Talk:Benee

Image - video - song copyright question

@Launchballer: who restored the infobox image with comment: user:GRuban, if the music video's CC, does that mean the song also is?. My answer is: eh...? More specifically: image, yes to the best of my ability guided by experience; video likely but could be worth confirming; song also possibly but probably not? Which I realize is a terrible answer, but it's what I've got for short. TLDR below.

So, I'm a reasonably good finder of free licensed images for Wikipedia, maybe 6000 so far. That doesn't make me the most prolific such finder of free licensed images for Wikipedia, but I do suspect I am one of the top 1% or even less. I've been doing this for 20 years, I'm a fairly respected Commons: License reviewer, I've written several license templates and popularly used utility pages for this sort of work. This particular image comes from this image which I uploaded which comes from this video. That video comes from the Vimeo account of Jesse Gohier-Fleet, who says he is the Director of Photography for the video, and marked the video Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. I looked at his Vimeo user page, and I believe him: he's uploaded many professional quality videos that all have a certain amount of style similarity, he links to a professional website that has more, including this video, and clearly shows he's a professional and experienced videographer, cinematographer, whatever, he's listed as Director of Photography on the subject's YouTube page for the video, all that. So when he puts the video on his Vimeo site and marks it released under CC-BY, I believe him enough that I feel confident grabbing a screenshot and uploading it to Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY and this article. (Well, I probably uploaded the larger version for this article, someone else replaced it with a smaller version on this article, minor difference.) However, does that mean the song is CC-BY? Eh... See, he's a Director of Photography. I think that means he's responsible for the photography for this video, the pictures. So I feel confident taking his word about the pictures, including the screenshot I took. Is he responsible for the whole video and has the rights to release it? I don't know, maybe, possibly, I'm not an expert on how music videos are made and licensed. It might be worth emailing him for confirmation, I think his email is on the Contact page of his website which I link above. Does he have the rights to release the song? Eh ... maybe ... but quite possibly not? Again, I don't know these things, but I suspect as the songwriter, Benee might be attached to the song more than to the video, or just the photography part of one video...? --GRuban (talk) 14:23, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

GA review

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Nominator: Georgeykiwi (talk · contribs) 13:35, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Reviewer: Miminity (talk · contribs) 10:25, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

• I'll try to review this. Courtesy ping to all the nominators: @Georgeykiwi, Launchballer, and Cybertrip:. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 10:25, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

  Repinging @Georgeykiwi, Launchballer, and Cybertrip:. I just finished the review. I'll put this on hold and good luck. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 16:36, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

  @Georgeykiwi, Launchballer, and And Cybertrip: Good to go then. Congrats Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 23:57, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

• Preliminary review: no issue on Authorship

Infobox

• Bene (2017–2018); no mention in the body about changing her in 2018.

Article says "and changed her name to Benee around this time". It seems to have happened between "Evil Spider" and "Want Me Back", so changed to 2019.--Launchballer 10:59, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Lead

• Source 1: Can you provide a quote of the text where the pronunciation is mention as it is paywalled.

"First the name. Pronounced Benny, she originally went by Bene but found people didn't know how to pronounce it, so she recently added an extra 'e' to make it easier and to lose the association with a cafe brunch staple...".--Launchballer 10:59, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

• Source 2: no issue
• No issue

2000–2020: Early life and "Supalonely"

• Source 3: No issue
• Source 4: No issue
• Source 5: No issue
• Source 7: No issue, but | birth_place parameter on the infobox should be remove as there is no mention she was born in the area. I suggest replacing it with | origin

Done.--Launchballer 10:59, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

• Source 8: No issue
• an attempt at a communications degree at the Auckland University of Technology was aborted after a meltdown less than two weeks in, weird phrasing, maybe change it to a clearer and a more straight forward one and maybe add something about this “I knew I wanted to do something in the creative industry, but I wasn’t 100-percent on anything,”... I just cried to my parents, and they basically told me to focus on the music and give it a solid shot. That’s when it clicked.”. (Source 11)

Reworded. I tend to avoid using WP:INTERVIEW quotes unless I have to; no objection to any other co-nominator adding this.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• She took up the saxophone aged eight and the guitar in primary school, though briefly dropped music in favour of water polo. This whole sentence should be before the communication degree sentence

Moved.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• Source 12: Maybe add something about this I had been working on music in sessions that I had to fit in with the last year of high school and playing water polo all the time. and add information of her writting "Tough Guy" around this time.

See above.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• Source 14: Not a controversial claim so no issue
• Source 15: The source is dead, I just tagged it and it is also reliable for music; maybe add the year (2017)?

Context already makes this clear; she turned 17 in January 2000 and released her first single in 2017.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• After Universal Music New Zealand enquired about them, her mother contacted her friend Paul McKessar... The pair worked together on both her 2017 debut single "Tough Guy" and her September 2018 single "Soaked no mention in the source. (Source 15, 5, 16)

Replaced with one that does.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• Source 19, 21, 22: no issue
• Source 26: She promoted the last of these by releasing a music video for EP track "Glitter" no mention of promotion.

See below.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• Source 27, 28, 30, 31, 33: no issue
• Source 34: the 39 there is not Top 40, as I think US does not have any Top 40 charts, it is Billboard Hot 100 per source

All top 100 charts also have top 40 subsets.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• Source 38, 39, 42, 43, 46: no issue
• I put quotation on "bitch". I suggest providing a little bit of context on who is Judith Collins. Source: 4, 48: no issue

Added a brief qualifier.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• Change the sentence to an the International Achievement Award, alongside Jawsh 685, ... per source. Source 50: no issue

You changed this yourself and I changed it back because this particular award is sometimes awarded more than once in a given year and I consider the other winner WP:INDISCRIMINATE.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• Source: 52: no issue
• Source 53: the source does not say that "Happen To Me' is a single

Source certainly describes a single, but sure, added another source.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• Source 55: no mention of the music video using as a promotion

See below.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

2021–present: Lychee and Ur an Angel I'm Just Particles

• Source 58, 61, 65, 66, 67: no issue
• Source: 70: 71 ... designed to reduce anxiety as she felt that many young people were overly stressed this is a borderline WP:BIOMED information and needed a WP:MEDRS than a simple WP:RS. I suggest attributing the claim of "reducing anxiety".

"Borderline"'s doing quite a lot of lifting there I think ('designed to' does not mean 'does'), but I found a 2025 study that the first part's in, so added it to the existing references.--Launchballer 08:29, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

• Source: 73: A study comparing "Bagels" with five other tracks including the then-most relaxing song in the world ("Weightless" by Marconi Union) found that "Bagels" reduced anxiety by 5% more than "Weightless". I check the original research it says This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review (here). Although, The Sydney Morning Herald is reliable, the research itself it not reliable so this should be remove as this is, again, borderline WP:BIOMED information.

Replaced with the above study.--Launchballer 08:29, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

• Source 74, 76, 80, 81, 84, 87: no issue
• Source 91: no mention of using the song as promotion or a music video of the song

See below.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• Source 93: 503 bad gateway for me

This the Elle source, right? Seems to work for me, suggest trying it again.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• Source 94: no issue
• Best New Artist, The source say Best Pop Artist. Source 96

Fixed.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

Artistry

• Source 99: no issue
• Source 48: not directly stated but, I guess its okay
• Source 102: no issue
• As wikipedia does not have article for "genre-agnostic", I suggest briefly define it here.

It just means that she doesn't stick to one genre. I've reworded.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• Source 103: no mention of genre, maybe remove this one

That source says "an introspective record bending between alt-pop, house, trap, and drum and bass", which I think is covered by "Benee's music encompasses a wide range of genres".--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

Discography

• No issue

Filmography

• Unreferenced and is the table necessary this could be formatted as simple as this:
• Head South (2024) - Kirsten[ref]

Converted to bullet point; see below.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

Awards and nominations

• Source 104, 111, 114: no issues
• Longlisted? isn't just nominated per the wording in the source, Source 116

Fixed.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• Source 118, 119, 121: no issues

Tours

• Source 122, 124, 59, 127, 129: no issues
• no issue

Misc.

• the 45.1% flagged on Earwig is from this which is the website copy of the lead of the article. The teen vogue one is a quote and the rest is false positive. No issue
• Photo has caption and tagged correctly
• The article is stable

Other issues

• The article contains many duplicate citations, which was tagged by DuplicateReferences script. I suggest fixing the problems above before fixing this issue so the review above is not chaotic.

@3f45188: got this before I could get there. As for the above, I'll address the rest another time, though will offer the preliminary comments that a) any top 100 also has a top 40, b) the filmography doesn't need references as the film itself counts as a primary source (though will mull a bullet point rather than a table), and c) that Bagels stuff is going to hurt to remove, since that's where the DYK is!--Launchballer 20:36, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

You mentioned a couple of times above about 'promotion' not being in the source, so I'll address it here. I think it is SKYISBLUE that a music video for a non-single track from a major work such as an EP/album serves to promote that major work. Either of my conominators are free to override me on this, but I don't think this is a problem. I need longer to decide what to do about Bagels.--Launchballer 15:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, I'd agree with the above. George (talk) 20:36, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

I think all changes have been made now @Miminity, let us know on the above though! George (talk) 00:02, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

Summary

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Dclemens1971 (talk) 03:52, 21 July 2026 (UTC)

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Benee in 2020

• ... that a 2025 study found that Benee's (pictured) "Bagels" reduced more anxiety than a song that had previously been described as "the most relaxing song in the world"?
  • ALT1: ... that a 2025 study found that Benee's (pictured) bagels reduced more anxiety than a song that had previously been described as "the most relaxing song in the world"?
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sri Wahyuni
  • Comment: ALT1 is for WP:DYKAPRIL.

Improved to Good Article status by Launchballer (talk), Georgeykiwi (talk), and Cybertrip (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 410 past nominations.

Launchballer 00:07, 14 June 2026 (UTC).

• Launchballer, the article says as well or even better than which isn't quite "reduced more anxiety", so it would be nice if you could reword it somehow. Both hooks match the source and article, which says Of note, Bagels was rated significantly more pleasant than its gold standard, Weightless, being rated approximately 20% more pleasant and thus suggestive of greater therapeutic potency. Bagels also obtained the lowest arousal ratings of the six songs, though for this measure it was not significantly different from Weightless. Image appears to be freely licensed. Article recently promoted to good article status and looks good. Earwig's clears two possible copyright violations but those pages are just copies from Wikipedia. I see that your review has two articles in it, does that count as two QPQs?

PS I listened to Bagels for the first time when reviewing this. Very relaxing! Panamitsu (talk) 07:27, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

That's two QPQs alright. I'll have a hook when I've woken up.--Launchballer 13:31, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

The source says "Bagels also obtained the lowest arousal ratings of the six songs" and "requiring participants to rate how pleasant (or unpleasant), how arousing (or calming), and how dominating (i.e., directing attention) the song-induced emotions were, so changed the article to "found that "Bagels" was more calming than "Weightless"".

• ALT0a: ... that a 2025 study found Benee's (pictured) "Bagels" to be more calming than a song that had previously been described as "the most relaxing song in the world"?
• ALT1a: ... that a 2025 study found Benee's (pictured) bagels to be more calming than a song that had previously been described as "the most relaxing song in the world"?--Launchballer 16:42, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

The source Frontiers In is a predatory journal and inappropriate for such a claim. Traumnovelle (talk) 03:11, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Launchballer, I'll let you address this. Panamitsu (talk) 04:02, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

I cut the source.

• ALT2: ... that Benee (pictured) once made a track with neuroscientists?
• ALT3: ... that Benee (pictured) once designed a track to reduce anxiety?

"Designed to" does not mean "does", but if these don't work I might have to do some more research.--Launchballer 17:32, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Yes these work, from this source. Panamitsu (talk) 02:09, 18 June 2026 (UTC)