Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The God of Ramen

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 no consensus. Sandstein 18:48, 6 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The God of Ramen

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Documentary film about a Ramen chef - first and foremost fails WP:GNG, sourcing is to festival website, blogs, licensing company etc. No independent, in-depth coverage. Search throws up very little else and nothing of weight/note. Festival screening alone does not confer notability (for historical notability, "The film was given a commercial re-release, or screened in a festival, at least five years after initial release.") but this 2013 film doesn't qualify for that clause. Fails WP:NFILM. Alexandermcnabb (talk) 06:43, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Food and drink, Film, and Japan. Alexandermcnabb (talk) 06:43, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy Keep Check the references, it was picked and shown at *Four* Festivals, The Eigasai Film Festival in Czekoslavakia, The Powell St Festival, HIFF and The Japanese Film Festival in Melbourne. Deathlibrarian (talk) 10:34, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
comment from what I'm seeing on google it's surprising that neither Kazuo Yamagishi or the other documentary about them, Ramen Heads, seem to have pages. Creating a page Kazuo Yamagishi faeturing both documentaries seems like a possible option? Artw (talk) 16:07, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tsukemen does have a page but probably isn't very useful as a merge target. Artw (talk) 16:09, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah he does have a page, but it's pretty brief Kazuo_Yamagishi..and I don't think he would be researchable (unless you read Japanese) to find much more on him. If "the God of Ramen" doco info was added, it would be 95% of the content, so as mentioned, not a suitable merge target. Deathlibrarian (talk) 02:32, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Can anyone figure out if there's an article for this documentary at ja.wiki? That can sometimes be helpful for finding sources for a subject when there are transliteration issues to deal with in search. valereee (talk) 17:05, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- @Valereee: There isn't a Japanese article. This three-page review from Sankei News would contribute toward notability, as would this article from Oricon. Neither is used in the current article. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 23:02, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  Thanks, @Nihonjoe! I read them but wasn't sure how to incorporate, so I added them into a Further reading section so that maybe someone else can! valereee (talk) 12:52, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, RL0919 (talk) 22:45, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I see a useful discussion about possible sources but not a lot of opinions on what should be done with this article. Any possibility of an option to redirect or merge in addition to the nomination to delete and the opinion to Speedy keep?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:24, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - I do think the additional sources listed above create enough notability for it to meet WP:GNG and WP:NFILM (and also more specifically WP:NFO in terms of the festival screenings). It's not the most solid case of notability if what's here is all there is, but it does have significant coverage in multiple reliable sources that are independent of the subject, which is specifically what WP:GNG asks for. - Aoidh (talk) 13:58, 5 August 2022 (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.