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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 19:54, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Takashi Katano (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log • AfD statistics)

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M. Katano has programmed 3 video games. I don't think these few credits are quite notable enough for an article; I can't find any information about the person himself. It does not seem to be possible to expand the article beyond a short credits list, with actual biographical information. Megata Sanshiro (talk) 10:43, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. —Megata Sanshiro (talk) 10:46, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of video game related deletion discussions. (Search video game sources) Megata Sanshiro (talk) 10:46, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - there are no reliable sources to assert notability of a living person. Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 11:55, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete not much more than a name among the credits, of which there are dozens or even hundreds for a major game. I'm not sure that the IMDB link is actually for the same person, as the names are spelled differently. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 12:21, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. A few credits, nothing else notable about the individual. --Quartermaster (talk) 13:45, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Per above. Joaquin008 ^(talk) 17:20, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. This should have been a blpprod since no references are given. Besides that, no notability except being credited 3 times is given. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 17:27, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep They have a book about him and other key people in the massively notable Final Fantasy series, called Final Fantasy Designers. [1] And he played a significant role in the development of three different notable projects. Did he have any character based on him in the game? Some games do that. Dream Focus 04:17, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • That book is a printed mirror version of Wikipedia. It was automatically mirrored and wasn't even proofread (note how "Itō" because "It?"). Wikipedia content cannot establish notability for... itself. Megata Sanshiro (talk) 08:28, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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