Talk:Melody (Japanese singer)

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Vegan?[edit]

Does anyone have a reliable source for melody. being vegan? Thanks! --217.51.193.3 03:12, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nobody...? --217.51.198.198 00:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Where does it say that she's a vegan? I can't find it being mentioned in the Biography section. --Mondorescue (talk) 02:40, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Birth name?[edit]

The infobox says that Melody's birth name is Miyuki Melody Ishikawa. Isn't Ishikawa her husband's surname that she took when they got married? Can this be called a "birth name"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.146.13.162 (talk) 09:36, 30 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. A taken name is definitely not a birth name, I'll change that now. Eugeniu Bmsg 00:06, 19 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The names appear to be similar. Miyavi's name is "Ishihara". Ishikawa may well be melody.'s actual maiden name, though I can't find a source to confirm this. I'm keeping her real name as "Ishikawa" on the Dutch version of this page.CarelessTantrum (talk) 09:27, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 1[edit]

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The result of the move request was: page moved to Melody Miyuki Ishikawa. Consensus was clearly against the old title so a move was called for. The selected target seems to have had the most support. Vegaswikian (talk) 03:09, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Melody. (Japanese singer) → melody. – Already a redirect for her, and the period is a simple way to disambiguate. relisted --Mike Cline (talk) 18:00, 28 December 2011 (UTC) Xfansd (talk) 17:41, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Move to Melody Miyuki Ishikawa. This form of her name is from her Facebook fan page. Not exactly RS, but the best I could find. We use the full name if it is "fairly often used," according to WP:NCP. Kauffner (talk) 04:28, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Ordinarily I might agree with LtPowers. However, the article curently has her as Melody. (Japanese singer) with the period. For a comparison, Yahoo redirects to Yahoo!, and Jeopardy to Jeopardy!. To me those are strong precedents for melody. with the period. Alden Loveshade (talk) 05:35, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
What about Pink (singer) (not P!nk) or Kesha (not Ke$ha)? Many Japanese singers use all-caps on their album labels, but nonetheless get conventional capitalization on Wiki. With so many article titles on Wiki, you can go anywhere you like with these kinds of analogies. Kauffner (talk) 13:46, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
While this isn't an AfD, the logic behind this section applies here as well. --The Evil IP address (talk) 20:49, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. The full stop is certainly not sufficient to make the topic obvious. The proposed title would be seriously misleading. It's good as it is; a move to the full name would be acceptable also. NoeticaTea? 21:50, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support LtPowers' move, I agree that the nom's proposal would be neat, but the period is a stylisation and should be removed. --The Evil IP address (talk) 20:46, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose the proposal and the current title per MOS:TM. Periods/fullstops can be highly confusing if used incorrectly. Wikipedia isn't a fan site or even a music encyclopedia (cf. Allmusic). As a general reference, it should preserve general rules of language as much as possible to aid readers who are not familiar with topics. I support either Melody (Japanese singer) or Melody Miyuki Ishikawa, whichever other users like better. —  AjaxSmack  03:08, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Move? 2[edit]

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The result of the proposal was moved to Melody (Japanese singer). --BDD (talk) 22:31, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  • Full name cannot be reliably sourced and therefore violates WP:BLP. —Ryulong (琉竜) 12:19, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • See next section above. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:17, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Move to Melody (Japanese singer) which is her most notable occupation and does not have the stylization issues. Can also include Melody Ishihara, which is her married name and what she is currently using for official Twitter and Myspace interactions. -AngusWOOF (talk) 19:23, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    The use of "Melody." is fine. This is a personal (if stage) name and they are not subject to WP:MOSTM. After all, see will.i.am, kd lang, bell hooks, etc. It is also the name she is most known as. But if she now refers to herself as "Melody Ishihara" then that can be included, but "Miyuki Ishikawa" definitely does not appear in any reliable sources, just as much as the full names of her children which was also previously on the page.—Ryulong (琉竜) 20:29, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose the name requested was rejected in 2011, at the time of my comment, the article is residing at Melody. (Japanese singer) ; so this should move to Melody (Japanese singer) per MOS:FULLSTOP or Melody Ishihara per her myspace and twitter accounts. Amazon.jp does not use the fullstop either. -- 76.65.131.217 (talk) 22:24, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    WP:CONSENSUSCANCHANGE. And personal names are not subject to much of the manual of style requirements, and we have reliable sources that almost exclusively refer to her in English as "melody." with the fullstop, including her official profile which AngusWOOF posted below. This is more than enough to show that even if WP:MOSTM applied we are currently violating it, as it's not like "P!nk" or "Ke$ha" where "Pink" and "Kesha" are used more prevalently.—Ryulong (琉竜) 07:31, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    linking to WP:CCC means nothing unless you actually achieve a new consensus, which doesn't seem to be happening from the activity of this current survey. And from the responses of various editors here, MOS:FULLSTOP use the fullstop only on sentence terminals seems to be the MOS they prefer. -- 76.65.131.217 (talk) 15:35, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    The only thing that's happening here is that "Melody." is not a suitable title, but "Melody Miyuki Ishikawa" was even worse as it violated WP:BLP. So long as the page is not at that title, again, I am fine with the outcome here.—Ryulong (琉竜) 18:33, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • This fullstop is a stylization which may be fine in advertisements about her but in text is a confusing breach of punctuation rules. Her name, de-stylized, is Melody, and as such needs a disambiguater. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 07:38, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Tokyohive exclusively refers to her as "melody." though.—Ryulong (琉竜) 07:59, 12 October 2013 (UTC)m[reply]
  • Like AngusWOOF and the IP, I support Melody Ishikawa Melody Ishihara. Thousands of sites refer to this subject as “Melody Miyuki Ishikawa,” including her IMBD bio and the credits for a U.S. show she appeared on. She uses "Melody Ishikawa" "Melody Ishihara” on Twitter and MySpace. A conventional first-name-last-name format and typography looks more encyclopedic, assuming this can be justified based on real-world usage. The Viking at Stamford Bridge (talk) 07:44, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    "Melody Ishikawa" cannot be reliably sourced. The prevalence of "Melody Miyuki Ishikawa" on the internet is a result of her fans not caring that her name is not public, particularly on IMDB which is a user created website (LucyWho is questionable). Also, on Twitter and Myspace her name is her married name "Melody Ishihara", which is not the name she used professionally. I would support "Melody (Japanese singer)" (without the fullstop) as the page title, but there is still no reason to institute a double standard where we have "will.i.am" as a suitable article title. The only reason "Melody Miyuki Ishikawa" was even used was because of an unofficial Facebook fanpage from two years ago when the rules on Facebook were more lax. "Melody Miyuki Ishikawa" violates WP:BLP as it cannot be reliably sourced as being her full name in any sense of the word. "Ishihara" as her married name is only vaguely usable, but it wasn't the name she was best known as.—Ryulong (琉竜) 07:59, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    MOS:JAPAN says, "Use the form personally or professionally used by the person (such as on their official website or official social media profile)." See? We can use Twitter and MySpace as sources. (BTW, I don't care much for this guideline, despite its usefulness in this situation.) Her full name was never a secret, so it is not like there is a privacy issue. BLP is about material, "challenged or likely to be challenged." Using it to put odd punctuation in a title is just so much Wikilawyering. The Viking at Stamford Bridge (talk) 08:55, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    As a musical artist she was known as "melody." for much longer though, and I don't see any reliable sources that say her birth name was ever "Melody Miyuki Ishikawa" so it's a BLP to say that this is the truth when there are no sources to back it up. There are also many musical artists in Japan known solely as their stagenames who have their birth names an apparent "open secret" (Yui (singer), Misia, Becky (television personality), etc.) but we cannot report on this information because there are no reliable sources that verify it, particularly the Japanese way of writing for the three I listed (their names are allegedly reported elsewhere but in English).—Ryulong (琉竜) 09:33, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    It seems to me that the period is obviously not going to happen. So you should be thinking whether you prefer her married name or the parenthetical as a disambiguator. The Viking at Stamford Bridge (talk) 13:51, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't see why it shouldn't. Married name isn't necessary when it's not what's in reliable sources. "melody" (lower case) is in reliable sources, and because there are other musicians known as "Melody" that means a parenthetical is fine, although the current title suffices as well.—Ryulong (琉竜) 18:32, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    The Toy's Factory Japanese version lists Melody as her real name along with (メロディ). It does not specify her surname, although it has other information have publically shown her birthdate (some with month year and others with month day, year) and her birthplace (Hawaii). The rest of her profile article uses "melody." when referring to her. -AngusWOOF (talk) 18:27, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - move to Melody (Japanese singer) as Melody (Belgian singer), Melody (Spanish singer). In ictu oculi (talk) 15:55, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Move to Melody Ishihara or Melody (Japanese singer): The "." (and lowercasing) affectation doesn't need to be copied here (at least unless it is nearly universally applied in many reliable sources), and is a poor disambiguator by itself. We should generally try to use non-stylized names. —BarrelProof (talk) 16:52, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Why should "melody" be forbidden when will.i.am and kd lang get this treatment?—Ryulong (琉竜) 18:30, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    I think that should depend on how universally the stylization is used in reliable sources. Wikipedia generally tries not to use strange stylizations when they can be avoided, although exceptions exist if there seems to be no way to avoid it based on reliable sources. A directly comparable counter-example is Fun (band), which uses the styling "fun." (with the "." and lowercase). —BarrelProof (talk) 19:48, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Fun., however, is a band, and apparently band names count as trademarks. Mrs. Ishihara here is a person like will.i.am and k.d. lang and bell hooks, so her name is not subject to MOS:TM's rules and regulations.—Ryulong (琉竜) 20:06, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't think it really matters whether it's a band or an artist, as far as Wikipedia guidelines are concerned – MOS:TM applies regardless, and it does not matter whether we're talking about an official registered trademark or not. It applies to all "words and short phrases used by organizations and individuals to identify themselves and their products and services" (italics added for emphasis). Another counter-example is E. E. Cummings – an individual author who primarily published using the stylization "e. e. cummings". Incidentally, I suggest that you try to take a step back in this discussion and try not to feel like you need to respond to every comment made by anyone else. Personally, I'm going to try to step away for a while, as I think I have adequately expressed my current thinking on the subject. —BarrelProof (talk) 20:48, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    It does matter, otherwise will.i.am and k.d. lang would not be at the titles they are now. This is a constant issue with Japanese artists on Wikipedia and for the first time I have English language reliable sources that support a particular form so there is no reason "melody." should not be allowed (also E. E. Cummings#Name and capitalization disproves your point).—Ryulong (琉竜) 07:26, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This source plainly says "[she] writes her name with a lower case m and a period". Frankly, the current page is better than having "Melody Ishihara" or "Melody (Japanese singer)". Just so long as "Melody Miyuki Ishikawa" is never used again is fine.—Ryulong (琉竜) 18:42, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  • The only RS in this case is a couple of Tokyo entertainment publications with odd style rules. I find it unlikely she would get a period in her name if she was ever mentioned in something more mainstream like AP, The New York Times, or even Japan Times. My first choice is her married name. But I'd rather a period than "(Japanese singer)". The Viking at Stamford Bridge (talk) 08:40, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    You have to take what you get.—Ryulong (琉竜) 09:25, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Actually we don't, if there are no reliable sources in English we can follow normal English MOS. メロディー likes to use "melody." in English languages materials in Japan, everyone gets that, but what the Viking says is absolutely correct; if メロディー ever got into the New York Times she'd be plain "Melody". Japanese Fashion Designer and Former Singer “Melody” Thinks 2NE1 is “Hot” 2011. We have enough eyesores on en.wp already without this one. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:02, 15 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry but I've shown that there are plenty of reliable sources that use "melody." to refer to Mrs. Ishihara's stage name in an English setting, including one that plainly states "it is written with a lower case M and a period". You just can't throw them all out just because "it's an eyesore" and you don't like how this name is being formatted. But anything is better than using what was alleged to be her legal maiden name.—Ryulong (琉竜) 07:26, 15 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Well I half sympathize but the reality is that if we had a Google Books source we wouldn't be having this RM. The extremely ugly and noisy will.i.am and kd lang get this treatment not because they aren't unencyclopaedic eyesores but because Google Books discuss them with these stylisms. メロディー just isn't well known enough in English sources to disrupt en.wp's titles. In my view, others will take different views. In ictu oculi (talk) 11:06, 15 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Although looking up I see 4 out of 4 for Melody (Japanese singer). In ictu oculi (talk) 11:10, 15 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Mrs. Ishihara's stage name is "melody." not "メロディー", so you can stop referring to her as such. And whether or not you like or dislike how western musical artists have their names stylized should not have any bearing on how this page should be formatted. Mrs. Ishihara is known as "melody." in all of the sources provided, except for that "Korea.com" one, which I doubt the reliability of. Just so long as "Melody Miyuki Ishikawa" is forbidden from being used again, I will be fine.—Ryulong (琉竜) 11:12, 15 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@Ryulong: I suggest to try to exercise some restraint in further discussion of this. By my count, you have posted as many remarks in this discussion as everyone else combined (approximately 15 remarks each). Please read WP:BLUDGEON. It suggests that there may be a problem when "your comments take up 50% of the text" or "the person replies to every single '!vote' or comment, arguing against that particular person's point of view". I think you've met those criteria. I previously suggested that you "try to take a step back in this discussion and try not to feel like you need to respond to every comment made by anyone else", and I now repeat that suggestion. —BarrelProof (talk) 17:38, 15 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • There seems to be some confusion regarding trademarks. A trademark is name or logo that identifies the origin of a product.[1] So it can certainly be the name of an individual or band and still be a trademark. If a customer looks at an album cover, associates the name “melody.” with a certain style of performance, and then buys a product on that basis, that’s a trademark. From Wikipedia’s point of view, the problem with trademarks is that they often include non-standard typography, in this case a period, that are added to make a name standout for promotional reasons. The Viking at Stamford Bridge (talk) 07:27, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    I still do not see a reason to treat her name any different than those of non-Japanese artists who also have non-standard typography. It is a double standard to say that because she is from Japan her name should not be parsed the way it does in reliable sources.—Ryulong (琉竜) 07:40, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    I suggest not jumping to the conclusion that anti-Japan bias is the explanation for the resistance to using the artist's stylized name. Not all non-Japanese artists that use stylized names have that styling duplicated in Wikipedia article titles. A few do, but some do not. I suspect that most of them do not, although I don't really know what the statistics are. Also, some kinds of styling seem more generally acceptable than others (e.g., see WP:DIACRITICS and Metal umlaut). As mentioned before, lowercasing the first letter and adding a full stop at the end of a name is something that was recently rejected for Fun (band), and MOS:TM says it applies to people as well as bands and businesses. Part of the question is whether there are lots of reliable sources that follow the artist's styling rather than imposing their own "house style". —BarrelProof (talk) 22:16, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
This "It is a double standard" is unacceptable, Ryulong you have been told 3 times above that the difference is a subject with zero coverage in Google Books / Japan Times compared to subjects with coverage. The issue is WP:RS as much as MOS:TM and MOS:FULLSTOP. It would be a double standard if we applied it to Fun (band) and didn't to someone with no reliable English sources.
On an unrelated note, bytes spent here would be better spent adding to her albums whether the songs are sung in English or Japanese or a mixture. In ictu oculi (talk) 23:35, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, so "melody." is improper but I do not see why using {{lowercase}} would be either. If it's good for American solo musicians then it should be perfectly fine for a Japanese solo musician. And, again, when I've asked for clarifications on MOS:TM I have been repeatedly told that it does not apply to individual names and both will.i.am and k.d. lang have set precedent that lower case is okay so I would be fine with this page being located at "Melody (Japanese singer)" so long as {{lowercase}} is also allowed.—Ryulong (琉竜) 03:43, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
will.i.am and k.d. lang and bell hooks are the exceptions, not the rule. The reason they are exceptions is (presumably) that their stylization is supported by many English-language reliable sources (and a substantial number of vocal Wikipedians), not that they are not Japanese. —BarrelProof (talk) 05:34, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
This doesn't explain why "melody" cannot be an exception, either.—Ryulong (琉竜) 05:52, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose the proposal and the current title per MOS:TM. Periods/fullstops can be highly confusing if used incorrectly. Wikipedia isn't a fan site or even a music encyclopedia (cf. Allmusic). As a general reference, it should preserve general rules of language as much as possible to aid readers who are not familiar with topics. I support Melody (Japanese singer), Melody Ishihara, Melody Miyuki Ishikawa, or anything else other users like better. —  AjaxSmack  01:37, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    "Melody Miyuki Ishikawa" cannot be reliably confirmed so therefore it's not a valid title. I would agree to "Melody (Japanese singer)" however.—Ryulong (琉竜) 03:43, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    If you would be OK with "Melody (Japanese singer)", then perhaps we are done here. I think everyone else who has voiced an opinion here would be OK with that too. —BarrelProof (talk) 05:34, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    "Melody (Japanese singer)" is fine, I guess, but {{lowercase}} should be allowed per usage in the reliable sources that are currently on the article.—Ryulong (琉竜) 05:53, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose again - sorry don't see anyone buying lowercase either. Sorry. On the other subject, are all her English title songs actually sung in English? In ictu oculi (talk) 08:21, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Every single source has her name written as "melody". Why are you demanding that we write it as "Melody"? And I don't know I've never listened to her music. I assume most of the songs are Japanese.—Ryulong (琉竜) 08:58, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
It's not me, it's the unanimous view of all four contributors to this RM who have all supported Melody (Japanese singer), for the reasons given above, repeatedly, again and again. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:32, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The fullstop is really the only issue that's coming up. She parses her name in lower case professionally just as will.i.am and k.d. lang so I don't see why we shouldn't follow suit with such exceptions.—Ryulong (琉竜) 16:16, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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English bio profile[edit]

Toy's Factory had an English website which profiled melody. in the web archives from 2007: http://web.archive.org/web/20090821140437/http://www.toysfactory.co.jp/english/artist/melody.html

Might be useful in filling out some old information. -AngusWOOF (talk) 21:43, 11 October 2013(UTC)

Birth name[edit]

I‘d like to re-add “Melody Miyuki Ishikawa” as the subject’s birth name and source it to Lucy Who, which appears to be RS, or is at least professionally edited. Korea.com, IMBD, and Generasia give the name this way as well. These are places where people who would know this type of information are active, yet no where is it suggested that her real name is secret, controversial, or otherwise dubious. Numerous Japanese sites give the Japanese version of this name (石川 美由紀 メロディ), for example here. The Viking at Stamford Bridge (talk) 07:27, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I do not believe that any of those sources can be considered reliable sources. IMDB and Generasia are both user-edited websites, much like Wikipedia, and LucyWho and Korea.com seem dubious at best, as does the "Disc-o-graphy" page. It may be an open secret that that is her full name but there are no reliable sources out there that say "melody., real name Miyuki Ishikawa..." in English or Japanese. The only thing there is online is an unnecessary flooding of search results based on a 3 year old decision on Wikipedia and the fact that everybody and their mother knows this is her name, but we cannot verify it, much like with Rebecca Eri Rabone, Yui Yoshioka, Misaki Ito, and dozens of others. It might be prevalent in web communities, but there is no official statement from the subject herself that "Yes, this is my name".—Ryulong (琉竜) 07:44, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
If there is no question that it is in fact her name, what's the problem? The sourcing rules are for controversial material. And if you don't want web results based on Wikipedia, just add "-wikipedia" to the search. The Viking at Stamford Bridge (talk) 09:44, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
There is a question because I cannot find it anywhere other than in the fansites and unofficial websites and the like. That's what makes it controversial. Just because it's apparently widely known does not mean we can verify it at all. We have a billion people saying Becky's full name is Rebecca Eri RayVaughan, when sources say otherwise, because they're so set on what someone said once on a Japanese website and their bad translation thereof, but we cannot prove that this is her name because she has not said it is her name. All we know about the subject of this article is that her name is now "Melody Ishihara" and there has been no proof that it was ever "Melody Miyuki Ishikawa".—Ryulong (琉竜) 09:58, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
It might be worth asking her on Facebook or Twitter (the official ones, not the fan created ones). In the Metropolis interview, Christine says she is single, so some fans have added Saimo to Melody's name. I also have to question whether she has three siblings as she only really mentions Christine in just about everything. -AngusWOOF (talk) 16:09, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
You cannot go and ask the subject something about themselves and then use their response as a source.—Ryulong (琉竜) 16:24, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Well, you can, but they have to respond in a way that makes it official, like updating their pages. WP:SELFSOURCE -AngusWOOF (talk) 16:29, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
It seems like a bit much.—Ryulong (琉竜) 16:30, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, I confirmed the three sisters and names with their tweet threads and moved it to the Personal life section. -AngusWOOF (talk) 21:09, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why no lower casing?[edit]

It has already been established with individuals such as bell hooks and will.i.am that as a single person's name, even though it may be trademarked, the use of {{lowercase}} is entirely allowed. Why was this removed from the article following the move request? All it proved was that the community would absolutely not allow "Melody." to be the title of the page. There is no reason Mrs. Ishihara should be treated as differently and also be made an exception as these other individuals.—Ryulong (琉竜) 04:24, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In ictu oculi states that there was reasoning given on this page that because Mrs. Ishihara has not been mentioned by mainstream media in the United States (New York Times, etc.) at all that means that we cannot determine that lower casing is suitable and I don't believe that one bit. Why should the fact that this person does not have a media presence in an English speaking nation preclude the fact that her stage name is parsed in lower case much like several artists who do have an Anglosphere media presence?—Ryulong (琉竜) 06:09, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia style guide (e.g., MOS:TM and WP:AT) says to capitalize the first letter, even when the originator (in this case, the singer) does not. Exceptions are only made when lots of highly reputable reliable sources that are independent of the "trademark" owner use the stylized alternative and very few or none use the ordinary English capitalization convention. This article does not have a lot of referenced sources to show what reliable sources would use, so the ordinary Wikipedia style guideline is applied. This has been said before. —BarrelProof (talk) 06:24, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
So it's essentially because she's a Japanese performer and has never been mentioned by English language mainstream media? To be honest that's bullshit.—Ryulong (琉竜) 06:32, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
And this is covered by Wikipedia:MOSCAPS#Items that require initial lower case:

Some individuals do not want their personal names capitalized. In such cases, Wikipedia articles may use lower case variants of personal names if they have regular and established use in reliable third-party sources (for example, k.d. lang).

So is the excuse now "melody" is not a form that has "regular and established use in reliable third-party sources"?—Ryulong (琉竜) 06:40, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 30 December 2019[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: No consensus as to whether the present title is acceptable nor what alternative title would be best. (non-admin closure) Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:46, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]


Melody (Japanese singer) → Melody (American singer) – She was born and raised in the US, and did not move to Japan until she was 19. We don't consider Jessica Jung and Tiffany Young South Korean singers or Wang Leehom Chinese just because they work in Asia and sing in Asian languages. 2607:FCC8:9F86:F900:14CD:79EB:95C5:75A8 (talk) 21:49, 30 December 2019 (UTC) —Relisting. Steel1943 (talk) 19:01, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • Japan doesn't allow dual citizenship for adults and, while I have not verified it, the Japanese Wikipedia page says she's American. Dekimasuよ! 00:52, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • It's entirely possible we could go with Melody (Japanese-American singer), right? There's nothing forcing us to pick one or the other. O.N.R. (talk) 08:15, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Melody (Japanese-American singer), but if that proposal does not find consensus, still support "American singer" over Japanese singer regardless. According to her husband's WP article, they have lived in Los Angeles since 2015. SnowFire (talk) 20:39, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • Clarifying comment: I suppose any and all moves away from the current "Japanese singer" disambiguation, which is misleading and several respectable alternatives exist. So also support Melody Isihara, Melody. (J-Pop singer), etc. Japanese-American is both accurate and helpful to readers and remains my first choice though. SnowFire (talk) 22:35, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Melody (Japanese-American singer) (as anything other than a redirect) – that's just horrible, and unhelpful to readers. If she's a dual citizen, but her primary works/notability are in Japan, then Melody (Japanese singer) is correct, so oppose current proposal as well. Create Melody (American singer) as a redirect. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 17:25, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Her primary works/notability is in Japan for sure, just like Utada. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 17:49, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
According to Dekimasu above, she doesn't appear to be a dual citizen, and is instead just an American citizen. SnowFire (talk) 00:22, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support some move note that there is Mina (Japanese singer) and Meiko (American singer) in Category:American musicians of Japanese descent. Alternatively we could move to Melody. but as noted in the 1st RM that would probably violate MOS:TM. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:45, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose American singer, that would be far from her primary music genre. "Singer, born 1982" may be okay, but again, most of her work has been with Japan. The "Melody (Japanese singer)" would still be a redirect as there are no other Melody's to disambiguate. And there are a lot more American singers named Melody. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 17:58, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. There don't appear to be other American singers with the name "Melody" at Melody (disambiguation). I still think "Japanese-American" is about the best disambiguator that could be asked for - it's accurate and descriptive. She isn't a Japanese singer, so the current title strikes me as highly misleading. That said, if both Japanese-American and American are disfavored, there is still a better option than "born 1982" - just use her full name, Melody Isihara. True, she wasn't known as that during her J-Pop career days, but it still includes the word "Melody" and the lede / disambig page can untangle that bit of confusion. SnowFire (talk) 18:40, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The disambiguation page is usually for the people that use it as a mononym, and the rest go in the Melody (name) or Melody (given name) articles. I haven't seen other American singers use as mononym. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 19:52, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per IJBall. If she's primarily notable in Japan, and from a Japanese family, then she's basically a Japanese singer. It's not necessary to start digging around as to whether she's a dual citizen or not.  — Amakuru (talk) 12:35, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose the proposed and the current. Ambiguous recognized nationality. Both nations consider her to be associated with the other. No longer a singer, has been not a singer for longer than she was active, and has moved on to other notable things. Several other Melodys were singers. Both current and proposed fail WP:NATURAL. Propose instead Melody Ishihara. Her real name, the one she uses for social media. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:49, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Melody (J-pop singer) per User:BD2412 (04:13, 19 January 2020). On second look, she is only notable as a J-pop singer, she has not become a notable fashion designer after retirement. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:08, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strongly oppose per much of the above. The present title is not broken in any way. In concise terms, it would be a confusing WP:RECOGNIZABLE and WP:PRECISE failure and a tiresome legal-citizenship-obsessing WP:POV and WP:OR exercise to go with this proposal. I don't find any of the proposed disambiguation alternatives practical, policy-compliant, or otherwise desirable, and we have no need to "fix" what isn't broken. Revision, 2020-01-21: Given some discussion below, I could maybe support Melody (Japanese-American singer), if the info at Miyavi about her moving back to the US again is actually correct, and especially if she restarts her career here (to date, the entire extent of her notable career has been in Japan; she simply seems to have "retired to motherhood" in the US since 2014 due to husband's Hollywood movie deals.)

    The real problem here is that several respondents are treating "Japanese" as meaning and only possibly meaning "is legally a Japanese citizen", which is not and never has been a required equation, as any RM (or BLP or INFOBOX or MOS:BIO) regulars should know by now. The fact that she's culturally a Japanese national (by jus sanguinis, while possibly still legally an American citizen by jus soli), mostly (and certainly during her notability period) a permanent resident of Japan, notable for singing in Japanese as well as English and almost entirely (in both cases) for the Japanese music market, and of Japanese heritage on both sides of her family, and married to a Japanese man in Japan and raising their Japanese children there (who absorbed so little English she started an educational music project to help them), makes her very clearly Japanese as a matter of nationality as that term is generally understood and used on Wikipedia (e.g. the |nationality= versus |citizenship= in {{Infobox person}}, etc.). Update: family residency may have changed to US in 2014, which would affect some but not all of the analysis above. Her case really is strikingly similar to that of Utada Hikaru (including living in the US again for a while after notability was established); the only salient difference for WP matters is that Utada doesn't need to be disambiguated. If she did need to be, then "(Japanese singer)" would be perfectly fine despite having been born and raised in NYC and being in some subjective senses Japanese American (or American Japanese), as her lead indicates just like Melody's does. Everything about Utada, too, as a notable subject is tied firmly to Japan, even despite having left Japan to record (rather unsuccessfully) for a short stint in the US again. But her infobox and lead and article body are exactly right in how they handle the nationality matters, and should be used as a model for Melody (just without the excessive release-details trivia which does need cleaning up).

    Aside from all that, it's simply original research to try to guess at Melody's actual legal citizenship status, without very reliable and recent sources on it. For all we know, she may have renounced US citizenship to become a naturalized Japanese citizen, or whatever. Our only encyclopedic choice at present is to ignore the question entirely (as we do for Utada), and address only the more diffuse sense of nationality. See Alex Pagulayan, by contrast, for a case (Philippine native, naturalized Canadian dual-citizen) where we do actually have the sources to address legal citizenship matters. PS: the fact that some countries don't "permit' dual citizenship is largely meaningless, because jus soli, jus sanguinis, or both are often automatic (not "limited") in another jurisdiction, and isn't even always renounceable. What it will usually come down to is whether you actively profess citizenship of country A when dealing with dual-citizenship-hostile country B, e.g. by continuing to maintain a country-A passport (that country B is aware of). So, even with some sources we could find that weren't very legally specific or authoritative regarding Melody's status in particular, there is an OR landmine lurking under that groundcover. (That's before we even consider things like whether celebrities with expensive lawyers and perhaps some diplomatic connections can get exceptions made for them and not tell the press about it, and so on and so forth.) I think the furthest we should go is doing a WP:ABOUTSELF "According to Melody, she is a Whatever citizen", if we come up with either official blog/Twitter statements by her about it, or statements repeated in reputably published interviews with her; then the veracity of the claim is on her, not on us. In the interim, just don't worry about it; WP has no requirement to try to get at legal citizenship details when they're not easily found or certain, and WP:BLP actually limits our ability to dig into third-party primary sources like government records for such information anyway.
     — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  07:59, 17 January 2020 (UTC); revised: 12:43, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    • There is much of this I agree with, but she lives in the US (not Japan; see Miyavi#Personal life) and was likely never a permanent resident of Japan because of how Japanese immigration law works. To that extent, the comment above is probably too hard on the editors who were making a good-faith effort to determine an appropriate title. But the conversation here has not resulted in any new insights, so it doesn't seem like the article should be moved. In fact, I recall being involved in a similar discussion related to Marlene (Japanese singer) a few years ago. Oppose. Dekimasuよ! 16:33, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
      Not what the article says, though: "Melody has three sisters: Christine Saimo, who goes by KURIS in the Japanese music industry and who also [means "in addition to Melody" – see cited sources] resides in Tokyo; and Harmony and Rhythmy, who live in the United States" (and how moved there from Japan – see original source). Also, the legal category permanent residency exists for and pertains to non-citizens (it's how a non-citizen stays in a country legally beyond a short-term tourism or work-project visa); Japanese immigration isn't markedly harder than many other places when it comes to long-term, non-citizen residency (articles I see say it has actually gotten easier in recent times anyway [2]). However, our article says Melody lives with Miyavi and their kids, and the Miyavi article says the family moved to the US in 2014, so a) our Melody (Japanese singer) seems to be missing some updated information (which probably accounts for the "who also resides in Tokyo" above), and b) it may not matter for this RM's purpose, since we still have Melody in Japan from ca. 2001–2014, the entire expanse of her notable career.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  12:43, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I agree that it has little relevance to the RM, but the normal way to say in the country legally beyond a work-project visa is to renew the work-project visa (or spousal visa, etc.). This is probably the case for many foreign tarento as well. Yes, it is not too difficult to stay in Japan longer term when there is continuous employment. However, it is still relatively difficult to become a permanent resident even with long-term ties. Dekimasuよ! 14:46, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I propose Melody (J-pop singer). BD2412 T 04:13, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    I could live with that, though it runs the risk of failing on us if the singer becomes notable for one more than one style (which is probable if she remains in the US and returns to recording after the motherhood focus winds down, since there's pretty much no market for J-pop in the US). Then again, if Melody remains in the US and restarts her career, the current name might become actually confusing, since she'll be less Japanese as a "national" in one sense, and possibly been perceived publicly less as one (i.e., might affect WP:RECOGNIZABLE). She might already be notable in multiple genres, actually; at least one cited interview suggests she quit J-pop specifically to focus on recording for the children's-music market. I'm now tempted to go with "(Japanese-American singer)", which seems bulletproof but at the cost of some concision.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  12:43, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm OK with J-pop but even then (Japanese singer) will still be a redirect. Her notability came mainly from J-pop. The children's career / album was a brief stint when her kids were babies/toddlers and has hardly any charting or music reviews. Sourcing came mainly from her own websites / social media. Same with the fashion designer career. I've seen hardly any sourcing on that besides the announcement. I didn't see any fashion brands that have a major impact in the public. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 15:11, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm beginning to lean toward Melody Ishihara. 1) Arguably this could still fall under WP:MOS-JP#Modern names, which would result in that title per her Twitter, Instagram, and MySpace. 2) This fits WP:NATURALDIS. 3) The current and proposed titles that (correctly) do not use the stylization "melody." also mean that the title is not really very recognizable to begin with. 4) It is precise, cannot be considered inaccurate, and is the name under which she currently interacts with fans/the rest of the world. Dekimasuよ! 15:23, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Melody Ishihara, per Dekimasu. Naturaldis is best when it can be found. Axem Titanium (talk) 22:55, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm okay with this. She's now been with that name for as long as her singing career. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 22:59, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support this as an alternative, seems to be the only way out.--Ortizesp (talk) 18:41, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I oppose any use of Miyuki as middle name as I have not found any sources to vet this. The ones I have seen on social media refer to earlier versions of this Wikipedia article and that was never really sourced to anything on all these years. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 18:55, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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