Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga/Biography

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

 * Format biography articles to conform to Manual of Style/Biographies and Biographies of living persons
 * Check articles for relevance.
 * Add references to all articles.
 * Create appropriate requested biographies, including requested seiyū.

Scope

 * Japanese and English-language voice actors
 * Manga artists, illustrators and authors
 * Anime directors
 * Character designers
 * Manga assistants, such as editors
 * Other notable staff members

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
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 #. 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.



Relevant Inclusion Criteria
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
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 |-task-force=yes to the WPBiography banner and yes or yes to WikiProject Anime and manga as this will automatically put the article in the appropriate categories, such as Category: task force articles. If the article is lacking a photo, add yes. If the article lacks an infobox, add yes.

For example:
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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:
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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:
 * <tt> </tt>

Example: Japanese VA:

Categories
Articles tagged for Biography work group Articles that may or may not be tagged, that are likely within the work group's scope
 * Anime and manga biographical articles
 * Anime directors
 * Japanese animators

Infobox template

 * 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

 * 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.

Stub articles
Tagging a mostly empty stub article that has a fuller article on JA Wikipedia:
 * Replace tag with: . (or writer, singer, director, producer)
 * Add tag 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:

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.
 * Official website
 * Official agency profile / resume
 * Official blog
 * Twitter if not covered by previous
 * Publisher's website with author's profile
 * ANN profile
 * AnimeCons profile
 * 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
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:, , or
 * 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 discussion.
 * 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
 * Remove unnamed Additional Voices and ADR loop group roles as not notable. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga 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.

Featured Articles
There are currently no featured Anime/Manga Biography articles.

Good Articles

 * Aki Toyosaki
 * Akira Toriyama
 * Aya Hirano
 * Haruka Tomatsu
 * Hayao Miyazaki
 * Katsura Hoshino
 * Konomi Suzuki
 * LiSA (Japanese musician, born 1987)
 * Mami Kawada
 * Mamoru Miyano
 * Maon Kurosaki
 * May'n
 * Nagi Yanagi
 * Satoshi Kon
 * Shiena Nishizawa

Other articles

 * 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

General article improvement

 * Clamp (manga artists), needs to be expanded. Was Start, then C, and now B.
 * Katsuji Matsumoto, high priority and well-referenced. Let's see what we can do for this article.
 * , Yoshitaka Amano. See discussion: Insufficient referencing, prose problems, insufficient lead, MoS violations. Has since been dropped to C.
 * Leiji Matsumoto, Used on the assessment guidelines as a example of a high-importance individual.
 * Shotaro Ishinomori, early influence on anime and manga.
 * Ryoichi Ikegami, For the same reason as Leiji Matsumoto.
 * 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

Organization

 * Takehito Koyasu - 13.4k monthly page views
 * Daisuke Ono - 12.2k
 * Hiro Shimono - 10.3k
 * Chiaki Kuriyama - 8.3k
 * Masako Nozawa - 7.4k

Resources

 * WikiProject Anime and manga Reference Library: Books, documentaries, and magazines
 * List of Biography workgroup articles
 * Wikiproject Anime and Manga's assessment scale
 * List of references for voice actor and staff articles
 * List of requested biography articles