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I have no idea how to get the rights to use the photo I just added. I'm also aware it'll get deleted if I don't figure it out. :P Do we email him? And if that works, how do we prove that we have his permission? --
Masamage18:58, 15 August 2006 (UTC)reply
In
2001, Hitoshi gained additional fame through the
"I Liek Milk" parody site, itself a parody of the site of internet celebrity
Mahir Çağrı, portraying Hitoshi as an English challenged otaku with a milk fetish.
I did so because I'm not convinced that this website is at all notable, and because it casts Hitoshi-san in a bad light for no real reason. See
Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. If you read the above Talk page division, you might note that we just emailed Hitoshi and invited him to look at the article and give or deny permission to use his photo. This is an inappropriate time to be linking to irrelevant and insulting websites. --
Masamage23:05, 15 August 2006 (UTC)reply
How is he notable?
Please provide some evidence that Hitoshi Doi is notable. I don't see how the article fufills notability requirements or how it can be anything more than a stub. And why is he mid-level importance to Japan-related article on wikipedia? --
Kunzite02:03, 11 September 2006 (UTC)reply
I'm not an expert on either Doi or the notability rules, and I understand google hits aren't the perfect measuring stick, but he gets 372,000. Many of those are people using him as a reference in their anime pages, using seiyuu photos he took, or providing a link to him along with statements like, "If you haven't heard of Hitoshi Doi then you need to crawl back into the bathroom and finish getting over your drunken stooper[sic]
[1]." Obviously that's one person's (rather agressive) opinion, but it's indicative of the kind of influence he has on the anime web community. I have no idea how to match that up with a specific
WP:N rule, but he does seem notable to me. I think it's entirely likely that someone may find his name somewhere, out of context, and look here to figure out who he is. --
Masamage04:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)reply
Tags
I tagged this article as needing clean and for being confusing because it is unclear as to whether the article is about the man named Hitoshi Doi, or his website. I tagged it for clean up because it has two sections with only one sentence each. Seems to be unnecessary to even have sections right now with so little content. The image also needs to go as it was stolen from his website (and has been tagged for deletion). An infobox is needed.
AnmaFinotera (
talk)
21:25, 5 April 2008 (UTC)reply
For the image, please talk to Masamage (he's posted above), as he was involved in getting the image permissions. For the other information, feel free to edit the article to remove the one-sentence sections (or at least mark them as needing expansion, which would likely be more useful than outright deletion). The article is about Doi and his website (since that's where a majority of his notability comes from as creator of that site). As for the tag removal, they were removed because the onus is on the placer of the tags to explain why they are being placed. As no such explanation was given, the tags were removed. ···
日本穣? ·
Talk to Nihonjoe21:45, 5 April 2008 (UTC)reply
Unfortunately, from my understanding, an image that is uploaded "by permission for use only on Wikipedia" is not considered acceptable, particularly of a living person. When I tried to upload an image like that, it was immediately tagged for CSD before I even finished uploading it :P I think the only way it would be keepable is if Doi put something on his site saying it was public domain. I would have thought his notability first came from his baseball career, particularly when he seems to have won several awards. I will attempt to clean up the article.
AnmaFinotera (
talk)
21:52, 5 April 2008 (UTC)reply
The image can be also licensed under Creative Commons, which allows some rights to remain with the original photographer. I'm in direct contact with Doi, and will let you know what I find out. ···
日本穣? ·
Talk to Nihonjoe22:11, 5 April 2008 (UTC)reply
I'm a girl. X) And yes, his exact wording was something like "you can use it", so we'll need to email him again to make sure that's the general "you" and not the specific. --
Masamage♫23:51, 5 April 2008 (UTC)reply
CBC
The article says "unsourced" that he was interviewed in a CBC production.
Undercurrents Season 2, Show 8 Original Telecast: Nov. 22/1996
"Otaku Producer: Adrian Callender Reporter: Todd Southgate One extreme form of obsession with technology is the information junkie. They are people actually in love with information, and they first came to light in Japan, according to Todd Southgate."