Your submission at Articles for creation: Edward Hagihara (April 20)
Draft declinedThank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Your draft submission to Articles for creation has been reviewed but not accepted at this time.
FeedbackThe reviewer, Meadowlark, left the following feedback:
provide significant coverage: discuss the person in detail, not brief mentions or interviews lacking independent analysis;
are reliable: from reputable outlets with editorial oversight;
are independent: not connected to the person, such as interviews, press releases, the subject's own website, or sponsored content.
Please add references that meet all three of these criteria. If none exist, the subject is not yet suitable for Wikipedia.
This draft does not demonstrate that your subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. Please see WP:42 for more information on what kind of sources you need to present. At least three sources that meet all three criteria in WP:42 are required. In particular, interviews with or sources written by the subject (or their friends, family, colleagues, etc) are not considered independent.
Although I cannot access all your sources, the ones I can access and the statements the others are sourced to strongly suggest that they are either interviews with Hagihara, things written or said by people closely connected to him, or passing mentions of his name. You are looking ideally for books or newspaper/journal articles or similar that discuss his life and his impact on aikido in some depth. Meadowlark (talk) 02:31, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
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