Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Season of the Sakura

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The result was keep‎. RL0919 (talk) 22:59, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Season of the Sakura[edit]

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Tagged for notability since 2010. Fails the general and game-specific notability policies. - UtherSRG (talk) 18:04, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Literature, Video games, Computing, and Japan. UtherSRG (talk) 18:04, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete It's likely that the vast majority of any coverage is in paper sources, given the game's age. But, the article creator never included any and the WP:BURDEN is on the maker of an article to prove notability. In English, there is very little to be found, with Mobygames only listing a single contemporaneous review. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:52, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I was able to find is a >200 word review in dead tree magazine, Animeco #9 Winter 1998, page 31-32. Magazine has an editor-in-chief/masthead. —siro χ o 19:59, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment BugBug, a Japanese adult gaming magazine, appears to have a spread's worth of coverage (a lot of it NSFW images) in its June 1996 issue, pages 56-57. Dunno about its reliability, but from Google searches it's claimed to be one of Japan's longest-running gaming magazines.--LaukkuTheGreit (Talk•Contribs) 09:39, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - In addition to the two sources Laukku found above, I found additional coverage in the Spanish print magazine Loading Extra #3, pg. 24-27. Honestgamers published a review of the game (note: outlet seems to be marked as "situational" at WP:VG/S, not sure how this would affect a game review where subjectivity is expected). This game was bundled as part of the JAST USA Memorial Collection, where slightly more coverage of it can be found. Season of the Sakura also appears to have been one of the subjects in The Impact of Telepresence on Cultural Transmission through Bishoujo Games., a 2005 paper published on behalf of Temple University. It seems to me that there are sources out there, they just need to be integrated into the article. FlotillaFlotsam (talk) 11:30, 27 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep in addition to the above theree's an article on Vice here.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 08:41, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, meets WP:GNG —siro χ o 09:14, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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