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DYK for Deadwax
On 24 February 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Deadwax, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the rare, much sought after record in Deadwax has killer sound? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Deadwax. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Deadwax), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
More articles to potentially nominate for deletion
Hello,
Not sure why this section got deleted, so I am re-adding it again. Anyway, I just saw that you fully nominated the article List of people with bipolar disorder for deletion, which I initially nominated. Here are others that I initially nominated which you should fully nominate for deletion (feel free to nominate your own suggestions as needed):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_diagnosed_with_dyslexia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_major_depressive_disorder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_synesthesia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_an_anxiety_disorder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_schizophrenia
2606:5580:30C:7F9E:D05B:81E5:63E3:29CD (talk) 19:20, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
Example reason: "See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people with autism spectrum disorders as to why it should be deleted. There are no objective medical tests for bipolar disorder, and the article has a huge potential to cause major WP:BLP issues." 2606:5580:30C:7F9E:D05B:81E5:63E3:29CD (talk) 19:37, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
- I nominated one but I would heavily recommend that you create an account and nominate the others yourself - I don't really feel comfortable nominating all of them offhand. You could also post at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine about this as well. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 20:01, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
Japanese names
I'm not going to revert, but I noticed you've moved a bunch of Japanese bios from surname-last to surname-first, such as Ōsugi Sakae and Itō Noe. It's no longer hard-coded into MOS:JAPAN, but the convention at WikiProject Japan is for names to be surname-last for those born since the advent of the Meiji era (so post-1868). Ōsugi was born in 1885 and Itō was born in 1895. Curly "JFC" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 01:29, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Curly Turkey - thanks for letting me know! I thought that if the individuals were more well known (particularly in academia) for having surname-first, then it was OK to have them as surname-first. I may have misread this! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 14:19, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
- If sources consistently or near-consistently use surname-first, then we would as well, per WP:COMMONNAME. A quick googling gives a 2:1 ratio of surname-first for Ōsugi, and 3:1 for surname last for Itō. Exceptions should be exceptional, though, and a non-compliant formatting should have overwhelming evidence to back it. Curly "JFC" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 23:02, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
Emma Fielding Baker -- Thank you!
ReaderOfThePack: Hello and thank you for your organizational skills on my edits to the Emma Fielding Baker Wiki page. I am a History grad student in Southern California and have selected Emma as my project page. I just went in now to start the organizing process with category titles, etc., and saw that it had already been done! I was so happy! I love the photo arrangement...didn't even know you could do that. I've done deep research on Emma's life and I still have items in my sandbox that I will be adding, but I have to make sure my sources are publicly accessible. I have received some docs from the archivist of the Mohegan Tribe but have to vet the sources. You will be seeing more info added in the coming days. Once again, thank you for making Emma's page look so good. I feel a responsibility to her memory which is now viewable by the world!--Spellman888 (talk) 00:48, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
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Children's Literature Newsletter March 2019
- Children's Literature March 2019
More good work has been underway since our last newsletter. Thanks to all the project members for what you to do to support Children's literature on Wikipedia.
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With the completion of our project banner project, we have a large backlog of unassessed articles. Doing article rating is a great way to find interesting articles with-in our project's scope and to also find articles that were incorrectly tagged. This project will hopefully let us better monitor and aid in the development the many articles that this project supports. Thanks to Legoktm for all his work in making this happen.
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GA Review?
Hi! I was wondering if you'd be interested in doing a GA review for Derrick Barnes? Another editor has put a lot of work has gone into it recently but since I helped some with the article's beginnings I think I am conflicted from doing the review myself. I appreciated your knowledge when you did a GA review of mine and so I thought of you when trying to think of someone who might be willing to review this one. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 17:47, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
- Shoot, I just saw this Barkeep49! I'll try taking a look later on today if I get the chance! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 17:47, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- ReaderofthePack No worries. I saw you hadn't be super active lately and appreciate your possibly taking a look. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 17:48, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
- Barkeep49 - I've started the review! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 21:22, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
- ReaderofthePack, it's great that you've taken this one on, but please don't edit the Wikipedia:Good article nominations to say so. That page is refreshed by bot every 20 minutes, so your insertion did not survive the bot's next run. (It's a page that shouldn't be edited at all, since the bot does all the work.) Thanks again for doing this review! BlueMoonset (talk) 23:48, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
WikiEd
I had expressed my dissatisfaction with WikiEd years ago. I still think a poor job is being done, likely due to bad leadership from the very top. I appreciate your efforts to plug holes in the program to keep us afloat but I think the people in charge need to change course. If you're ever planning to attend some DC events please let me know so I can join you. Chris Troutman (talk) 19:43, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
- I'm not sure if I can make it any time soon, but I definitely want to attend more in-person events and meetups! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 16:02, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
WikiCup 2019 Reminder
Hi. I'm DannyS712 (talk), and I just wanted to remind you that you are a current participant in round 2 of this year's WikiCup! There are only a few days until the second round ends – if you haven't made you first submission for this round yet, there is still time to start; if you have already started, keep up the good work. See your submissions page: here. Good luck!
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WikiCup 2019 May newsletter
The second round of the 2019 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to scored 32 points to advance into round 3. Our top four scorers in round 2 all scored over 400 points and were:
Cas Liber (1210), our winner in 2016, with two featured articles and three DYKs. He also made good use of the bonus points available, more than doubling his score by choosing appropriate articles to work on.
Kosack (750), last year's runner up, with an FA, a GA, two FLs, and five DYKs.
Adam Cuerden (480), a WikiCup veteran, with 16 featured pictures, mostly restorations.
Zwerg Nase (461), a seasoned competitor, with a FA, a GA and an ITN item.
Other notable performances were put in by 
Barkeep49 with six GAs, 
Ceranthor, 
Lee Vilenski, and 
Canada Hky, each with seven GARs, and 
MPJ-DK with a seven item GT.
So far contestants have achieved nine featured articles between them and a splendid 80 good articles. Commendably, 227 GARs have been completed during the course of the 2019 WikiCup, so the backlog of articles awaiting GA review has been reduced as a result of contestants' activities. The judges are pleased with the thorough GARs that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.
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ArbCom 2019 special circular
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Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
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June events with WIR
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Liangbatou
Thank you. I was about to clean up the citations myself. The article was written as part of a class assignment for History of East Asian Costume at the Fashion Institute of Technology. I was the librarian attached to the class. I think it is as worthy of topic as the Manchu "Queue" but, in general, students were resistant to using the Berg Fashion Library database or other library resources. I ended up adding some content and a citation myself, as you can see. Anyway, thank you for the flag. Hopefully, it won't just sit there but will motivate others to improve the article. --Librarianhelen (talk) 20:28, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Librarianhelen! I'm actually Shalor (Wiki Ed) - I had forgotten to switch accounts and did that under my main. I agree that this does look to be notable - it just needs more TLC. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 20:36, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
Oh! Okay. Look this project got a little out of hand. I will email you. Need advice. --Librarianhelen (talk) 18:15, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
Need Help on Vandalism/Disruptive Editing
Hi hope you are well! The page that I created Kwong Weng Yap years has been receiving persistent disruptive edits after recent news that the subject will be a potential political candidate. I read the parts in Wikipedia on Vandalism and hope to increase semi-protection for the page because I think some of these IP editors e.g. IP 131.111.225.6 use shared accounts and seems to have other motives etc for the recent spike of edits and vandalism. Hoping not for the article to be defaced permanently. Also tried to revert some content but doubt that will help much in the longer term. Trying hard to be respectful and civil to the IPs. Will appreciate it greatly if you can help! :) Superwifi (talk) 08:02, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
Children's Literature Newsletter April/May 2019
- Children's Literature April/May 2019
This newsletter sees us embark on a project drive around article creation of some medium, or higher, importance topics that are currently redlinks. Read more and consider joining the work.
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MrLinkinPark333 recently pointed out that on some of our Top importance pages about Children's literature awards there are many redlinks. The three pages with these redlinks are Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, and Carnegie Medal (with 0 existing redlinks in the other top importance award article - Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award). As of this newsletter there are 222 redlinks in those three articles. How many can we as a project create over the next 6 weeks? Could we even do better and see if we could create any that earn a Did You Know or even get it up to Good Article status?
As always feel free to head on over to the project discussion page if you find yourself in need of any help as we work to turn these notable entries on some of our most important articles blue.
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Hi
The article have been deleted after an AfD. So, another person have the same identity. And there are soures : [1], [2], The 3 April The pioneer interview, a last interview. --Panam2014 (talk) 01:34, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
- @Panam2014: You would need to bring this up with the admin who closed the deletion discussion or blocked the page from recreation. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 14:44, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Napa leather page rename - talk page issue
Thanks for renaming the "Nappa leather" page to "Napa leather", and for doing a bunch of work to clean up the article! However, I noticed that the talk page (with all of its WikiProject labels) didn't move, and is still tied to the "Nappa" page. I looked into it a bit, but I couldn't figure out the best way to rename the "Nappa" talk page to "Napa", since there is already a "Napa" talk page. Could you help straighten this out? Alternatively, would the best solution be to manually add the WikiProject labels to the "Napa" page? Thank you! - Heddles (talk) 00:14, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
July events from Women in Red!
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Julian W. Lucas Deletion
Hello,
I'm looking to rework a page that was deleted for Julian W. Lucas I believe it was wrongfully deleted so I'm working with other users to write it so it can be successfully published. I reached out to a couple people with regards to this matter. I'm just trying to figure this all out and I saw that your name was associated with the deletion. I wrote this article as Julian W. Lucas is one of the few professional disabled models out there and I believe it is necessary that he has a wikipedia page for others within the disabled community and more to be able to access. So any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much!
Zenwexler (talk) 16:10, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
- I'll restore it to your userspace so you can work on it. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 16:47, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Thank you so much! Do you know when it will appear in my userspace? Can you also please point out some of the main issues that need to be rewritten or deleted all together? If that's not your role I totally understand. You just seem really nice so I figured I'd ask. I have no true conflict of interest, but I am someone who is also disabled. So I just want to make sure I do an appropriate job. Thank you so much for your help and all that you do for wikipedia
Zenwexler (talk) 16:53, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Hey Readerofthepack! Not sure if we keep talking here or on the other page. So I'll just copy what I wrote there. I'm not sure if you get notified of my replies to you since it's technically on my page.
Wow. This is so great. I'm genuinely blown away by your kindness. So I want to add a source for the music video for rescue me. But I can't find any official source outside of the wikipedia page for the song, the imdb page, and of course the actual music video itself where he is clearly in the video. Would the actual official youtube link to the music video be considered an appropriate source? I have the same issue with his collaboration with Jillian Mercado and Tommy Hilfiger. There's no official source but on Tommy Hilfiger's website you can clearly see the pictures of them together. After getting that cited and with all the great and very, very appreciated changes you've made I'd love to make the page live. And then as time goes on I'll be able to add and cite other stuff and hopefully just let other people add to his page! I just want to do my part and create it and then let other people who can do a much better job then me take it from there :) A total random side note, you've really inspired me to donate more to wiki next time around when asked! Additionally at your advice I was also able to add a couple more sources, one of them being for one of his comedy shows. Zenwexler (talk) 20:16, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
Hey Readerofthepack. I’ve beeb having trouble with the Julian W. Lucas page being flagged. After reworked on it I was confident that it should be enough. Apparently there’s a discussion about whether or not it should be deleted. I find this really frustrating because I can’t seem to convey that Julian W. Lucas is notable. And that having the disability he has in the industry he is in is a big deal. Which is why major brands, comedy theaters, and bands have worked with him. Which is why legitimate verified news outlets have done multiple stories on him. So at this point I don’t really know what to do so I figured I’d just reach out here and maybe get some of your thoughts. Thanks so much! Livewire123 (talk) 03:18, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
WikiCup 2019 July newsletter
The third round of the 2019 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round needed to score at least 68 points, which is substantially lower than last year's 227 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
Cas Liber, our winner in 2016, with 500 points derived mainly from a featured article and two GAs on natural history topics
Adam Cuerden, with 480 points, a tally built on 16 featured pictures, the result of meticulous restoration work
SounderBruce, a finalist in the last two years, with 306 points from a variety of submissions, mostly related to sport or the State of Washington
Usernameunique, with 305 points derived from a featured article and two GAs on archaeology and related topics
Contestants managed 4 (5) featured articles, 4 featured lists, 18 featured pictures, 29 good articles, 50 DYK entries, 9 ITN entries, and 39 good article reviews. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them, and it is imperative to claim them in the correct round; one FA claim had to be rejected because it was incorrectly submitted (claimed in Round 3 when it qualified for Round 2), so be warned! When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Vanamonde (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:12, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
Globehunters page
Check out Draft:Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure. I have found a lot of valid references for the film, despite the film not being as noticeable. I wonder if this draft's current version can be submitted as an article on its own, since there are also articles like this one available, that have little to no references. NickBlamp (talk) 19:55, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
August 2019 at Women in Red
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Request for unprotection and undeletion of page Abdul Kadar Khatri
Hello, i am requesting for unprotecting and undeletion of page Abdul Kadar Khatri because i have found a lot of valid references for the article, the article was deleted because the article was inappropriate referenced by the creator, but the article person is very notable and article should be created on wikipedia, here i am adding some strong refernce regarding the article please check it, Thank you[3][4]Hzk12345 (talk) 15:46, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
September 2019 at Women in Red
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WikiCup 2019 September newsletter
The fourth round of the competition has finished in a flurry of last minute activity, with 454 points being required to qualify for the final round. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with over 400 points being eliminated, and all but two of the finalists having achieved an FA during the round. Casliber, our 2016 winner, was the highest point-scorer, followed by Enwebb and Lee Vilenski, who are both new to the competition. In fourth place was SounderBruce, a finalist last year. But all those points are swept away as we start afresh for the final round.
Round 4 saw the achievement of 11 featured articles. In addition, Adam Cuerden scored with 18 FPs, Lee Vilenski led the GA score with 8 GAs while Kosack performed 15 GA reviews. There were around 40 DYKs, 40 GARs and 31 GAs overall during round 4. Even though contestants performed more GARs than they achieved GAs, there was still some frustration at the length of time taken to get articles reviewed.
As we start round 5, we say goodbye to the eight competitors who didn't quite make it; thank you for the useful contributions you have made to the Cup and Wikipedia, and we hope you will join us again next year. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them (some people have fallen foul of this rule and the points have been removed).
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Thanks
Thanks for taking the time to support my recent candidacy at RfA. Like you I appreciate the chance to discuss issues with editors who have a wide variety of viewpoints and have the chance to come together to find consensus. Disagreeing without being disagreeable is something I attempt to do and thank you for highlighting that. I look forward to our paths intersecting again - perhaps on some great book - sometime soon. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 01:14, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
- No problem! And congrats on the adminship! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 18:10, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
October Events from Women in Red
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Just a question...
Hi! I have a question about the article Spider Grandmother. I saw that user Ghostygoo did a lot of work in the article this spring, but Ghostygoo seems to not be editing now. This work was done as a student editor in University of Hawaii at Manoa/Introduction to World Mythology to 1500 CE, and led by you (as Shalor (Wiki Ed)).
I find the arricle interesting, and would like to suggest it as a candidate to the meta project Translation of the week. But the ref #27 is perhaps not a reliable source, and may cause people woting "Oppose". Do you know a source to replace the old one? Or do you know any user who might know?
// Zquid (talk) 12:53, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Zquid! I've replaced it with some better sources. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 14:12, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
Oops
Just so you know, if you got a notification of me reverting a perfectly good user talk page post of yours, it was a misclick which I have self-reverted. Sorry to be so clumsy. --bonadea contributions talk 10:57, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
- Eh, it happens! No worries! ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 13:28, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
What you will.
Hi, ReaderofthePack. Here are a few fairly random thoughts which have followed one another, all started by an incident a little while ago when I came across a message on a talk page which at first appeared to be from some upstart administrator I had never heard of, called "ReaderofthePack". Then I noticed a bit of small print in her signature which not only put me straight on the issue of never having heard of her, but also hit me in the face as being astonishingly similar to a recent change in my signature. "Wow!" I thought, "Two of us doing the same thing!" Perhaps not significant, but interesting. Looking further, I found that the change happened way back in February of last year, and I thought "How can I possibly have not noticed?" I suppose it's a measure of how much less active on Wikipedia I am now than I was: years ago it is almost inconceivable that I wouldn't have noticed much sooner, but my average editing rate this year so far has been about 11% of what it was when I was at my most active. I also see that you say you are not from Tokyo, which I think I had known for quite a while, but for a very long time I assumed you were. That set me wondering "If the Tokyo bit isn't to be trusted, is the Girl bit to be trusted?" so I did some more searching. (Yes, I know, you are wondering if I have nothing better to do with my time.) I found that Shalor (Wiki Ed) has her preferences set to show her as female, but ReaderofthePack doesn't. Perhaps she would like to? No doubt most people will never notice, but I really prefer to be able to refer to other editors as "he" or as "she", rather than something more awkward, such as "she or he", or singular "they", and if they have their sex set in their preferences I can see it right away, rather than searching for the information, or worse still spending time searching for it and not finding it. (I have some script or other which tells me. If you don't have it and would like it, let me know, and I'll check and find out what it is.) (Oh, yes, and I absolutely do not wish to be one of those who see no problem with knowing how to refer to other editors, because you just call them all "he", and that makes life easy.)
OK, so there are my random thoughts generated by seeing your changed signature. Make of them what you will. JBW (talk) Formerly known as JamesBWatson 21:18, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
- JBW - I've had more people express surprise over my changed username than I can remember! As far as gender goes, I do identify as female but I have to admit that I did change my gender preference setting on my main account when I did the name change. It was kind of an experiment of sorts, to see if I'd get a different reaction with a gender neutral name, so I figured I'd change the gender preference setting just so it didn't give away any hints other than the staff account. It was interesting, as I did see some change in how people responded to me. It's kind of interesting. I did experience some of the obvious things that occur when someone switches from a female username to a neutral gender one, but one thing I did see was that some of the advice I gave wasn't responded to in the same way. People weren't rude or anything in general, but it seemed like people saw the female gendered username as more approachable, possibly due to the sociocultural image of women as nurturers? I'm probably just navel gazing, but it was interesting! In any case, I've switched back to the female gender setting - admittedly I kind of forgot about it over time. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 17:56, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
Have a very happy first edit anniversary!
From the Birthday Committee, PATH SLOPU 05:36, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
Bee and Puppycat
Hello - I hope I am doing this right. I have a question about "Bee and Puppycat". I notice you added some character in the past. Could you please add more details on the actor Alexander James Rodriguez, who is the voice of Cardamon. https://beeandpuppycat.fandom.com/wiki/Cardamon. He has a page on Fandom Wiki https://beeandpuppycat.fandom.com/wiki/Alexander_James_Rodriguez but it is in RED as nothing to link back to on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_and_PuppyCat All the other characters do. Is this something you can do please? Emrmedia2004 (talk) 16:30, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
- Emrmedia2004 I can try taking a look and see if he has done any other notable roles. It can be kind of tricky when it comes to voice actors, to be honest. Offhand it looks like his biggest role has been Cardamon, so I'm not optimistic about him passing WP:NACTOR - which can honestly be tricky to pass. I've had to really fight for notability for some actors in the past, ones who had multiple starring VA roles in major anime. (sigh) ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 17:26, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
- ReaderofthePack Ok thank you. We understand. He isn't just a voice actor. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4493704 - he has worked on tonnes of national commercials Toyota, LG and Little Tikes to name a few, and a couple of films. One of the films Flock of Four is currently on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80238607. All Stars (out on Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/All-Stars-Angela-Kinsey/dp/B017Y43TI4 and Mansion of Blood - https://www.amazon.com/Mansion-Blood-Gary-Busey/dp/B01B0DLD88. That being said. He is still young and working hard on building that resume. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emrmedia2004 (talk • contribs) 14:38, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
- (by talk reader) @Emrmedia2004:
"He is still young and working hard on building that resume"
Which is fine. Come back to us in five years when that resume is built and reliable sources have developed content on him. Chris Troutman (talk) 18:44, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
- (by talk reader) @Emrmedia2004:
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WikiCup 2019 November newsletter
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