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. JForget 22:00, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yandere[edit]

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Neologism based on a Japanese portmanteau. The article is filled with original research. The single source cited by the article does not actually define the term, or the two Japanese words that make up the portmanteau. Contents of article fails the policy on verifiability. —Farix (t | c) 12:31, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. -- —Farix (t | c) 12:37, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This was previously nominated and kept as part of a joint nomination with Tsundere. In that AfD nomination, someone said as reason for keeping Yandere that the Japanese Wikipedia article lists a book as a source, and that there is a video game devoted to the subject. The Japanese Wikipedia article does list several sources that someone should look into (I can't read Japanese). There are also sources in some of the Wikipedia articles in other languages, thought many of those seem to be the same one from the English article or the same ones from the Japanese article, but there might be a few additional sources in one of them. Calathan (talk) 14:00, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Second only to tsundere as far as this school of neologisms go; worth at least investigating those sources to see if there's enough traction. Doceirias (talk) 16:01, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep As per the previous nomination. You can/should have look there for the reasonings. Translation of the Japanese wiki and its sources would help greatly though. ((Expand Japanese)) Transaction Go (talk) 17:42, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The JP wiki appears to list blogs and game descriptions as sources. This isn't the reliable sources needed to keep this type of article. One of them is even from DynDNS. —Farix (t | c) 22:52, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or incubate. The Spanish and Chinese articles cite references that may be worth investigating. I am more doubtful of the German article's references as the only one that appears useful is used in the Japanese article. I did not find any references in the other three articles. (French, Italian, Korean) -- allen四names 19:22, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Spanish article links to two blog sources. See above for as the Chinese article uses the exact same "sources" as the Japanese article.

Keep This article may be in bad shape, but there is enough reason to keep it, just as we keep articles like tsundere or meganekko; it's an established archetypal character in animanga and has been growing in recent years. I've even seen the term used in popular anime as early as two years ago.--十八 20:05, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Where are the reliable sources then? —Farix (t | c) 22:52, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Google news gives 11 results. This one [1] clearly defines what the word means. Dream Focus 03:36, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Notable as others have found plenty of sources. As per WP:PAPER and WP:DEADLINE, article quality by itself is not a reason to remove an article on a notable topic. -moritheil^Talk 14:50, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So far, only one source has been brought forward, that that only defines the term. However, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. —Farix (t | c) 21:37, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

...in the term "yandere" (which roughly translates as sweet on the outside, psycho on the outside...

A commercial CD featuring yandere characters

ASCII calling School Days a "yandere game representative"

And, as coincidence would have it, the sixth episode of the second season for Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu even defines the term explicitly.--十八 21:48, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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