Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/When Hikaru was on the Earth

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The result was redirect to Mizuki Nomura. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:31, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

When Hikaru was on the Earth[edit]

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This article currently is unreferenced, and as such does not assert notability, and does not appear to satisfy WP:GNG or the more specific WP:BK. A cursory Google search of the original romanized title turned up blogs and various fan translations of the books and manga adaptation. Searching with the translated title turns up the same thing. Another search of the original Japanese title turns up blogs and retailers. 十八 22:54, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. --十八 23:01, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. --十八 23:01, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. No English sources; needs an opinion from a Japanese speaker. Non-Japanese speakers like myself cannot adequately verify whether Japanese sources exist or not, I am afraid. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 23:18, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I'm afraid. I'm not a Japanese speaker (I can only understand very little Japanese), but from the search I made, all I could find were official sites, sites selling the novels and blogs. Light novels are dime-a-dozen in Japan, so it's normal for the majority of them to not receive a lot of coverage. The series does have a Japanese Wikipedia article, although they are a much more inclusive encyclopedia (essentially any series is notable to them) and they don't need much (sometimes, even any) sourcing to establish notability. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 09:33, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Normally manga and anime works do not get articles here on Wikipedia unless they have been adapted into English or some other language as well, this is not to say that this is the case for everything but this is just an example of one being where there are no reliable sources to be found. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 19:47, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This novel has Chinese and Korean version. See [1][2] - ひなどり(Hinadori) 18:44, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- (Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) (in Japanese)
- (Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) (in Chinese)
- (Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) (in Korean)
Redirect to Mizuki Nomura: This light novel was written by Mizuki Nomura, the author of Book Girl. See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ero Manga Sensei - My Little Sister and the Locked Room. - ひなどり(Hinadori) 10:12, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect Because I do not have enough time to pull up sources on why this is notable and prove it to English users. We have a major issue and A&M is revitalizing, but the necessary organization and fluency and ability to get the sources from the archives is simply not there yet. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 18:20, 18 January 2014 (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.