Talk:Philippe Voarino

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[edit] Notability

I'd like to asess notability for this person, as the article stands I don't think it qualifies according to WP:BIO. Lomedae ^talk

• Google provides some hint on the notability of people associated to a given subject. The search criteria should be for instance "Philippe Voarino" AND Aikido or "Voarino" AND Aikido and count the number of pages (not the number of hits since this tends to count all occurences of a name on each website). A test has been performed for the North American Aikidoka listed in the List of famous aikidoka page. Result is as follows: Mitsugi Saotome: 73 pages, then we have: Steven Seagal: 72, pages John Stevens: 66, Yoshimitsu Yamada: 60, Terry Dobson: 45, Gaku Homma: 43, Hiroshi Ikeda: 26, Kazuo Chiba: 26, Seiichi Sugano: 24, Mitsunari Kanai: 23, Robert Nadeau: 20, Akira Tohei: 19, Takeshi Kushida: 16, Eddie Hagihara: 7, Danielle Smith: 5, Mutsuro Nakazono: 4, Stephen Ohlman: 3, Jack Mumpower: 2. Except for Mutsuro Nakazono who is known under several different names, this looks pretty good. I would say anybody with less than 10 pages hit can be questionable on the notability scale (at least for aikido practionners). As for Voarino, number of pages was 8 at max. ArthurWeasley 03:05, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Voarino is well-known in European AIkido circles, through his involvment with Takemusu Aiki Intercontinental. He regularly teaches outside France, and has been particularly influential in the UK. I've updated the page to reflect this, though I am not sure whether it is appropriate to include links to particular events or whether they should be to the clubs or institutions hosting the events.

DanieleProcida 10:55, 3 February 2007 (UTC)DanieleProcida