Talk:Puffy AmiYumi

message: Am I the only one who thinks that the links might not be legal?  Are they?--68.170.86.111 02:53, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How are they not legal? They seem fine to me. --Snkcube 06:09, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm fairly sure they're not illegal, not in anyway I can see.  The links to the "Official Photo Album" and "the Very Best of Puffy / AmiYumi Jet Fever Official Album Site" might be a tad spammy though. Wikipedia:External links. DarthInsinuate 12:23, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

text:  See WP:EL - they're not fine.  Anything that's not an official site should not be linked to, so I have removed the Geocities sites and the forum, because they are linkspam. MSJapan 08:13, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Where do you see in the WP:EL that only official sites can be linked to?  What it says is official sites *should* be linked to, not that nothing else can be.  There may be some guidelines in the "links to avoid" section that these links broke, but people shouldn't have the idea that they can only link to official sites. Badasscat 20:33, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Links 

message: How can we deal with the issue that the melody to the teen titans theme and secret agent man are too similar to be a coincidence?  This is the same thing that happened with that "I want a new drug" song and the ghostbusters music.  And I don't want to get pointless flak from puffy fans who want to cover up the obvious fact that this is a smash and grab of a popular classic 60s rock song, give me real reasons why this doesn't belong in the article, if it actually doesn't.  If it's for veracity, listen to the songs and hear for yourself.  Barring that, what would qualify as a reliable source for this?  --Hrodulf 05:05, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It probably should be dealt with in some fashion in the article (maybe I'll take a stab at it), but I think you're missing the point, which is that this song is an intentional homage, not a "smash and grab".  The difference being that it's common knowledge what the inspiration to it was, including among the band themselves, and they have never denied it.  (It's kind of like how Fox's "So You Think You're Smarter than a 5th Grader" intentionally apes the theme to "Meatballs").  These songs are also not nearly close enough musically to fall under any sort of copyright violation.  If you want to talk plagiarism, then you should ask about a song like "Tokyo I'm On My Way", which *is* a direct rip-off of a Swedish song (same lyrics and all), and it's unclear whether or not PUFFY knew it before recording  (my guess is no).  That song was written for them by Dexter Holland.  Badasscat 18:43, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagiarism

message: Why does Kaz Harada redirect to Puffy AmiYumi? Surely he should have his own article? --zeldamaster3 20:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Kaz

message: Can we nominate Puffy AmiYumi as a featured article. I think it's pretty extensive now--zeldamaster3 12:37 21 June 2006 (GMT)
:Featured? No, I think it will fail. It would not even reach good article status. There are no references at all. And the article has no "history" section, how they met each other, etc. There is only a paragraph in the lead, but nothing more. The images don't have a fair use rationale, dates are given in "Month Day", "m/d" and "Day Month" format (choose only one format), etc. -- ReyBrujo 12:41, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Featured?

message: Main article had too much detail.  Long discography section now split into separate article, as it tours section.   Wasted Time R 03:55, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split outs

message: :Image:Puffyparade6 edited.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Puffyparade6 edited.jpg

message: Both Ami's and Yumi's pages, as well as this page, list their nicknames prominently as "Jane" and "Sue".  As far as I know, these nicknames were only ever used once, on the "Rolling Debut Revue" tour DVD (possibly also on "An Illustrated History" - I haven't gotten my copy out in a while), and they were made up as part of a set of English nicknames given to the entire band.  It seems obvious that this was because they were on their first US tour and they did it as kind of a joke for their Japanese audience to make it seem like they were trying to fit in with an English-speaking crowd.
Should these names be de-emphasized or removed at this point?  They never go by them anymore (if they ever really did), in either the US or Japan, and this article implies that they are their actual nicknames.  It seems misleading at best.--Badasscat 18:25, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hm... Interesting point. Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt the article to make it not mislead readers. Though, perhaps there should be a note about the nicknames' purpose, rather than just deleting them entirely. TakaraLioness 23:11, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nicknames "Jane" and "Sue"