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Nobara Kugisaki has been listed as one of the Language and literature good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. Review: July 9, 2025. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Nobara Kugisaki appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 August 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the abilities of a Jujutsu Kaisen character were based on a traditional method of inflicting curses? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nobara Kugisaki.

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GA review

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Nobara Kugisaki/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Z. Patterson (talk · contribs) 03:10, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 09:29, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

• Lead: "she is voiced" - should use name not pronoun here in new paragraph.

• 'Concept and creation': "Her name, Nobara" - grammatically cart before horse, especially noticeable at the head of the first section. Perhaps "Nobara's name ..."

• 'Voice actresse': citation needs to be repeated after each (rather long) quotation.

• 'Powers and abilities': consider using an image of Ushi no toki mairi, a remarkable practice that will be unfamiliar to readers of English Wikipedia.

• 'Appearances': In the "Shinjuku Showdown" arc, near the end of the battle against Sukuna, Nobara awakes from her coma and uses her Resonance technique on Sukuna's last finger, which had been hidden by Gojo, weakening Sukuna and allowing Yuji to land a final Black Flash; Megumi is also freed from Sukuna's possession in the process. - this is a long sentence, not easy to parse. Please split it up. Some glosses on the special powers used would help too.

• 'In other media': consider removing one or both "also"s.

• 'Merchandise': "on various merchandise" - perhaps "in merchandise" would be better. Or "on...".

Images

• The lead image has a fair use license. My understanding is that this is undesirable if not deprecated for the lead; it is actually forbidden on the front page, should the article ever get that far.

• The cosplay image is on Commons with plausible CC-by-SA.

• The cosplay image would be better on the right, not disturbing the following headings.

Sources

• [28], [29], [30], [31] all have text "Good Smile Company" ignored.

All four should have |publisher= added.

• [34] has Text "バンプレストナビサイト" and "商品情報" ignored.

Again these should be marked as parameters, with translations.

• All Japanese citations should have the |language=Japanese parameter to display "(in Japanese)".

• 'Merchandise' Nobara is a popular character on various merchandise, including clothing,[26] figures,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] - an old GAN saw is that anything with a string of many refs is in trouble, most commonly WP:SYNTH as the text seeks to establish a fact by giving many examples. What is needed here is not 8 individual merch refs, but one ref that says the character is popular on merch in general.

• Spot-checks:

[2] ok

[9] ok

[23] ok

[37] ok

[45] ok

Summary

• This article is well-written and well-cited. The review has identified a few issues which need to be addressed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:43, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @Chiswick Chap: I took care of the points that you addressed. Regarding the fair use image in the lead, I understand that fair use images are not allowed to be shown on the Main Page, but it is common practice for anime characters to have them in the infobox in the lead. For example, the featured articles Naruto Uzumaki and Allen Walker have fair use images in their character infoboxes. I think in their cases, their lead images were not shown on the Main Page. When I nominate this article for Did You Know, I plan to use the public domain image I added to the article, File:SekienUshi-no-tokimairi.jpg to be featured instead. Thank you most sincerely. Z. Patterson (talk) 20:32, 9 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 10:42, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The ushi no toki mairi

• ... that a character from Jujutsu Kaisen has her abilities based on a traditional method of inflicting curses, the ushi no toki mairi (shown)?

• Source: Beckett, James (October 17, 2020). "Episodes 1-3 - Jujutsu Kaisen - Anime News Network". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on October 18, 2020. Retrieved April 16, 2025.

• Reviewed:

Improved to Good Article status by Z. Patterson (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Z. Patterson (talk) 21:07, 9 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]

• New enough (promoted to GA on July 9th), long enough, well sources and well-written, I found no issue with it, the high Earwig seems to be from quoted interview. Hook is cited and in the article. QPQ is not needed as nom has less than 5 noms. Good to go! Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 12:49, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • To the user making Did You Know queues: Would you be willing to have this appear on the Main Page on August 7, 2025? August 7 is the character's birthday.^[1] Z. Patterson (talk) 21:07, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would support the running as the date is within the time limit provided at WP:DYKSO. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:37, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, I'm against the special occasion request: the birthday of a fictional character is not by any stretch of the imagination special, and we have rejected a number of similar requests over the years for precisely that reason. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:00, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've only recalled one case being rejected, and it had more to do with the subject being tangential to the date (in this case, it was requesting that Weathering with You run on the female lead's birthday). In this case, it's the actual character's birthday, and it's been allowed on at least one prior occasion (see Mikoto Misaka). Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:08, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

1. "「呪術廻戦」釘崎野薔薇の誕生日"8月7日"にスペシャルPV公開！YouTube「ジャンプチャンネル」" [Jujutsu Kaisen - Special PV Opens on Nobara Kugisaki's Birthday "August 7"! YouTube Jump Channel]. Anime! Anime! [ja] (in Japanese). August 6, 2024. Archived from the original on April 15, 2025. Retrieved July 10, 2025.