Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tanka prose
There's a mention in http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-10034602_ITM Asahi Shimbun September 4, 2002, "Several photographs of Shiki and his three deathbed haiku burnish this quality edition, which details his life from samurai to poet and his haiku, tanka, prose and diaries." However, that separates the terms with a comma, so that doesn't help this topic. There's a mention in http://www2.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/whatson/story.html?id=9874c958-0384-4270-8688-be11a926f1f2 Edmonton Journal September 11, 2009, "Patrick M. Pilarski launches his book of poetry, a collection of contemporary haiku, tanka, haibun, tanka prose, senryu and quatrains." So tanka prose is a real term, and being a real term rebuts the AfD argument that this only is a Wikipedia article naming issue and not a  topic issue. http://www.abqjournal.com/venue/books/229536books09-26-04.htm Albuquerque Journal September 26, 2004 mentions "One is Gregorio's collection of tanka poems and prose about the martial art akido." which might relate the term tanka with prose. In any case, there is not enough source information independent of the topic (e.g., independent of those writing tanka prose) for a stand alone article that meets 
— User:Uzma, 13:59, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)