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The result was keep‎. Star Mississippi 00:17, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yūka Kato (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Doesn't seem to meet WP:MUSICBIO / WP:GNG independent of the band, NMB48. A merge could overwhelm that article, particularly as this is an unreferenced BLP I don't think any of it should be copied over, though a redirect is a possible WP:ATD. Boleyn (talk) 06:29, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers, Bands and musicians, Women, and Japan. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 10:48, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. Normally an unreferenced BLP (biography of a living person) would be grounds enough for deletion per WP:BLPPROD, but it looks like this article escaped deletion due to the corresponding article on Japanese Wikipedia, which cites many sources. Perhaps a compromise would be to redirect to the band NMB48 if no citations are added. It could always be re-created as an article if/when an editor gets around to adding citations and possibly expanding it with more meaningful biographical information. (Incidentally, there should probably be a hat note distinguishing from other people with similar names such as Yuka Kato.) Cielquiparle (talk) 15:08, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as a flagrant violation of WP:BEFORE and WP:NOENG. The Japanese-version of this article includes 58 citations including from Oricon News, Asahi, Nikkan Sports and more. A quick Google search in Japanese also pulls up plenty of citations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DCsansei (talk • contribs) 20:10, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep based on the Japanese article having citations mentioned above.Perfectstrangerz (talk) 01:56, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The Japanese wiki article has lots of RS. Clearly passes WP:GNG per those references. The English wiki article can be improved and expanded based on those sources.4meter4 (talk) 19:53, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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