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 keep. No arguments for deletion aside from the nominator. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:29, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kuso Miso Technique[edit]

An unreferenced manga by a redlinked artist taffed for notability since last year. - Altenmann >t 09:39, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I have sources.

http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/4140919/ Manga is ranked 11th in a survey asking which manga is the most interesting.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080209214547/http://www.zakzak.co.jp/top/2008_02/t2008020901_all.html Article dedicated to the manga. Mentions the social impact of this manga ("even child molesters use its lines"). Touches on the mysterious author.

http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/3951096/ A wrestler entered the stage in the costume of this manga's character, accompanied by the character's "theme song" that people made on the internet.

http://gigazine.net/index.php?/news/comments/20081117_yaranaika_shirts/ Yaranaika t-shirts.

_dk (talk) 10:36, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0712/28/news035.html The manga's catchphrase, "Yaranaika" was one of 2007's "most used phrases on the (Japanese) internet". It was ranked 16th in a survey for "Net Slang of the Year" for 2007. _dk (talk) 10:47, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 12:16, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. Only one of _dk's links directly addresses any criterion of WP:BK, but the others support the continuing notability and influence of the manga (including five years later!), enough so that I'd count them towards satisfying the general notability guidelines. One-shots are rarely notable, but this one appears to be: Keep. Incidentally, arguing that an author is non-notable solely because there is no article on him/her is extremely dubious: Wikipedia still has massive holes in its encyclopedic coverage, and one of the largest is arts and artists outside the Anglosphere. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:22, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I could swear I read something discussing how this was one of the earliest examples of homosexual pornography done in the manga format, and quite influential. No idea where that link is or what language it might be in, but this title probably has more notability than the meme alone suggests. Keep. Doceirias (talk) 14:50, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good faith keep. Not being terribly up on manga and not able to read Japanese I have to go on the article as it is and likely could be. It does assert notability and has sourcing; the issue remains if anything presented is false or misleading and from reading the discussion here it seems that's not the issue. What we're left with then is an article, like most, that needs improving and more sourcing. -- Banjeboi 01:57, 12 July 2009 (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.