Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ryosuke Fukamachi
in view of .  If this were a Major League Baseball player, I could see a show cause (and am confident such a player would pass).  But since he is from Japan, sources would likely be in Japanese.  Not many English-speaking volunteer editors have the time and skill to find and properly evaluate sources.  Therefore,  carries more weight.  From my personal experience, I have created articles for Japanese athletes before (mostly boxers and marathon runners) and finding sources can be quite challenging.  Adding to this, this player played a decade ago.  Most sources would be a decade or more old.  As much as we may want to believe the Internet gives access to anything, finding decade old non-English sources is really hard to do.  This guy played in the second highest league in the world and in a large, first world nation's Baseball in Japan|most popular sport.  Its one game, but U.S. athletes have been shown to meet it, no reason to not stick with the presumption that a player from Japan would as well
— User:RonSigPi, 22:46, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIAS||WP:NBASEBALL (Wikipedia:Systemic bias)