Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iida Yoshitake

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The result was keep‎. asilvering (talk) 01:12, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Iida Yoshitake

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Article has remained unsourced for 18 years. No indication that sources exist or that this person is notable per guidelines. Original creator of this article was banned and confirmed to be a sockpuppet. Wozal (talk) 00:24, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Military, and Japan. Wozal (talk) 00:24, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. If you search in google books under his Japanese name ("飯田義武") there are lots of scholarly Japanese language military history publications with hits. In just reading the text with the "Found Inside" snippet views, I think it is likely there is WP:SIGCOV of this person in those sources. Unfortunately, they are all snippet view books/journal articles. If an editor with access to Japanese language academic publications were to participate, I think it likely this would be a rescuable article.4meter4 (talk) 00:51, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is the only one with preview is this. I struggle to read Japanese with vertical writing but this only has one mention so... This one may not count as WP:SIGCOV Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 12:27, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the ja.wiki article is much more substantial and has three offline references. Mccapra (talk) 06:56, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Google Books when you search his name in Japanese reveals a good amount of sources talking about him. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 12:23, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What's a "sock pocket"? Clarityfiend (talk) 03:19, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep As per Miminity, and 4meter4, google books throws up lots of snippet views of sources (annoyingly though not in sources my uni sign in gives me access to to be able to comprehensively quote). He’s a fairly well known figure in the period (I’ve been to the island he helped invade, and the local history museum had like a whole video presentation about his part in the battle), and I’m honestly surprised I couldn’t turn any academic stuff up in English. As per Mccapra, the Japanese wiki has sources listed, so taken all together, there’s a strong presumption that sufficient sources in the world, which is the applicable standard, whether or not they are cited in the article as currently written.

Absurdum4242 (talk) 01:01, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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