Talk:Shisei Kuwabara

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Importance[edit]

Importance=Low. Kuwabara who was largely responsible for opening Japanese metropolitan eyes to Minamata disease, put out all those books (published by houses as reputable as Iwanami), got the Ina Nobuo Award, etc. -- forget about it, 'cause Kuwabara "is peripheral knowledge, possibly trivial." It's not Mid, like Fuji Speedway.

It's with some interest that I await the importance grading of the stuff in Category:Japanese models etc etc. -- Hoary 14:20, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest, I think the importance rating thing is difficult to judge. It's really subjective. I've been doing a few assesments lately and some articles I don't know where to put. Is the subject really well known in Japan? Even so, is the subject well known/important in the English-speaking world? It's difficult to say. Anyway, I changed the importance rating to Mid.

By the way, I'm actually a great admirer of Kuwabara's work. I think his Minamata photographs are superb. I've recently been working on the Minamata disease article and I've come across many of them. Bobo12345 22:49, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spoken like a gentle(wo?)man.

I know that rating would be difficult, and this is one of several reasons why I haven't rated any articles myself. However, I would point out that what's being rated is "importance", not "celebrity value at the time of rating". If it were the latter, the whole business could be semi-automated: with controls to avoid synonyms, etc., you could just count the number of Google hits. And according to such a rating, Kuwabara Shisei would I suppose be way behind Kuwabara Kazuma or of course any Kuwabara who ever turns up here. But this enterprise does purport to be an encyclopedia, and not (or not primarily) a mere compendium of fan-gush. When Britannica was radically rethought for the 15th edition, the web didn't exist; but I don't suppose that in order to decide which "Micropædia" subjects were worth amplifying for the "Macropædia" the editorial board gave huge consideration to what the New York Post or National Enquirer happened to be most obsessed with. -- Hoary 04:12, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Shishei": a spurious spelling[edit]

I haven't found many references to Kuwabara in English. One is in the entry on "Minamata" in the Oxford Companion to the Photograph. This is a fascinating book and I don't regret having bought it, but in various ways it's rather obviously the first edition of an ambitious work. In this entry, the (probably terribly overworked) chief editor briefly writes of "Shishei Kuwabara", a name that also appears in the index. This is plain wrong (it's not even possible as an alternative romanized form). I hope that nobody "corrects" the title of this article in accordance with what's provided by the august Oxford University Press. (Here is "Shisei Kuwabara", from Nikon.) -- Hoary 13:00, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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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 04:25, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]