Template:Did you know nominations/Noriko Takaya

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 00:40, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Noriko Takaya

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• ... that Noriko Takaya in Gunbuster would later influence Shinji Ikari in Neon Genesis Evangelion?
  • ALT: ... that an arm fold commonly seen in anime, known as the Gainax Pose, was popularized by Noriko Takaya from Gunbuster?
  • ALT2: ... that the protagonists from Aim for the Ace! and Top Gun would influence the creation of Noriko Takaya from Gunbuster?
  • ALT3: ... that Noriko Takaya from Gunbuster was named after an animator of the same name, who worked on films such as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Akira?
  • ALT4: ... that Noriko Takaya from Gunbuster would be the breakthrough character roles for Noriko Hidaka and Kiane Chula King in their acting careers?
  • ALT5: ... that Fullmetal Alchemist author Hiromu Arakawa found Noriko Takaya returning to Earth after about 12,000 years in Gunbuster unthinkable?

• Source: [1]
• Sources for ALT2: [2], [3]
• Source for ALT3: Yamaguchi, Hiroshi (1988). トップをねらえ! FILM COMIC 1 [Aim for the Top! Film Comic 1] (in Japanese). Bandai (published October 30, 1988). ISBN 4-89189-362-1.
• Sources for ALT4: [4], [5]
• Source for ALT5: [6]

• Reviewed:

Improved to Good Article status by Z. Patterson (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Z. Patterson (talk) 19:21, 2 March 2025 (UTC).

• The hook as currently written may require knowledge about Evangelion and Gunbuster, and thus may not appeal to non-anime fans (and thus a general audience). Can more broadly interesting hooks, those that are not as reliant or even not reliant on specialist information, be proposed here? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:12, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
  • @Narutolovehinata5: I wrote alternate did you know candidates that I believe would be better for the general public. Z. Patterson (talk) 03:41, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Will take when I've eaten; I intend on proposing a trimmed ALT1a.--Launchballer 15:07, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

@Z. Patterson and Narutolovehinata5: Long enough, new enough. Earwig is clean and QPQ is unnecessary. I just copyedited this and binned a large amount of cruft and unencyclopedic content including from the lead which probably ought to be reexpanded with surviving content, though this isn't a DYK issue (but should be). If you're alright with the trimmed and reworded ALT1a: ... that a character from Gunbuster popularized arm fold commonly seen in anime?, I'll approve this.--Launchballer 17:27, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer and Narutolovehinata5: Yes, I accept your suggestion. Z. Patterson (talk) 00:53, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

Let's roll. (I should have asked for an end-of-sentence citation, but I just put that in myself.)--Launchballer 13:31, 15 March 2025 (UTC)