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The result was delete. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 04:12, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Iori Mochizuki

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Fails WP:BIO: no third-party coverage or reliable sourcing demonstrating the notability of this person outside his own blog. --DAJF (talk) 03:03, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete no independent verifiable source establish notability, appears to be just an accounting of stuff on his blog.--William Thweatt ^Talk | ^Contribs 04:47, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Iori Mochizuki is a member of what is called the alternative media, reporting on subjects that are not covered for whatever reason by the conventional media. As such Iori is reporting on a subject that the Japanese government and media seem to be covering up. Alternative sources of information regarding Iori Mochizuki are therefore almost impossible to find, along with the subject matter that he is reporting. What Iori's page explains is precisely why you will not find reliable notability anywhere but in the alternative media and as such, the Wikipedia community should take this into consideration with this particular rule. As a source of information on Iori Mochizuki and the research I have done, this page seems legitimate and should be kept.

I do not think it is the proper action to delete Iori Mochizuki's Wikipedia. I will boycott Wikipedia if you do and I will campaigne to as many as possible to do the same. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.164.105.107 (talk • contribs) 13:06, 13 June 2012‎ (UTC)[reply]

Mochizuki Iori is a known public figure among his peers for his independent work on the coverage of the ongoing issues with Fukushima Japan's Nuclear Power Plant Fukushima Daiichi and the potential threat it is posing to the population of Japan and the rest of the world. His articles are shared in many Facebook groups such as A Nuke Free World and Chernobyl Children Fukushima Children and on several individual Facebook pages including mine. His articles and message show up in places all over the internet. He is read by tens if not hundreds of thousands of people daily. He is featured on sites around the world. www.Nuclearfreeplanet.org and www.Dianuke.org are just a few to name. He has been recommended on www.appealforfukushima.com He appeals to people on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Youtube just to name a few places. He is one man trying to help start a revolution to save the people of this planet. It only takes one to make a change. He might not meet your requirements for Wikipedia but I think you need to change those requirements to add in for people who are reaching many and are standing out as public speakers, whether they be actually physically speaking or speaking out through type. Words are words and they can still have the same effect. Iori is a light in a dark world to many and he should be recognized for it. No he might not have received any rewards or honors yet but that does not mean he is any less deserving of recognition for his hard work and dedication in trying to make the world a better place. Please give him his due and let him have a wikipedia page. He has earned it with all that he has done and is continuing to do. You might not see it with your rules, but the rest of us, the thousands of people that support him, do. Thank you.Crysl0811 (talk) 15:10, 13 June 2012 (UTC) — Crysl0811 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

A Nuke Free World Facebook Group^[1] Chernobyl Children Fukushima Children Facebook Group ^[2] Nuclear Free Planet Website ^[3] Dialogues and Resources on Nuclear, Nature, and Society ^[4] Appeal For Fukushima ^[5]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:10, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:10, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I went through many pages of Ghits and found nothing except blogs and other social media, nothing that qualifies as reliable sources. I encourage any editor who disagrees with notability policy, or any other, to work within the community to change that policy. Ubelowme (talk) 19:07, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I can sympathize with the argument that figures in alternative media might need to be viewed with a different lens, and perhaps Wikipedia needs to address this issue more as media alternatives proliferate. But after spending some time looking through the alternative media in Japan, I was surprised to find that Mochizuki barely appears there other than in occasional blogs entries linking to his Fukushima Diary blog. I have still not been able to confirm his name in Japanese because few talk about him, and those that do only say "モチズキさん" because they don't know his name. True, his diary is in English, but for being an activist who cares about Japan, why is he not more active in Japanese? All this makes me nervous: how can we allow a page on someone we can't even confirm the identity of? That's the problem with some alternative media: it can publish hoaxes, baseless rumors, and assumed identities with little verifiability. Those should not be allowed in any encyclopedia, even an alternative one. The danger with arguing that alternative media have to be recognized here because mainstream media are suppressing that media is that it can start descending in fringe theories (WP:FRINGE). Reading a lot of Japanese media, I would argue against anyone who says that oppositional voices regarding Fukushima are being completely shut out of the Japanese media viewed in a broader sense (even today, Karin Amamiya lambasted the decision to restart the Oi reactor in the Asahi Shinbun). There are plenty of people in alternative media in Japan who have expressed themselves in established left wing or political journals that satisfy Wikipedia RS criteria. Mochizuki is not one of them. I can only conclude that even within the sphere of alternative media he is a minor figure who does not yet deserve a Wikipedia article. Michitaro (talk) 15:13, 16 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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