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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
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.
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.
WP:MUSICBIO - for composers and theme song performances.
Tagging and assessment
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}}
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}}
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}}
}}
{{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.
Use the reason or talk page to specify how the biography can be improved.
Referencing a biography
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.
Jennifer Hale article in New Yorker
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
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.
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
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.
Anime convention profiles where they are not rewrites of their biography profile or sourced from Wikipedia.
Cleaning up
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
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
Rakuten Kitazawa Late Meiji/Early Showa era political cartoonist, called "the founding father of modern manga".
Year 24 group - rated as high importance, needs to be expanded. Was Stub, now Start.
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.
Isao Takahata needs a translation from JA wiki and proper sourcing.
Referencing
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
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