Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manish (band)

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The result was keep. – Joe (talk) 09:46, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Manish (band)

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The coverage that I'm finding (admittedly I do not speak Japanese) is trivial and a lot of it comes from the record label's website. I don't see evidence that it meets WP:BAND. Enwebb (talk) 21:43, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 23:08, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 23:08, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 23:08, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep There is an issue with finding sources, not only because they were Japanese, but also because they broke up in 1998, before the internet era. A retrospective article like this, however, well summarizes their career. The main point is that they had multiple ranking singles and albums, including two top 10 singles and 3 top ten albums, including an album that came in at number 3. It can be hard double confirming all the rankings, since Oricon does not post rankings that far back on their site, but this site has preserved old rankings and is used on Wikipedia: here's their no. 5 ranking single[1], their number 6 single [2], and their no. 3 ranking album[3]. All this easily passes criterion 2 of WP:BAND. Michitaro (talk) 00:34, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Qucipuci1 comment: I was planning to add this weekend more reliable sources. Yes that Barks article is actually written by one of the Being Studio creators and producers Saida Sai (斉田才) if copypaste this japanese characters he's regularly active on Twitter. As stated preiovusly by Michitaro, Oricon doesn't include anymore older rankings from 1990s which is unfortunate and gives me more difficult job to find sources. I sometimes rely on geocities, although this allowance of source hasn't been confirmed by Wikipedia staff.

• Keep I agree with the above, seem to be a mainstream band, with chart success, and lots of Japanese sources (I don't read Japanese either). Not many references on Google because they are old, but the references here indicate there is probably lots in Nihongo. Seem to be on a mainstream label. Deathlibrarian (talk) 01:17, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Note both the people who wrote songs for them are famous rock band Wands, Uesugi Show and the other one. Deathlibrarian (talk) 09:06, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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