Talk:List of J-pop artists

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Contents 1 Number of artists and groups 2 How to sort bands by "family name" 3 Want to help? 4 Clean-up Work

[edit] Number of artists and groups

According to [1], there are 4802 artists and groups. Well, a lot more to go. Revth 15:04, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] How to sort bands by "family name"

A lot of the entries are band names, not artist names. In which case it is difficult to sort by surname. --210.160.195.187 02:25, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Want to help?

If anyone's interested in turning some of these red links blue, you can get at least some basic information on many artists from this JPop wiki. Just be sure to credit them. Also, if you know some Japanese, you can search on the Japanese Wikipedia for information on some of these artists and translate it into English. Kamezuki 00:30, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Clean-up Work

Ok, I went through the list and did several things:

• Removed the red links; these can still be found on the subpages for each letter, and in my userspace, here. Add them in if you create anything.
• Name conformity; its fine to list them in order by last name, however they need to conform with the WP:MOS-JA standards for names. They all do so now.
• Some other general clean-up; some names were in the wrong section, added subpage links to some sections, etc.

That was way too much work. Hope it does some good. --Limetom 07:51, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

It does look nicer, but with the red links removed, the list isn’t so comprehensive. I removed a couple of artists in the “A” section for the following reasons:

• Asuka – disambiguation page
• Ayaka Komatsu – Japanese actress/model rather than an actual singer. If she does belong on this list, her name should be placed in the “K” section.
• Ayumi Hamasaki – already listed in “H”

Second, are Japanese names (except maybe Utada Hikaru) supposed to be listed here in Western order? I noticed they are in the correct section, but often listed last name first. As such, I corrected a couple of names, but I didn’t delete anything else.

And third, should this list also include Japanese composers (of anime and video game soundtracks)? I see Yuki Kajiura and Yoko Kanno listed here, but others (Taku Iwasaki, Yasunori Mitsuda, Shiro Sagisu, Toshihiko Sahashi, Yoko Shimomura, Nobuo Uematsu, etc.) are not. ～Michelle 16:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I went through these pretty late at night so I expected there to be some mistakes that I missed. As for Japanese names being in Western order, if you look at this section of the Manual of Style for Japanese related articles, modern Japanese names are supposed to be in Western order. Personally, I'm not sure if it should include composers. Thanks for the help. --Limetom 19:00, 13 December 2006 (UTC)