Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yoshio Ishizaka

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The result was delete. Tone 10:11, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yoshio Ishizaka[edit]

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The prod was removed, but I'm still not seeing how this person is independently notable. There is significant coverage in reliable sources that are "independent of the subject" as required by our general notability guideline. The first two sources are primary per this, not sure about the reliability of the third one. Fails WP:GNG, WP:AUTHOR and WP:NOTINHERITED applies. GSS (talk|c|em) 07:08, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. GSS (talk|c|em) 07:08, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. GSS (talk|c|em) 07:08, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I think it is generally harder for senior Japanese businesspeople to clearly meet our notability standards because of cultural norms that mean they’re much less likely to be in the public eye than their counterparts in the USA or some other countries. That said, the ja.wiki article has more sources, including national daily newspapers. A google search on his name in Japanese throws up a number of other sources, though nothing decisive. Executive VP of the world’s largest car manufacturer is pretty significant, so overall at the moment I’d be inclined to keep. Mccapra (talk) 08:59, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Simply being vice president of a company does not guarantee notability and we have a policy called WP:NOTINHERITED that deal with such cases. None of the sources on the ja-wiki provides significant independent coverage as required by general notability guideline and a Google news search for "石坂芳男" (Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) yield only five links and they're all passing mentions and are insufficient for a WP:BLP. GSS (talk|c|em) 18:42, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. feminist (talk) 09:25, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 07:24, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: There is not much in-depth coverage in the media regarding the subject apart from passing mentions in various publications (at least in publications that use the Latin script, e.g. English, Spanish, French, etc.). Since Japanese uses a different script than English, I'm open to being wrong about this, however. It is very well possible that his name, as written in Japanese, produces many results. Does anyone have this subject's name in Japanese? If so, I'd be happy to search for it in Bing. Carajou (talk) 19:18, 12 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The "Japanese businesspeople are less likely to meet GNG because they are not in the public eye" boils down to "these people are not notable." Wikipedia is built of verifiability. There are lots of people who have had huge impacts on events and developments over time, operating out side the light of public coverage. If we do not have reliable sources to show these people have actually been impactful we do not create articles.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:26, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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