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The result was delete. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 16:00, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

John Sears (American Translator)[edit]

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I see no evidence, in the article or on the internets, that this person is notable. Drmies (talk) 04:26, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree given the complexity of the translator's work in The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. It is considered to be one of the largest and most difficult to translate games ever to come out of Japan and why nobody had dared to pick it up until now. In the sphere of interactive entertainment and especially Japanese interactive entertainment as well as novels, I think this is extremely relevant. I also think that if we are going to delete everyone who people don't think are noteworthy, than we should just simply delete everyone on Wikipedia, because people are for the most part only noteworthy in their own sphere of professional work. There are also other people in this same line of work on Wikipedia such as Alexander O. Smith, but the games they worked on are significantly smaller, though some are of world-renown like Final Fantasy, etc. Please take a look at this for yourself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_O._Smith — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rabbanum (talk • contribs) 05:56, 11 April 2011 (UTC) — Rabbanum (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
- The article has no reliable sources to bear out these claims. You added a review of sorts from a PS2 fansite (I think--hard to tell in between all the loud advertisements that popped up), which mentioned "the translation grinder" but said nothing about the subject. It's not that I don't think the person is noteworthy--the problem is that there is no proof that he is. Drmies (talk) 14:04, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Let me see if there's anything else I can dig up about this person, I think there are a number of influential people in the video game industry that largely remain uncredited for their work because of the way corporate structures are set up. I don't know if this is to prevent them from seeking out their own careers, but here's another person on wikipedia that is widely known in the video game industry who has a page and who used to be a game translator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Woolsey --Preceding unsigned comment added by Rabbanum (talk • contribs)

I think that people in the video game industry needs to have more attention paid to their work given that this particular industry has surpassed the movie industry and other media industries in terms of creativity, sales, etc. Also, translation can be considered a form of art as well and as far as I can tell, this particular translator's work has been fairly highly regarded. Rabbanum (talk) 04:10, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletion discussions. (G·N·B·S·RS·Talk) • Gene93k (talk) 13:07, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 13:08, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:05, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Notability has not been demonstrated per any WP notability policy. Qworty (talk) 08:23, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Being an awesome translator is cool. But so is being an awesome dentist. Without sources showing notability beyond awesomeness, an individual article is unlikely to be appropriate.--Milowent • ^talkblp-r 02:49, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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