Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shigenobu Nakamura

:Weakly Keep , for now. This person may very well be notable. The person who created the article should be contacted and asked to contribute more to the article including secondary sources (even in Japanese would be better than nothing.) Halifax Nomad (talk) 04:35, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

::Alas I don't speak Japanese. My sister is in Japan, but I don't think she follows classical music. I created it because I saw his name in several other Wikipedias and I occasionally try to do stuff with Asian music.--T. Anthony (talk) 04:38, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

:::I found him mentioned at UNESCO's "Knowledge Portal", but maybe he's not notable. Sometimes foreign Wikipedia coverage can deceive me.--T. Anthony (talk) 04:44, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. -- brewcrewer (yada, yada) 04:50, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. -- brewcrewer (yada, yada) 04:51, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. -- brewcrewer (yada, yada) 04:51, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
• Weak keep; The listing at UNESCO suggests he is notable, but probably isn't good enough to establish notability on its own. There are some cursory mentions found on Google News that pretty surely refer to him. --/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 05:23, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
• Very weak keep. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE0D6143BF93AA35753C1A965958260&sec=&spon= One piece noted as part of a performance] in the NYT does suggest an international profile, but there's very little on him in English. --Dhartung | Talk 05:29, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
• Keep the CV seems to give adequate reasons for notability. He's Professor of Acoustic Design at Kyushu, a very important university by any standards.DGG (talk) 06:18, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
• Very clearly keep per criteria #2 for composers and lyricists at WP:MUSIC: Has written musical theatre of some sort (includes musicals, operas, etc) that was performed in a notable theatre that had a reasonable run as such things are judged in their particular situation and time. The UNESCO biography states that "some of his Music Theater pieces using computers were accepted at the ICMC in 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997." That's the International Computer Music Conference. Not a traditional opera house but it's the biggest and most prestigious thing possible for computer music practitioners with a history dating back to the mid 1970s. --Bardin (talk) 07:25, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
• Keep. Satisfies notability criteria, particularly the NYT and UNESCO references. 23skidoo (talk) 19:02, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
• Comment Google gives 330 hits for the Japanese name[http://www.google.co.jp/search?num=100&hl=ja&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=5Fl&as_qdr=all&q=+%22%E4%B8%AD%E6%9D%91%E6%BB%8B%E5%BB%B6%22&start=500&sa=N] Someone might find additional relevant sources among them. Fg2 (talk) 02:04, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
• Keep In addition to the NYT review. Observe the results in Google Scholar.[http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Shigenobu+Nakamura%22+composer&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1]. There are also articles in the German [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigenobu_Nakamura] and Dutch [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigenobu_Nakamura] Wikpedias. Plus there is some stuff in German on Südwestrundfunk about a prize he won for one of works [http://db.swr.de/imkp/IMKP.detail?p_lw=g&p_kwid=168]. Voceditenore (talk) 20:40, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

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