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The result was keep. (non-administrative closure) -- RyRy5 (talk) 21:55, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kazuo Nishii[edit]

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I would most likely tag this for SD, but I am unsure. Not every little magazine editor has a Wikipedia Page! Do they? StewieGriffin! • Talk 15:00, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep with a bullet. No, not every little magazine editor has a Wikipedia Page! And since [now for the Big Secret] Wikipedia is paper, this means that there is paper left over for big magazine editors, such as the rotund (if late) Nishii, a notable editor of Camera Mainichi (a magazine known well among everybody interested in Japanese photography who's above the Playstation generation). Moreover, Nishii's collections of opinionated criticism add up to one of the chronologies of the remarkable changes in Japanese photography from the aftermath of Provoke to the arrival of Hiromix prettiness. -- Hoary (talk) 15:07, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. —Hoary (talk) 15:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep While I tend to agree that editing even a big magazine is not in itself always an encyclopedic career, there seem to be many English language citations for Nishii and moreover, I was able to quickly find hundreds in Japanese. Easily meets WP:BIO. Gwen Gale (talk) 15:33, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The quantity and quality of Nishii's publications (that he wrote or edited) is easily more than sufficient to justify an article in Wikipedia. An important figure in Japanese photography in the second half of the 20th century. Pinkville (talk) 16:10, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Obvious Keep Major editor and critic, and a prolific, published author. What's going on at AfD? This rivals the well-known but unfinished Charles Laughton / Josef von Sternberg film, now fighting for its existence... or, if you've never heard of Laughton & von Sternberg, there are those three Pokemon nominations... Dekkappai (talk) 17:07, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Although I agree with the principle that not every little magazine editor deserves an article, I think Nishii's publication list places him above the description "little magazine editor." Fg2 (talk) 18:49, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Sufficient coverage he has. That should be enough to establish the notability, right?-- Taku (talk) 22:18, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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