Template:Did you know nominations/House of Waters

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 SL93 (talk) 22:00, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

House of Waters

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... ~~that the music of the band House of Waters has been variously described as world, prog rock, jazz, Afrobeat, pan-Asian, South American, classical, and psychedelic?~~ Source: [1]
- ALT1: ... that the band House of Waters repurposes the hammered dulcimer, known as an Appalachian folk music instrument, for international jazz fusion? Source: [2]
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Beiji qianjin yaofang

Created by Sdkb (talk). Self-nominated at 06:08, 18 October 2022 (UTC).

Interesting band, on plenty of sources, no copyvio obvious. I like ALT1 better than the original, as more specific to this group, but none of it is in the article yet, which would profit from a bit of expansion anyway. It's just technically long enough but uses many quotes which are not truly "new content". I'd also like more lead, saying a bit about their kind of music. I wonder which five instruments played in the first formation, - that's open. I'd also like to know the origin of their name. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:00, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

@Sdkb: what's the status on this nomination? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 09:32, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Sorry about the delay; it's been a busy period off-wiki. I anticipate being able to address the comments in the next 48 hours. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 16:40, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the qpq, now what about the other points? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:16, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Thanks again for your patience; I believe I've addressed your points now as best I can. I expanded the lead to better summarize all sections of the article and added a critic's interpretation of the name (I don't know of any explanation from the band itself). I unfortunately couldn't find any list identifying the missing two members of the original lineup — it seems to have quickly whittled down to its core three by the time it released its first albums in 2009. Please let me know if there's anything else I can do to improve the article for DYK! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 21:07, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

thank you, splendid it's like the house is inhabited now ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:27, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Neither of the hooks appear to be supported by WP:RS. Both of them are sourced to blogs. In addition, for ALT0, I can't see where the source even mentions some of the genres (prog rock, pan-asian, psychedelic, etc). -- RoySmith (talk) 03:41, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
@RoySmith: Thanks for checking in. Focusing on ALT1, since it's Gerda's preferred hook, the source provided is City Newspaper, a 50-year-old alternative weekly in Rochester that's a member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and by all other indications is a reliable regional source. The particular article cited is authored by the paper's news editor. It's categorized as a blog, but I'm not seeing any indications that it didn't go through the paper's normal editorial process or is otherwise compromised per WP:RSBLOG. Let me know if you have any remaining concerns. Best, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 05:10, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
OK, I see Kushner also writes for WXXI and HuffPost, so I guess this is acceptable for the uncontroversial facts is presents. I've struck ALT0, ALT1 is ok. -- RoySmith (talk) 12:44, 7 November 2022 (UTC)