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The result was keep. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 04:22, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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I am putting this up as this is very detailed article though it seems to be almost all Primary Sources or worse unsourced. Believe it fails WP:GNG as a result. Slywriter (talk) 19:47, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:54, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Keep The article right now has insufficient sources to show it passes WP:GNG, but per WP:NEXIST that doesn't mean it's not notable. There is an article at CBR explaining the Zaku and calling them "beloved and iconic". They built a huge Zaku and Gundam statue in Japan. [1] They sent a model of Char Aznable's Zaku into space. [2] And there are tons of other mentions if the mecha is Googled. It's "weak" keep because I haven't been able to find solid examples of WP:SIGCOV but the sheer amount of mentions in reliable sources makes me think that it should probably stay an article. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 01:55, 30 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep My findings mirror Zxcvbnm's, but I assess that on the whole the findings demonstrate notability in the aggregate, even if individual criteria aren't clearly met: This isn't a fly-by-night thing, but a reasonably major element in a reasonably established fictional franchise. Jclemens (talk) 02:21, 30 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep per above, with a note that some more SIGCOV may exist in Japanese, but we don't seem to have any editors these days familiar with Japanese language and active here, sigh. Also the article seems to suffer from excessive plot summary/fancruftis, and lack of references, but that's theoretically fixable without the need to apply WP:TNT. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:35, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: The commenters have argued for Keeping this article but have yet to find significant sources for it. Maybe another week can cause them to surface.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:26, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment This might count as sigcov? I don't know, I think it's good enough but people seem to have wildly different standards for what counts as sigcov, so draw your own conclusions. I didn't bother looking past the first few results on Google News because I don't care about Gundam and only took a look because Piotrus lamented the lack of editors familiar with Japanese, so there might be more. Mlb96 (talk) 02:06, 6 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  At first glance it does in fact seem like SIGCOV. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:57, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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