Talk:Yoichi Kotabe

Image for the animation section
First, the article has quite some information not related to Nintendo, in particular under "Career in the Animation Industry", but I think this is important for the career of an animator, and I already tried to reduce it to a minimum.

However, that the first two sections for Kotabe's life have no images at all makes the article look unbalanced in terms of its illustration. So I thought about adding this concept art of Heidi (which was also used on the cover of the book on him), as the Heidi anime is one of Kotabe's most famous works. Of course, it has nothing do with Mario other than that it is related to Yoichi Kotabe, but maybe an exception can be made here as it is relevant for this particular person? --Grandy02 18:05, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, I don't see anything wrong with that, It has nothing to do with Mario, but it has to do with Kotabe, however, I prefer the cover which at least includes his name.18:18, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * The art is very small on the book cover image, though, and there isn't much to see other than text and another drawing on a dark background. --Grandy02 19:52, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

I added the image. If anybody opposes, please tell. --Grandy02 15:54, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

I just preferred the book one, but still, I think this one's okay. That's just my opinion.16:00, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

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"It has been requested that this article be rewritten because it needs to be Mario-centric as there is a lot of non-Mario things covered. Feels like a Wikipedia article."

All of the information about Yoichi Kotabe's career are informative and relevant, either in explaining how his syle developed or how he got hired at Nintendo. I abhor the idea of artifically making an article crappier and less informative out of some misguided notion "it's not enough about Mario". --Glowsquid (talk) 15:48, 3 May 2017 (EDT)
 * There is just a lot of linking to Wikipedia. Other articles about Nintendo employees don't do it nearly as often as this article does. I don't mind a few links to Wikipedia but it just looks ridiculous how much of a stretch the article has to go to be worth a read. It's better just to point to Yōichi Kotabe. Nintendo Wiki would be much better suited for an article about this man. -- 05:01, 9 May 2017 (EDT)