Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Akira Komatsu
changed from delete) – Still really borderline in my opinion. ''But'' Sports Nippon is an RS; their 2016 article as I said above is mostly about the high school goal and has very little about the rest of his career. Now I see the Asahi Shimbun 2018 article Nfitz posted https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASLD7644DLD7UTQP026.html; that's also an RS, and again much of the article is about his high school goal, but it does have more about his career than the Sports Nippon article, and it was written in 2018. This https://kisocook.com/komatsuakira-4668 Kisocook.com (aka cococom.com) article is very in-depth, but it doesn't seem like it's an RS. I can't find any information about that website or its editorial oversight, but then I don't speak Japanese. Still, that's two sources (Sports Nippon and Asahi) that are definitely RS and have more than 500 words about the subject, albeit mostly about the high school goal. If Kisocook.com were an RS, then that'd be a clear GNG source. The coverage overall seems to meet  and , which mitigates  concerns for me. Nfitz has a point that–hey, they're still talking about his 50m shot in the high school championship, 40 years later. That does kind of show some lasting notability, can't deny it. I think it's weak evidence on GNG itself, but Tie goes to the runner|tie goes to the |HEY, so changing my !vote from delete to weak keep with thanks to Nfitz for improving the article
— User:Levivich, 18:18, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:SUSTAINED||WP:AUD||WP:BLP1E||WP:HEY (Wikipedia:Notability)