Commons:Deletion requests/File:Fusajiro Yamauchi.png
Upon closer examination, there are significant discrepancies regarding the identity of the individual depicted in the image, as well as concerns about the accuracy of the information provided by the uploader.
The image is purportedly of en:Fusajiro Yamauchi, the founder of Nintendo, who would have been approximately 80 years old around 1940. However, the person in the image appears far younger than this age, leading to doubts about the image's authenticity in representing Fusajiro Yamauchi.
The original listed source of the image is a Brazilian website, where the photograph was not dated. Contrarily, the uploader has arbitrarily dated it to "circa 1940" without providing any verifiable source or rationale for this specific timeframe. This discrepancy raises questions about the reliability of the information accompanying the image.
The individual in the photograph might actually be en:Hiroshi Yamauchi, a subsequent president of Nintendo, rather than Fusajiro Yamauchi. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lack of available photographs or portraits of Fusajiro Yamauchi for a direct comparison, further complicating the verification process. The apparent age of the individual in the photograph aligns more closely with Hiroshi Yamauchi than with Fusajiro Yamauchi in 1940. Comparing with the File:Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo president.jpg photo of Hiroshi, this might be well the case, considering the quirky brows. However, because there's no verifable date of the photo, we might not be able to use the `PD-Japan-oldphoto` template too.
- Sleeps-Darkly (talk) 00:01, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Sleeps-Darkly In that image he does not look young, it is seen that he is already an elderly person, instead of nominating him for elimination, it is better to be cautious and change the image name and license. Aurelio de Sandoval (Mensajes aquí please) 00:47, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
- Not even close to be 80 years old, though. His grand-grandson Hiroshi Yamauchi at the same age was fully grey-haired and wrinkled. Sleeps-Darkly (talk) 01:02, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
- Comment. It seems like the author of the Nintendo Blast article is still active on the Internet (see https://twitter.com/jaimeninice ). Anyone want to volunteer to message him and just ask where exactly the picture came from and what its provenance is? (Note that Yamauchi died in 1940 so I suspect the uploader meant "at the latest, 1940", so Yamauchi appearing not as old as expected is not necessarily a huge problem if the picture is really from 1930 or something.) SnowFire (talk) 05:47, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
- I'm suspecting that the article isn't the earliest example of that, because the similar image that is uploaded at https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/History_of_Nintendo was uploaded earlier than the article; the article is July 2014, while that upload is March 2014. Like the whole mess is from something else. So in my own opition the mentioned nintendoblast article isn't the original source, so isn't even really relevant. - Sleeps-Darkly (talk) 18:59, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
- Comment. Are we sure this image was taken in 1940 ? I am working on Fusajiro Yamauchi article and I believe he may have died in 1929 and not in 1940. Finding the exact date and source of this picture would be a nice event. - DanganMachin (talk) 21:12, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
Kept: All sources agree on it being Fusajiro Yamauchi. I'd take 1940 as the last possible date. but this was probably from the 1920s. --Abzeronow (talk) 18:01, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
