Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Shouji Gato


 * 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. — LrdChaos 12:28, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Shouji Gato and Full Metal Panic!
No quotes. (If an article with quotes is made, consider merging the author and the work.) - InvisibleSun 21:41, 7 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Vote closed. Result: delete (four votes to delete, no dissent). &mdash;LrdChaos 12:28, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete the manga unless quotes added; delete the author unless it's shown that his article could ever be more than just a copy of the manga article. I favor the manga over the man in this case for two reasons. First, we currently seem to be collecting a broad base of comics articles, but not comics authors. Second, while Full Metal Panic! is substantial, Shouji Gatou (note the correct spelling, different from our article) is little more than a list article which strongly suggests that Full Metal Panic! is his sole notable work (however many forms it takes). I have also left a message for our overenthusiastic manga article creator,, asking them to please hold off creating articles until they actually have quotes for them. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:37, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 21:22, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with Jeff. ~ UDScott 13:14, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Gato Shoji is not a comic author, but novelist (so-called "light novel" in Japanese) for young adult. It is true Full Metal Panic! (in progress, over 10 volumns now?) is his sole notable work. I don't know however how his works are known in English speaking world. --Aphaia 05:29, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not familiar with FMP!, but I sense a Japanese version of the "comic book vs. graphic novel" argument here. In English, the word "novel" (as a noun) is usually reserved for books that are almost all text, at most only incidentally illustrated. "Comic books" are stories told primarily through illustration. (Confusingly, they are not books, but magazines, and frequently have little or nothing to do with "comedy" — an unfortunate demonstration of language drift.) The term "graphic novel", which does serve as a more descriptive term, seems mostly an attempt by the comic book industry to gain more respect for comic book collections printed in book form; they are still told primarily through illustration. Our FMP! article refers to the series as "manga", which the WP article defines briefly as "comics and print cartoons". WP's FMP! article, in my quick reading, doesn't make clear whether the book part of the series is mostly text or mostly illustration. All this, of course, is irrelevant to the keep-or-delete debate, but I'd like to know which side of this divide Gatou's work falls on. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:21, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete both, as neither page has any quotes. &mdash;LrdChaos 14:32, 13 July 2006 (UTC)


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