Talk:Mari Iijima

Female singer
I've added the "japanese female singer" tag to the article, so that it appears on the index... (sorry no user) 217.125.129.224 18:26, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Wasn't she involved with one of the guys from Toto for a while? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.176.39.56 (talk) 09:51, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Biography
I added the note about her 21st studio album, as it's pulled directly from her official homepage. Also, noting her name as just "Iijima" I feel does her a disservice, so I edited to "Mari Iijima" as that is her whole name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NocturneVoyager (talk • contribs) 20:39, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks, although you really ought to add an inline citation to help other editors verify this in the future. I have, however, reverted to the encyclopedic form of using the subject's family name (Iijima). --DAJF (talk) 23:24, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Message from Mari to Wikipedians
Here ;) -- ReyBrujo (talk) 03:54, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Current Edits, making this article less Macross centered?
I removed the "Oscar and Grammy winning" part of Ryuichi Sakamoto's mention in the lead because I felt like it wasn't needed (although I realise it was in a previous version of this page) as this page isn't about him, and his name is a wiki link, so people can click that and find out that information themselves if they're interested?

Another thing I've aiming for in my (continuing) edits is too make this article a lot less related to Macross or Lynn Minmay, since I feel the older versions were guilty of this, and article is about Mari herself. Macross is a relatively small part of Miss Iijima's career, who is primarily a musician as you can see by her large discography.

So like above, I feel like maybe the mention of Macross & Minmay in the lead is also unneeded as I did write a section about it at the start of the biography section, so maybe it's repeated information/uneeded? Again, Macross & Minmay have wiki links in this article so I'm concerned that they don't have to be mentioned further in this article than I have already done so, but I know the lead is supposed to be a summary? so I won't remove that for now. Akiman (talk) 09:56, 22 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Since there were no objections, I will reword the lead again since her Macross role is covered twice only a few lines below in the biography, again I feel like the article is repeating itself needlessly and you're reading the same thing over again. Another thing I am changing is "debuted as a J-Pop singer" while it is true that she is a Japanese pop singer, J-pop is a label used by foreigners to describe Japanese pop music so it doesn't really make any sense. Akiman (talk) 14:45, 29 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Macross may be a small part of her career, but that is what launched her career and what she is still best known for to international audiences. To not even mention it in the lead would be a huge glaring omission. Regards, Jagged 85 (talk) 14:24, 16 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I suggested it's removal because of repeating information immediately afterwards, seeing as this is not a long article it -is- repeating itself. While you say you have only put Macross back in the lead, in reality, you have simply restored your previous edit and ignored what I said about labeling her a J-pop artist, spare your wording of "Japanese Pop singer" when you still link it to J-pop. Additionally, in the linked page you placed (J-pop) it says that the term J-pop wasn't even in use until the 1990's, so how can she have "debuted as J-pop singer" in 1983? It is already covered in the same lead paragraph that she is Japanese, and a singer-songwriter, so saying it over again differently over again is unnecessary. I will reword this section and concede to Macross being in the lead, seeing as you'd just change it back. The reason why I started editing this page was that it was outdated and said she was famous -because- of Macross, which was helping perpetuate the idea that Macross was the only thing she was known for, despite her long music career. Akiman (talk) 02:12, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

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