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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 Yoninah (talk) 15:06, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

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May'n[edit]

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May'n performing at J-Pop Summit Festival 2014 in San Francisco
May'n performing at J-Pop Summit Festival 2014 in San Francisco
  • ... that Japanese musician May'n (pictured) was among four participants who beat 34,911 others during an audition held by the talent agency Horipro? Source:[1]
    • ALT1:... that Japanese musician May'n's interest in anime was partly inspired by her hearing the song "Moonlight Densetsu" from Sailor Moon at a karaoke bar? Source: [2]
    • ALT2:... that Japanese musician May'n (pictured) adopted her stage name because of her desire for her fans to consider her to be their "main singer"? Source: [3]

Improved to Good Article status by Narutolovehinata5 (talk). Self-nominated at 14:01, 6 October 2018 (UTC).

  • -Article is new enough (promoted to GA today); long enough (8687 chars), neutral, very well cited, and with little egregious paraphrasing]; hook is well within character limit (133 chars), accurate and relatively interesting if you're into that kind of thing. Image is fine. I was intending to go with ALT0 per the nom's preference (have none of my own), but before recommending promotion here, I would like to ask the nom what it is that makes Wow Japan a sufficiently reliable source to be on the main page? It looks—tabloidy, perhaps? Cheers, ——SerialNumber54129 14:38, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
@Serial Number 54129: WOW Japan is a pop-culture website run by Singaporean event organizer Sozo, who are best known for Anime Festival Asia. The said source was simply a press release advertising her (then)-upcoming appearance at AFA Indonesia 2017 and as such the content reflects that. I actually have no personal preference for a hook (though I suppose I personally like ALT2 the most, though I'll leave the final choice to the promoter). Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 15:05, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
H'mmm; I might have to ask the same question, then, re. Anime news network! ——SerialNumber54129 16:22, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
@Serial Number 54129: Anime News Network is the premiere English-language news source about anime, and its news and interest articles are considered reliable per WP:ANIME/RS. Think of them as the IGN of anime. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 16:29, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
According to ANIME/RS, http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news is the "reliable" feed, and this isn't? It's also an interview, which are predominantly considered to be primary sources. Hmmm. ——SerialNumber54129 08:56, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
@Serial Number 54129: Primary sources aren't really prohibited on Wikipedia per-se, particularly when talking about factual information. In this case, the words came from the subject herself and I don't really see how that contradicts policies and BLP. Plus there have been many other cases where interviews have been accepted in face value. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 09:20, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
Yes, thank you; I do understand the guidelines I cite, and have no personal opinion either way of the subject. I'm just wondering whether an interview is a sufficiently robust source to support the main page. Others have argued that it amounts to providing free advertising for the individual on the fifth most-visited website, etc. :) paging Cwmhiraeth for second opinion. Happy to recommend promotion once animenewsnetwork/interview/'s reliability is established. In any case, I'm sure we'll make her birthday. ——SerialNumber54129 09:42, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
I came from DYKTALK to review, too late ;) - I also like ALT2 best. The possessive construction of ALT1 doesn't work well with her unusual name, - striking. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:25, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
I was pinged here and also prefer ALT2. I think an interview is a sufficiently robust source for non-controversial information. I have corrected an error in the lead which Narutolovehinata5 inadvertently introduced yesterday - I thought a vandal had been at work! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:49, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
Many thanks Cwmhiraeth, passing ALT2. ——SerialNumber54129 09:20, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
@Serial Number 54129: Thanks, I guess this can go in the special occasion section now? Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 11:16, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
@Serial Number 54129: So uh, are there any more issues? And I apologize to Cwmhiraeth for the typo, seemed I missed that for some reason. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 01:01, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
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