Talk:Tsuchigumo

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You Call This Archaeology?
Where do we even start with this ridiculous article? I love this line: Folklore attributes a race of underground dwarves called the Tsuchigumo to the Japanese Alps.

Oh, Folklore, my old friend, he's usually too drunk to remember where those underground dwarves of the Japanese Alps were to, you know, actually reference any of this information from actual journals, books or even a personal blog ... at this point anything, really, would have been nice, simply to prove that 99% of this article wasn't made up or plagiarized or, as the French call it, total crap.

I tried, I wanted to fix this, I started by going through Google Book Search and the problem was that all the information I found was completely divorced from anything written here. So either all books in Google written on the subject of Tsuchigumo are wrong, or someone wrote gibberish here (uncited, unreferenced, as so much of Wiki is), so, you future editors, take your pick. Reverse my edits or do that hard thing they call research, it's a nice black/white dichotomy.

I leave you a "suggested reading" section because I'm getting to the point where I really don't care anymore if anyone takes Wikipedia seriously. The sad thing is that all this information -- correct, culturally-sensitive information -- is there on Google Books, we're not even asking for people to go to a library or read an actual book, and yet still these articles come off verging on illiteracy all the time. If Jimmy Wales ever wants to know why he can't get quality editors or readers to donate money, just pull up almost any article in Japanese folklore and hang your head in shame. If every article I come upon is grossly factually wrong and none of them have been looked at since 2004, considering that life is amazingly short, why does this website even exist except as a bad reminder of what could've been, after all, if only the powers that be at Wiki actually had something that resembled standards. Duende-Poetry (talk) 21:33, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Youkaimura is far from being a reliable source. I deleted the link. --213.172.246.37 14:30, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Alternate information
I renamed the above heading of an entry into "Popular culture" and shortened the entry considerably. Here's the bit I removed:

''The Tsuchigumo are also featured in the japanese anime Otogi Zoshi, which is also based off of the Raikoh legend. Within this anime, they are a sect that were forced together through threats by their new established leader. They wear bird like masks on their face and don't seem to have much of a vocabulary. They also had under their presence one of the five Magatama, which Raikoh's sister, Hikaru, planned on using to restore her brother.''

213.172.254.119 20:58, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Names
Two sources I found refer to Tsuchigumo and Yatsukahagi as distinct tribes of Kuzu. A source for their being synonymous is needed. Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 18:56, 24 May 2010 (UTC)