Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kaiketsu Zubat

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. John254 23:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kaiketsu Zubat

This article is unreferenced, so it fails wikipedia's most fundamental policy, of verifiability. The edit screen for creation of a new article clearly warns editors that unreferenced material may be deleted, and this article has been tagged as unreferenced since June 2006, which is quite long enough for references to be have been added. However, they haven't been added, and now it's time for this article to be deleted as unverified.It was a challenged prod.It fails WP:V and WP:N Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 21:21, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - there is no deadline on Wikipedia, so I don't think the "long enough" reason is valid. -Malkinann (talk) 21:25, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Because the article currenlty isn't referenced does not mean that it will never be referenced. "Lack of references" is not a means of determining inclusion. The subject is over 30 years old, and there have been no major updates since then. And I am now adding three references to the page, one of which I know of, and two which came up under a search for the title in Japanese. It in no way fails WP:V and WP:N now.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 21:33, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. —Quasirandom (talk) 21:36, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Nationally aired television programs are notable. We've got the sources to prove its not made up, so the verifiability problem is fixed as well. --erachima formerly tjstrf 22:21, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep references seem to be added. Not suprised, such a program is almost certain to have them. DGG (talk) 22:53, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: The Wikipedia default is that nationally televised serial programs are notable by default, much like named geographic features. There is sufficient indirect referencing in the article to demonstrate it's not a haox, and this seems to be fairly easy to come by, so notability was not very hard to demonstrate. Why has AfD become the cleanup board anyway, instead of notifying the relevant wikiprojects? —Quasirandom (talk) 14:40, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do we even have a tokusatsu Wikiproject? --erachima formerly tjstrf 14:50, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not specifically tokusatsu, that I'm aware of -- the Japan Wikiproject seems to take care of them. —Quasirandom (talk) 19:26, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There's WP:TOKU.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 21:53, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So there is. Toss this puppy at them. They should be able to wash it up, give it a good grooming, tie a ribbon around its neck, and make it the cutest one in the window. Well, maybe not the last, but good enough to display there. —Quasirandom (talk) 22:28, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How do you think I know of it? :P—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 23:15, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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