Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenji Yamazaki

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 delete. Sandstein 09:01, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kenji Yamazaki

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Unnotable composer and nothing obvious to merge/redirect into. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 05:12, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Japan -related deletion discussions. WeAreAllHere _talk 05:28, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. WeAreAllHere _talk 05:28, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I can find nothing to justify WP:GNG, even when I searched in Japanese language sources. However, he has contributed as composer to a number of notable games (which have their own coverage, and I did check they were notable), and hence satisfies WP:CREATIVE. See 3). Ross-c (talk) 11:23, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

- You could literally make the case for every single video game personnel then. If he doesn't have independent coverage, then he shouldn't be considered notable. ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 22:09, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:52, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Usually notability cannot be inherited, but WP:BIO seems the only specific category to not possess that statement, and reading it, it seems rather blurred. So having a look at the 4 points of WP:CREATIVE:

(important figure/widely cited) clearly isn't the case, or we'd see the refs;
(new technique etc) no indication of that being the case;
(co-create well-known work) that it has to be the primary part of the work would seem to rule out having provided music to games - if you named the top 3 people in the game's creation, he wouldn't be in it;
(works have won significant acclaim) - have we seen actual refs praising the music of these games, otherwise it can't count Nosebagbear (talk) 12:42, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 06:16, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete fails WP:GNG and the fact no independent coverage appears to exist in Japanese sources as per above seems to be the clincher. The WP:CREATIVE argument is a non-starter if there's literally nothing out there about him. SportingFlyer talk 07:58, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: does not meet WP:MUSICBIO & just a directory listing. Lacks WP:SIGCOV to justify an article at this time. K.e.coffman (talk) 17:02, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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