Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Funimation voice actors

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 02:03, 26 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

List of Funimation voice actors

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Seems a rather arbitary topic to base a list off of, with a completely arbitrary set of rules for what qualifies someone as a "Funimation voice actor." Have seen no evidence that such people are ever referred to in the press and wider world as "Funimation voice actors." Brustopher (talk) 15:14, 18 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete The lead basically gives it away as a complete WP:OR list.SephyTheThird (talk) 20:22, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete (copied from my comments on the related CFD) Funimation does not have an in-house voice acting staff. Practically all of the voice actors are contractors, as with others in the voice acting community. In Japan, the voice actors can be categorized by their talent agency but they are not categorized with certain production companies. On the flip side, producers and staff could be grouped with their production companies. Voice directors and writers are a gray area as it's not clear whether they are full-fledged employees or contractors by project. This also raised a lot of problems with actors that were not based in Funimation creeping onto the list because of their mere association on less than a handful of licensed or acquired shows, even though their dub recording company was not Funimation. A lot of those actors would not qualify per WP:CATDEF which says it should be a defining characteristic of the subject. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 21:43, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete This list is misleading (per Angus) WP:OR. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 22:44, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Agree with above, this is a rather arbitrary list. --Kraftlos (Talk | Contrib) 10:57, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Arbitrary grouping of voice actors and having worked for Funimation is not a defining feature. Not to mention the inclusion criteria is original research. AngusWOOF sums it up really well. Opencooper (talk) 23:17, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Almafeta (talk) 01:14, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Requesting to keep without citing a valid reason is not helpful for the consensus Ajf773 (talk) 03:17, 25 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: We already have a category of this, and I have given my thoughts on that article there. Having it twice is redundant. Before we delete it however, we should probably make articles for some of the actors that meet our criteria, such as Joel McDonald, Jessica Cavanagh, Ed Blaylock, Elizabeth Maxwell, and Ricco Fajardo.Mumbai0618 (talk) 17:31, 22 June 2016 (UTC)Mumbai0618[reply]
• Delete per WP:OR. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 05:24, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:NOTFANSITE. Entirely unsourced and most probably original research. Ajf773 (talk) 03:17, 25 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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