Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kanetake Ebikawa

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The result was keep. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 05:40, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kanetake Ebikawa

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Disputed WP:PROD. Initial concern was: Unreferenced WP:BLP fails WP:CREATIVE. No indication of awards or other recognition; just a list of credits. The article now has some references which confirm that the subject exists, but still nothing to support notability via WP:ANYBIO or WP:CREATIVE. Pburka (talk) 00:02, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Not seeing any reliable sourcing or in-depth coverage to verify the subject's notability. --DAJF (talk) 00:21, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep WP:ENTERTAINER 3. Has made unique, prolific or innovative contributions to a field of entertainment. Designing the mecha which are the key part of these notable series, is an innovative contribution to this field of entertainment. Also meets the requirements for creative professionals at WP:CREATIVE. Do they not talk about mechas in various books? His work gets coverage, and is surely a large part of things, plus he innovates new designs. Dream Focus 00:33, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Not notable enough to be on Wikipedia. Ebikawa is associated with several very notable anime productions, but mechanical designer is not a notable role for Wikipedia standards. Anime News Network, which serves as the primary source, is the proper place for this scope of industry information. --NINTENDUDE ⁶⁴ 00:34, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Did a little further research on mechanical designers to get better context. Kunio Okawara, who's worked on Mobile Suit Gundam and tons of other stuff, has an extensive entry even in English. Although Ebikawa doesn't have Okawara's resume, there appears to be enough here to be notable. --NINTENDUDE ⁶⁴ 00:53, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- The Kunio Okawara article is also completely unreferenced and needs to be improved or deleted. The only reference it has is to a blog article which no longer exists. Pburka (talk) 03:36, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment - The fact that the English version of the Kunio Okawara article basically just needs an Anime News Network or other industry cite has no bearing on this AfD discussion. Everything I said earlier still stands. --NINTENDUDE ⁶⁴ 19:20, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. — — alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 02:44, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. — — alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 02:44, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Per WP:ENT, #3 - "Has made unique, prolific or innovative contributions to a field of entertainment." Northamerica1000 (talk) 09:22, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 14:03, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

keep - As far as mecha goes you don't get much more high profile than Gundam and others like FMP, Vandread and Kiddy Grade aren't exactly unknown - they have all had multiple releases in the US and the mechanical designs are integral to all of them. Added a number or references, both first and second/third party. I also have a couple of text interviews with him which I can scan if anyone wants to translate them (although they are in official guidebooks so not sure how those stand on reliability). Shiroi Hane (talk) 14:53, 21 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.