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In the article on Jiro Taniguchi, the word "aruto" probably should be "aruku" ("to walk"). However, titles being titles, I can't be sure...
Hi Laurent,
The way I add Japanese is using Microsoft's IME. You can download it at no cost from microsoft.com and set it up to appear in the language bar. Then I select Japanese and Hiragana and type. Pressing the spacebar converts hiragana to natural Japanese (a mixture of kanji and kana).
Another way to get Japanese is to copy and paste from the Japanese Wikipedia.
I hope that helps.
Best regards,
Fg2 05:11, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
P.S. Also see
Wikipedia:Manual of Style for Japan-related articles
I am very impressed by the swiftness with which the kanji were added to the yatate page ! Thank you so much ! (I've also just started the shakudo page, if you're interested ! ;) ). Thank you again !
Rama
Thanks --- I enjoyed your two articles and learned from them!
Thanks for the spelling fix on Hankyuu. I tend to overlook them.
Chuka Soba, from what I think it means from your writing, refers to a varient of Ramen known as Gomokusoba, lit. five ingredients ramen (=soba). Gomokusoba is flavored with spices used in Chinese cuisines and things on top are stir-fried and thickened. It is served in a Chinese restaurant in Japan. It's probably an oddity in a particular restaurant you are familiar with. Revth 01:33, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thank you so much for that Osaka castle pic! Now it is used in the Osaka Castle and Osaka articles! WhisperToMe 04:08, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thank you for your help with Category:Volcanoes of Honshu. I spent most of the day restructuring Category:Volcanoes into a rich extensible hierarchy. ^_^ - Gilgamesh 11:28, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the pointer to the Columbia site - it contains a number of useful items. I was planning on redoing the 47 Ronin page, taking into account the information provided in Hiroaki Sato's book (particularly the account of Okado Denpachirō, who was an official on duty the day Asano attacked Kira, and was present at many of the events of that day), and will include material from the Columbia too. Alas, I can't read Japanese, so I am restricted to sources which have been translated into English. Noel 12:22, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
You are the main author of the above article, so I'm dropping a note here. I have just reverted a long POV rant which was quoted in the article. It was placed there by 219.43.110.1 on Sept 3. Besides being POV, the quotation overwhelmed the article, indeed it became the article.
Yet obviously something more is needed about this tomb, either here or in its own article. Accordingly I've added two external links to the page. The links are just to the first reasonable discussions I found on the matter and there may be better ones. I did not add a link to the site from which the quotation was taken as I don't think it as helpful as the ones I did link to.
Jallan 19:21, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
We could do that. New York City has similar lists. WhisperToMe 04:46, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Well spotted! Turns out that despite the name Jodo-ji is not the HQ of the Jodo sect, but one of the Shingon subsects instead. Duly corrected. Jpatokal 11:20, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I noticed you redirectd my article on "VHF Onmi Range" to "VHF Omni Range". Sorry, (how embarrasing). However, this this article needs to be redirected or deleted. My mistake, a page on VOR (all caps) already existed but I found an unrelated article searching for "vor". Rsduhamel 03:35, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Is this deleted article available on the web so I can take a peek? Thortful 08:23, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
You added {{merge}}
to
Category:Japanese actors and actresses and
Category:Japanese actors. Do you have an opinion as to which should be merged into which? -
dcljr 18:49, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for letting me know about the deletion of Route 128 station. Actually, as someone who has used that station many a time, I don't think it was a particularly well-written article. There was a lot that could be talked about (they just recently rebuilt the entire station from a stray platform to a very expensive new station). To me, the information seemed like it was all pulled raw from [www.mbta.com the MBTA] and re-organised. It was not a good article for deletion, but for re-organisation and expansion. But if someone comes near my articles, I'll cut 'em! :) Páll here by the way, nice to meet you in the Wikipediaverse. PZFUN 04:51, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I have created a preliminary version of Wikipedia:VfD decisions not backed by current policies/poll. Your comments would be much appreciated. - SimonP 17:08, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my spelling on the Bikini atomic experiments page. I appreciate it. And thanks for the information about the Japanese boat; I didn't know that a third party group had been exposed to radiation. TomStar81 01:26, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I wasn't aware of any trend in Japanese city names, but standard Wikipedia convention is to use the simplest and most common name, unless there is a specific reason (eg, disambiguation) to do otherwise. I'm aware that US cities are often an exception, but that was by special agreement — I haven't noticed such an agreement for Japan, and can't find any mention of one at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (city names) or its associated talk pages. (The only mention I can find of Kyoto, Kyoto is a brief comment by another user calling it "ridiculous"). Is there a place where this has been discussed? And if so, what is the reason given for departing from Wikipedia convention? -- Vardion 22:10, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip about Wikimedia Commons. I had no idea. - Nat Kraus e 10:11, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hey there, could you possible provide Image:Sengakuji.jpg with an image copyright tag? It is required if the article is to beecome a featured article.
On another note, I was looking through your photo album, great work! I was wondering, could you provide larger resolution versions of the following images, shot by you:
I would really like to nominate them for featured pictures, but the resolution of all your images is just a tad too low. In general, when uploading images, do not spare the Wikipedia disk space :) You can upload the highest resolution version you have, although it is a good idea to apply some resizing and JPEG compression (at least 80 quality) to get image size under 1 MB. Cheers, [[User:Solitude| Solitude\ talk]] 10:52, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
Your photos of Japan are excellent — could you consider dual licensing them under CC by-sa, so they could be used at Wikitravel as well? Here's a link to a short rationale. Jpatokal 04:24, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes -- Tagishsimon (talk)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man ( comment| talk)
Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:
I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil| Peter O. ( Talk, automation script)]] 22:23, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.
Not sure on this one. I basically wrote what I did to say that it was introduced under the current emperor. I was a bit young in 1989 to have much concern about politics, much less a country I didn't know much about then. ^^;; -- EmperorBMA| 話す 23:58, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Fg2, I just completed a major rewrite of Matsudaira Teru (moved article from Matsudaira Teruko based upon the references I used). It seems I was doing the rewrite while you were correcting a misspelling I probably introduced. Sorry for the trouble. m__m I would really appreciate your input, because you've also been working on the article. (BTW, I restored the external links you added. I accidentally erased them during an edit) Thanks, Atsi Otani 17:25, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
As noted in Talk:Nagasaki, Nagasaki, I've changed the proposal the other way round for Hiroshima & Kyoto -- KTC 02:40, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
I've explained Seibu too. Mission complete. Soredewa 10:49, 2005 May 2 (UTC)
Than you for the compliment on the Kigo article. That leaf picture looks very nice, but it probably should be cropped so that is still recognizable in the thumbnail view in the article. I would like to find one picture per season. I'd love to find a good picture of some people in colorful costumes doing odori dancing during the Bon Festival, for example. It would great to find a good flea market picture too. The Univ. of California has a couple of good websites on native plants that I think are all public domain photos, so I'll also look to see if I can find some good wildflower pictures. If you have any suggestions, feel free to suggest them. BlankVerse ∅ 12:16, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
re:Lotus: I was thoroughly confused for awhile after I followed the Lotus link and then started doing some more checking. I was thinking that the lotus used for kigo was the sacred lotus plant of Hinduism and Buddhism (genus Nelumbo), but there is also a genus Lotus with this interestingly named variation Lotus corniculatus var.japonicus (see this link for a picture [1]). Before I had done that checking, I was all set to ask the guy who took the picture at this link if he would license it under the GFDL to be used by the Wikipedia, because to me it looks like a lotus flower you might write a haiku about [2]. Then the WHC World Kigo Database says that rengesoo 蓮華草 (milk vetch) is sometimes incorrectly translated as "lotus flower" [3]. Next from my internet search is [4] Lotus flower (Byakuren, Hasu no hana) summer kigo, Lotus digging (Hasuhori) and Withered lotus (Kare hasu) winter kigo. And from THE FIVE HUNDRED ESSENTIAL JAPANESE SEASON WORDS [5] lotus (hasu, late summer). The plant, tattered lotus (yarehasu, late autumn). withered lotus (karehasu, all winter). And one more internet source [6] 枯蓮 【かれはす】 kare-hasu, withered lotus(es) (all winter). 蓮枯る 【はすかる】 hasu karu, lotuses wither / lotus withers Finally, I plug in "lotus hasu" into the Google Image Search [7] to find out that it was your type of lotus all along. ;-) After all of that, I guess that I need to change to Lotus wikilink from the disambiguation page to the correct Lotus page. BlankVerse ∅ 13:29, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
Hello Fg2
Here's an invitation to visit WP:JCOTW, Japan-related collaboration of the week. Your vote, nomination and comments are welcome. Hope to see you there! -- Aphaea * 04:52, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
Mr.Fg2
Thank you for having the report which I created corrected.
Traianus 23:30, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 18:43, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
Best wishes! Thanks! User:Fabartus || Talkto_FrankB 1 July 2005 18:23 (UTC)
I was merely fixing a double redirect. If articles are in the wrong place then by all means move them, but I know nothing about this topic. Check that this is not just a redirect of a common inaccurate spelling to the correct page. Agentsoo 04:16, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
The one you uploaded on commons ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Toji.jpg )is much too dark; you can actually see the details on the one currectly up for deletion on en-wiki. Thue | talk 16:30, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
Hello. Thanks for the invitation for the japanese related articles project. I'm kinda busy in the Portuguese wiki, but its a pleasure helping here too. Diotti 02:53, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
I also recieved said invitation, and thank you for the courtesy. I fear, however, you badly overestimate my usefulness in such a field, and mistake naive interest for experienced knowledge. However, I enjoy the topic, and will see if there is some small area I might be able to contribute to. Many thanks, Pellinore 18:00, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I didn't see your comments on Image talk:Japan_topo_en.jpg until today. I have made the changes, except for additional abbr. for the islands (which would be "Isl.", I suppose) b/c I don't think they are really necessary. -- Captain Blood 14:37, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
I have rewritten this article. I would be grateful if you could have a look.
Capitalistroadster 13:08, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
Excellent work on this article. I could have written something like this myself back in college, but it's been far too long for me to have been able to write as much as you did. -- Howcheng 06:11, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
I see that you have had a history of editing Japanese articals, and so I assume that you may know about this subject. Japanese clothing seems to contain only links to other articals, but at the top of the page it makes a refrence to itself as an artical. Also, it has a link to obi that leads to a disambiguation page. The only clothing related listing there is a belt worn on a kimono in certain martial arts. There does not seem to be an artical on obi, nor does there seem to be a more detailed definition of what it is. Do you know enough about this subject to be of assistance?-- 1 black hand °T° 13:43, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
Hello, do you still have a page that you created about Japanese name so we can put a link to that page as a footnote. It is probably nice to reflect the material that was in there in Explanatory note for Japan-related articles. -- Taku 01:27, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
I'm still getting situated -- only arrived two weeks or so ago -- and have yet to set up a reliable internet connection, but I expect to have some free time on my hands in between teaching and will contribute where I can. -- MC MasterChef 10:12, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi. The country portals tend to be limited to their respective country articles (as opposed to cities therein). Please do not add the portal to any additional cities, prefectures, etc. Thanks in advance for understanding, and your contributions. Regards, El_C 08:12, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
Should we make a subpage somewhere to archive them, or just remove them after a while? MC MasterChef 12:42, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I responded to your question on Kbdank71's page. That particular cat was merged with Category:Japanese organizations, I left a link to the discussion on his talk page. ∞ Who ?¿? 10:40, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
Do you want to clean up the Category:Japanese writing system into a tree structure, so that e.g. " kana" will be unlinked from Category:Japanese language and only be under the writing system category? This would be better in my opinion but I didn't have the confidence to do it. Please let me know what you think. -- DannyWilde 11:32, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
I have included some of your suggestions in the article. Nevertheless, I am trying to keep the information within the Boston article in summary format while moving the details to corresponding sub-articles. I am open to further suggestions within the framework that I am currently working with. Pentawing 19:21, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
I, GregAsche, hereby award you this Barnstar for your hard work at saving St. Thomas Diocese of Chicago from deletion at AfD. - Greg Asche (talk) 03:48, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Something strange happened with your last edit. I'm not sure what, but the bottom part has become funny. Do you know what to do to sort it out? Perhaps you need to revert and put the edits in again. -- DannyWilde 04:59, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the comments on peer review. It seems that you are familiar with the city. However, few, if any, people are working on the article. Hence, I was wondering if you could be able to contribute some material to the article. Pentawing 06:51, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
I like what you're doing Fg2, and while jpatokal seems to think you're the only vocal anti-macronist (is that a right-winger or a left-winger?) it's no big deal. I WOULD back you up a little more if I had the time, but there's a few facts about this here establishment that make it more of a burden than I'm willing to handle.
First of all, you have to admit the bias here (on Wikipedia) is totally slanted towards the geeky, over-factual, crufty, and elitest. Most likely, 90% of the people working on Japanese articles are, in fact, non-Japanese people with a decent understanding of Japanese things and a relative pride for Japan. You may be one of these too, as am I. It is only natural that these kind of people would fight for macrons, Japanese name order, articles in 'accurate' Japanese, -ku and -dera suffixes, and things like that. It's how Japanese articles are made less accessible to people who know nothing about Japan or at least how they are made more mysterious and foreign.
I believe that it is natural for this to happen (mathematics articles will always have really confusing diagrams and explanations, and linguistics articles will be understood by nobody who hasn't studied at least 5 languages) and there's not much that can be done about it; the number of 興味ある人 is far greater than the number of people seriously trying to write encyclopedic articles for the masses.
Jpatokal mentioned 'hypercorrectness' and I think that's a great word to describe what can't be stopped in something like Wikipedia. I won't promote it; I'll resist it, but it's too much for me to fight against so I'll just sit back and let everyone else fight it out. In the meantime I'll try to quietly fix the problems that nobody has noticed yet, and hopefully consensus will last long enough for it to become standard ; ). freshgavin TALK 07:02, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi thanks about my map. Used a black background to make it look different than the ones I had been looking at, not sure if it works. I hadnt seen your maps before, found it just then after you mentioned it. I certainly wont be replacing yours because theyre alot more detailed than mine, but I had been thinking about putting a map of the individual lines on some of the pages which dont have maps at the moment. Astrokey44 10:20, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
I have to admit I find the new article a little too washed out for my tastes. Since that's my apartment, though, it would be very easy for me to step outside and take a new picture (well, not tonight, obviously, but whenever daylight is good). I'm not particularly attached to the picture, necessarily, but if you think that it's properly illustrative for the article, I'll try for a better shot that focuses more closely on the building.
There's another apartment going up near here that I pass regularly on my way to school, although it may be almost completed by now. I think there's a model display home across the street from city hall that I'll see if I can get into, for some more pictures. — MC MasterChef :: Leave a tip — 11:06, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
I'd appreciate it if you could take a look at the talk page here and possibly put in a word : ). Thanks! Freshgavin 05:47, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi - Would you have any interest in being an admin? You seem to do a fair amount of reverting, so I suspect you'd find at least "rollback" useful. I'd be happy to nominate you if you have any interest. -- Rick Block ( talk) 15:51, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
hi. I had to revert your edit [8] on Death poem. While your spelling is correct, it breaks the misspelled image link. sorry. -- Chris 73 | Talk 19:15, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Are you sure that the Sho does not have the macron? Most of the reference material i've read includes it. If you can provide me some other source to verify this, then we can go through and remove all of the macrons from the article. ALKIVAR ™ 19:38, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I posted a reply to your comment at the afd, I am interested in this to further my understanding of verifiability, so any further comments are welcome, though maybe at my talk page :) -- redstucco 10:52, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
I noticed your inclusion of an external link in the Japanese section of non-native pronunciations of English. It seems redundant to me to have such a link when there is one provided for all languages at the bottom. Do you have something in mind that would imply we ought to do the same for all the languages or should we remove it and allow readers to find the language themselves at the bottom? AEuSoes1 03:06, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Concerning coordinates and second of arc, I am not aware of the any discussions on this issue except Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). Nevertheless, I tend to include the second of arc if they are specified by the Tiger Map server available through the U.S. Census Bureau. However, now that you mentioned this, I will probably try to get around to figuring out the situation more. Pentawing 02:46, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
I suggested deleting this project on Wikipedia talk:Japanese Collaboration of the Week. I firmly believe that sometimes, it is necessary to kill a project that does not get results to save work and attetion for those that do. Since you were one of the few people who posted there recently, I would like to hear your opinion. -- Mkill 22:54, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
I don't know if I would be so bold as to call two or three of us agreeing a conclusion; but, I think naming it Chikatetsu Narimasu Staion is correct, and it can be justified pretty easily, based on the info at the Tokyo Metro home page: http://www.tokyometro.jp/e/ticket/index.html
If we need "Narimasu Subway Station" to redirect there, then there's nothing wrong with that. Neier 02:56, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Fg2 -- Please don't re-add the photo of Kyoto to the Boston article. Wikipedia tries to have a few photos that add information about the subject of the article, rather than many "interesting" photos of lesser relevance. Photographs of sister cities don't really give people more information about a place, and the wikilink to a sister city provides a very easy and immediate way to get to photos and other information without having it in the article.
Thanks, BCorr| Брайен 13:46, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
You have in the past commented on Image Galleries nominated for deletion. Most galleries are nominated because the nominators feels that galleries violate WP:NOT. The William-Adolphe Bouguereau gallery has been nominated for deletion ( here). A proposal to modify WP:NOT is here. Please join either or both conversations and comment as you see fit. Dsmdgold 16:20, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for sumomo help. But it's confusing; you've got the Japanese words twice, separated with Chinese, and there are 2 sets of kanji. Could you check it again? Thanks, Badagnani 07:05, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your help. My questions were: 1) the katakana appeared twice after your change; 2) why is the Japanese Wikipedia title in katakana if this is a Japanese fruit?; 3) why does it have two kanji (one that looks like Chinese "li," and the other that is phonetic)? My Japanese-language skills aren't good. Badagnani 07:16, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
I think I've got all the names fixed, with your help, at sumomo. Any help you could give me to my previous questions would be great (just out of curiosity). Badagnani 07:20, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, that's very helpful! I think the kanji you left on my talk page may have been the wrong one, though; the one I know has "tree" on top and "son" on the bottom. Badagnani 07:48, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
An edit changed "Minato City Board of Education" to "Tokyo City Board"....
Wait, don't the wards operate the elementary and middle schools? WhisperToMe 08:03, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the 'o' of O-Edo de Gozaru. That was a really stupid mistake on my part. >translators salute< Best, Jersey_Jim 00:16, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
I see where you're coming at with the rounding but I can only assume that the stated 13.01km² isn't quite as accurate as they know it is and in fact officially it's usually stated as a simple 13km². On second inspection, though, I realized that the pop. density figure didn't line up with the pop/land area figures I listed so I checked again and realized the officially stated pop. figure applies to the population minus foreigners so I'm going to revise it and ... round it to the 4th anyways.
BUT, if I hadn't have had to make that change myself I would have argued against your revision because I do believe it's the ward's job to monitor the precision of their figures and not ours, so we should be able to trust in what ever amount of reasonable precision they hand us! freshgavin TALK 09:29, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Tis my pleasure. :-) I noticed the new link you made on the page, and figured that you probably didn't notice the second one in the below section. Glad to help. Neier 00:57, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for beefing up the Nerima page. I made some small changes; mostly new data from the 2006 numbers from the ward office, and some changes to the train stations and neighbouring cities. Awh 12:50, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I've just released a first draft of the article for Owarai. Planning on adding a couple sections (e.g. history) in the near future, but I think it's pretty informative as it is. Would appreciate your input; It may be better in the owarai geinin/talent space instead, though I think a more general title would be appropriate, and I'm going to work on filling out the links from there as well.
It's definitely quite biased as to my interest (tried to smooth it out as much as I could, with my knowledge of owarai only as recent as it is!) so I'd appreciate if you could pick me up on anything I overlooked there. Thanks! (Also, if you're looking really hard for articles, you might take a look at my sandbox to see what I'm planning on finishing sometime soon) freshgavin TALK 06:06, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I agree with what you commented. I actually started to change it to Hakata Station while disambig'ing some of the Hakata links, but I forgot what Osaka's shinkansen station was called.
On another completely unrelated topic, I just now came across Iwashimizu Shrine, where you moved the picture to the left side about a year ago. Any particular reason for that (other than the perspective of the shrine's staircase)? I thought I remembered some guideline about the first picture of short articles should be on the right, but a cursory search through the MoS came up empty. After thinking about it, it actually looks better on the left. Neier 12:29, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
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I'm currently in the process of completely rewriting the list (it's gonna take a while), User:Freshgavin/Sandbox/List_of_Japanese_comedians, and I'm trying to think of an elegant way to list the names in English alongside the Japanese. Names like アンガールズ will be transliterated appropriately to Ungirls, though it's not technically official, and I'd like to maintain links to the members of kombi of 2 or 3 members if possible too. Any ideas on how to smooth this out? (I'm saving all the alphabetization work for last) freshgavin TALK 04:11, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the help on Tori Busshi, Jōchō, etc.! It's nice to have someone here who knows their way around Wikipedia's coverage of Japan-related topics! I'm not sure I like the convention of including the word "Prince" and "Emperor" in the article titles of Japanese royalty, but I'm glad you knew about the convention and pointed my wikilinks in the right direction. I plan to do a few more artists soon; when I do I'll post them on the Wikipedia:Japan-related topics notice board. — BrianSmithson 12:47, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
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In the article on Jiro Taniguchi, the word "aruto" probably should be "aruku" ("to walk"). However, titles being titles, I can't be sure...
Hi Laurent,
The way I add Japanese is using Microsoft's IME. You can download it at no cost from microsoft.com and set it up to appear in the language bar. Then I select Japanese and Hiragana and type. Pressing the spacebar converts hiragana to natural Japanese (a mixture of kanji and kana).
Another way to get Japanese is to copy and paste from the Japanese Wikipedia.
I hope that helps.
Best regards,
Fg2 05:11, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
P.S. Also see
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I am very impressed by the swiftness with which the kanji were added to the yatate page ! Thank you so much ! (I've also just started the shakudo page, if you're interested ! ;) ). Thank you again !
Rama
Thanks --- I enjoyed your two articles and learned from them!
Thanks for the spelling fix on Hankyuu. I tend to overlook them.
Chuka Soba, from what I think it means from your writing, refers to a varient of Ramen known as Gomokusoba, lit. five ingredients ramen (=soba). Gomokusoba is flavored with spices used in Chinese cuisines and things on top are stir-fried and thickened. It is served in a Chinese restaurant in Japan. It's probably an oddity in a particular restaurant you are familiar with. Revth 01:33, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thank you so much for that Osaka castle pic! Now it is used in the Osaka Castle and Osaka articles! WhisperToMe 04:08, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thank you for your help with Category:Volcanoes of Honshu. I spent most of the day restructuring Category:Volcanoes into a rich extensible hierarchy. ^_^ - Gilgamesh 11:28, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the pointer to the Columbia site - it contains a number of useful items. I was planning on redoing the 47 Ronin page, taking into account the information provided in Hiroaki Sato's book (particularly the account of Okado Denpachirō, who was an official on duty the day Asano attacked Kira, and was present at many of the events of that day), and will include material from the Columbia too. Alas, I can't read Japanese, so I am restricted to sources which have been translated into English. Noel 12:22, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
You are the main author of the above article, so I'm dropping a note here. I have just reverted a long POV rant which was quoted in the article. It was placed there by 219.43.110.1 on Sept 3. Besides being POV, the quotation overwhelmed the article, indeed it became the article.
Yet obviously something more is needed about this tomb, either here or in its own article. Accordingly I've added two external links to the page. The links are just to the first reasonable discussions I found on the matter and there may be better ones. I did not add a link to the site from which the quotation was taken as I don't think it as helpful as the ones I did link to.
Jallan 19:21, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
We could do that. New York City has similar lists. WhisperToMe 04:46, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Well spotted! Turns out that despite the name Jodo-ji is not the HQ of the Jodo sect, but one of the Shingon subsects instead. Duly corrected. Jpatokal 11:20, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I noticed you redirectd my article on "VHF Onmi Range" to "VHF Omni Range". Sorry, (how embarrasing). However, this this article needs to be redirected or deleted. My mistake, a page on VOR (all caps) already existed but I found an unrelated article searching for "vor". Rsduhamel 03:35, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Is this deleted article available on the web so I can take a peek? Thortful 08:23, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
You added {{merge}}
to
Category:Japanese actors and actresses and
Category:Japanese actors. Do you have an opinion as to which should be merged into which? -
dcljr 18:49, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for letting me know about the deletion of Route 128 station. Actually, as someone who has used that station many a time, I don't think it was a particularly well-written article. There was a lot that could be talked about (they just recently rebuilt the entire station from a stray platform to a very expensive new station). To me, the information seemed like it was all pulled raw from [www.mbta.com the MBTA] and re-organised. It was not a good article for deletion, but for re-organisation and expansion. But if someone comes near my articles, I'll cut 'em! :) Páll here by the way, nice to meet you in the Wikipediaverse. PZFUN 04:51, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I have created a preliminary version of Wikipedia:VfD decisions not backed by current policies/poll. Your comments would be much appreciated. - SimonP 17:08, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my spelling on the Bikini atomic experiments page. I appreciate it. And thanks for the information about the Japanese boat; I didn't know that a third party group had been exposed to radiation. TomStar81 01:26, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I wasn't aware of any trend in Japanese city names, but standard Wikipedia convention is to use the simplest and most common name, unless there is a specific reason (eg, disambiguation) to do otherwise. I'm aware that US cities are often an exception, but that was by special agreement — I haven't noticed such an agreement for Japan, and can't find any mention of one at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (city names) or its associated talk pages. (The only mention I can find of Kyoto, Kyoto is a brief comment by another user calling it "ridiculous"). Is there a place where this has been discussed? And if so, what is the reason given for departing from Wikipedia convention? -- Vardion 22:10, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip about Wikimedia Commons. I had no idea. - Nat Kraus e 10:11, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hey there, could you possible provide Image:Sengakuji.jpg with an image copyright tag? It is required if the article is to beecome a featured article.
On another note, I was looking through your photo album, great work! I was wondering, could you provide larger resolution versions of the following images, shot by you:
I would really like to nominate them for featured pictures, but the resolution of all your images is just a tad too low. In general, when uploading images, do not spare the Wikipedia disk space :) You can upload the highest resolution version you have, although it is a good idea to apply some resizing and JPEG compression (at least 80 quality) to get image size under 1 MB. Cheers, [[User:Solitude| Solitude\ talk]] 10:52, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
Your photos of Japan are excellent — could you consider dual licensing them under CC by-sa, so they could be used at Wikitravel as well? Here's a link to a short rationale. Jpatokal 04:24, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes -- Tagishsimon (talk)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man ( comment| talk)
Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:
I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil| Peter O. ( Talk, automation script)]] 22:23, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.
Not sure on this one. I basically wrote what I did to say that it was introduced under the current emperor. I was a bit young in 1989 to have much concern about politics, much less a country I didn't know much about then. ^^;; -- EmperorBMA| 話す 23:58, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Fg2, I just completed a major rewrite of Matsudaira Teru (moved article from Matsudaira Teruko based upon the references I used). It seems I was doing the rewrite while you were correcting a misspelling I probably introduced. Sorry for the trouble. m__m I would really appreciate your input, because you've also been working on the article. (BTW, I restored the external links you added. I accidentally erased them during an edit) Thanks, Atsi Otani 17:25, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
As noted in Talk:Nagasaki, Nagasaki, I've changed the proposal the other way round for Hiroshima & Kyoto -- KTC 02:40, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
I've explained Seibu too. Mission complete. Soredewa 10:49, 2005 May 2 (UTC)
Than you for the compliment on the Kigo article. That leaf picture looks very nice, but it probably should be cropped so that is still recognizable in the thumbnail view in the article. I would like to find one picture per season. I'd love to find a good picture of some people in colorful costumes doing odori dancing during the Bon Festival, for example. It would great to find a good flea market picture too. The Univ. of California has a couple of good websites on native plants that I think are all public domain photos, so I'll also look to see if I can find some good wildflower pictures. If you have any suggestions, feel free to suggest them. BlankVerse ∅ 12:16, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
re:Lotus: I was thoroughly confused for awhile after I followed the Lotus link and then started doing some more checking. I was thinking that the lotus used for kigo was the sacred lotus plant of Hinduism and Buddhism (genus Nelumbo), but there is also a genus Lotus with this interestingly named variation Lotus corniculatus var.japonicus (see this link for a picture [1]). Before I had done that checking, I was all set to ask the guy who took the picture at this link if he would license it under the GFDL to be used by the Wikipedia, because to me it looks like a lotus flower you might write a haiku about [2]. Then the WHC World Kigo Database says that rengesoo 蓮華草 (milk vetch) is sometimes incorrectly translated as "lotus flower" [3]. Next from my internet search is [4] Lotus flower (Byakuren, Hasu no hana) summer kigo, Lotus digging (Hasuhori) and Withered lotus (Kare hasu) winter kigo. And from THE FIVE HUNDRED ESSENTIAL JAPANESE SEASON WORDS [5] lotus (hasu, late summer). The plant, tattered lotus (yarehasu, late autumn). withered lotus (karehasu, all winter). And one more internet source [6] 枯蓮 【かれはす】 kare-hasu, withered lotus(es) (all winter). 蓮枯る 【はすかる】 hasu karu, lotuses wither / lotus withers Finally, I plug in "lotus hasu" into the Google Image Search [7] to find out that it was your type of lotus all along. ;-) After all of that, I guess that I need to change to Lotus wikilink from the disambiguation page to the correct Lotus page. BlankVerse ∅ 13:29, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
Hello Fg2
Here's an invitation to visit WP:JCOTW, Japan-related collaboration of the week. Your vote, nomination and comments are welcome. Hope to see you there! -- Aphaea * 04:52, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
Mr.Fg2
Thank you for having the report which I created corrected.
Traianus 23:30, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 18:43, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
Best wishes! Thanks! User:Fabartus || Talkto_FrankB 1 July 2005 18:23 (UTC)
I was merely fixing a double redirect. If articles are in the wrong place then by all means move them, but I know nothing about this topic. Check that this is not just a redirect of a common inaccurate spelling to the correct page. Agentsoo 04:16, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
The one you uploaded on commons ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Toji.jpg )is much too dark; you can actually see the details on the one currectly up for deletion on en-wiki. Thue | talk 16:30, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
Hello. Thanks for the invitation for the japanese related articles project. I'm kinda busy in the Portuguese wiki, but its a pleasure helping here too. Diotti 02:53, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
I also recieved said invitation, and thank you for the courtesy. I fear, however, you badly overestimate my usefulness in such a field, and mistake naive interest for experienced knowledge. However, I enjoy the topic, and will see if there is some small area I might be able to contribute to. Many thanks, Pellinore 18:00, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I didn't see your comments on Image talk:Japan_topo_en.jpg until today. I have made the changes, except for additional abbr. for the islands (which would be "Isl.", I suppose) b/c I don't think they are really necessary. -- Captain Blood 14:37, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
I have rewritten this article. I would be grateful if you could have a look.
Capitalistroadster 13:08, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
Excellent work on this article. I could have written something like this myself back in college, but it's been far too long for me to have been able to write as much as you did. -- Howcheng 06:11, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
I see that you have had a history of editing Japanese articals, and so I assume that you may know about this subject. Japanese clothing seems to contain only links to other articals, but at the top of the page it makes a refrence to itself as an artical. Also, it has a link to obi that leads to a disambiguation page. The only clothing related listing there is a belt worn on a kimono in certain martial arts. There does not seem to be an artical on obi, nor does there seem to be a more detailed definition of what it is. Do you know enough about this subject to be of assistance?-- 1 black hand °T° 13:43, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
Hello, do you still have a page that you created about Japanese name so we can put a link to that page as a footnote. It is probably nice to reflect the material that was in there in Explanatory note for Japan-related articles. -- Taku 01:27, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
I'm still getting situated -- only arrived two weeks or so ago -- and have yet to set up a reliable internet connection, but I expect to have some free time on my hands in between teaching and will contribute where I can. -- MC MasterChef 10:12, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi. The country portals tend to be limited to their respective country articles (as opposed to cities therein). Please do not add the portal to any additional cities, prefectures, etc. Thanks in advance for understanding, and your contributions. Regards, El_C 08:12, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
Should we make a subpage somewhere to archive them, or just remove them after a while? MC MasterChef 12:42, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I responded to your question on Kbdank71's page. That particular cat was merged with Category:Japanese organizations, I left a link to the discussion on his talk page. ∞ Who ?¿? 10:40, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
Do you want to clean up the Category:Japanese writing system into a tree structure, so that e.g. " kana" will be unlinked from Category:Japanese language and only be under the writing system category? This would be better in my opinion but I didn't have the confidence to do it. Please let me know what you think. -- DannyWilde 11:32, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
I have included some of your suggestions in the article. Nevertheless, I am trying to keep the information within the Boston article in summary format while moving the details to corresponding sub-articles. I am open to further suggestions within the framework that I am currently working with. Pentawing 19:21, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
I, GregAsche, hereby award you this Barnstar for your hard work at saving St. Thomas Diocese of Chicago from deletion at AfD. - Greg Asche (talk) 03:48, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Something strange happened with your last edit. I'm not sure what, but the bottom part has become funny. Do you know what to do to sort it out? Perhaps you need to revert and put the edits in again. -- DannyWilde 04:59, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the comments on peer review. It seems that you are familiar with the city. However, few, if any, people are working on the article. Hence, I was wondering if you could be able to contribute some material to the article. Pentawing 06:51, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
I like what you're doing Fg2, and while jpatokal seems to think you're the only vocal anti-macronist (is that a right-winger or a left-winger?) it's no big deal. I WOULD back you up a little more if I had the time, but there's a few facts about this here establishment that make it more of a burden than I'm willing to handle.
First of all, you have to admit the bias here (on Wikipedia) is totally slanted towards the geeky, over-factual, crufty, and elitest. Most likely, 90% of the people working on Japanese articles are, in fact, non-Japanese people with a decent understanding of Japanese things and a relative pride for Japan. You may be one of these too, as am I. It is only natural that these kind of people would fight for macrons, Japanese name order, articles in 'accurate' Japanese, -ku and -dera suffixes, and things like that. It's how Japanese articles are made less accessible to people who know nothing about Japan or at least how they are made more mysterious and foreign.
I believe that it is natural for this to happen (mathematics articles will always have really confusing diagrams and explanations, and linguistics articles will be understood by nobody who hasn't studied at least 5 languages) and there's not much that can be done about it; the number of 興味ある人 is far greater than the number of people seriously trying to write encyclopedic articles for the masses.
Jpatokal mentioned 'hypercorrectness' and I think that's a great word to describe what can't be stopped in something like Wikipedia. I won't promote it; I'll resist it, but it's too much for me to fight against so I'll just sit back and let everyone else fight it out. In the meantime I'll try to quietly fix the problems that nobody has noticed yet, and hopefully consensus will last long enough for it to become standard ; ). freshgavin TALK 07:02, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi thanks about my map. Used a black background to make it look different than the ones I had been looking at, not sure if it works. I hadnt seen your maps before, found it just then after you mentioned it. I certainly wont be replacing yours because theyre alot more detailed than mine, but I had been thinking about putting a map of the individual lines on some of the pages which dont have maps at the moment. Astrokey44 10:20, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
I have to admit I find the new article a little too washed out for my tastes. Since that's my apartment, though, it would be very easy for me to step outside and take a new picture (well, not tonight, obviously, but whenever daylight is good). I'm not particularly attached to the picture, necessarily, but if you think that it's properly illustrative for the article, I'll try for a better shot that focuses more closely on the building.
There's another apartment going up near here that I pass regularly on my way to school, although it may be almost completed by now. I think there's a model display home across the street from city hall that I'll see if I can get into, for some more pictures. — MC MasterChef :: Leave a tip — 11:06, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
I'd appreciate it if you could take a look at the talk page here and possibly put in a word : ). Thanks! Freshgavin 05:47, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi - Would you have any interest in being an admin? You seem to do a fair amount of reverting, so I suspect you'd find at least "rollback" useful. I'd be happy to nominate you if you have any interest. -- Rick Block ( talk) 15:51, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
hi. I had to revert your edit [8] on Death poem. While your spelling is correct, it breaks the misspelled image link. sorry. -- Chris 73 | Talk 19:15, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
Are you sure that the Sho does not have the macron? Most of the reference material i've read includes it. If you can provide me some other source to verify this, then we can go through and remove all of the macrons from the article. ALKIVAR ™ 19:38, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I posted a reply to your comment at the afd, I am interested in this to further my understanding of verifiability, so any further comments are welcome, though maybe at my talk page :) -- redstucco 10:52, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
I noticed your inclusion of an external link in the Japanese section of non-native pronunciations of English. It seems redundant to me to have such a link when there is one provided for all languages at the bottom. Do you have something in mind that would imply we ought to do the same for all the languages or should we remove it and allow readers to find the language themselves at the bottom? AEuSoes1 03:06, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Concerning coordinates and second of arc, I am not aware of the any discussions on this issue except Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). Nevertheless, I tend to include the second of arc if they are specified by the Tiger Map server available through the U.S. Census Bureau. However, now that you mentioned this, I will probably try to get around to figuring out the situation more. Pentawing 02:46, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
I suggested deleting this project on Wikipedia talk:Japanese Collaboration of the Week. I firmly believe that sometimes, it is necessary to kill a project that does not get results to save work and attetion for those that do. Since you were one of the few people who posted there recently, I would like to hear your opinion. -- Mkill 22:54, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
I don't know if I would be so bold as to call two or three of us agreeing a conclusion; but, I think naming it Chikatetsu Narimasu Staion is correct, and it can be justified pretty easily, based on the info at the Tokyo Metro home page: http://www.tokyometro.jp/e/ticket/index.html
If we need "Narimasu Subway Station" to redirect there, then there's nothing wrong with that. Neier 02:56, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Fg2 -- Please don't re-add the photo of Kyoto to the Boston article. Wikipedia tries to have a few photos that add information about the subject of the article, rather than many "interesting" photos of lesser relevance. Photographs of sister cities don't really give people more information about a place, and the wikilink to a sister city provides a very easy and immediate way to get to photos and other information without having it in the article.
Thanks, BCorr| Брайен 13:46, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
You have in the past commented on Image Galleries nominated for deletion. Most galleries are nominated because the nominators feels that galleries violate WP:NOT. The William-Adolphe Bouguereau gallery has been nominated for deletion ( here). A proposal to modify WP:NOT is here. Please join either or both conversations and comment as you see fit. Dsmdgold 16:20, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for sumomo help. But it's confusing; you've got the Japanese words twice, separated with Chinese, and there are 2 sets of kanji. Could you check it again? Thanks, Badagnani 07:05, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your help. My questions were: 1) the katakana appeared twice after your change; 2) why is the Japanese Wikipedia title in katakana if this is a Japanese fruit?; 3) why does it have two kanji (one that looks like Chinese "li," and the other that is phonetic)? My Japanese-language skills aren't good. Badagnani 07:16, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
I think I've got all the names fixed, with your help, at sumomo. Any help you could give me to my previous questions would be great (just out of curiosity). Badagnani 07:20, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks, that's very helpful! I think the kanji you left on my talk page may have been the wrong one, though; the one I know has "tree" on top and "son" on the bottom. Badagnani 07:48, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
An edit changed "Minato City Board of Education" to "Tokyo City Board"....
Wait, don't the wards operate the elementary and middle schools? WhisperToMe 08:03, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the 'o' of O-Edo de Gozaru. That was a really stupid mistake on my part. >translators salute< Best, Jersey_Jim 00:16, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
I see where you're coming at with the rounding but I can only assume that the stated 13.01km² isn't quite as accurate as they know it is and in fact officially it's usually stated as a simple 13km². On second inspection, though, I realized that the pop. density figure didn't line up with the pop/land area figures I listed so I checked again and realized the officially stated pop. figure applies to the population minus foreigners so I'm going to revise it and ... round it to the 4th anyways.
BUT, if I hadn't have had to make that change myself I would have argued against your revision because I do believe it's the ward's job to monitor the precision of their figures and not ours, so we should be able to trust in what ever amount of reasonable precision they hand us! freshgavin TALK 09:29, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Tis my pleasure. :-) I noticed the new link you made on the page, and figured that you probably didn't notice the second one in the below section. Glad to help. Neier 00:57, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for beefing up the Nerima page. I made some small changes; mostly new data from the 2006 numbers from the ward office, and some changes to the train stations and neighbouring cities. Awh 12:50, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I've just released a first draft of the article for Owarai. Planning on adding a couple sections (e.g. history) in the near future, but I think it's pretty informative as it is. Would appreciate your input; It may be better in the owarai geinin/talent space instead, though I think a more general title would be appropriate, and I'm going to work on filling out the links from there as well.
It's definitely quite biased as to my interest (tried to smooth it out as much as I could, with my knowledge of owarai only as recent as it is!) so I'd appreciate if you could pick me up on anything I overlooked there. Thanks! (Also, if you're looking really hard for articles, you might take a look at my sandbox to see what I'm planning on finishing sometime soon) freshgavin TALK 06:06, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I agree with what you commented. I actually started to change it to Hakata Station while disambig'ing some of the Hakata links, but I forgot what Osaka's shinkansen station was called.
On another completely unrelated topic, I just now came across Iwashimizu Shrine, where you moved the picture to the left side about a year ago. Any particular reason for that (other than the perspective of the shrine's staircase)? I thought I remembered some guideline about the first picture of short articles should be on the right, but a cursory search through the MoS came up empty. After thinking about it, it actually looks better on the left. Neier 12:29, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
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I'm currently in the process of completely rewriting the list (it's gonna take a while), User:Freshgavin/Sandbox/List_of_Japanese_comedians, and I'm trying to think of an elegant way to list the names in English alongside the Japanese. Names like アンガールズ will be transliterated appropriately to Ungirls, though it's not technically official, and I'd like to maintain links to the members of kombi of 2 or 3 members if possible too. Any ideas on how to smooth this out? (I'm saving all the alphabetization work for last) freshgavin TALK 04:11, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the help on Tori Busshi, Jōchō, etc.! It's nice to have someone here who knows their way around Wikipedia's coverage of Japan-related topics! I'm not sure I like the convention of including the word "Prince" and "Emperor" in the article titles of Japanese royalty, but I'm glad you knew about the convention and pointed my wikilinks in the right direction. I plan to do a few more artists soon; when I do I'll post them on the Wikipedia:Japan-related topics notice board. — BrianSmithson 12:47, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
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Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BD2412 T 05:13, 17 February 2006 (UTC)