Talk:Yuna Ito

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[edit] Blog version

Apparently, there is an edit war going on between a blog version and the translated official version of Yuna Ito's biography. There still seems to be no effort to merge these 2 versions.

The blog version seems to be written originally by Mara, a site admin within the nana-nana.net/yunaforum website. This blog version seems to be problematic, in that there are numerous grammatical and spelling errors, and seems to be posted into Wikipedia by anonymous user(s). Also, there may be a problem with the Wikipedia:Citing sources policy, as the blog version is never properly cited within the article.

The translated official version is based on Sony's official version in Japanese (click biography), translated by bemmu.com, and posted into Wikipedia by actual Wikipedia users (Kamezuki, Yajimari21, etc.).

I propose to merge these 2 versions, if the following conditions are met. I think we need to know where Mara obtained her information: a childhood friend of Yuna, or an ex-employee of Itochan Sushi, or whatever. I think we need to reveal the identity of the source of this information. Even then, the material from the blog version should be merely supplemental to the translated official version. Also, any grammatical & spelling errors must be corrected.--Endroit 20:00, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I agree with you Endroit, the blog version is very... unprofessional, exclamation points, colloquialisms *shudders*, but if Mara could be contacted somehow and reconfigure the fan-bio so that it could be a nice supplement it could be added. This edit war is becoming ridiculous, and over such a small matter as well. If any users are able to contact Mara please post in this discussion. Yajimari21 02:19, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Before I was aware of this stupid war, I editted the biography because no offense, it was filled with way too much cuddly words and sounded really bad due to the grammar. Someone should help edit the singles too, they seem to be in the same style as the original biography.--Bakahito 09:07, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

yes, this is pretty badly written. (I can write 'fluent' kana too, that means almost nothing) 16:16, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Editing with mom's help

I was having dinner at Aki-no-No in Honolulu earlier tonight. I'm close with both Yuna and Yuna's parents who own the restaurant. Her mom was searching around the Internet for mentions of her daughter. When she came across the Wikipedia article, she was totally shocked at some of the mis-information. She sat with me and made the corrections right at the restaurant's computer. Although the information corrected isn't recorded anywhere else as Wikipedia requires, there's quite a bit of personal information in the article that you just can't prove citing published evidence. Maybe using her parents as a source may not be valid citing within Wikipedia, but leaving false information un-changed is just as bad.

One thing that upsetted her was the Korean name. To set the record straight, the context behind the name "Yuna", according to her parents, is Japanese. Yuna does not officially have a Korean name as assigned to her. Her mom can read and speak Korean, and she says the Hangul-written name was incorrect. Also, she never attended Iolani School. Before her 7th grade year, she attended an elementary school which I won't mention here. And, she lives in an apartment in Tokyo and not in Hokkaido. I re-wrote references to McKinley High School to clarify that she in fact graduated from the school in 2001, and not that she just "left" the school in 2001 which could be intepreted as dropping out. Groink 10:03, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'm not sure whether you are close or not with the mother of this pop star but please do help out this poorly written article, thanks a lot. --Bakahito 12:41, 1 October 2006 (UTC)