Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Araki-ryū

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 delete. -- Cirt (talk) 04:59, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Araki-ryū

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This is an unsourced article about a martial art whose only claim to notability is that it is hundreds of years old. However, it gives no supporting evidence for that claim and I found no independent sources that support notability. Astudent0 (talk) 16:40, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Martial arts-related deletion discussions. —Astudent0 (talk) 16:40, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fails WP:GNG. No reliable sources located to support notability. One of the two external links provided in the article appears to be a website promoting a practitioner. --Alan the Roving Ambassador (talk) 16:50, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete following the comments above. Janggeom (talk) 06:12, 7 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. While I see the article needs a lot of work, I found Japanese language sources easily. Take, for example, this Google Books search, which shows Araki-ryu listed in the 日本武道辞典 (Dictionary of Japanese Martial Arts) and the 武藝流派辭典 (Dictionary of Martial Arts Styles). This article needs some severe paring down, but not deletion. — Mr. Stradivarius ^♫ 03:14, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete It's clear this art exists, but I don't see anything showing notability. At best there seem to be just passing mentions. Admittedly, since I don't read Japanese, I'm at the mercy of Google translate. Papaursa (talk) 20:50, 13 May 2011 (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.