- 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) 21:19, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
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Plastic Love
- ... that Mariya Takeuchi's 1984 song "Plastic Love" saw a resurgence internationally in 2017? source1 source2
- ALT1:... that a video of Mariya Takeuchi's 1984 Japanese song "Plastic Love" went viral in 2017 on YouTube?
- Reviewed: exempt (?)
Created by Ganbaruby (talk). Self-nominated at 02:01, 20 February 2020 (UTC).
Article is new enough and long enough. Source #10 doesn't seem to support the first sentence cited to it. "notability through the platform's recommendations feature" aside from being ungrammatical isn't supported by #9 either. #8 does not appear to support "rise of the vaporwave" either. Most of #4 does not support the statements cited to it. I can't read the Japanese sources. No copyvio or plagiarism that I could notice. It's not clear in the hook if 2017 should be 2018. I see that you are QPQ exempt. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:24, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
- @Jo-Jo Eumerus: Thanks for the review. I did a bit of editing, and I just want to run some edits with you again. The citation numbers changed, so I'll try to refer to them by website name.
- I've removed the first sentence to the Vice (#10) article because it doesn't really support it directly, as you said. I dug through some Japanese sites as well, and most pointed to the YouTube comment section as proof of "resonance with international viewers". I don't really feel like that's notable enough to include, so I've left it out for now.
- The Open Culture article (#9) does point to YouTube's algorithms, but I've also added the Japan Times one (#3) because it also says so as well. I've also reworded the sentence for better flow.
- Again, the Rolling Stone article (#8) does point to Plastic Love coinciding with vaporwave, but I've added a new source to support that.
- I've removed the phrase about promoting the 30th anneversary of Variety, which I realized the Arama article (#4) doesn't actually say so. The rest of the information is there.
- Let me know if there's any more that I should change. Thanks! ◢ Ganbaruby! (talk to me) 07:50, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
- @Jo-Jo Eumerus: Thanks for the review. I did a bit of editing, and I just want to run some edits with you again. The citation numbers changed, so I'll try to refer to them by website name.
- @Ganbaruby: One last question: Are we sure it was a resurgence? The hook depends on it but I am not sure if the sources support this contention. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:07, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
- @Jo-Jo Eumerus: Yes I would call it a "resurgence", since Takeuchi at the time was already a well known singer, and the album that Plastic Love comes from, Variety, did top Oricon's weekly album charts at its release. I would also be fine with "surge in popularity" instead. ◢ Ganbaruby! (talk to me) 09:20, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
- On a side note, do you think the picture in the article is a good addition, or not really? ◢ Ganbaruby! (talk to me) 09:26, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
- I am a little wary of the copyright licence of that image. When one uploads fanart, it often happens that people crib images off the Internet w/o giving a source and with the image being non-free. The problem I see with "resurgence" is that it's not used in the sources; perhaps a quote could clarify this. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:30, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
- Taken from the Japan Times article: "'Variety' was a hit, outselling her previous release and debuting at the top of the domestic charts... Takeuchi’s success, however, has long been limited to her home country. That changed in 2017 when the internet discovered her 1984 track, “Plastic Love.” I think that adequately backs my word choice there. ◢ Ganbaruby! (talk to me) 09:54, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 10:02, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
- Taken from the Japan Times article: "'Variety' was a hit, outselling her previous release and debuting at the top of the domestic charts... Takeuchi’s success, however, has long been limited to her home country. That changed in 2017 when the internet discovered her 1984 track, “Plastic Love.” I think that adequately backs my word choice there. ◢ Ganbaruby! (talk to me) 09:54, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
