Talk:A Bathing Ape

message: Someone speedy deleted this article as a blatent advert. I've restored and removed most of it leaving the bare facts. Secretlondon 17:48, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion

message: I removed the link to SBkicks.com. Not only is this site just advertising, but selling FAPE hoodies! I mean $84.99 for a bape c'mon! I don't see there being a point in having a link for this site. Zapzoid 29 October 2006
I removed a link to a mostly japanese blog, could go in the japan bape article maybe? I also re-added the links that were removed by the person who added his myspace blog. --Amnesicangel 17:08, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ext link 

message: This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it.  Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed.  I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy.  In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright.  If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed, feel free to ask me on my talk page and I'll review it personally.  Thanks. ---J.S (t|c) 07:10, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  YouTube links 

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I have re-organized and added some information that I feel makes the article a lot more concise and accurate. Many of the sections had repeated information and in the wrong sections. Some things that I thought might need some work still:
* Fame in Japan - I only briefly touched upon Bapes fame in Japan from what I know. It is very broad and if anyone knows anything else on it, that'd be great
* I removed the line about a possible Bape skate team. I know that there is a skate team for Ice Cream, but I hadn't heard of one for Bape. It wasn't cited so I just removed it. Can anyone confirm either way?
-- Bdotdub 01:03 14 January 2007 (EST)
I just cleaned up some of the wording here and there, as well as adding some small  historical facts. I also expanded the Member's club info using the latest Bape catalog. I added the Design category and added info about the Bapesta, and Bapes adidas collaborations. Thanks to whomever removed that myspace link by the way. I hardly think that Bape would have a myspace page.
Papercutninja 03:24, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Cleanup Co-Ordination Point 

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I have re-organized and added some information that I feel makes the article a lot more concise and accurate. Many of the sections had repeated information and in the wrong sections. Some things that I thought might need some work still:
* Fame in Japan - I only briefly touched upon Bapes fame in Japan from what I know. It is very broad and if anyone knows anything else on it, that'd be great
* I removed the line about a possible Bape skate team. I know that there is a skate team for Ice Cream, but I hadn't heard of one for Bape. It wasn't cited so I just removed it. Can anyone confirm either way?
-- Bdotdub 01:03 14 January 2007 (EST)
I just cleaned up some of the wording here and there, as well as adding some small  historical facts. I also expanded the Member's club info using the latest Bape catalog. I added the Design category and added info about the Bapesta, and Bapes adidas collaborations. Thanks to whomever removed that myspace link by the way. I hardly think that Bape would have a myspace page.
Papercutninja 03:24, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: Okay, the list of celebrities that have been seen wearing Bape is getting entirely out of hand. There is no reason for most of them to be on there because they have not aided in Bape's growth. If no one has a problem with it, I'm going to remove a bunch of them leaving only the ones that have been linked with Bape as a company. Bdotdub 00:41, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. -Will Beback · † · 01:08, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Does anyone have a problem with Soulja boy being added? Vikingboy0129 03:32, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, unless you have a source for it. -Will Beback · † · 23:34, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Have we sources for any of these names? Celebs are appended every week, and I'm not sure if the three names there currently (Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, and Jadakiss) are linked to the company or otherwise notably sighted in Bape. / edgarde 01:59, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Celebrities 

message: There is absolutely no sources in this so i removed it and put it here. Once it is cited, then it can be republished. Until then, this is all coming from God-knows-who's mind and half of this could be someone's thoughts.Desouki 22:31, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: How To Spot Fakes

message: Please have a look at the guideline WP:EL#Advertising_and_conflicts_of_interest. It is not OK to keep adding links to the online store. Continuing to do so could eventually lead to the page being protected from anon edits which would be a shame. AntiVan 00:37, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For my own information, are there any authorized links besides the single site, http://www.bape.com/? BapeMall looks somewhat official. -Will Beback · † · 09:29, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: I think this article contains some serious inaccuracies.  Look at .  Nigo states his parents were working most of the time, and his major influence as being toys.  But the Metropolis article says he cites his parents and other people.  Could someone look into this?
:This is what Metropolis says: “I have a very meticulous personality, and maybe that's partly a Japanese trait,” he confesses, citing his mother and father, a nurse and a billboard sign-maker respectively, as major influences in the development of his character, and DJ/Head Porter designer Hiroshi Fujiwara, a generation older and one of Japan's earliest hip-hop jockeys, as his business model. (Nigo literally means “number two” in Japanese; a Harajuku shopkeeper coined the moniker when he noted the physical resemblance between the two designers 10 years ago.) 
:Perhaps you are confused about the text: His mother was a nurse and his father was a billboard sign-maker. For the purposes of Wikipedia, Metropolis is a reliable source. I have added some of the text from the source you found into the article to clarify.  -- Sparkzilla talk! 04:59, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metropolis Magazine as a source 

message: Ok, I think that a section needs to be added on what the brand represents. The Japanese meaning of Bathing Apes is a rich, spoiled person who is perfectly useless. I have a wikipedia account (User:Princess Janay), but I'm not logged in right now. So, when I log in, I want to take up the issue of adding in a controversies section.--71.70.171.96 (talk) 18:48, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversies, The Meaning of Bathing Ape 

message: It seems as though most of the article needs to be rewritten, and this is just a thought, but this section either needs to be majorly overhauled, or deleted altogether, I'm up for either, but would prefer to take into consideration other opinions. --Вlazzeee 23:36, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clothing Design Section 

message: Bape clothing has no official headquarters or phone # in the USA.
If you get scammed by bape clothing or their many other sites e.g. Car Cover Authority, you have
no recourse.
There are many complaints on the Internet about this Company.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.72.76.200 (talk) 20:26, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bape Clothing - recent experience 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: "Japanese people typically have daily baths in water at temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 °F). As such, to bathe in lukewarm water is to complacently overindulge." If bathing in water at temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius is the norm, then how is bathing in lukewarm water overindulging? If anything it would be less indulgent to bathe in lukewarm water. --Khajidha (talk) 14:41, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It is poorly worded. The meaning is that the person stays in the bath so long it gets cold, hence the implication of overindulgence.  Etizolam (talk) 19:59, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confused 

message: ? 2800:810:556:85B8:9184:F136:F7DB:74F4 (talk) 14:21, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  And what about Ian brown ?