Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shintaro Yamada

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Deprodded without references being added. I agree with the original prod reason of "WP:N, WP:V -- Can't find reliable secondary sources in English or Chinese Japanese that mention the model and actor, nor is the actor mentioned in any of the articles on the films or television programs he putatively appeared in. Even barely possible it's a hoax, but ... of course, additional sources welcome." The-Pope (talk) 11:12, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. -- The-Pope (talk) 11:14, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

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• keep I am not sure why you would expect to find anything in Chinese (or even much in English), but the Japanese Wikipedia page is well referenced. My understanding is that references do not have to be in English, so this is enough to establish notability. Sorry I don't have time to translate the references. Francis Bond (talk) 11:38, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

:: Actually, the Japanese page is not so well referenced, but he was definitely in the Japanese TV remake of "My Sassy Girl" and the film Sakigake!! Otokojuku which is enough. Francis Bond (talk) 11:45, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

:::The ja.wiki article is only referenced to non-independent sources or other wikipedia articles. I don't see that definitely being in a TV show and a movie is necessarily enough, especially without any references in any language.The-Pope (talk) 13:59, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 17:25, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

:Comment: I deprodded the article because of two defects in the original prod reason (the facts that it only mentioned the lack of English and Chinese - not Japanese - sources and that he is mentioned in Sakigake!!_Otokojuku_(2008_film)) and the fact that there was a clearly more detailed article in Japanese (even if I couldn't understand a word of it, let alone determine its quality, and Google Translate left me scarcely more enlightened). However, as I don't understand Japanese, I am quite happy to leave discussion here to those who do. PWilkinson (talk) 17:42, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

• Keep, [http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%E5%B1%B1%E7%94%B0%E8%A6%AA%E5%A4%AA%E6%9C%97&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Search+Archives a search of his name in Japanese] yields quite a few hit that don't appear to be trivial (his name is in the headline for quite a few. I added one source, but the translation is very difficult. J04n(talk page) 18:55, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
• Keep meets WP:ENT, reliable sources were found. Dragquennom (talk) 17:55, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

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