Talk:Kenji Eno

Sourcing issues

Kintetsubuffalo just added a "why?" tag to the line that mentioned that Eno's mother had been absent when he was in his second year of elementary school. I recall that I had added this line in September 2008, but I remember that the source, http://www.gdri.smspower.org, was difficult to cite because in navigating it one was given a series of javascripted elements all at the same URL. So in going back to see why Eno's mother had been absent, I discovered that the information has all been removed. Old versions of the website are protected by robots.txt as well, so the internet archive doesn't work. So long story short, I think we need a new source for those claims. The good news is that with his recent death, the press seems to have awakened and we are seeing numerous articles on him. Hopefully one of them will cover some of these claims. In the meanwhile, I'll migrate the specific claims that need sourcing here and if we can't find a source I suppose we'll have to remove the claims.

• Eno attended a school for gifted children in his younger years, however the regular course of his childhood was greatly affected by the disappearance of his mother from his life during his second year of elementary school.
• Uncommonly interested in video games and music from a young age, Eno had experimented extensively with programming and recording, and one of his first games, Towadoko Murder Case, placed in a regional game contest.
• Eno created a new development company, Superwarp, from the ashes of WARP on April 28, 2000.
• Superwarp diverged from WARP in concentrating on DVDs, network services, and online music.
• From August 2001 until his death, Eno headed his third video game development company, From Yellow to Orange (fyto).
• Juuouki (Famicom, 1990) - Sound Creator
• SD Hero Soukessen: Taose! Aku no Gundan (Famicom, 1990) - Supervisor, Musician
• Ultraman Club 2: Kaettekita Ultraman Club (ウルトラマン倶楽部2 帰ってきたウルトラマン倶楽部?) (Famicom, 1990) - Planner
• Miyasu Nonki no Quiz 18-kin (Arcade, 1992)
• Sunman (NES, unreleased) - Planner, Director

Please replace the gdri reference where needed if you find a source for any of these claims. -Thibbs (talk) 14:37, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

I've found a good source for one of the claims so I added it to the article and struck the line through above. If anyone else finds sources like that, please also strike through the newly-sourced claim above. -Thibbs (talk) 17:25, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Archiving 1UP source

1UP.com is shutting down. I have taken the liberty of manually archiving their extensive interview using WebCitation.org:

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Please consider donating to WebCitation.org to preserve this valuable service for Wikipedia. Axem Titanium (talk) 19:57, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Rewriting the article

I basically went over the article yesterday and restructured it. I also tried to rewrite the article but I got lost when I saw most refernces didn't work. I think the best reference is the 1UP interview as it covers everything about him anyways.

So after I tagged the article I did manage to fix or rewrite a lot of things, but I would like a non-gamer/not a fan to proof read the article. --Cube b3 (talk) 16:54, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

I think it's just the gdri and cnbc.com references that were broken, right? Are you seeing any others? And I'm still confused about the grammar mistakes. Where is the grammar incorrect? That should be easy to fix. If we can get the problem down to just the broken links then I think we can remove the "needs to be entirely rewritten" tag. -Thibbs (talk) 17:26, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

I edited the tag, if you have proof read the entire article and find it alright. Then it can be removed.

Thank you for your interest.--Cube b3 (talk) 17:47, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

I actually did catch a few grammar and spelling errors in the lede just now. I think everything is OK from that angle now so I'll remove the "entirely rewritten" tag and just leave the stuff in the multiple issues template. Thanks for your help as well. -Thibbs (talk) 17:59, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Is there a Reason why there is no Information about his Parents on this Page

Any specific Reason why there is no Information regarding his Parents? Or did Eno never disclose any Information about them?146.52.6.46 (talk) 19:53, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

The 1up interview used as a source in this a article mentions that Eno lived with his father after he dropped out of school. He explains in that interview that he had a good relationship with his father. In this Wikipedia article, Eno's father isn't mentioned, but it is noted that his mother had disappeared from his life in his early childhood. The claim is marked as needing citations. Looking through the edit history it seems that this information was originally drawn from this GDRI source (since removed from the article in this edit), but as there is no specific information on his mother in that source either my guess is that the information really comes from one of the sources listed at the GDRI entry - specifically the Japanese Wikipedia entry on Eno. And that would essentially render the support for this claim circular. When we look at the Japanese Wikipedia article, we see the same claim repeated ("小学校2年で母親が失踪し") but this time it uses a television interview with Koji Suzuki as the source for the claim. So I think that would be the best direction to go in searching for more information related to Eno's parents. Please let us know if you track down this interview so we can add the relevant information to this article. -Thibbs (talk) 12:45, 5 November 2016 (UTC)