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Vimazoluleka (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Article about a film, not properly sourced as passing WP:NFILM. As always, films are not automatically notable enough for Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to be shown to pass WP:GNG on third-party coverage about them in media -- film reviews, evidence of noteworthy film awards, production coverage, that sort of thing.
But the only footnotes here are an article about the director's death which briefly namechecks this film without being about the film in any non-trivial sense (and doesn't even support the statement about the film's postproduction that it's footnoting), a press release from the film's own production studio, and a short blurb that isn't substantive enough to get the film over GNG all by itself.
Further, even though the film was released in 2017 according to IMDB and the dating of the footnotes agrees with that, the creator wrote about this as if it were an "upcoming" film slated for release in 2024 -- and although I've corrected that nonsense already, there are other statements here (some completely unsourced, and the postproduction claim that isn't supported by the director's obituary) that may also be in question if they can't be properly verified. (I've also had to remove two other footnotes that had nothing to do with this film at all, and were present solely to falsely assert, because of the misrepresented release date, that it would be a "posthumous" work for cast and crew who died after 2017.)
As most coverage would likely be in Spanish, and the film actually came out long enough ago that the very low number of GNG-worthy Google hits might not be the whole story, I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody with good access to databases of Venezuelan media coverage from the 2010s can find enough solid sourcing to salvage it -- but especially given that the article contained significant falsehoods that just IMDb alone was able to smoke out, it really needs much better sourcing than it's got right now. Bearcat (talk) 23:22, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pervis Taylor (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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This is what appears to be a promotional article, with very questionable sources ranging from blogs to an Amazon listing. Does not appear to pass WP:NAUTHOR, nor WP:MUSICBIO. When conducting a before search, I've had no luck coming up with anything even remotely approaching WP:SIGCOV. Kylemahar902 (talk) 13:02, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ajnabi 2025 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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CSD is the best option for this album but there isn't a relevant CSD except using "Custom rational" but using that is not appropriate anymore because CSDs A7 and A9 had been used and declined by an admin because they do not apply in the article's circumstance. This album has zero source out there to indicate its notability for an article here. The creator of this article is possibly the owner of the album Mekomo (talk) 13:50, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We Got Communication (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Last AfD in 2017 was no consensus. I tend to agree with one of the delete voters' comments from last time "Lacks reviews, sales, charting, depth of coverage. Current sources just verify it's existence but don't provide any real independent coverage". An added Amazon source hardly adds to notability, Australian Music Online is just a database listing. Still fails WP:NALBUMS. LibStar (talk) 03:55, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Brad Bogart (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Unsourced BLP. Article on a lesser known TV producer. This is clearly an autobiography since creator shares the same name as the article's subject. A WP:BEFORE search doesn't show much, and I can't find any reliable sources that mention the subject in question. Creator has added unsourced information related to the subject on several articles, and there's no way to verify if this information is true or not. Fails WP:NPRODUCER. CycloneYoris talk! 20:58, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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fails WP:NSONG. quick Google search showed nothing but lyric websites. (Acer's userpage |what did I do now) 20:50, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Characters of Touhou Project (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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was literally right about to blar it to start working on a draft, but it might be better to play it safe and take it here. as is, i think starting over might be the best option, as there is literally not a single reliable source to be found in the list. this isn't even a tattoo assassins case, where the article is small enough that even i could handle it, it's nearly everyone in the franchise. as is, i support draftifying, userfying, or blarring, with mild opposition to plain ol' deletion. blarring? blar'ing? blaring? what's the preferred gerund? consarn (prison phone) (crime record) 15:57, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Music, Video games, Anime and manga, and Japan. consarn (prison phone) (crime record) 15:57, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete In most cases, I'd probably say that deletion is not cleanup, but I simply do not think there is anything worth preserving here. To try and solidify my points, I did a BEFORE search on Reimu, Marisa, Reisen, and Koishi, the first two of which are the most prominent characters in the series and the other two are just random ones I chose. None of them have any results on google from reliable sources. Maybe there's some coverage of these characters from non-English sources, particularly for Reimu, but with how niche and globally irrelevant Touhou Project is beyond a niche community, I would be damned if there are any reliable sources for every single character in the franchise, let alone even two of them. And I did run a couple of searches using some of the characters' Japanese names; I obviously don't speak Japanese, but from what I could tell every source I ran into at first glance was either an artwork-hosting site or advertising a fumo or another figure. I could definitely be wrong and maybe there are some sources for these characters somewhere, but at present: the prose is terrible, there's no reliable sources, and substantial trimming would be required for this article to even be near an acceptable state. There is basically nothing here to preserve. My vote is to delete this entirely, but I suppose I'd be fine with draft-ification. λ NegativeMP1 16:32, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @NegativeMP1 sorry for the ping, who was the third character? pc98 raymoo? consarn (prison phone) (crime record) 17:19, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I meant Reisen, my bad. λ NegativeMP1 17:25, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    holy crap lois it's the wed rabbit consarn (prison phone) (crime record) 17:34, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    on a more serious note, the ones i have some faith of reaching gng if i look hard enough are reimu, marisa, yuuka, everyone in eosd besides rumia, daiyousei, and koakuma, yukari (specifically due to her appearance in aocf), sanae, suwako, koishi (tantanpou!), doremy, clownpiece, and hecatia. most are due to their memetic potential in japan, though some genuine arguments could be made for the main duo and clownpiss
    the ones i only really think might have a couple tidbits are chen, yuyuko, reisen, satori, unzan (and his hitbox i guess), nue, mamizou, junko (yes, ddc gets skipped entirely), and yuuma
    i really don't think the rest stand much of a chance, or that this would mean anything in the context of arguments to keep this list. it's mostly self-reminders to look into those, and maybe also into reimu's increasingly long gohei consarn (prison phone) (crime record) 17:33, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Fictional elements and Lists. WCQuidditch 20:08, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect and merge to Touhou_Project#Characters. I thought this could be saved by showing it meets WP:NLIST (of course, it needs much shortening, it is a gigantic plot summary, with many entries completely unreferenced). However, I failed to find a single RS that covers this topic (characters of TP). Do ping me if anyone finds a WP:RS covering this, and I'll reconsider my vote. For now, we have a valid redirect target (a section in the main article). It is short and unreferenced, and could benefit from some refs present here (even if we were just referencing some plot summary). Would be nice if we could find a RS that would at least say who are the main TP characters, sigh. PS. When I say merge, I mean few sentences, maybe a few paragraphs, as I concur that 99% of what we have here is poorly referenced WP:FANCRUFT (but there is no harm keeping in the history of the redirect). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:35, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect per Piotrus. It definitely needs trimmed description, though. ⋆。˚꒰ঌ Clara A. Djalim ໒꒱˚。⋆ 12:27, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. Lorstaking (talk) 14:35, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    unrelated to the actual discussion and not an indicator of me agreeing or disagreeing with this, but i love "do thing nom opposes per nom" votes. they're probably the funniest thing that can happen in an xfd venue consarn (prison phone) (crime record) 14:44, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Two issues here: Is the topic notable; and if it is notable should TNT apply. To me, the answer is clearly "yes, topic notable" and "No, TNT is a poor fit." These characters are a reasonably big deal who show up in lots of games, and should get some coverage merely from reviews of said games if nothing else. I imagine many of the sources are in Japanese, but I'd be shocked if they aren't sufficient. I'm not saying that sourcing is going to be easy for something better known as fan-driven than big company driven, but notability is about the topic-itself, not about the current state of the article. Second issue, TNT: If the nominator wants to rewrite the article to be more reliable-sources-based, that's great, but no need for AFD. Don't blow away the history - that's the bad use of TNT when the history is certainly relevant and unproblematic. TNT is appropriate when an article is fundamentally "wrong" in some way and worse than useless, but it's not appropriate for relevant topics that have "too much" detail or cruft. That's just a call for normal editing to chop things down. So TNT is a poor fit here. SnowFire (talk) 17:51, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Do you have any sources proving notability? The nominator seems to have done a BEFORE on the topic and is actively researching individual characters, but notability of the list is determined by if the set is notable, and making a Wikipedia:SOURCESMUSTEXIST argument does not help with determining if those sources actually exist. Regardless of nominator rationale, there just isn't anything here to build an article on. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 23:39, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • comments: i know i shouldn't be too chatty here to avoid the risk of bludgeoning, but between nominating this and now, i may have run into a... couple problems that might warrant a blar and g7 deletion of a draft i was working on
  • i've been looking for stuff on every character indiscriminately and in order of appearance (first looking through their romanized names, then i'll do all the japanese ones). thus far, i just got done with the eosd cast. as is, i found nothing reliable for cirno, and even less for everyone else. to put it into perspective, cirno may very well be more popular than the franchise itself, which is saying a lot when it's one of the biggest franchises pretty much ever in japan and said franchise includes other characters that have become synonymous with certain cultures (sakuya and remilia with jjba references, patchouli and kaguya with neet culture, reimu and marisa with the concept of touhou, flandre with niconico, clownpiece with the concept of americans being nationalist pricks, etc.). even if this is just a first lap, this is really not a good impression
  • from an admittedly cursory glance, a good handful of text from this list seems to be pulled from the touhou wiki... or vice versa, it's hard to tell. put a pin on this, i guess
  • sources really seem to like keeping up with updates in live service fangames. not inherently relevant here, but it's what 80% of the results for 40% of the characters are about. how annoying~!
  • i think i might have actually found some usable stuff for scarlet symphony of all games. also not relevant here, but it's neat
  • results for "⑨" also gave me nothing (;´д`)ゞ
ultimately, this narrows the list of characters i have some faith of finding stuff on down to exactly one character. and i honestly doubt it counts because it's zun. it's a shame too, because i really want this list to exist consarn (prison phone) (crime record) 18:50, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Consarn I wish we had someone who could dig into Japanese scholarly literature. That requires both fluency in Japanese, and how-to knowledge in how to find and access such sources (which may not be digitized). Speaking from experience in working with Polish language sources for fiction content, that requires knowledge of specialized search engines, and frequent trips to the library for non-digitized sources. I.e. I think it is possible some Japanese scholars, critics or reviewers have written about Touhou characters, but a) in Japanese and b) in works that may not be digitized. Sadly, locating such sources is a major work - which is what we have is unencyclopedic WP:FANCRUFT (ORish plot summary). For the record, I'd also prefer to see this article saved, but I fear nobody here is capable of or willing to spend time looking for sources (I cannot as I am not fluent in Japanese :( ). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 02:27, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
my life is about as subtle about how it requires me to learn japanese as i'm subtle about my opinions on puns, capital letters, the klonoa wii demake, the continued existence of brazil, brazilian cuisine, and getting the possessive form of "it" wrong. which is to say "not very"
the only real problem is starting off, and i have no idea where to do that :pensiveclown: consarn (prison phone) (crime record) 10:57, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Touhou Project#Characters. May as well preserve the page history just in case, especially since there's a relevant section to redirect to. There's a complete lack of any notability here, to the point where there's nothing really worth preserving. I'm not against adding some content editorially per Piotrus, but the article's current state just doesn't have much reason to exist. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 23:41, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Touhou Project#Characters. No reliable sources exist as far as I can see to be able to fix it and I don't see a need for a comprehensive list of characters. If needed, that section could be slightly expanded if suitable referenced. DarkeruTomoe (talk) 10:09, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Cascine (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Lack of notability Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 00:32, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Raucous Records (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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I wasn't able to find significant coverage of the subject in reliable sources and the article doesn't link to anything that would establish notability. toweli (talk) 20:08, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Meta (Thy Catafalque album) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Article about an album, not properly sourced as having any strong claim to passing WP:NALBUM. As always, albums are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to show certain specific markers of notability (e.g. charting, awards, cultural impact) supported by a WP:GNG-worthy volume of reliable source coverage about them. But existence is the only notability claim being attempted here, and the article is referenced entirely to a single album review, which is fine but not in and of itself enough, and a directory entry that isn't support for notability at all. Just existing isn't "inherently" notable enough to exempt an album from having to have a lot more than just one GNG-worthy source. Bearcat (talk) 18:39, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete assuming you already checked for other sources, delete per WP:GNG. (Acer's Communication Receptacle | what did I do now) | (PS: Have a good day) (acer was here) 19:37, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The Go-Katz (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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I wasn't able to find significant coverage of the subject in reliable sources and the article doesn't link to anything that would establish notability. The article was created by a user named "Howard Raucous", with the same name as a member of the band. I am also nominating the following related and unsourced page, as the label was formed by a member of the band:

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(edit: see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raucous Records for a related nomination) toweli (talk) 16:56, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mobb music (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Unsourced article, possibly containing original research. This was previously a redirect to West Coast hip-hop#Bay Area hip hop, where it remained since 2009. However, page appears to be a bit older than that, and actually dates back to 2005 (when it was created initially as an unsourced stub). CycloneYoris talk! 22:15, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Déjate Amar (album) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:NALBUM. DonaldD23 talk to me 20:22, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Chording (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Fails WP:DICDEF. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ () 11:55, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Quintin Barry's Top 20 Countdown (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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The website does not exist, the page is orphaned and has not been maintained. The original page seems to have been largely an exercise in self-promotion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GrimRob (talk • contribs) 22:57, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Andreas Kleinlein (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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It appears that this stub might just contain all the information that exists about this person: i.e. that he was a German instrument maker and anarcho-syndicalist, he was born in 1864 and died in 1925, and that he was a member of the FVdG.

I went through the Google Scholar results[1] - which include 5 German language sources, 1 English language source and 1 Portuguese language source, as well as 2 of Kleinlein's own (almost entirely uncited) books - and none of them provide significant coverage of this person; most of them provide only passing mentions, with barely even a sentence dedicated to him and no more information than what is already in this stub.

This article appears to fall very far from meeting our notability guidelines on people, and there doesn't appear to be anything worth merging into other articles. As an alternative to deletion, I could have recommended a redirect to Free Association of German Trade Unions#Pre-war period, but there are no mainspace links to this article other than that one so it would largely be a circular and redundant redirect. As such, I'm proposing this article for deletion. Grnrchst (talk) 13:39, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Who the 'Ell Is Tauriel? (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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I do not believe this article meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines. This article should be deleted or merged into Tauriel. TheSwamphen (talk) 21:17, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Demolition Records (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Clearly fails WP:NCORP. Previously PROD'd which was valid. Should not have been restored. Graywalls (talk) 06:22, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 09:07, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Previous WP:PROD candidate, ineligible for soft deletion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, plicit 10:04, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I am not finding much coverage online. I wonder if there might have been coverage in heavy metal magazines in the 2000s, but that would need someone with access to that to check. All I can find are some sources that confirm they had distribution in Europe, Japan and North America (in a distribution list at the end of this article [2]; this article is specifically about distribution in Japan [3]). That latter article also has a bit more info - that the label had its own metal broadband TV show called Detonator TV - but whether it is either independent or reliable as a source, I am not sure. This website has an announcement of co-founder Eric Cook's death [4]. Following an edit summary in the article's history, I searched thegazette.co.uk and found that it appointed liquidators in September 2006 [5], [6], and the final meeting of creditors was held in 2011 [7]. If this article is kept, that information can be added. RebeccaGreen (talk) 13:06, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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