Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saitō Chikudō

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The result was keep. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:41, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Saitō Chikudō

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Fails WP:SIGCOV, WP:BIO. Been on cat:nn list for 10+ years. Never been updated. Can't identify a modern reference. scope_creep^Talk 23:31, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, History, and Japan. – dudhhr (1 enby in a trenchcoat)^talk _contribs (he/they) 02:22, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The article is pretty bad ("His Chinese sentences did not have ambiguity." for an example), but the character himself is plainly within encyclopedic scope, provided you look for Japanese references. The WP:ja article cites standard reference works, and for example the kotobank reference site gives another biographical dictionary. Imaginatorium (talk) 04:31, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Imaginatorium: How goes it? Thanks for finding these. That is ideal and put paid to this Afd. I wasn't really if sure he was notable. Would you be able to add them to the article itself? scope_creep^Talk 08:15, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep -- Not a good article, but not so bad as to deserve TNT. I note that there is a Japanese version. Can the English version be improved from that? Peterkingiron (talk) 12:02, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:17, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. He is notable. There are French and Japanese version to look at to improve. Though the French one has a tag on its Talk page saying it was at least partly translated from our English version, so it needs to be double-checked. --Suitskvarts (talk) 08:27, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, the Japanese entry lists two encyclopedias as sources with a dedicated entry to him. There are several relevant sources for 斎藤竹堂 in Google books and scholar. Fulmard (talk) 05:59, 4 November 2022 (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.