Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Musashigawa stable
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was keep DavidLeighEllis (talk) 02:27, 25 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Musashigawa stable
Sumo stable with no evidence of notability. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 11:50, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Martial arts-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 14:43, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 14:44, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- This stable has produced 1 Musashimaruis the first foreign born Yokozuna to be a sumo stable master.
- No - the stable it split from did. Notability is not inherited.Peter Rehse (talk) 16:04, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- The reason for this page being up for deletion has more to do with the ignorance of RHaworth than anything else. If articles about particular sports are to be deleted, they should be deleted by people who know something about the sport, not by RHaworth and others who have little or no interest in the sport.
- Finally, RHaworth and people like him need to be reprimanded. If not, then a new policy about deletion should be drawn up. Eg: If part of a topic, which gets about 1,000 hits per day, is to be deleted, it should only be deleted by people who have knowledge of that topic. If sumo was getting about 1 hit per month, fine delete it and other topics that are in reference to it. But Sumo is getting about half a million hits a year. Therefore the only people who should police it, should be people who know something about it, like User:Pawnkingthree
Leveni sep 2013. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leveni (talk • contribs) 14:55, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- First, please mind WP:NPA. Secondly, Wikipedia does not work that way. We're "the encyclopedia anyone can edit", not "the walled garden you have to be an expert with credentials to edit". - The Bushranger One ping only 17:29, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- First, please mind
- Not to mention the minefield of determining the validity of the credentials and the connection between user and same.Peter Rehse (talk) 19:20, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- The suggestion is for the deletion policy. Not for making new articles. In my mind FourTildes original (2013) page should never have been deleted last month. Yet there was no one to come to his defense. Having 'experts' (in inverted commas) would be a way for double checking if an article should be deleted or not. --Leveni (talk) 15:14, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Not to mention the minefield of determining the validity of the credentials and the connection between user and same.Peter Rehse (talk) 19:20, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep- Putting aside the personal squabble here, it is clear the stable passes WP:GNG criteria, perhaps creating such a precedent is in order. Michitaro (talk) 17:22, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- there are lot's of Sumo Beya that are not note worthy. Many can be found [here]--Leveni (talk) 14:21, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- I said professional sumo. Your link is for amateur sumo yokozuna. In Japan, the only professional sumo stables are those approved by the Nihon Sumo Kyokai, which only allows them in extremely limited cases (toshiyorikabu, etc.). Many other sports WikiProjects presume or directly state that professional teams (e.g., WP:ORG. Thus the Nichidai sumo club (jp:日本大学相撲部), for instance, which has produced the vast majority of amateur yokozona (and later professionals) from the college ranks, most likely is notable enough to have its own article. Michitaro (talk) 17:46, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- My example was to give contrast between notable stables and non-notable stables. I wasn't contradicting you, I was just giving an example of something not note worthy. I could create a list of all non 大相撲 beya, including all the women sumo, amateur, semi-professional, university, high-school and junior-high school. But would such a list be of interest and would it be note worthy?
- OK, but as I said, even some of the sumobu mentioned in your list of amateur, jitsugyodan and daigaku yokozuna could be notable per WP:ORG and because all professional sumo stables are likely inherently notable. Whether there are non-notable sumo organizations is not an immediately relevant issue. (By the way, please sign your comments. This AfD is getting hard to read.)Michitaro (talk) 15:13, 22 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- OK, but as I said, even some of the sumobu mentioned in your list of amateur, jitsugyodan and daigaku yokozuna could be notable per
- My example was to give contrast between notable stables and non-notable stables. I wasn't contradicting you, I was just giving an example of something not note worthy. I could create a list of all non 大相撲 beya, including all the women sumo, amateur, semi-professional, university, high-school and junior-high school. But would such a list be of interest and would it be note worthy?
- I said professional sumo. Your link is for amateur sumo yokozuna. In Japan, the only professional sumo stables are those approved by the Nihon Sumo Kyokai, which only allows them in extremely limited cases (toshiyorikabu, etc.). Many other sports WikiProjects presume or directly state that professional teams (e.g.,
- there are lot's of Sumo Beya that are not note worthy. Many can be found [here]--Leveni (talk) 14:21, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep
- 1 It is a branch of one of the most successful sumo stables in history, was begun by one of the most well-known still living yokozunain history, who is only the second foreigner to become yokozuna, and only the second foreign born retired wrestler to start his own stable.
- 2 This is all because he wanted to continue the tradition of of the Musashigawa name when the new head changed the name of the stable.
- 3 It is also the only new stable established in the sumo world in 6 years, quite a rarity.
- 4 This stable also has a corresponding article in Japanese, as of course, it's notability in Japan is unquestioned, and the simple fact that this article is in English should not be to it's detriment, as even if it did have top division wrestlers it would still be just as unknown to the average English speaking Westerner, which would disqualify essentially every stable listed on the list of sumo beyafrom notability.
The western equivalent of this would be "new" professional sports team made up of largely rookie players that had no article. It was also the only stable in the
For the sake of fairness, I should also state that a month or two back, I did start this article, which was summarily deleted by RHaworth when he came upon the speedy deletion tag, hence his continuing interest in this dispute. Our exchange about this can be seen here: User_talk:RHaworth/2013_Jul_22#Speedy_deletion_of_Musashigawa_stable. Note: You need to click "show" to read my entire defence as RHaworth must have found me too wordy. The article I originally started, and which RHaworth quickly deleted, leaving me no access to the text I wrote, is here: User:FourTildes/sandbox_6 (RHaworth did comply with my request and gave me access to the article's text after I requested it.) FourTildes (talk) 22:58, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know where else to write this, but as the article still exists, and has yet to be speedily deleted (as it was within minutes the first time around with RHaworth) I am going to paste in the material I originally wrote from the sandbox link above (which is more detailed and referenced than Leveni's article info), leave the speedy deletion tag of course, and then move to article to the more appropriate title of Musashigawa stable (2013) - which will improve on it's notability I believe. FourTildes (talk) 23:17, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep decent coverage for meeting GNG. Cavarrone 06:48, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep It's extremely rare for a foreign born sumo wrestler to establish his own stable; Musashimaru is only the second in history to have done so after WikiProject Sumo that sumo stables are notable, and every active stable has an article.--Pawnkingthree (talk) 23:45, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep - Consensus at the relevant WikiProject is that Sumo stables are inherently notable. ]
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