Board Thread:Wiki Business/@comment-2152025-20160304010518/@comment-26503811-20171111034644

I have no clue what the requirements are for the Category:Members involved in Scandals, but who is or isn't added and for what reason is inconsistent. As you've mentioned, Reina is there, but it's odd that Sayumi and Eri aren't in the category when all three of them were involved and apologised for their controversial photos. I'm also not sure what Matsuura Aya's or Suenaga Mami's scandals were and their pages don't mention anything either. I can see why everyone else I haven't named yet are there.

Sources have been discussed in the past in the Citing Websites post made by Maopyon. Fan blogs, fan boards, 2ch, and presumably fan tweets, etc. aren't considered reliable sources on the wiki. Imo, they are still very useful for getting setlist info, especially when more than one source confims it, and sharing fanclub news (i.e. upcoming concert tours, musicals) which non-fanclub members can't access. That kind of info is harmless compared to private/dating photos, which members obviously had no say in being released to the public.

Statements made directly from UP-FRONT or members' blogs are considered Type A sources, which is why I argue against adding news about scandals unless management or the members involved comment on it, otherwise the wiki becomes a gossip site that pries too much into members' private lives and it shouldn't.

I would say that Kago Ai's or Fujimoto Miki's scandals for example are fair to add to wiki because official statements were made. Scandals involving popular Morning Musume members also get blown up in the media and covered by Type B news sources... which makes me wonder if tabloids such as FRIDAY or Shukan Bunshun also count as Type B? When either of them have revealed something, UF or the members have been pretty much forced to comment.

On the other hand, Murakami Megumi and Arihara Kanna never addressed their tabloid photos and cited other reasons for leaving (school/to be a normal girl/bunions), even though fans 100% believe it was because of their scandals. Articles about their photos are harder to find and the stuff on their pages shouldn't be there without any reliable sources to back it up.