Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gyaru-oh

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 and open a merge debate on the article's talk page". Interestingly, the nominator appears to be a sockpuppet/single-purpose account. — CharlotteWebb 08:10, 30 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

non notable. Ghit 175. Zduiel 17:28, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - covered by Mainichi Daily News and MSN Japan [1]. Did you search for the term in Japanese or English? May well be notable in Japan, beware possible systemic bias. --Canley 17:49, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions. -- Canley 17:49, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Searching in Japanese produces 290,000 ghits. Likewise, a better English search produces 1,920, which isn't bad for a Japanese subsubculture. That said, I do wonder whether this is widely known enough to deserve its own article - would merging it into Gyaru be worth considering? — Haeleth Talk 17:55, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I wonder if [2] is a reliable enough source. If so, coupled with the mainichi article would make it notable enough (multiple independent third-party articles on the subject) to keep. ColourBurst 19:31, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Interesting find -- thanks for posting that. It certainly establishes that the subculture is notable enough, and I don't think there are any real verifiability concerns. So the subject should be discussed here -- it's merely a question of how it's most usefully arranged. I do honestly think it would be better discussed as a section within a wider context, either within Gyaru, or possibly within an article on Japanese male fashion (the article you link already does something similar, contrasting it with a different male fashion subculture, which seems to work quite well). My recommendation is therefore keep or merge, and if there's no consensus on which, keep and open a merge debate on the article's talk page. — Haeleth Talk 12:31, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge/Redirect to Gyaru. Stebbins 02:46, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with Gyaru Isn't this the same "culture" just two genders? Denaar 21:25, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep or merge, but don't merge into gyaru. I do remember having read newspaper articles about this one. The phenomenon itself does just stem from gyaru, but the usage of that term is 100% separate from this term, so it probably shouldn't be turned into a redirect. Dekimasu 02:12, 28 November 2006 (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.