Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Meikyū Kingdom

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The result was delete. Sandstein 07:46, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Meikyū Kingdom

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Non-notable. Article has existed since 2006 without proof of notability. Atlantima (talk) 23:47, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:27, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:27, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Not seeing any third-party sourcing or in-depth coverage to indicate that this satisfies the basic notability criteria. --DAJF (talk) 00:58, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Automatic Strikeout (T • C) 01:54, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete~~. Neutral for now. For an allegedly released video game, the automated source searches are drawing a startling blank. Possibly a hoax. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 15:49, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Per Smerdis. Seven years is a long time for a hoax to last. 069952497a^{Comments and complaints}_{Stuff I've done} 20:38, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. First off, this is not a video game; it's a tabletop roleplaying game, like Dungeons & Dragons, plus a spin-off card game. It's not a hoax. It's actually not too hard to find plenty of people who have played it and written about it. The problem is finding them in reliable sources. If they exist, those sources are almost certainly in Japanese, because this game has not had an English-language release. Hmm, BoardGameGeek might be a marginally reliable source; here's their page for one edition of the card game, anyway. Regardless, I wouldn't doubt that there is/was Japanese-language coverage (making this plausibly verifiable if not yet properly sources), and this is definitely not a hoax. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 21:12, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. There is a page about the game on Japanese Wikipedia. While I can't read much of it, it doesn't appear to have any sources, either. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 21:22, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed that the Japanese Wikipedia isn't any help finding sources; they don't have any more than we do. But that doesn't mean Japanese sources don't exist, only that they've got an equally unsourced article. I'll try to ping a friend of mine who is fluent and see if he can get me any leads. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 21:31, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure how I got the idea that this is about a video game; maybe from the picture and the mention of 'PC's in the article text. I'm still not sure how we turn patches of brilliant prose ( Monster mayonnaise. It is a signature monster of Meikyu Kingdom because its abbreviation is same Mayokin as the abbreviation of the game title. Its special ability makes player characters bad status "Obesity".) into English without original research at this stage. I'd be happy to help with syntax, but I think that if reliable sources are out there they aren't going to be discoverable in English. I ran the search with the Japanese character string (迷宮キングダム) and found a number of things - Wikipedia came in second. There may in fact be something useful out there. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 07:04, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I did search in Japanese but found nothing besides sales pages, fan wikis, and self-published blogs. RS in print sources may exist. --Atlantima (talk) 21:45, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid that, for now, I have to go with delete this time around. I found several hits, but nothing reliable. I'm not exactly fluent in Japanese (my knowledge of Japanese is extremely basic), but even by looking at them, I can tell they are mostly fansites. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 01:04, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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*Pardon. I completely missed the talk page. I am moving my edit there...