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The result was keep. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hanako Oku[edit]

I see no reson that this person is notable in the english speaking world. maybe on the japanese wikipedia Sexy Sea Bassist 16:05, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was released in the US last year and the UK earlier this year... as a result, Hanako Oku's albums are available to buy now in English online music stores (such as Amazon) and in specialist music shops in England. If you look through the J-Pop and Japanese female singers categories in Wikipedia, there are many other artists who many are listed, that many English speakers will not have heard of... yet they are considered notable enough for inclusion in the English Wikipedia, alongside their counterparts on other language wiki's. Why should tyhis article be any different? David Bailey (talk) 16:32, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. -- Bláthnaid 18:10, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Notability does not vary from language to language, unless one wants to intentionally produce a culturally-myopic project. To my knowledge, a preference for cultural myopia is not yet a Wiki policy, or even a guideline. A quick Google News search shows this subject all over the place, including an article in Chunichi Shimbun [1]--dead link now, and not archived-- a constant problem in writing about Japanese subjects-- and mentions in major newspapers like Asahi Shimbun [2], Tokushima Shimbun[3], Nikkan Sports [4]. Clearly notable. Dekkappai (talk) 18:34, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep As Dekkappai shows, ample sources indicating notability. Edward321 (talk) 01:27, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Dekkappai. Proposing that only the English speaking world can adjudicate notability is a very bad idea, and seems to go against the spirit of WP:BIAS. Neier (talk) 13:26, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. -- the wub "?!" 14:38, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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