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On the List of legendary creatures from Japan page there was a single external link after Namazu's name, added after the fact, which seemed more appropriate here. Also, on that page at least, it is referred to as Jishin-namazu. Duende-Poetry ( talk) 14:05, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
I think the name of the Japanese giant catfish that supposedly causes earthquakes is Ōnamazu (大鯰) not just namazu (鯰), which is the name for the ordinary (real) catfish. This is corroborated by the Japanese equivalent of this Wikipedia page here: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E9%AF%B0. I guess this means that this article should be renamed. AlanSiegrist ( talk) 23:31, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Pretty sure that the voice file shouldn't be here. But I guess having one's better than none? SoreThumb ( talk) 17:52, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
There's nothing against in the WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia guidelines that states that speakers have to have a Mid-Western accent; all there are general instructions to try to maintain as clear pronunciation as possible. I don't see any issue with this audio being on the page just because the originator has an atypical voice; he's reading the page as it was written at the time of upload. -- 68.106.244.246 ( talk) 04:07, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Audio file no longer matches the text on the page and has been removed due to confusion. Also, the voice is screechy with uneven pitch / intonation, is assuredly "put on", and contains unnecessary commentary, thus having no use to vision-impaired users of the website. 68.224.232.34 ( talk) 09:04, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
The Namazu was featured in an episode of River Monsters, "Cold-Blooded Horror". The episode even offers the explanation of catfish sensing impending seismic activity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.29.73.77 ( talk) 06:55, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
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On the List of legendary creatures from Japan page there was a single external link after Namazu's name, added after the fact, which seemed more appropriate here. Also, on that page at least, it is referred to as Jishin-namazu. Duende-Poetry ( talk) 14:05, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
I think the name of the Japanese giant catfish that supposedly causes earthquakes is Ōnamazu (大鯰) not just namazu (鯰), which is the name for the ordinary (real) catfish. This is corroborated by the Japanese equivalent of this Wikipedia page here: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E9%AF%B0. I guess this means that this article should be renamed. AlanSiegrist ( talk) 23:31, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
Pretty sure that the voice file shouldn't be here. But I guess having one's better than none? SoreThumb ( talk) 17:52, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
There's nothing against in the WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia guidelines that states that speakers have to have a Mid-Western accent; all there are general instructions to try to maintain as clear pronunciation as possible. I don't see any issue with this audio being on the page just because the originator has an atypical voice; he's reading the page as it was written at the time of upload. -- 68.106.244.246 ( talk) 04:07, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Audio file no longer matches the text on the page and has been removed due to confusion. Also, the voice is screechy with uneven pitch / intonation, is assuredly "put on", and contains unnecessary commentary, thus having no use to vision-impaired users of the website. 68.224.232.34 ( talk) 09:04, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
The Namazu was featured in an episode of River Monsters, "Cold-Blooded Horror". The episode even offers the explanation of catfish sensing impending seismic activity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.29.73.77 ( talk) 06:55, 13 May 2014 (UTC)