Talk:Tenga (company)

message: The article has recently been repeatedly vandalized by somebody who uses various Indian IP numbers. I have therefore semi-protected it.
If anybody (from India or anywhere else) thinks that removal of the external links that are now listed at the foot of the article -- namely
* Tenga Japan
* Connell, Ryann. "It might take two to tango, but only one to Tenga". Waiwai. Mainichi Shimbun, December 20, 2007.
* Julian X. "Loving Japanese Obligatory! #3: Masturbation Devices." on Literary Escort Services (literaryescorts.com).
* Kilian, Sven. "Tenga Onacups target modern men." CScout Japan (kilian-nakamura.com). August 15, 2006. 
-- is not vandalism and would like to argue this in a lucid and persuasive way, he or she is free to do so, right here on this talk page. If that person obtains agreement, then the links can go. As long as there is no agreement, then removal of the links will be treated as vandalism. -- Hoary (talk) 15:31, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Semi-protection, and vandalism

message: The vandalizing is obviously done by Tengatango.com.
Tengatango does not only vandalise , he also has very bad business practise by hijacking competitors threads and badmouthing them.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.186.18.237 (talk) 05:20, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have moved your comment from within my signed comment, a position that suggested that I had written it. I've also removed the bolding. If you'd like to comment again, please sign your comment (by hitting the "~" key four times in a row). -- Hoary (talk) 01:40, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Identity of the vandal

message: As of August 16th, this entire article is a giant load of bias. Whole thing either needs deleted, or cleaned up majorly.
Ggccg (talk) 04:46, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased 

message: The article currently has a grand total of zero sources independent of the company that makes the product. -- Hoary (talk) 00:18, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Sourcing (none)

message: This is not an article, its poor attempt at a putting a Tenga catalog on wikipedia. 143.85.199.242 (talk) 18:40, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I hope my recent edits made it better. --朝彦 (Asahiko) (talk) 15:44, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete it 

message: I have reverted an edit by  (whose edits so far has been to repeatedly add an external link to Tenga USA), because there are so many Tenga dealers out there and it is not the purpose of Wikipedia to maintain a list of dealers. AFAIK, Tenga USA does not mention anything about connections with Tenga Co. Ltd. (in Japan) except for its name , and it isn't even listed on Tenga Co. Ltd.'s distributor list . I wouldn't call that a "Tenga official site" which the user's edit claims to be. --125.204.82.37 (talk) 12:04, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. Tenga-usa.com will waste no more of our time. (And before other dealers get ideas: the spam blacklist already has numerous instances of the string "tenga", but plenty more can easily be added.) -- Hoary (talk) 01:03, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you! Maybe we can delete the external links section altogether if the spammers persist. We already have a link in the infobox so it would not be a loss of information. --朝彦 (Asahiko) (talk) 02:47, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tenga USA 

message: I'm going to self-check the current article against the notability criteria, and at the same time, I will leave the following as a memorandum to give non-Japanese speakers an idea about what's in those references. 
(This article has long suffered from insufficient sourcing because there are few reliable English sources available. You had to look at Japanese sources.) 
#Book Tenga-Ron (Tengalogy): A whole book dedicated to the subject but I do not treat this book as an independent source. It's mentioned in the official website and Tenga Co. was clearly involved. Might be good for further reading though.
#Book 30 Year's History of Sex Media: A book on telephone sex (Ch.1), dating sites (Ch.2), adult books (Ch.3), adult video sites (Ch.4), masturbators and modern love dolls (ch.5), and sex industry (ch.6). One half of chapter 5 discusses masurbators, especially (or almost exclusively) Tenga.
#Two independent academic papers featuring usage of Tenga in clinical purposes
#Some newspapers and tabloids (might contain sponsored articles... can't tell, but it's unlikely that all of them are.)
#Press release (does not count as secondary source)
Plus the fact that a product received a design award and was nominated for another, and that it was made into a manga by Sony. (You saw this coming. Only in Japan.) Enough to establish notability? --朝彦 (Asahiko) (talk) 08:29, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability criteria (self-)check 

message: Its relevance is marginal, as it shows a man masturbating from beginning to end using the product only part of the time. It is basically gratuitous porn and isn't necessary or helpful to the article.2600:1015:B123:DEBE:411F:CA96:8E2B:8618 (talk) 04:26, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Since no one objected, I went ahead and got rid of it. I just unlinked it from the article though, the file presumably still exists. 2600:1015:B123:DEBE:5177:1B04:FDA2:75D1 (talk) 05:25, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  I am bot contributing much to the en-Wikipedia so I just noticed this discussion. The removal of the video is censorship which is not allowed on Wikipedia. This video is very relevant because it shows how the product that is described works. Alice2Alice (talk) 13:28, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Get rid of the video 

message: I'm not sure when the video of the man was re-linked. As stated below it adds little to nothing to the article, and shows a man ejaculating WITHOUT the toy. I am removing the video again. Whoami505 (talk) 05:35, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The video has no benefit to the article, I second the motion towards deletion. The person calling this "censorship" should probably look the meaning up in a dictionary. Ninucs (talk) 15:23, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Video is back up and still just porn.