Talk:Glen Check (band)

Cargo Collective - This London Chick

I'm not familiar with the website Cargo Collective. But it essentially seems to be a blog service of some sort. I've included as a reference this interview [1] from a Cargo Collective page called This London Chick - as you can see here [2], the author of This London Chick has been published in The Guardian, which would arguably make her a "qualified expert in her field". As such, I feel that the interview should be fine as a reliable source. --Jpcase (talk) 17:55, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Bandbucket

Band Bucket also strikes me as being, more or less, a reliable source. It conducted a 2011 interview with Glen Check, and although the interview doesn't appear to be available through the current version of the website, band-bucket.blogspot.com [3], it can still be found here [4], through the Way Back Machine. I have no idea how the current website is run, but as can be seen in the About page [5] for the original, now-defunct website (which wasn't under a blogspot.com address), Band Bucket was "an online magazine...formed in the middle of 2011", which had direct interaction with PR companies, record labels, and bands. Also, the "Team" page [6] for the original website shows what appears to have been a legitimate staff. At the very least, this should qualify as an acceptable source for an interview with the band. --Jpcase (talk) 18:44, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Hello Kpop

Hello Kpop is another source of somewhat iffy reliability, although like the two mentioned above, I feel that it more or less passes RS criteria. I asked about the website a few years ago at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_155#hellokpop and only received a single answer, which was rather inconclusive. Although the website appears to operate on a volunteer basis, it also appears to have editorial oversight, as seen here. [7] According to the About page [8], the website has worked with "some of the biggest names in the Korean entertainment industry", as well as the Korean Tourism Organization. And as stated on this page [9], Hello Kpop has been cited as a reference by several professional publications, including The New York Times and Wired. As such, I feel that it ought to qualify as a reliable source for our purposes, especially considering that there aren't a great many quality sources out there that could be used for Korean music articles. --Jpcase (talk) 01:19, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Unfortunately, this Hello Kpop article [10] that I've decided to use as a reference, only credits its author by a pseudonym. I have, however, been able to find the author's real name within another article by the same website. This [11] makes clear that Xiaolong's real name is Timea Baksa. --Jpcase (talk) 01:44, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

June-One Kim most likely lived in the UK; not the US

According to this profile [12] of the band by Korea Times, June-One Kim lived in the US and France. I found an interview with both band members however, in which Kim himself says that he grew up in the UK and France. [13] The interview is in Korean (a language that I can't speak or read), and Google Translate doesn't do a good job with it - but even with poor translating, it's quite clear that Kim is referring to the UK, and not the US. He also mentions living in France during the interview, so I don't think that he left out any information. My guess is that the Korea Times - a reputable publication that should still be considered an acceptable source for other information - got confused, because Hyuk-Jun lived in the US. It isn't clear to me whether the website conducting the interview, mintpaper.com, qualifies as RS or not - but the interview is clearly authentic, especially considering that brief video footage of both band members is included. Although I haven't yet decided whether the Mint Paper interview is appropriate to use as a source in this article, I do feel that it's enough to discredit the inaccurate information contained in the Korea Times profile (I'll continue using the Korea Times profile for other information though). --Jpcase (talk) 22:37, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Alkupra - Wordpress

So it's looking like I might have to rely on a lot of iffy references, in order to expand this article. But that should be fine - I'm being careful about checking the credentials of each reference. Blogs that are just blogs won't be used. I've come across some not-so-good potential sources in my searching around and have simply tossed those ones out. Only if the blog has been cited by professional publications, or is at least operated by people who seem to have noteworthy credentials, am I considering it an RS. And I'm certainly not building the entire article on these kinds of sources - Time, Billboard, MTVK, and the Korea Times are all included as well.

I've decided to use this interview [14] with the band, conducted by alkupra.wordpress.com, because Alkupra happens to be the personal blog of a senior editor at Nylon Indonesia. For the time being, I've decided to explicitly mention who conducted the interview within the article's text - however, I may remove this context later on; I'm not exactly sure how the article is going to take form over time. Regardless, an interview conducted by a professional magazine's senior editor, even it's only been posted on that editor's personal blog, should be considered reliable. --Jpcase (talk) 16:12, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

BTW - although "Alkupra"'s senior editor position at Nylon is mentioned on his blog, I couldn't find his real name there. His real name, as seen on this page [15], is Alexander Kusuma. --Jpcase (talk) 01:51, 4 December 2016 (UTC)