Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DKB Group

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The result was keep. -- Cirt (talk) 05:05, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DKB Group

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No references and a Google search for the term DKB Group or Dai-Ichi Kangyo Group turns up nothing. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 14:36, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Undecided. This article is about a keiretsu, apparently a Japanese conglomerate business. The article claims it is the largest, but the keiretsu article claims Toyota is the largest. I do find two incidental mentions of this business in The Economist stories.[1][2]. According to the second story this one is now part of a group called Mizuho; see if that fetches anything. I find it difficult to imagine that a conglomerate of such apparent size and importance has so few sources. I can't search in Japanese or interpret Japanese results, which may be where the paydirt lies. Vagaries of transliteration or translation may also mean that it's better known as something else in English. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 15:11, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. The article Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank is much better formed. We also have Mizuho Financial Group. Perhaps this should redirect to one of those. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 15:14, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. A quick scan of the first few results from this Google Books search shows obvious notability. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:08, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:24, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Phil Bridger's GBooks search is very compelling, even given the existence of an article on the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank. The conglomerate group covered by this article appears to be notable independent of the bank, based on the GBooks results. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 03:21, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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