Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lapras
per . I don't believe most of the participants in this discussion have actually done a proper . The call for a page protection without presenting a proper argument or rationale to support it in particular is clearly a |bad faith call. The subject was subject to sustained, significant coverage about this by multiple diverse sources which are ''not'' specialized video game media which started before the current COVID pandemic and continued into 2020. In summary, it has been involved with the Miyagi Prefecture administration's tourism promotional efforts since 2016 and became one of its official mascots or "tourism ambassadors" by mid-2019: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/11/11/national/rare-pokemon-helping-tohoku-quake-zones/ 1, https://mothership.sg/2019/07/lapras-mascot-japan/ 2, https://www.otaquest.com/explore-miyagi-prefecture-with-lapras-in-local-tourism-campaign/ 3, https://curlytales.com/lapras-the-pokemon-has-been-named-japans-official-tourism-ambassador/ 4, https://soranews24.com/2019/07/10/pokemon-lapras-appears-on-streets-in-lakes-of-miyagi-as-part-of-new-tourism-ambassador-role/ 5 https://www.moshimoshi-nippon.jp/370789 6, https://unseenjapan.com/pokemon-local-acts-helps-promote-prefectures-through-pokemon-puns/ 7. That is besides general coverage of the character's notoriety like this: https://soranews24.com/2017/03/04/singaporean-man-dies-from-heart-attack-after-finally-catching-a-coveted-lapras-in-pokemon-go/ 8. When analyzed in conjunction with the existing cited sources, it unambiguously meets the  threshold to me. Since Wikipedia:AFDNOTAVOTE|AfD is not a vote is a position advocated by many regular AfD participants, any redirect statements in this discussion which do not properly analyze the cited sources or the extent of available sourcing not used in this article should be discarded by the closer
— User:Haleth, 01:35, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NEXIST||WP:BEFORE||WP:IDONTLIKEIT||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)