Talk:Sopor Aeternus and The Ensemble of Shadows

Authorship
Is it fair that the authorship of this article is of Anna-Varney Cantodea herself? I don't think it's reasonable to let an artist like her (who indulges herself so much in role playing and in playing with made-up personality expressions) be the sole source of data on Sopor Aeternus, her own musical project. We need a considerably unbiased witness and analysis on this artist. Everything written here surely turns toward her behalf and interest, especially in order to mystify events and information that might be just plainly prosaic. I wish I could have something more serious and factual on this artist. A lot of accounts here seem theatrical, over produced and faked in order to cause an specific impact on the audience, and of course, for contributing in the building up of a character and a mythic/legendary imagery on this person that has nothing to do with real information. I'm sorry, but I can never call this an encyclopedia article, because it's no way scientific. Unfortunately a lot of the text here falls apart under the label of publicity and advertisement of her psychological role playing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.80.212.205 (talk) 18:06, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree. I think - first of all - all the unreferenced and badly referenced data should be removed. We should generally keep all the basic information but any far-fetched and unsupported data should be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.155.201.183 (talk) 18:27, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Does anyone have proof that the author of this article is Anna-Varney Cantodea? If yes, it would be useful to present it to an admin here so appropriate actions can be taken.--Lembut (talk) 23:35, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The way this article is worded is more like hype, roleplay, or in-game lore than an actual encyclopedic article about a subject.
 * If it isn't Anna-Varney Cantodea themselves making this, it's a fan adhering to game rules of the lore of the musical project.
 * This isn't a fair, normal article. RexBourbon (talk) 01:24, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree, it reads as self-promotional. I am going to remove almost all of the biographical content of this article, as none of it has an independent source. If anyone finds an independent source in the future, they can recover content from the page history. Barnards.tar.gz (talk) 17:35, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

Requested move
Sopor Æternus & the Ensemble of Shadows → Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows — Per this discussion. --Omnipaedista (talk) 10:48, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Untitled
"Cantodea maintains a series of attention seeking behaviors to portray a persona that is voluntarily isolated, and too complicated to understand."

This description almost seems as though it's a criticism. Are you saying she's fake? Just portraying a persona? And attention-seeking seems sort of like the kind of thing harassers like to say to those who are different from the "norm." I mean, there's no way possible that she could be real, without some ulterior motive to peg her down to? 71.161.244.14 (talk) 22:48, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

We all have to be like the "norm" and if we're not by nature, we have to stifle ourselves and aspire to be like the "norm"? And if we don't do that, we must have an ulterior motive? There's no one out there truly different and perfectly content living as such? 71.161.244.14 (talk) 22:51, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Latin
Cantor deae in Latin does not mean female singer, it means "(male) singer of the goddess". The correct word is cantrix. Nothingbutmeat (talk) 14:17, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

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