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. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yurihonjo hinakaido[edit]

I'm out of my depth here; removing from db-spam queue, notifying WP:JAPAN to help with notability issues. - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 04:47, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. -- - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 04:48, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep based on the links I just listed on the talk page. The festival is covered by multiple national newspapers in Japan (Asahi Shinbun, Mainichi Shinbun) as well as other news outlets. The city where it happens has extensive coverage on the festival, as does the prefecture. Hotels and travel companies advertise the festival as a reason to visit the location. The festival is definitely notable, and the article only needs to be reworked a bit and sourced. The links I listed should give an excellent start on that. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 05:32, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Yes, very spammy, undersourced, suffering from far too many "nihongo" templates where "nihongo2" would be better, starved of macrons (and thus morae); but as Nihonjoe says, potentially worthwhile. -- Hoary (talk) 07:31, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Given Nihonjoe's sources, keep and start cleaning up. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:34, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment copied from my talk page: "well, as the author of this, you should consider that there is barely any other information on this area in the wikipedia and that this event is set to grow in the coming years to become a major tourist attraction in the area. I decided to include it because it is cultural, historical and also unique.Chrissato (talk) 14:40, 17 March 2009 (UTC)chrissato" - Dan Dank55 (push to talk) 14:55, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Not really about whether to keep or delete, but just felt that the jpg image of the doll in the article may be identical to another on the net. Please see: Talk:Yurihonjo hinakaido too. Mantokun (talk) 15:16, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – I originally tagged as G11, especially because the material close to the bottom suggests that the article that it was created as promotion, notable or not. I have tagged as ((advertisement)) and removed that last section as spam; I'll leave for the community to do whatever to the rest. MuZemike 15:21, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. MuZemike has removed the only section I had a problem with. So long as that sticks, this isn't spam, and the sources are sufficient. — Gavia immer (talk) 16:53, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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