# Talk:Hayao Miyazaki

Dani Cavallaro's publications have been designated as generally unreliable sources in this discussion at the reliable sources noticeboard. Citations to her work can be replaced with more high-quality ones or removed, and the tag can be taken off once complete. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 19:59, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

I suppose this was probably inevitable. Thanks for your work in tagging relevant articles and notifying talk pages. I've gone through and replaced all refs here; I'll try to do more at other pages when I can. – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 02:09, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
Thanks, Rhain. Yeah, there were some serious issues brought up with her work, and the only way of reconciling that with our guidelines was to get rid of all citations to her bibliography. I'd greatly appreciate your help with tagging and cleaning up the many articles on this list that need the same treatment. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 02:17, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

@Rhain: You really don't feel like this could cause confusion for people not that familiar with either when searching? ~ Dissident93 (talk) 14:13, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Personally, I don't think so; "Hayao" and "Hidetaka" aren't that similar besides the letter H. There are several other people with the surname Miyazaki too (including one other "H Miyazaki"), and I don't think those are worth clarifying here either. – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 22:20, 23 June 2024 (UTC) 

In Turning Point he said: "Even now, I still believe that there is something with greater meaning, beyond the individual. And I don’t intend to that he doesn't intend to imply being left-wing or right-wing, in a political context." And in Starting Point: "As I was trying to complete Nausicaä, I experienced a change in my thinking that some people might regard as a political sell-out. It’s because I clearly abandoned Marxism. You might say I had to abandon it, but it wasn’t easyto decide that Marxism was a mistake, that Marxist materialism was all wrong, that I had to look at the world in a different way." In there he also expressed contempt agianst Mao Zedong.
I am a bit skeptical about that Liberation (which is left clearly beyond centre-left, so not really neutral) article in French where he supposedly says that he is still deeply influenced by communism (I think the correct thing to say that it was his ideal when he was younger). Most his films have animistic themes that have a strong contradiction with Marxistic materialism, so I think the word "appreciation" should be changed. In that article he doesn't criticize Soviet Union's political system but practical "real" socialism in general. Also the source that describes him as left-wing is Chinese, so definetly not neutral. If nowadays he identifies as left-wing (in 00s he didn't), there should be a better source for it.
I think it will be good if a registered user more involved in this article makes these two sentences more accurate. 2602:FFE4:C09:109:0:0:0:D101 (talk) 18:23, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this up, and for doing so eloquently and concisely. I've made some changes to the § Views section, including some that you've raised. – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 00:20, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for a reply, you made the section better. But a sentence ("he felt he had abandoned his Marxist values while creating Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind as he felt Nausicaä's status in an elite class did not affect her class consciousness,...") is still slightly incorrect because he clearly abandoned Marxism, it was not a feeling. 2602:FFE4:C09:109:0:0:0:D101 (talk) 21:48, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
I think I was concerned about using Wikipedia's voice to make that statement (though I should have used "said" in the first instance, not "felt"), but I think the latter half of the sentence makes it clear that his abandonment of Marxism is his own analysis, not ours, so I've rephrased. – Rhain ☔ (he/him) 22:37, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Ok, everything is fine now. 2602:FFE4:C09:109:0:0:0:D101 (talk) 23:31, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

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