Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hiroshi Tanaka (manga artist)

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo (talk) 09:33, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hiroshi Tanaka (manga artist)

Delete unsourced blp, with no indication that this artist or his manga is notable, so nn that we don't know when or where he was born. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:48, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletions. —DAJF (talk) 00:49, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I can't even find any evidence that the manga is notable, much less the artist. Of course, I don't read Japanese, so if any Japanese-speakers have access to sources that show notability, I'm open to changing my mind. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 23:22, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A Google search in Japanese reveals no hits for a mangaka of this name, although there is an anime director of the same name. Non-notable if not an outright hoax. --DAJF (talk) 00:49, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Hoax - unless those kanji are incorrect, there's no record of him actually existing. Amazon lists only one book with that named attached, and it's a design textbook. Doceirias (talk) 00:52, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Comics and animation-related deletions. -- Hiding Talk 13:16, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I found a few sites referencing the manga, but only on blogs and forum posts (one calling it "little-known but mildly amusing"). If it or he truly was notable I'd expect to find more English language references. I did find a reference to somebody of the same name on the Anime News Netweork site [[1]] but most of those credits are as Director of Photography, so I'm not convinced this is the same person. MorganaFiolett (talk) 15:46, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - It appears that this is not a hoax, as there was a 4-frame manga series called "Naku na! Tanaka-kun" written by "タナカヒロシ" (Tanaka Hiroshi in katakana) with a compilation book published in 1989. This is also mentioned on the Japanese Wiki "まんがライフ" (Manga Life) article[2] , but the writer does not have his own article. Still seems of extremely minor notability to me. --DAJF (talk) 06:16, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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