Talk:Gaikokujin tarento

Japanese articles
The Japanese article is called "Gaikokujin Tarento", which makes more sense, since the word "gaikokujin" is recommended over "gaijin" in the Japanese media anyway. Any objections to me changing the name of the article? Spacecat2 06:11, 23 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I think it would have been appropriate to discuss this with the wiki project Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Gaijin_tarento people first. They have already had the discussion.  You'll also want to go about changing the categories that refer to Gaijin tarento.  Bollar 14:28, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Also, I'm thoroughly indifferent on this, but Gaijin is more common in English literature than Gaikokujin. You have a redirect, so I'm sure this can be found, but it's not what most English speakers will expect.  Bollar 14:31, 27 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I oppose the move and suggest it be changed back. "Gaijin tarento" is overwhelmingly more common (10x more so based on a quick Google, I'm getting 2600 hits vs 260), and while "Gaikokujin tarento" may be more politically correct, WP:NAME should have precedence.  (Interestingly, gaikokujin.talent also gets a fair amount of hits, but almost all of them seem to be related to a talent agency of the same name.) Jpatokal (talk) 12:28, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Frankly, I don't think Google hits is the alpha and omega of validity metrics. Do you have any other reasons for opposing the move?  I don't care that strongly one way or the other, but I suppose I would choose "gaikokujin" over "gaijin".  -Amake (talk) 01:18, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

rugged

 * Is there any kind of evidence that most Japanese people expect Americans to look rugged? I guess it makes a little bit of sense, but the article makes it sound that if a foreign talent doesn't look rugged, he won't be successful.


 * Preferred term or not; I've never heard these guys referred to as "Gaikokujin Talent". Hill of Beans 19:33, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Merge
This page has no content except explanation of the phrase and a list of characters. Proposed merge with main article. --Voidvector 02:06, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * If merging, please create a new section for it in the main article. --70.128.126.65 17:57, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Missing Tarento
It feels like some people are missing. I can think of Ousmane Sankhon and the Canadian guy who lives in a log cabin in Nagano prefecture and used to do sausage commercials on Japanese TV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Westwind273 (talk • contribs) 02:47, 25 March 2008 (UTC)