Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/B-Wanted

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.

The result was No Consensus. If any articel about the author existed, i would have closed this as a merge, but it doesn't, and i don't quite see a clear keep consensus. DES (talk) 22:03, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

B-Wanted

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Declined speedy nomination; Article about a short Manga series that makes no assertion of notability, and contains virtually no information on the series itself. Google didn't turn up much other than records on some Anime Databases, which simply state when the series was published in Japan and not much else. One website had a synopsis, but this would not establish notability. Apparently this series hasn't been released in English. As far as I can tell, this fails WP:BK. Rackabello 16:04, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Weak keep - Based on google hits. Corpx 16:48, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment Yes, there are quite a few ghits but by themselves these do not establish notability or justify keeping the article. Although it does seem like B-Wanted may have a small cult following (I did discover some fan art), all I've found contentwise in English on this series is one short synopsis and a few Anime directories with publication information. Beyond the notability issues, I don't see the point in having an article on the English Wikipedia about an untranslated Japanese Manga series that has virtually no information on it other than a cover shot and ISBN numbers of the Japanese releases. Rackabello 18:56, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Note to put things in prospective, I did a search of the Japanese Wikipedia for B Wanted and nothing came up Rackabello 19:07, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 07:36, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Delete - series not notable even on the Japanese Wikipedia. ja:えぬえけい is the page for the author, and B-Wanted is the only one of her manga that doesn't have a page. If someone wants to make a page for the author and her other works too, that would be fine, but having a page for her least notable work seems like skewed priorities. Doceirias 10:20, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete the article lacks context as to why there is an article on this manga. Also the lack of available and verifiable information will prevent this article from growing into anything more then a stub. The best solution would be to create an article about the manga's author and redirect this there. Long and short of it, we shouldn't have these kinds of articles that tells us nothing more then "XYZ is a manga" but provided no additional context in the first place. Unfortunately, Category:Anime and manga stubs is littered with these kinds of sudo-stubs. --Farix (Talk) 12:38, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge?. The series is possibly notable per WP:BK, but has no English presence, so it's rather impractical for us to write an article on it. I'd suggest merging it to the author's page, but it doesn't exist. However, since according to the ja.wiki link provided above there are several series by the author, I think we can safely presume her notable enough for a page. --tjstrf talk 18:25, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge to author's page. I created the (stub) article as it was requested on Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Japan/Anime_and_Manga. I had heard of the manga too, even though I live in Belgium and am not a die-hard shōjo otaku, so I figured it was notable. But if it's not on the Japanese wiki (didn't know - can't read it), I guess it's not notable in the end. If the author's notable, she could have an article with the info in it. Maybe the manga article request page should be adjusted, having requesters include a 'proof of notability' when they request an article, so this sort of situation is less likely to happen in the future. Ninja neko 20:53, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep There were six volumes published by a major publisher, and it was serialized in a major manga publication. So far as I'm concerned that's enough to make it noteable. Snarfies 14:31, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reply The problem here isn't notability, I think most of us agree that it is technically notable. The problem is that there's simply nothing to write about here. --tjstrf talk 17:18, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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