Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iori Mochizuki
I can sympathize with the argument that figures in alternative media might need to be viewed with a different lens, and perhaps Wikipedia needs to address this issue more as media alternatives proliferate. But after spending some time looking through the alternative media in Japan, I was surprised to find that Mochizuki barely appears there other than in occasional blogs entries linking to his Fukushima Diary blog. I have still not been able to confirm his name in Japanese because few talk about him, and those that do only say "モチズキさん" because they don't know his name. True, his diary is in English, but for being an activist who cares about Japan, why is he not more active in Japanese? All this makes me nervous: how can we allow a page on someone we can't even confirm the identity of? That's the problem with some alternative media: it can publish hoaxes, baseless rumors, and assumed identities with little verifiability. Those should not be allowed in any encyclopedia, even an alternative one. The danger with arguing that alternative media have to be recognized here because mainstream media are suppressing that media is that it can start descending in fringe theories (). Reading a lot of Japanese media, I would argue against anyone who says that oppositional voices regarding Fukushima are being completely shut out of the Japanese media viewed in a broader sense (even today, Karin Amamiya lambasted the decision to restart the Oi reactor in the Asahi Shinbun). There are plenty of people in alternative media in Japan who have expressed themselves in established left wing or political journals that satisfy Wikipedia RS criteria. Mochizuki is not one of them. I can only conclude that even within the sphere of alternative media he is a minor figure who does not yet deserve a Wikipedia article
— User:Michitaro, 15:13, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:FRINGE (Wikipedia:Fringe theories)