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Protect templates.

Hey everyone, Thank you so much for keeping Yoshiki's wikipedia active and current. However, we (at Extasy Recordings) want to put (as requested by The Man himself) an official biography on this page personally approved by Yoshiki and lock it.

Now, in order for us to do this we will be needing your votes to make us administrator.

Please help us with this,

all the best,

Extasy Recrdordings

Only Japan?

Somebody has just put that Yoshiki is one of the most influential drummers in Japan rock history, eehm, everybody knows that Yoshiki is THE drummer of Japan, and because of that is one of the most influentials in all rock history, not only in the rock history of Japan, if you see bands in China, Korea, et.c you'll see that their drummers are fans of Yoshiki.

Well, I guess not just Japan but in Asia. The reason to why I put that is because while Yoshiki is well-known in parts of Asia, he wasn't as influential in many countries like the Americas, Africa, and Europe. Sure, there are people in those continents that like him (and X-Japan as a whole), but it's not enough compared to the majority who hasn't heard of him or X. Su2000 01:16, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

That is something of a matter of opinion-- it can't be taken for granted that Yoshiki was THE drummer of Japan. It's safer to list him as 'one of' the most influential drummers. Emilyemergency 06:41, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

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Rewrite

The article has been rewritten to conform better with WP:V and to fix some of the damage done by this recent edit. I use the word "damage" because the editor in question is a regular contributor to X Japan and was, at the time of the edit undoubtedly aware of the numerous references already available for that article. Why the editor failed to introduce them here, in order to preserve at least some of the information is quite puzzling. - Cyrus XIII 04:12, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Yoshiki in "Abandon Pool's" music video "remedy"

Yoshiki appears in this LA based band's music video, it may be worthy to mention this somewhere in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Killerclaw (talk • contribs) 20:18, January 21, 2007) (UTC)

Removing information about X Japan

Hello, to all the members that are remving the information about X Japan, please check pages like: John Lennon, Paul McCartney why there we can add info about the band and here not? Please give an explanation, what happens? If we have to write about Yoshiki, we have to write from 1964-1982 and 1997-present, only this? Oh, he did lot of things during his time in X Japan but we can write it, how bad. Darkcat21 12:52, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

If you look at the Beatles sections in the Lennon and McCartney articles, you will find that compared to the entire text body, they are rather short. The articles focus on the artists because they are the subject, not the band they once used to be a part of. There is also not much sense in implementing redundant information for the sake of making an article longer, especially when it is either poorly or not at all sourced (which regrettably was the case with your recent additions). - Cyrus XIII 13:17, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Yoshiki's time with X Japan was probably the most influential part of his life. His relationship with hide, especially, considering the fact that after hide's death, Yoshiki swore that he would never write music again. I think that it would be unfair to remove mention of X Japan from Yoshiki's biography, considering that his relationship with them helped significantly to shape the musician that he is today. Emilyemergency 07:13, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

More flattering picture

I think a more professional and flattering picture is needed at the top of the page. I'm say it should be a picture of him dressed as a girl, when XJ was at the top of the game. The picture below is fine, plus it shows what he looks like now. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sam-Easton (talk • contribs) 13:23, 7 April 2007 (UTC).

The term "flattering" immediately introduces NPOV issues and Wikpedia articles should not resort to copyrighted/fair use images, when free ones are available. - Cyrus XIII 14:51, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

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