Template:Did you know nominations/Japanese idol

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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:32, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Japanese idol

  • ... that there are more than 10,000 teenage girls who perform as Japanese idols? Source: BBC (article): "There are a lot of performers to choose from, as the film explains, there are over 10,000 teenage girls who perform as idols in Japan at present."
    • ALT1:... that there are more than 3,000 Japanese idol girl groups? Source: Nikkan Sports (article): 今や女性アイドルグループは全国に3千組あると言われ、それぞれに10人メンバーがいるとすれば、全国で3万人がアイドルを名乗る時代になったということです。[Now, there are said to be 3,000 female idol groups nationally. If each group had 10 members, that would mean that there are 30,000 people nationwide calling themselves idols.]
    • ALT2:... that Japanese idols were inspired by Sylvie Vartan? Source: The Japan Times (article): "It was 1964 when 19-year-old ye-ye singer Sylvie Vartan captured the hearts of Japanese cinemagoers in the French film “Cherchez l’idole,” released here as “Aidoru o Sagase” and in English as “The Chase.”"
    • ALT3:... that farewell concerts known as "graduations" originated from Japanese idol culture? Source: Oricon (article): だが、おニャン子クラブが「放課後のクラブ活動」をイメージしていた点、芸能界から完全引退する中島をフィーチャーしたシングルの発売時期が卒業シーズンだった点なども相まって、「卒業」という表現が主流となり... [However, it was the combination of that the Onyanko Club had the image of an "afternoon school club" and the single that featured Miyuki Nakajima (who was retiring from entertainment) was being released around graduation season.]
    • ALT4:... that K-pop's modern marketing method originated from Japanese idol culture? Source: NPR (article): "Before K-pop, there was J-pop. (Laughter) I mean, it's a format, right? And the format was developed in Japan... How agencies are run, what activities idols do."

Improved to Good Article status by Lullabying (talk). Self-nominated at 20:54, 31 July 2021 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Great work on the GA nomination here, Lullabying, as well as the variety of hook choices you've included. Each of them checks out: I think the most promising hook is the primary one, followed by ALT4. One note, however, is that there are a few phrases that registered on the copyvio detector here. Upon further review, that page seems to contain a bunch of text pulled from wikipedia, so by my assessment it's a false positive.. Tpdwkouaa (talk) 01:01, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

  • That would make sense, as the page in question seems to have pulled from that page specifically. /Tpdwkouaa (talk) 02:41, 2 August 2021 (UTC)