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I'm not sure that his Japanese is as good as this article states. My Japanese friend has said his pronounciation is not as good as a native speaker's and the way he says things (choice of words/sentence structure, not pronounciation) is strange and sometimes hard to understand. This is a second-hand judgment so I didn't make any changes to the article. 65.29.62.75 20:55, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
He is a fluent speaker. I'd like to see your Japanese friend go on live TV and try to be entertaining under that type of pressure. There are plenty of Japanese people whose pronunciation would be judged as less than perfect if they were subject to the same type of scrutiny as foreigners are. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.130.21.18 ( talk) 01:43, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
In any case, the article, as it stands, is WEAK, INSUFFICIENT, INADEQUATE and wholly unaccepatable on the HOW and WHY and WHEN that he learned the Japanese language. Starhistory22 ( talk) 04:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
The article states he's lived in Japan since 1983, and then says "In 1989, the then 25-year resident of Japan[...]"... CüRlyTüRkey Talk Contribs 00:39, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
I nominated this article for a POV check. There are very few references, and it sounds autobiographical. Chisme ( talk) 21:12, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to propose a radical BS-tomy of this article. First & foremost, the subject may have some fleeting notablity over on Wikipedia日本, just like the almost uncountable porn actresses who have their own entries, but here he's an absolutely nobody.
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Any objections? I would like some sort of consensus on how much to keep though - advice please - then I'll break out the scalpel. TIA!
Cypella (
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12:28, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
Why did someone erase that he is Jewish? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.222.175.101 ( talk) 15:26, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Also, how is Jewish an ethnicity? It's not something one would tick on a census form. You don't say a person is Christian-American or Muslim-American. 76.26.129.12 ( talk) 15:45, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
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I'm not sure that his Japanese is as good as this article states. My Japanese friend has said his pronounciation is not as good as a native speaker's and the way he says things (choice of words/sentence structure, not pronounciation) is strange and sometimes hard to understand. This is a second-hand judgment so I didn't make any changes to the article. 65.29.62.75 20:55, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
He is a fluent speaker. I'd like to see your Japanese friend go on live TV and try to be entertaining under that type of pressure. There are plenty of Japanese people whose pronunciation would be judged as less than perfect if they were subject to the same type of scrutiny as foreigners are. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.130.21.18 ( talk) 01:43, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
In any case, the article, as it stands, is WEAK, INSUFFICIENT, INADEQUATE and wholly unaccepatable on the HOW and WHY and WHEN that he learned the Japanese language. Starhistory22 ( talk) 04:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
The article states he's lived in Japan since 1983, and then says "In 1989, the then 25-year resident of Japan[...]"... CüRlyTüRkey Talk Contribs 00:39, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
I nominated this article for a POV check. There are very few references, and it sounds autobiographical. Chisme ( talk) 21:12, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to propose a radical BS-tomy of this article. First & foremost, the subject may have some fleeting notablity over on Wikipedia日本, just like the almost uncountable porn actresses who have their own entries, but here he's an absolutely nobody.
WP:N
Any objections? I would like some sort of consensus on how much to keep though - advice please - then I'll break out the scalpel. TIA!
Cypella (
talk)
12:28, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
Why did someone erase that he is Jewish? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.222.175.101 ( talk) 15:26, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Also, how is Jewish an ethnicity? It's not something one would tick on a census form. You don't say a person is Christian-American or Muslim-American. 76.26.129.12 ( talk) 15:45, 8 June 2015 (UTC)