Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kaitō anime

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 as unsourced. Setting a redirect seems to be ok, I just don't know where. ~ trialsanderrors 06:03, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kaitō anime[edit]

non-notable anime genres. Azump 19:26, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions. -- Monguis 19:54, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as there are no reliable sources to verify that such a genre exists (or that the term is even used to refer to such a genre). NeoChaosX (he shoots, he scores!) 20:42, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional: Keep if it can be sourced/cited; Delete otherwise per WP:NOR. --Czj 23:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment A Google search of "Kaitō anime" reveals only one unique hit that isn't a Wikipedia mirror; taking away the macron on the o, there's no Google hits at all. NeoChaosX (he shoots, he scores!) 02:02, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The extended ō is often written as 'ou', especially by people that have not formally studied Japanese. There are a handful of relevant hits on a google search for "kaitou anime" if you use quotes, but not enough to convince me that it's in common use (as an anime fan myself, I've never heard the phrase used). Ironfrost 04:48, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trying Japanese, I get 300-odd results for "怪盗アニメ", which mostly seem to be relevant hits using the term to describe series like "Mouse". That said, 300 results isn't many, and it's fairly common in Japan to classify titles with one-off neologistic genres, so the fact that a word has verifiably been used does not necessarily mean that a recognised genre exists.
The real problem with this article, however, is that the list of anime supposedly classified in this genre is unsourced, making this look worrying like original research - if that's the case, it should probably be deleted. — Haeleth Talk 10:34, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per NeoChaosX . Edison 19:56, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into a more suitable article, kaito do crop up as protagonists of anime often enough to be mentioned on wikipedia but I don't think enough to justify their own article. --GracieLizzie 17:10, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.