Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atsushi Fujiwara

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The result was keep. Withdrawn, as Hoary has HEYMANNed the hell out of it :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 02:06, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Atsushi Fujiwara[edit]

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Technically ineligible for PROD because an article at this name was deleted at AfD in a batch nomination in 2009 (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fujiwara Manami), but that subject matter was not related to the photographer currently discussed at the article.

I can't find any indication that the current subject is a notable photographer. I tried searching his name in English both ways as well as his name in Japanese, but found nothing independent. His ja.wiki page is nearly the same as this one, no further sources to be poached. Overall I can't see my way to an WP:NCREATIVE or WP:GNG pass. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 12:12, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 12:12, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Photography-related deletion discussions. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 12:12, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 12:12, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Per Hoary's WP:HEYMANN upgrade, I withdraw my argument for deletion. I can't close as withdraw because of the delete vote however - Red Phoenix, given Hoary's rework and addition of sources, would you be willing to strike your delete? ♠PMC♠ (talk) 02:58, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Okay, I get the idea that someone was trying to establish notability by listing a bunch of magazines, ones I'm presuming to which this photographer contributed images? Regardless, that does not establish that the photographer is notable. WP:GOLDENRULE is not met. Red Phoenix ^talk 14:27, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Stricken as requested above. Red Phoenix ^talk 12:08, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The English article is just a set of lists, and was created by the same SPA who created the Japanese article. It's terrible. Fujiwara is pretty well known here in Japan. Given time to look in the (not free of charge) back issues of Asahi, Mainichi and Yomiuri, I'm pretty sure I'd find stuff about him. (But where would I find the time?) -- Hoary (talk) 13:13, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I still haven't had time to visit the library where I might access newspaper databases. But if like me you don't pay, here you'll still be able to see the first half of a Mainichi Shinbun article devoted to Fujiwara and his photography. -- Hoary (talk) 01:00, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. There's a two-page article on him and his magazine Asphalt in the December '12 issue of Nippon Camera. And I suspect that at least some of the newspapers rather cryptically referred to in the list of "references" (which I've just moved from the article to its talk page) will be substantive. -- Hoary (talk) 11:22, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. There's enough about him. -- Hoary (talk) 01:09, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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