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The corresponding Japanese article 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 think? Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 22:23, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• If there are sources enough (even if only in Japanese). Other options are focusing on Mottainai Baasan as a series, or even a franchise. Depending on the sources, there could even be a separate article on the character, series, or franchise, while keepin ghtis article focused on the book. It depends on whether someone wants to put in the work. Here are 240 hits at Google News search to sort through if anyone's interested. Curly "JFC" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 22:56, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The request to rename this article to Mottainai Bāsan has been carried out. If the page title has consensus, be sure to close this discussion using {{subst:RM top|'''page moved'''.}} and {{subst:RM bottom}} and remove the {{Requested move/dated|…}} tag, or replace it with the {{subst:Requested move/end|…}} tag.

Mottainai Grandma → Mottainai Bāsan – I'm not seeing evidence that this book is actually known under its "English title" in English-speaking countries. The English title is actually that of a bilingual Japanese-English edition released in Japan and marketed to Japanese parents who want to teach their kids English, Japanese kids' eikaiwa 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 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. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 01:33, 7 December 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. SITH (talk) 13:20, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose This is the English language Wikipedia 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. Andrew D. (talk) 13:43, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Andrew Davidson: 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 understand 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. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 06:23, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]