Talk:Uguisu no fun

A fact from Uguisu no fun appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 July 2010. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the geisha would rub nightingale droppings on their faces to help remove their heavy makeup?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2010/July.

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Something not quite well about this article

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Anyone else think there's something a bit off in this article? Cus I've got a suspicion that it isn't up to par when it comes to article standards.

Firstly - I'm not entirely sure that ugisu no fun is actually the same thing as a "Geisha facial" sold halfway across the world that, I'm guessing, just takes inspiration from someone's second read-through of Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. It sounds like a trade name - not the same as its usage in Japan.

Secondly - and as an extension of the former - I'd really appreciate someone having a look over the sources and bibliography used here. It seems like on first glance, a lot of them might - and I've not read them, but they might - just be a number of different Western news outlets covering a facial offered by one New York City spa. Someone also shoved in MoaG for good measure, a fiction book, not a reliable reference; God knows Golden screwed up the rest of that novel.

I've gone through and added transl tags where I can, but I'd appreciate another pair of hands to have a look over this. Thanks! --Ineffablebookkeeper (talk) 21:28, 15 March 2021 (UTC)Reply