Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mihara Yasuhiro

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 keep. Doczilla _{@SUPERHEROLOGIST} 17:57, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mihara Yasuhiro

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~~Promotional article and there is no significant coverage. Fails GNG DavidEfraim (talk) 13:35, 25 August 2022 (UTC)~~ Struck for being a sock. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 04:33, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople and Japan. DavidEfraim (talk) 13:35, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Draftify and improve. It's a student's first article and needs a ton of fan language removed and better sources, but a WP:BEFORE search turns up substantial coverage in GNews, including Vogue and Women's Wear Daily, so there's definitely potential for a decent article. Storchy (talk) 14:03, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete (If an article is possible on this subject, it should be started over.) This is a student's first article, the promotionalism is so extensive that it should have been considered for speedy, but the blame for it is not the student, who was apparently poorly instructed, but the WP liaisons. How could they ever have passed the article for submission? Or do they think that the quality of the submitted work is of no importance? Perhaps all submissions from wikied should be required to go through AfC. FWIW, the course was at the College of DuPage; I see on the user page that Oshwah and Ian (Wiki Ed) offered assistance--there is no indication it was effective. ; the course page is at [1]]. I shall be examining the other work from this course. DGG ( talk ) 19:18, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:21, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep As per Storchy there is RS here for him, just not in the article - I've added 6 references. He has quite a bit of coverage of his Paris shows, going back 10 years or more, and there are interview features, no doubt lots more coverage in Japanese language articles. Deathlibrarian (talk) 14:19, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The Vogue and Metal Magazine sources demonstrate significant coverage according to WP:GNG, I have no doubt there is more out there, this, for example. I would take exception to the way this article has been handled by the user proposing deletion, tagbombing the page you propose to delete is not ideal. A better path would be to search for potential sources and improve the content. Boynamedsue (talk) 22:28, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as sigcov does seem to exist: — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 04:33, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Vogue 2023: "One guy in a hi-vis vest and sunglasses was brushing the trash-strewn floor with an almost insolent lack of application—he kept stopping to chat to people instead of getting on with the job at hand. Closer inspection revealed that this layabout was in fact Mihara himself." Direct coverage specifically about Mihara's own unusual behaviour at an event
- Grailed: "Born in 1972 in Nagasaki, Japan, Yasuhiro enrolled in Tama Art University’s textile design program in 1993. Early on in his studies, Yasuhiro developed a passion for footwear which he nurtured through working part-time in factories and through exploring tanneries and wooden last ateliers during a foreign exchange trip to the United Kingdom. Following his trip abroad, Yasuhiro set out on creating his own brand." Biographical material directly about Mihara himself
- Le Petit Archive: "This Japanese designer started designing shoes in 1996 while studying art at the “Tama Art” University in Tokyo. This was the way he found to express his creative vision into a very common element in daily life, shoes. [...] Another of his passions are toys, which he has been collecting since he was six years old." Again, material is directly about Mihara himself
- WWD: Again, covering Mihara's own behaviour

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