Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manabiya

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 delete. keep and merge arguments do not address the lack of sourcing Spartaz ^Humbug! 10:19, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Manabiya[edit]

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Non-notable manga series with no evidence that it has received coverage by reliable third-party sources. Deprodder claims that reliable third-part sources are not needed. —Farix (t | c) 11:21, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. -- —Farix (t | c) 11:22, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Manabiya is a one-vol on hiatus series by Kojima Akira not referenced by ANN and without licensor outside Japan. It's very unlikely to find one outside Japan because that the series was put on hiatus due to author health issue. The author was forced to reduce his/her workload and is focusing on Wa!. --KrebMarkt 14:43, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Notability Issue. And per above. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 17:25, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep First off, the deprodder said "deprodded. Some indication of notability, and there is no absolute rule that it needs third party review to exist)". You have a major company starting a new magazine, combining its most successful aspects from two other magazines it is ending and merging as the new one, which publishes this work. There are hundreds of thousands of Google hits for this series. The author is famous for a previous series that was made into an anime. Since there are very few places that ever review any manga at all, and usually only those from the same parent company, and there is no possible way for them to cover every notable manga there is, that suggested guideline for establishing notability can really be taken seriously. It hurts nothing to leave the article here. Dream Focus 18:18, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If it is notable where are the reliable third-party sources that demonstrate it's notable? No book is notable without third-party sources. Your argument basically comes to "It exists, therefore it is notable", which is a non-argument. —Farix (t | c) 00:56, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

@Dream Focus This work isn't serialized anymore as on indefinite hiatus. There is no more a page dedicated to this series in the Square Enix website while the author still ongoing work Wa! has one. This work is as dead and incomplete as it is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by KrebMarkt (talk • contribs) 07:47, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Akira Kojima. Edward321 (talk) 14:15, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's just as well Kojima is focusing on Wa! as, Mahoraba notwithstanding, his doofy sense of humor makes him a better yonkoma author than drama writer, judging by this effort anyway -- but that's neither here nor there. Since the story is on indefinite hiatus with the plot barely getting started (still introducing new basic characters), it's unlikely to be licensed or adapted any time soon, and without reviews we've not nothing to demonstrate it passes WP:BK at this time or the near future. The title is, however, a valid search term (both as "Manabiya" and "Mana Biya"), so selectively merge to Akira Kojima, leaving a redirect behind. —Quasirandom (talk) 18:14, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Let's go for the selective merge as prescribed by Quasirandom. This series is buried for years just after it started. Now if the author health could improve enough to be able to get back to it the better. --KrebMarkt 07:37, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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