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She was the last and greatest Ainu epic poet, and one of the greatest women epic poets the world has known (so far as written record goes, which may not be very far). Thus a very notable person. If the biography is not yet notable, let me explain that I started the article hoping that others who know the Ainu/East Asian field better would improve it. Since it hasn't changed much, I'll improve it in the next 2 days. Don't delete too soon, please.
Footnote: the article has evidently been translated into the French and Spanish wikipedias from this English version (brief though it is). Notable enough for them, it seems. Andrew Dalby 10:05, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
So I'm guessing you want to keep the article? ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 02:34, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - notable enough, more so than a lot of our assistant football coaches. JohnCD (talk) 11:33, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep sounds notable though would like to see more WP:RS. I found quite little [1]. JJL (talk) 16:10, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep; Everything2.com is less of a reliable source than Wikipedia is. The Spanish and French translations were both done by User:Gaudio and in neither case that they have got any more attention than this article is--i.e. not "notable enough for them". Sadly enough, I see no evidence that she has been noted more than most of our assistant football coaches. I'd really like to see more citations here.--Prosfilaes (talk) 16:22, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like more than the one reference, but if it's an accurate statement of the translator's notes, then it's a valid stub of a notable person. Even if she only collected, and not composed, those epics, then she's still notable. —Quasirandom (talk) 17:42, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That was, in case it wasn't clear because I didn't actually say it, intended as a weak keep. Which is now stronger, given Nihonjoe's sources. —Quasirandom (talk) 21:28, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep. I found this PDF which discusses her a bit. This page gives a bit of her history, as does this page. Finding online references for Ainu people is very difficult as there are not very many of them around. It's likely that offline references exist, but those are very hard to come by, too, given the small number that have ever been produced. I think, given the little information we are able to find, she is very notable among her people. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 18:32, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep (Nihonjoe suspected [above] that this was my opinion!) I am now going to add a little material to the article, but I don't know Japanese; more could be done, I'm sure, by those who read the language. Andrew Dalby 16:30, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've done what I can now. Andrew Dalby 17:17, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep per Nihonjoe. Oda Mari (talk) 10:15, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.