Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Takanobu Takahashi

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The result was keep‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:42, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Takanobu Takahashi

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The whole article describes his trivial academic merit (studies, academic positions, even travelling), but there is nothing for WP:BIO, WP:PROF. His most well-know publication is "Tamil love poetry and poetics" which received good reviews according to my research, but still there is nothing to prove significant academic notability. Chiserc (talk) 08:43, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators and Japan. Chiserc (talk) 08:43, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Takahashi is one of the academically well cited Japanese Indologist known for his scholarly works on Tamil literature. That he is one of the two translators of the Kural text into Japanese indeed has encyclopedic merit. Rasnaboy (talk) 17:33, 12 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:45, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:44, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Likely language barrier in the listing here. I do think this subject meets WP:NACADEMIC even when viewing easy-to-find English sources alone. Google Scholar puts this subject's most famous work Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics at 50 citations, and Google Scholar tends to under-count citations for such disciplines. I wonder if someone with access to a citation index can help. It's cited by other academic books to be sure searcheg1eg2. We don't have a callout policy on notability of translators, but certainly translating the Kural boosts the academic notability. But still, keep in mind, this person is translating from Tamil to Japanese, there aren't going to be a lot of easy to find English language sources, but they've clearly published even more in Japanese language: [1][2][3][4]. —siro χ o 00:44, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, seems very likely to meet point 1 of WP:NACADEMIC. Even his English-language scholarship has attracted no small amount of critical attention. -- Visviva (talk) 01:10, 28 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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