Andrew Gray wrote:
[[en:Japanese Wikipedia]]
Basically, if you're not a "public figure" (which seems to be defined quite narrowly - perhaps in a similar way to the Western defamation definition?), *you don't get named* at all, much less have an article on you. I'm not a public figure. Angela's not a public figure. Daniel Brandt's not a public figure. You probably are, and so's Xeni, but there's the cutoff, I guess.
Empirically, it doesn't seem to be quite as strict as the defamation of "public figure". It seems that there are broad classes of activity that by default are considered to make you worth having an article on jp:. To pick just one example, basically every sports player ever to play in some professional league, regardless of public notability or even notability within the sport, seems to be fair game for an article, simply by virtue of the fact that they were a sports player in some professional league.
-Mark