended up being permanently blocked for creating a lot of articles about non-notable Japanese footballers. ⋆｡˚꒰ঌ Clara A. Djalim ໒꒱˚｡⋆ 11:28, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. PS don't think there's a 'non league' as we know it in Japan... Giant Snowman 17:41, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Studio Flad

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The article not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for companies or studios. Kopnakolicti Kopnakolicti (talk) 07:33, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. Small studio, few years of history and about as many works. The entry is pretty much catalogue info based on catalogue info, that they exist and worked on this and that. Not seeing WP:NCORP/WP:GNG importance. Wikidata entry is enough for such entities. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:22, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Gun Crazy 2: Beyond the Law

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This doesn't appear to meet WP:NFILM / WP:GNG. No obvious WP:ATD. Boleyn (talk) 20:14, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment: I found a review from DVD Talk. I did a search under the Japanese title and got some hits, however the most frequent mentions appear to be in Google Books, which Google Translate won't help with. The difficulty, however is that the title seems to be "Elegy of Betrayal" in Japanese and there's apparently another movie by that title, so we'd need someone with some level of fluency to be able to tell if any of that is useful. I was able to get a good snippet in list view to see that this does mention the correct film, however the same issue applies - I can't tell if it's actually useful for establishing notability. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 22:38, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Zackray

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The article has used a lot of unreliable sources and fails WP:GNG. I did WP:BEFORE, but there are zero sigcov or lacking of reliable sources about this person. A source like this [5] [6] just states that he just won at The Big House 9 tournament, but that's it. 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 14:32, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment: I'm confused about how notable are the subject's wins in the world of gaming. Until we have context, I'm not sure what to do. Bearian (talk) 17:53, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CyberStep

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Lacks notable, verifiable sources proving his subject meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines for a person Hka-34 Jyli (talk) 08:59, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment: While I have no opinion on the article, I did want to point out that Wikipedia's notability guidelines for a person—i.e. WP:BIO—would not come into play for an article for a company, which falls under NCORP instead. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 10:45, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Have you looked at the sources on JP wiki or done a BEFORE in Japanese? IgelRM (talk) 19:51, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Toshiharu Morinaga

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I am struggling to verify if Toshiharu Morinaga played for Shenzhen during the 2003 season. If he did, we should redirect to 2003 Chinese Jia-A League. RossEvans19 (talk) 15:42, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete – Fails in WP:GNG. There aren't sources even on ja.wiki. Svartner (talk) 16:49, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Clearly non-notable per my WP:JAPANBEFORE. JP has nothing and even the JP search on GNews yield nothing. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 08:09, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. Giant Snowman 17:08, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ki Society

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Dubious notability (WP:NCORP/WP:GNG). The article has no footnotes, there is a list of possible sources in 'Further reading' but no indication they mention this organization. My BEFORE fails to find anything except a few passing mentions (like in this academic article, which is reliable but WP:SIGCOV is an issue - passing mentions in two sentences are not good enough, I fear); maybe there are sources in Japanese but ja wiki article is no better than ours. This is about to be deleted from pl wiki (where we recently cleaned a bunch of articles on non-notable Polish akido organizations that nobody except themselves have noticed). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:49, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Lacks significant independent coverage. The same is true of the Japanese wiki article. My own search found many mentions of "ki", but not of this particular "society". Ki is a general term, but significant independent coverage of this group is hard to find. Please notify me if coverage showing WP notability is found. Papaursa (talk) 15:09, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Asumi Takeda

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Footballer that fails WP:GNG. No sources beyond databases. WhoIsCentreLeft (talk) 20:47, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete – Fails in WP:GNG. Svartner (talk) 07:49, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Delete - no evidence of notability. If sources are found which show significant coverage please ping me. Giant Snowman 17:30, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I found this ANN Article, (though seems like not a possible source to use). I don't know GNews is showing articles about Akebi's Sailor Uniform? and the "Sailer Ojichan" photo lol. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 08:37, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, I also saw the "ANN" piece, and I agree with the other editors view that this alone would not meet WP:GNG. Iljhgtn (talk) 21:02, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Korenya Shingetsuan

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Not enough in-depth coverage to show it passes WP:GNG. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 15:27, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete, per nom. This content should be placed under a food of Japan or cuisine type article and does not need a split article by itself. Iljhgtn (talk) 15:42, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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