Talk:Hide (musician)/GA1

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Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 14:33, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:33, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Images are appropriately licensed.

What makes the following reliable sources?
- hide-city.com
- jame-world.com -- per this page this is a fan site
"the members of X Japan took a break, to start solo projects. Around that time, the group also dropped most of its original visual kei aesthetics, except Hide who would still perform in wildly colorful outfits and with his trademark red, later pink, hair." is all cited to "As seen on the Dahlia Tour Final 1996 video release." That could be used for the hair and outfits, though it's a weak source, but not for the other information.
"ALIVEST perfect stage [1,000,000 cuts hide! hide! hide!] (DVD). Universal Music. December 13, 2000. JAN 4988005257543." This source is used for a couple of things, but appears to just be a DVD. It's not really possible to verify something if you have to watch an entire DVD to do so. Can you give a time or time range to aid verifiability?
The same applies to FN 30, "We Are X - Limited Edition Mondo Steelbook".
"and Taiji theorizes in his autobiography that on the night of his death, Hide may have been practicing a technique to relieve upper back and neck pains which guitarists can suffer from due to continuous use of a shoulder strap": this is not sourceable to the site you use for it.
"The technique involved was practiced by the X Japan members during their touring days and required the use of a towel and a doorknob or handle": this is not sourceable to a site about pain management.

The above has made me concerned about the sourcing, so I'm going to spot check a few. Footnote number refer to this version.

FN 32 & 33 are listed above as failing verification.
FN 40: "the group would continue to perform and record for several years. While they never achieved mainstream success in the United States one of their songs was included on the soundtrack for Heavy Metal 2000" sourced to an Amazon listing of a soundtrack. Not a usable source for this even if it did have the information.
FN 59: "As with many other deceased musicians, re-issues, remixes, compilations and previously unreleased portions of Hide's work continue to be published. One of the most recent being "The Devolution Project", a release of his original eleven singles on picture disc vinyl, throughout 2010" only partially covered by the source.
Unsourced sentence in the 1998-2010 section

These problems took almost no time to find. I'm going to fail the article; I think it needs a thorough review of the sourcing before being renominated. I reviewed source reliability through the first 30 or so footnotes, but there may be more unreliable source further down; that should be reviewed too before renominating. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 15:06, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Meh. I didn't realize the problems were that extensive - Japanese rock is out of my comfort zone in content area, but I thought it was worth a try. I do not speak any Japanese and have difficulty understanding some of these sources, but the fact that so many were used gave me hope that this article was ready. I also had less idea about the reliability of the sources considering what I'm writing about, but the old PR gave me a little confidence that maybe it was alright. Oh well, it was worth a try. dannymusiceditor ^oops 19:07, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]