Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Japanese Association of Supporting Streetchildren (2nd nomination)

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The result was No consensus due to lack of participation.. Stifle (talk) 11:20, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese Association of Supporting Streetchildren[edit]

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renominating for deletion. my original argument stands. should have been treated as a PROD in tfails WP:ORG. nothing in gnews [1]. unless someone can find substantial coverage in Japanese it should be deleted.he absence of any keep votes. LibStar (talk) 11:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Provisional Keep The organisation appears to be known as "JASS", so I've done some searching using that term too, and found the Lonely Planet reference (the one used in the article), a number of Vietnamese language sources (which I can't read and can't really verify for reliability, but some look like news sources) - [2], [3] (if you read the Google translation of this one, [4], it looks like it's by both Reuters and AP!), [5], [6], [7] (the latter on a .gov.vn domain, looks like it might be a government news source), a paper on a .ac.jp site [www.grips.ac.jp/teacher/oono/hp/docu01/BoNGO2.doc], a French language Vietnamese source [8]. The organization's site has this page of two stories translated from Japanese, but I can't tell if the originals are reliable sources. Some Japanese references would certainly help (the Japanese version of the organization's site might provide some pointers to anyone who can read it), but I think there's a strong chance they're out there - and we do have a possible Reuters or AP source at least. -- Boing! said Zebedee
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Vietnam-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 13:54, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Black Kite (t) (c) 06:25, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep (weak) the French language newspaper article is about the organization. The name of the group seems to be misleading. According to that article, a Japanese woman spearheaded the group, and got support from Japan ('half' the 10 employees are Japanese, for instance), but it looks like it functions only in Vietnam, possibly only in the one town. Which would explain the numbers of articles in Vietnamese. The newspaper bills itself as the only national french language daily newspaper in Vietnam, so it sounds like a sufficiently reputable source. (Although, why a group of Japanese working in Vietnam choose to use an English acronym is beyond me.)David V Houston (talk) 14:24, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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