Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ushio Sugawara
Quite apart from the question of what sources are available, even if every word of the article could be reliably sourced I do not think it would indicate sufficient significance to justify an article. We are told such facts as that he "was raised in an unexceptional household by doctor father and mother", that "Grandfather is a famous novelist" (but notability is not inherited), that he "made friends with" Abdullah Bin Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa (but being a friend of someone notable does not confer much notability). Amongst all these trivia we find that he has been arrested on suspicion of a crime and released on bail while investigations continue. Everyone who has been arrested and released on bail is not notable enough for an encyclopaedia article. When we turn to sources, we find that the only source in the article is a link to a page which does not even mention Ushio Sugawara. As for sources found elsewhere, the main sourceable fact is that Wikileaks reports that he has been arrested. (I guess that Kintetsubuffalo meant "Wikileaks", not "Wikilinks".) Yes, there does seem to be reliable coverage, but only of |one event, and, as I have already suggested, that one event does not confer significance or importance. The speedy deletion tag was removed by an IP with no other edits at all, very likely the author of the article. My inclination is simply to speedily delete the article, but I thought first I would post here and wait for a while to see if anyone has any reasonable objections to doing so
— User:JamesBWatson, 09:45, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:ONEEVENT (Wikipedia:Notability)