Talk:Wagae-nuri

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[edit] Improper Citation / Notability concerns

The sole citation for this page seems to lead to an advertisement for Michiko Suganuma and her artwork. I briefly read the page and it seems to be entirely marketing material. Since the article on Michiko seems to assert her notability very strongly, I feel there is at least a reasonable chance her style of artwork may be notable. However, I would need to see some very good references explaining how her style is important to the understanding of Japanese lacquer art in order to let this stand, since the article implies heavily that Michiko is the sole practitioner of "Wagae-nuri" and I would support a merge & redirect of "wagae-nuri" to Michiko's article if no evidence of notablity can be found.

Additionally, I think we need to revisit the article's use of the word "traditional" to describe a style of lacquer art which was created by a still-living person. The article needs to assert more clearly why this is a traditional art style, or abandon the claim that it is "traditional". Dalamori (talk) 23:37, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

• Update: It appears that Michiko either owns TafeJapan, or TafeJapan is a front company for her, in either case, the text of the site is sufficiently self-serving that I feel it should be removed and replaced with something else as soon as possible in order to prevent this article from going to AFD/merge. Dalamori (talk) 23:53, 10 June 2008 (UTC)