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The Biography Work Group is a working group of members of WikiProject Anime and manga dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of articles on the biographies of Japanese and English-language voice actors, manga artists and authors, anime directors, character designers, and other personalities in the anime and manga industry. Wikiproject Anime and manga currently supports more than 2000 biography articles, constituting roughly one-fifth of all Anime and Manga-related articles.
To-do items for members of Anime and manga industry biographies task force
[edit source]- Format biography articles to conform to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biographies and Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
- Check articles for relevance.
- Add references to all articles.
- Create appropriate requested biographies, including requested seiyū.
Scope and goals
[edit source]Mission statement
[edit source]The goal of the biography work group is to organize, clean, and improve biographical article information within a format that fits Wikipedia's biography and biography of living persons procedures to, ultimately, the level of quality stressed in the Featured Article and Featured List guidelines.
Scope
[edit source]Currently this task force covers the following items:
- Japanese and English-language voice actors
- Manga artists, illustrators and authors
- Anime directors
- Character designers
- Manga assistants, such as editors
- Other notable staff members
This task force does not cover:
- Authors and illustrators of manhwa, manhua, or original English-language manga.
- Japanese people outside of the anime and manga industry, such as Natsume Sōseki.
- Actors who work primarily on live-action adaptations (drama series, musical, film) of the anime and manga.
- Fans and contributors on the fan side of anime and manga. Producing a fandub or anime music video, reviewing an anime series or episode in an informal blog/website, or cosplaying at an anime convention does not mean you're now in the industry.
- People who are normally not involved in the anime industry, but might have worked on a film or television series: Samuel L. Jackson in Afro Samurai, Jennifer Hale in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. Jensen Ackles in Supernatural: The Anime Series, John Ratzenberger in Spirited Away, Patrick Stewart in Steamboy
Participants
[edit source]User WP Anime Biography
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Anyone is allowed to assist and be a part of the Biography Work Group, provided that the participant will work to improve articles within the guidelines of the workgroup. If you wish to join, add your name on a new line below the list, by typing # {{user|yournamehere}}. You may also add {{User WP Anime Biography}} to your userpage if you wish to use the userbox indicate you are a participant of the work group.
- Kraftlos (talk · contribs)
- Nihonjoe (talk · contribs)
- Andrensath (talk · contribs)
- AngusWOOF (talk · contribs)
- Sjones23 (talk · contribs)
- TenTonParasol (talk · contribs)
- Miraclepine (talk · contribs)
Guidelines
[edit source]Relevant Inclusion Criteria
[edit source]All articles must pass the WP:GNG and/or one of these alternatives in order to exist as a stand-alone article on Wikipedia.
- WP:CREATIVE - for artists, directors, or others involved in the production of manga or anime.
- WP:ENTERTAINER - for voice actors
- WP:MUSICBIO - for composers and theme song performances.
Tagging and assessment
[edit source]Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the {{WikiProject Anime and manga}} and {{WPBiography}} project banners. You should add |{{{taskforce-label}}}-task-force=yes to the {{WPBiography}} banner and |biography-work-group=yes or |bwg=yes to {{WikiProject Anime and manga}} as this will automatically put the article in the appropriate categories, such as [[:Category:{{{taskforce}}} task force articles]]. If the article is lacking a photo, add |needs-image=yes. If the article lacks an infobox, add |needs-infobox=yes.
For example:
- {{WikiProject Anime and manga|class=Stub|importance=Low|bwg=yes|listas=Familyname, Givenname}}
- {{WikiProject Biography|living=y|class=Stub|filmbio-work-group=yes|filmbio-priority=low|listas=Familyname, Givenname}}
Should they be extensively involved in a bunch of other projects such as video games, non-anime animation, or music, you can add the appropriate projects:
- {{WikiProject Video games|class=Stub|importance=Low|listas=Familyname, Givenname}}
- {{WikiProject Animation|class=Stub|importance=Low|people=yes|people-importance=low|listas=Familyname, Givenname}}
- {{WikiProject Japan|bio=y|music=y|class=Stub|importance=Low|listas=Familyname, Givenname}}
- {{WikiProject Women |class=Start|importance=Low|listas=Familyname, Givenname}}
- {{WikiProject Biography|living=y|class=Stub|filmbio-work-group=yes| filmbio-priority=Low | musician-work-group=yes | musician-priority=Low | listas=Familyname, Givenname}}
For voice actors from North America, there is no need to add Wikiproject Canada or Wikiproject United States / (state/province) unless they have done voice-overs for the government or have been recognized for their work by such institutions. Examples:
- Beau Billingslea as recognized by the city of Meriden, Connecticut
- Vic Mignogna as recognized by multiple institutions in Houston, Texas
Use a banner shell if the person belongs to three or more groups:
- {{WikiProjectBannerShell|blp=yes|1= (list of wikiprojects) }}
Example: Japanese VA:
{{WikiProjectBannerShell|blp=yes|1=
{{WikiProject Anime and manga|class=Start|importance=Low|bwg=yes|listas=Kobayashi, Sanae}}
{{WikiProject Japan|bio=y|class=Start|importance=Low|listas=Kobayashi, Sanae}}
{{WikiProject Video games|class=Start|importance=Low|listas=Kobayashi, Sanae}}
{{WikiProject Women |class=Start|importance=Low|listas= Kobayashi, Sanae}}
{{WikiProject Biography|living=y|class=Start|filmbio-work-group=yes|filmbio-priority=low|listas=Kobayashi, Sanae}}
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Categories
[edit source]Articles tagged for Biography work group
Articles that may or may not be tagged, that are likely within the work group's scope
Templates
[edit source]Infobox template
[edit source]- {{Infobox Comics creator}} for mangaka.
- {{Infobox writer}} for writers.
- {{Infobox musical artist}} for those whose Wikipedia-notable primary career is in music. For voice actors with notable single and album releases, you can add a music career module instead.
- {{Infobox person}}, use for voice actors, directors and as a general template when the others don't seem to be a good fit.
Stub templates
[edit source]- {{Japan-voice-actor-stub}} for stub articles relating to Japanese voice actors (seiyū).
- {{Manga-artist-stub}} for stub articles relating to Mangaka.
- {{anime-stub}} or {{manga-stub}} if the stub doesn't fit into the other two categories.
Process for clearing out sourcing tags
[edit source]Stub articles
[edit source]Tagging a mostly empty stub article that has a fuller article on JA Wikipedia:
- Replace tag with:
{{Expand Japanese|name of bio article in Japanese|topic=actor}}. (or writer, singer, director, producer) - Add tag
{{Cleanup biography}}if the most important information has not even been put in. - Translate the article or write up the person's bio.
- Move tag to one of these options:
{{No footnotes|BLP=yes}}{{More footnotes|BLP=yes|reason=}}{{BLP sources|reason=}}{{BLP primary sources|biography section}}{{BLP sources|reason=Career section lacks sources.}}
Use the reason or talk page to specify how the biography can be improved.
Referencing a biography
[edit source]The biography should be supported mainly by reliable secondary sources independent of the subject and be more than just a passing mention. Examples include:
- News and magazine articles about the person. Examples:
- Vic Mignogna article in Houston Chronicle
- Chris Patton article in Annapolis Capital Gazette
- Jamie Marchi in Evansville Courier-Press
- Trina Nishimura in Amarillo Globe-News
- Funimation article in Dallas Observer covering multiple actors
- Los Angeles magazine covering multiple voice actors such as Grey Delisle, Yuri Lowenthal, Tara Platt and Phil LaMarr
- Reviews, especially those that critique the actor's role.
- Sources by colleagues and third parties.
- Alumni writeups that aren't from the subject.
- Books. (Google search the actor and change to books and you'll see listings and reviews)
- Interviews where the interviewer already has prior knowledge of the roles. Ones where the interviewee is revealing their new roles would fit under primary.
The primaries such as biographies, tweets, and interviews would count as WP:SELFPUB and should be judged to see if the statements are not extraordinary claims.
Referencing external links
[edit source]The following items are potential external links. Note that some items such as Twitter or Facebook do not need to be mentioned if the person has an official website with those links, per WP:ELMINOFFICIAL. Please also see WP:EL for more guidance.
- Official website
- Official agency profile / resume
- Official blog
- Twitter if not covered by previous
- Publisher's website with author's profile
- ANN profile
{{ann}} - AnimeCons profile
{{AnimeCons name}} - GamePlaza Haruka's Voice Artist DataBase (Japanese)
- Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu Database
- IMDb profile only if not sufficiently covered by ANN
- Media Arts Database from the Agency for Cultural Affairs (authors, directors, composers, character designers)
- Oricon profile for singers, composers, musicians
Referencing a filmography
[edit source]If building one from scratch (or by WP:TNT), start with the actor's agency resume or profile. Assuming they did not list every role they have ever been in, this will indicate what roles the actor considers most important. Cite this source in the upper corner of the filmography table, and enter "Resume", "Tweet", "Website", or "Press" on the individual entries if the only source is a primary or self-published source.
Places to find citations if news articles won't suffice:
- Japanese VAs:
- Add Game Plaza Haruka's voice artist database: http://gph.sakura.ne.jp/va_memo/system/vadb.cgi
- Add Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu database: http://www.usagi.org/doi/seiyuu/individual.html or http://www.usagi.org/doi/seiyuu/index.html
- English VAs:
- Add Behind the Voice Actors green check-marked data: http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com
- ANN news articles and reviews.
- Anime Encyclopedia (the book) entries.
- Credits websites that are not user-generated content: Allmovie, Fandango, Moviefone. Do not cite IMDb or ANN encyclopedia.
- Anime and video game official website cast/staff lists.
- Closing credits themselves:
{{cite episode}},{{cite video game}}, or{{cite AV media}} - Tweets, social network posts, blogs where reliable and non-controversial. WP:SELFPUB. Note the primary source account must be verified. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga#When are additional voices eligible for inclusion in voice actor articles? discussion.
- Anime convention profiles where they are not rewrites of their biography profile or sourced from Wikipedia.
Cleaning up
[edit source]- Move non-notable roles and non-notable titles into an embedded note section as they will require further citation beyond just appearing in credits to show notability
- Remove unnamed Additional Voices and ADR loop group roles as not notable. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga#When are additional voices eligible for inclusion in voice actor articles? discussion.
- Remove external links to databases that were heavily referenced (BTVA, Hitoshi Doi's, MADB, VADB).
- Sort table entries by release date.
- Remove unsourced filmography entries.
Workgroup Progress
[edit source]Exemplary Articles
[edit source]Featured Articles
[edit source]There are currently no File:Featured article star.svg featured Anime/Manga Biography articles.
Good Articles
[edit source]- File:Symbol support vote.svg Aki Toyosaki
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Akira Toriyama
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Aya Hirano
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Haruka Tomatsu
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Hayao Miyazaki
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Katsura Hoshino
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Konomi Suzuki
- File:Symbol support vote.svg LiSA (Japanese musician, born 1987)
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Mami Kawada
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Mamoru Miyano
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Maon Kurosaki
- File:Symbol support vote.svg May'n
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Nagi Yanagi
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Satoshi Kon
- File:Symbol support vote.svg Shiena Nishizawa
Other articles
[edit source]- File:Symbol b class.svg Kari Wahlgren - also has a detailed filmography with references to episodes, AV media for video games, reviews, articles, and, at the least, her voiceover resume
Articles that need attention
[edit source]General article improvement
[edit source]- File:Symbol b class.svg Clamp (manga artists), needs to be expanded. Was Start, then C, and now B.
- File:Symbol b class.svg Katsuji Matsumoto, high priority and well-referenced. Let's see what we can do for this article.
- File:Symbol question.svg, File:Symbol c class.svg Yoshitaka Amano. See discussion: Insufficient referencing, prose problems, insufficient lead, MoS violations. Has since been dropped to C.
- File:Symbol c class.svg Leiji Matsumoto, Used on the assessment guidelines as a example of a high-importance individual.
- File:Symbol start class.svg Shotaro Ishinomori, early influence on anime and manga.
- File:Symbol start class.svg Ryoichi Ikegami, For the same reason as Leiji Matsumoto.
- File:Symbol start class.svg Rakuten Kitazawa Late Meiji/Early Showa era political cartoonist, called "the founding father of modern manga".
- File:Symbol start class.svg Year 24 group - rated as high importance, needs to be expanded. Was Stub, now Start.
- File:Symbol start class.svg Toshio Suzuki (producer) Chief Producer and President of Studio Ghibli. According to Hayao Miyazaki, "If it were not for Mr. Suzuki, there wouldn't have been Studio Ghibli." Was Stub, now Start.
- File:Symbol start class.svg Isao Takahata needs a translation from JA wiki and proper sourcing.
Referencing
[edit source]- BLP articles lacking sources (96) as of 2019-11-05
- Unreferenced BLPs (5) as of 2017-11-05
- In-text citations lacking (449, includes non-BLP) as of 2017-11-05
Organization
[edit source]- Takehito Koyasu - 13.4k monthly page views
- Daisuke Ono - 12.2k
- Hiro Shimono - 10.3k
- Chiaki Kuriyama - 8.3k
- Masako Nozawa - 7.4k
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