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schools, and perhaps some foreign parents stationed in Japan by their companies, etc. All the English-language secondary sources seem to be based in India and to be talking about the limited release by JICA of a Hindi edition. Additionally, comparing with the ja.wiki article, etc. (see above), I have
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is about the character, who has apparently appeared in plenty of other books since 2004; it's likely none of those will ever be published in English and refer to the character as "Mottainai Grandma", but the character is presumably called that in the one JICA-published English text -- what do others
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some serious questions about whether this article should be overhauled to focus on the character or the series, as opposed to the original book, and none of the limited English-language sources that talk about "Mottainai Grandma" appear to be doing that.
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Do you have nothing better to do with your time than troll me in revenge for your not having got your way on the main article from this one was spun out? Your above !vote indicates that either (a) you didn't read my OP rationale, (b) you didn't
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is that the volume was published under that English title. If the article is about the character, series, or franchise, then the argment vanishes, as we don't have sources referring to any of these things as "Mottainai Grandma".
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This is the English language Knowledge and so we prefer the English language form of titles. The work is referred to by this title in a variety of English-language works and so it's fine.
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fictional character articles, but I recognize that Knowledge has them) and make the change. The change cbn't be made under the current title, and getting consensus
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Okay, then—the article should be as braod as possible, as it's unlikely we'll have enough material for multiple articles, so let's have it focus on the franchise.
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the "book" option first (what this RM will do) might prevent some obstruction during that process (and I think you know what I'm talking about).
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Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a
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I agree with you it needs to be sorted out, but the "first" part is what I've got a problem with: I think both you and I (and, now,
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my OP rationale, or (c) you both read and understood what I said (and agree with me -- how could you not) and are just trolling.
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after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
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the move, on the condition that a discussion follows to determine the focus of the article.
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If there are sources enough (even if only in Japanese). Other options are focusing on
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are 240 hits at Google News search to sort through if anyone's interested.
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Well, when the article's title could only possibly refer to the book (or
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Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this
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the character?) we can't really work that out, can we?
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