Are you interested in geisha? If you're mumbling "No, not particularly", me neither, and your level-headed monitoring of the article Geisha might be beneficial. It seems that particular (foreign-born) geisha have their Wikipedia-editing partisans, and that some of the latter have been having conniption fits. (See the article's talk page, which might benefit from some judicious deletions.) -- Hoary (talk) 02:18, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
I simply lack the time or interest in geisha needed to investigate and police. Do we not have anyone with some time and an academic or level-headed interest in geisha? --Hoary (talk)06:06, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
This reminds me of a similar mess that I was trying to sort out atTalk:Hokushin Ittō-ryū last year. It does seem that many foreign practitioners of these traditional arts are keen to promote themselves. They are reasonably notable but not a representative of their profession, so that grossly undue weight essay certainly did not belong there. I will try to watch the page as well.Alex Shih (talk)07:21, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, Alex. A little investigation revealed that all of this kerfuffle, or most of it, has revolved around a single geisha (or, according to some editors, non-geisha),Fiona Graham, whose talk page archives are too long for me to want to read (unless/until I'm paid by the WMF) but are speckled with the signatures of respected as well as fly-by-night Wikipedians. TheFiona Graham article is very understandably s-protected, so axe-grinders' next destination isGeisha (which also might benefit from s-protection). The expertise of Flowerandwillow's very first edit suggests previous experience under a different name.....Hoary (talk)08:20, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Well said. Incidentally, I've just now taken a look at the recent history of the articleFiona Graham, and I don't like what I see. Take a look at my new comment on its talk page. (And a small point: the article on her refers to her as a geisha, while that onGeisha says she "was" a geisha. The contrast is odd.) --Hoary (talk)22:37, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
TheFiona Graham article: I fear we're not out of the woods yet. Level-headed, disinterested editors are very welcome to keep an eye on it. (Incidentally, I've haughtily said on the talk page that I haven't looked at any of the sources that are properly or improperly referred to. Call me lazy, but I don't propose to read all of them. However, I certainly can and will read those about which there are lucid, credible objections, or about which remarkable claims are made.) --Hoary (talk)06:34, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there, I have introduced theList of music museums and quite some Japanese articles do have an article in Japanese but not in English. Are there users at this project that like to write some or all of these articles? When you make use of references, I will translate these articles to Dutch language too. :-) Best regards,Ymnes (talk)13:47, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
