Deletion of Kinuyo Yamashita

Comment: I've been chewing over this debate on-and-off all day and my standpoint's gone back and forth. My opinion is that the |reliability and depth of the cumulative sources don't quite cut the mustard for a |biography of a living person, particularly seeing as the lady's claim to fame is for composing the ''Castlevania'' soundtrack (or part of it, http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9005528 Jeremy Parish's 1up piece refers to her being "one of the composers on the original Castlevania"). There is nothing stopping Kinuyo being referred to in the development section of ''Castlevania'' and in the KONAMI KuKeiHa CLUB article, based on the 1up piece and OSV interview. I'm not satisfied that the http://ready-up.net/features/video-games-live-tokyo-2009/ Ready Up piece goes beyond being a |self-published source written by Joe Bloggs, looking at the site's about page, which doesn't tell me much. The OSV interview certainly looks a lot more reliable in WP terms, but again I wouldn't hang a BLP on it, the 1up piece is about a concert not just this composer, useful as a source but not a piece that demonstrates much notability
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS||WP:BLP||WP:SPS)

Comment: As a music composer, we should be looking to  for guidance. Someone who writes for video games doesn't fall easily into any of the criteria, but I looked through the whole guideline to see if there are any criteria which she may meet, and it's just not there. The lack of  and significant coverage in secondary sources doesn't help her cause either
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:MUSICBIO||WP:RS)

Comment: Seems to meet  if not  for work on multiple video game soundtracks
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ENTERTAINER||WP:BAND)

Comment: There's no doubt that she is ''verifiable'' (The 1UP article is perfectly fine), she strictly speaking doesn't pass . But it depends on how we can interpret this for video game music (what do we make of "Appears at reasonable length in standard reference books on his or her genre of music."? Do we even ''have'' standard reference books on video game music?). I feel that there's room for this information ''somewhere'' on Wikipedia, although I'm currently not convinced that she requires a seperate article. What
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:COMPOSER)