Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harumichi Yamada

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The result was delete. Biblioworm 19:46, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Harumichi Yamada

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I'd welcome input on this. I'm always oriented towards supporting articles on academics and Wikipedia contributors, but an academic with no publishing history outside Japan that I can find doesn't seem to me to really meet WP:ACADEMIC or WP:NOTABILITY for enwiki generally. (In particular, if his speciality is UK geography, I'm a bit surprised to see no English-language publications - but I don't.) Blythwood (talk) 15:32, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

[[1]] [[2]] UK geography--永続繁栄 (talk) 15:50, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. clpo13_(talk) 20:02, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. clpo13_(talk) 20:02, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Delete - I'm looking at his university biography [3] and there is nothing to suggest he's a specialist in anything related to the UK other than what is apparently an isolated thesis on the residential layout of two Birmingham suburbs [4] which hardly qualifies him for WP:N. Other than what appears to be a Livestream interview [5] he has no footprint in anything other than blogs and a rather tedious bibliography. After going down several rabbit holes attempting to locate decent sources in Japanese to no avail, I'm almost inclined to push for this article to be salted. Jun Kayama 05:33, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Delete - No indication of notability has been provided, so I think that this article also fails WP:ACADEMIC.--Infinite0694 (Talk) 13:15, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think counterargument is difficult but I tell about in Japanese Wikipedia's talk.--永続繁栄 (talk) 02:56, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I read your comment, and all you did was agree with someone else with a severely flawed argument. Having tenure at Tokyo Keizai University for 20+ years and being an administrator on the Japanese Wikipedia side of the house fails WP:N. The mess of coverage used as references for that article is on the TKU internal servers on Yamada's own blog page (it clearly says 私的ページ：山田晴通 here [6] here [7] and pages like this [8] or this [9] are hosted on his personal page which is completely unacceptable for use as WP:RS. Japanese Wikipedia has different standards for what is acceptable in terms of references (which accounts for massive differences in articles such as those for AKB48 [10] [11]) by including reams and reams of anecdotes, which is fine - that's how Japan runs everything in print, but that laxity does not change the ground truth: Yamada has absolutely no footprint outside of Japan worth speaking of and this article fails to meet WP:NACADEMICS. Jun Kayama 07:48, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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