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Contents 1 Footnote links 2 Japanese names of Gunpei Yokoi and Masayaki Uemura 3 Picture 4 The Photo Problem 5 He is the only living ex-president of Nintendo 6 Citation for RPG Quote 7 WikiProject class rating 8 Early years section

[edit] Footnote links

Am new, but it looks to me like some of the links to the footnotes are not in the style that most wikipedia articles are in. I'm not very familiar with the syntax, but I don't think it should take much time to fix it up a little. --Malaise 18:52, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

By footnotes you mean references or external links? Both look fine to me. K1Bond007 18:57, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese names of Gunpei Yokoi and Masayaki Uemura

In the Nintendo section, are the Japanese names of Gunpei Yokoi and Masayaki Uemura correctly spelt? (They are currently respectively 横井群ぺい Yokoi Gunpei and 植村正幸 Uemura Masayaki.) I am currently only learning the Japanese language and, as such, am not sure whether or not the Kanji spelling of this name is valid.

Thank you for your input,

Grumpy Troll 17:17, 25 July 2005 (UTC).

Considering this is the english Wikipedia, I don't think its necessary to show everyone's name in Japanese. I think it's okay to show it for the person the article is about, obviously, but leave the Japanese of other names to their respective articles. K1Bond007 18:15, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

Why was the picture of Mr. Yamauchi deleted? The article looks kinda silly now that there isn't one of him. Thunderbrand 07:24, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

I do not know either why Yamauchi's photograph was deleted, so I uploaded an identical image and added that to the page, at the same location of the previous photograph. This photograph is somewhat widespread and, as such, I doubt there is any copyright issue (albeit if it is a promotional photograph, I please ask it be tagged thus).

Regards,

Grumpy Troll 12:54, 30 July 2005 (UTC).

According to the deletion log it was deleted after being on the Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images list for 30 days. K1Bond007 02:33, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Photo Problem

Read this discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_talk:Yamauchi.jpg

The result of this discussion was we are not allowed to upload a copyrighted image of Yamauchi because a free one "could be" created, much like the possibility that glass can spontaneously revert to sand.

So, since no free images are believed to exist, we have to create a free image. This means we have to seek out Yamauchi and take a picture of him. Which begs the question: Who is going to take up this task? --Captain Cornflake 21:59, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] He is the only living ex-president of Nintendo

While I don't dispute that this is factually true, what is the relavance of this statement? Are we supposed to believe that yakuza are knocking off former Nitendo presidents or something? This statement doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the introduction and leaves all sorts of weird connotations. Either a follow up, removal, or explanation of relevance would be appriciated. --Don Sowell 17:39, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I disagree on the point of weird connotations. This comment is also useful in pointing out the extreme age of the company as compaired to most others. Someone may see the fact that Nintendo has had four presidents, whereas Microsoft has had only two (IIRC), and may try to imply that Nintendo is a less stable company than one of their competitors. The comment in question decreases the chance of this bit of misinformation from occurnig.65.146.56.54 03:39, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

If the information cannot be verified, it should not be in the article. If you find a reliable source stating he is the only living ex-president of Nintendo, the sentence can stay with a reference to that article. If you cannot find it, it is considered original research and must be removed from the article. -- ReyBrujo 04:03, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Well the previous president, Sekiryo Kaneda, died in 1979, so I don't really see what kind of a source would be needed here. It's just stating the facts, which isn't original research. jaco♫plane 04:08, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, you are right. The information is found in the article, in a following paragraph, so why to have it there at all? We could add many other statements, like "Yamauchi is the oldest president or ex-president of Nintendo alive", or "... is the last president of Nintendo member of the founding family". I don't see in Satoru Iwata article statements like "He is the only president of Nintendo to ever have developed a game", nor "He is the only living ex-president of Microsoft" in Bill Gates article. -- ReyBrujo 04:59, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citation for RPG Quote

Right here: http://ds.ign.com/articles/695/695790p1.html Not yet added. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.70.50.171 (talk • contribs).

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 16:46, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Early years section

"Before Yamauchi worked at Nintendo, he owned a number of different unsuccessful companies, including a taxi firm and a love hotel." Seems to contradict the New ventures (1956-1975) area of the nintendo article, which places the unsuccessful ventures as being part of nintendo rather than something Yamauchi tried before he started to work for nintendo. Mark1512 15:20, 23 September 2007 (UTC)