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I'm sorry to say this, but this article is quite disappointing. Style is terrible, content is terrible, and title is misleading. I assessed it as Stub because there was almost no new meaningful information. I evaluated it as Mid-importance based on the title and the supposed content, or what the content should be under that title. Here are my thoughts for improvement:
In its present form, this article is more like a freshman essay than an encyclopedia entry. Boneyard90 ( talk) 12:39, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
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Better sourcing would be helpful. Instead of sources that merely repeat the legend without providing a way to pursue the subject further, we should be using folkloristic sources where they can be found. — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 17:21, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
This is an urban legend behind the story 疲れたジャック which translates roughly to tired jack. This story begins when the farming industry was at its primary state. Farmers worked all day to pick, plant, sell, and send crops. There was one farmer in particular that was rather bad tempered and, well to put it simply haughty. This arrogance led him to act as though the was the boss of everyone and everything, two farmers in particular were fed up with it. They made a scarecrow that resembled the arrogant farmer and had his name written sloppily on a piece of paper pinned to its head. Everyday when they felt over worked by jack they would beat the scarecrow wishing they could beat the real jack in the same manner. One day one of the farmers saw the scarecrow laugh and move and became so scared he no longer beat it, let alone come near it. The other merely laughed at him. Then jack saw what the farmers were doing oneday and attempted to burn the scarecrow, instead it came to life just as it had before and burned him in its place. Now tired jack threatens to kill anyone that comes near it, just as he killed the farmer that did not believe the other. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaime son ( talk • contribs) 15:59, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
The vast majority of this article (the "Supernatural legends" section) seems to deal with ghost stories rather than urban legends, and many of the article's sources use the term "ghost stories" as well. Although some of the sources also use "urban legend", the stories don't seem to fit Wikipedia's definition of urban legend. What gives? — AjaxSmack 18:15, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
Aka Manto Is Urban Legend 120.29.78.93 ( talk) 09:59, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
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I'm sorry to say this, but this article is quite disappointing. Style is terrible, content is terrible, and title is misleading. I assessed it as Stub because there was almost no new meaningful information. I evaluated it as Mid-importance based on the title and the supposed content, or what the content should be under that title. Here are my thoughts for improvement:
In its present form, this article is more like a freshman essay than an encyclopedia entry. Boneyard90 ( talk) 12:39, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
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Better sourcing would be helpful. Instead of sources that merely repeat the legend without providing a way to pursue the subject further, we should be using folkloristic sources where they can be found. — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 17:21, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
This is an urban legend behind the story 疲れたジャック which translates roughly to tired jack. This story begins when the farming industry was at its primary state. Farmers worked all day to pick, plant, sell, and send crops. There was one farmer in particular that was rather bad tempered and, well to put it simply haughty. This arrogance led him to act as though the was the boss of everyone and everything, two farmers in particular were fed up with it. They made a scarecrow that resembled the arrogant farmer and had his name written sloppily on a piece of paper pinned to its head. Everyday when they felt over worked by jack they would beat the scarecrow wishing they could beat the real jack in the same manner. One day one of the farmers saw the scarecrow laugh and move and became so scared he no longer beat it, let alone come near it. The other merely laughed at him. Then jack saw what the farmers were doing oneday and attempted to burn the scarecrow, instead it came to life just as it had before and burned him in its place. Now tired jack threatens to kill anyone that comes near it, just as he killed the farmer that did not believe the other. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaime son ( talk • contribs) 15:59, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
The vast majority of this article (the "Supernatural legends" section) seems to deal with ghost stories rather than urban legends, and many of the article's sources use the term "ghost stories" as well. Although some of the sources also use "urban legend", the stories don't seem to fit Wikipedia's definition of urban legend. What gives? — AjaxSmack 18:15, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
Aka Manto Is Urban Legend 120.29.78.93 ( talk) 09:59, 7 December 2021 (UTC)