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If you are not too busy, I want to hear your opinion. Please take a look at the Misinformation section on the talk page of Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thank you. Oda Mari 10:20, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for coming up with a new category. This is filling a major lacuna, and will come in quite useful in future. I'll go see which other articles I've already written which ought to fit here. LordAmeth 15:10, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi there and not a problem. I had to take care of some things and now I'm headed off to bed. The only section I still have material to add and edit is the Operational History Section, which I'll work on tomorrow night. Anything else I have added is fair game for anyone to edit, so please do if you think it can be improved.
Warmest Regards
Brent
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Please let me know if you have any questions, and thank you for helping out! ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 08:40, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you voted to keep the Wp:an/i and Wp:afd redirects at the Redirects for deletion page. I also voted to keep these redirect pages. I thought that if they were removed, then I would not automatically get to the pages I was looking for if I happened to type all lowercase letters, which would be pretty inconvenient. However, it turns out I was wrong. The software will automatically send someone to the appropriate page, even if they type all lowercase, and even if the redirect pages are deleted. It's just like a redirect, but without the redirect page. Deleting them will remove needless clutter in mainspace searches. With this knowledge, I wonder if you might consider changing your vote to delete. Thanks, and have a good day. Nick Graves 18:21, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to inform you that I replaced your image with one I found at Flickr under a free license. I don't want to upset anyone in doing things like this, so I want you to know it doesn't matter which photo stands as far as I'm concerned. I just found the angle and clarity rather good in the current photograph; though I did like how you captured the cherry blossoms. ( Mind meal 02:54, 12 August 2007 (UTC))
There's an RfC up on Talk:History of Japan#Request for Comment. I notice that you were involved in a similar discussion on the Japan page and that your views might be useful to the conversation. Thanks, John Smith's 18:12, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
So, do you have a preference in the discussion or were you just making a general comment? John Smith's 12:56, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I've tweaked your wording (mostly for readability). I don't remember whether it's been discussed before but I added the "都 " to the Kanji (which, I gather, is "to") and changed the bold subject to Tokyo Metropolis (to match the translation and the name in the infobox). It seems like adding "Metropolitan prefecture" somewhere in the first sentence would be good as well, but I can't quite seem to make it work (and I'm not sure how it should be capitalized). Maybe
This doesn't sound quite right to me. Another alternative might be to start the sentence with Tokyo Metropolis or Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture ... If this ever gets to FA review, I suspect someone will object to the nebulous "certain municipal services" (which services? why?), but I think it is better than what I came up with before. -- Rick Block ( talk) 02:37, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello, my friend. I would like to start several stubs about Japanese volcanoes, to kill redlinks in List of volcanoes in Japan. All Indonesian and almost all Russian volcanoes have already their articles. Point is, I don't know if there is any naming convention for Japanese mountains. How should I, e.g., name this: [1] volcano? Suwanosejima, Suwanose-jima or maybe Mount Suwanose? Same with -yama suffix [2], and -dake suffix [3]. Thanks. - Darwinek 09:48, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
You removed the prod saying the article is verifiable and notable [4] but did not supply references to meet WP:V and WP:N. Without references it is unlikely to survive a WP:AFD. If you would like to add the references it would go a long way to support your claims. Jeepday ( talk) 02:32, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
I nominate this discussion for the first Wikipedia WikiProject Japan Midſommer Nights Dreame Mujutsu Myſticalle Barnſensu Award. Recommended reading for all of us ſuffering from the strict leftover heat that is continuing. Fg2 12:15, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
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Regarding Gare de Pas-des-Lanciers; I'm afraid I disagree with your assessment that railway staitons are notable. Not every station or any thing is notable, this article distinctively lacks the information proving it is notable; it may very well be a platform with a bus shelter, thus making it unnotable and not worthy of an article. Deletion is not the end of the article, it could be reopened later and have more information added to it with references and notable details. My understanding of PROD is that PRODing articles is used to indicate that an article seems unnotable and there is nothing in the article proving it isn't. In this case I believe PROD was justified since as a stub the article be deleted for not asserting its importance. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 10:47, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
I checked the website for the film Ooku and found that its title is romanized as "Oh! Oku" - I moved the article to that title - would that name apply to the TV series? Or does the :Oh! Oku" romanization only apply to the film? WhisperToMe 16:23, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi! Can you change this image name? And please take a look at the current version of the name section of this article? -- Oda Mari 09:27, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Melles Griot, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melles Griot. Thank you. -- B. Wolterding 16:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand how on Earth a context-less infobox in the shape of a scoreboard is considered a valid stub. It's certainly your right to remove the proposed deletion template for any or no reason, but I'd like to know if your reasoning here is based on any specific policy or other documented wiki-consensus or if this is just your own personal opinion. It's certainly possible I'm just not aware of some consensus I do need to be aware of, so please do let me know if that is the case. Erechtheus 01:01, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Fg2,
Thanks for your insightful and informed comment at the end of the Japanese Gardens FPC nomination; unfortunately you did so only about 20mins before the nom was closed, so most people will never see what you said.
I have responded there if you want to check it out. I'm certainly no expert in Japanese Gardens, but thought the photos I put in were useful contributions. As I said in my response, I'm happy for them to be replaced if someone can contribute something better. If I ever go to Japan that may be me, but I don't plan to be travelling there anytime soon, so will have to wait for someone else.
Cheers, -- jjron 02:54, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
I've renamed this article to Seismology of the Sanriku coast following your expansion of its scope. Does that seem like a sensible title? WjB scribe 02:30, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Is this new article wrongly named? Should I have created Tōeizan Kan’ei-ji? I wouldn't want to make the same mistake again in the future, if indeed this was a mistaken beginning. -- Ooperhoofd 03:00, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
-- Carabinieri 13:48, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
The reason I undid the deletion of the ISO list was because it is very useful and convenient, located right next to the map for my research. I've been using this webpage for months and was startled by the change. I know the table is sortable by ISO number but the previous list had all the prefectures neatly separated by region, making the map references a breeze. If it doesn't affect anyone's life tremendously, can we keep it like this? (or at least for a couple weeks) User:Incognitocharm 20:05, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I read the article Togyu. It categorized as Okinawa pref. and Ryukuan culture, and is written solely about the togyu in Okinawa. But it takes place several places in Japan. I asked the main editor to expand the article. What else can I do? (I don't have much interest about togyu.) Oda Mari 05:26, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks so much for your helpful edits. -- Clhowson 14:16, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Does "Hopiakuta" mean anything in Japanese? Just curious (it's a username). -- Rick Block ( talk) 04:09, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Fg2! I found this image used on 東京都 page in Ja. WP and thought it not bad. Isn't it used on Tokyo or Shinjuku, Tokyo? What do you think? Best regards. Oda Mari ( talk) 14:51, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
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Will you please comment or edit the "box" in the Genealogy section of Emperor Sutoku? Also, please look at a similar "box" in the Genealogy sectoin of Emperor Go-Fukakusa? I wonder how better to have handled this ...? -- Ooperhoofd 21:24, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi man, are you the one that used to take care of that page? "List of stock photography archives" was named. It got deleted! I also did some contributions there, what a shame... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brodder ( talk • contribs) 03:45, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello again. You have "Image:Akishino.....jpg" with "Personality rights warning" stub. I would like to up load to Wikimedia commons the similar kind of picture via Japanese edition of Wikimedia Commons with all prompted in Japanese, including "copy right" choice. Could you teach me a selection/choice to have "Personality rights warning" stub in case of English edition with full sentence. I will interpret it then accommodate in Japanese edition. Copy right choice is not easy job to me. Thank you in advance.-- Namazu-tron 12:32, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
How exactly does Image:EngrishSweatshirt.jpg show an example of Engrish? the juggreserection 14:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for translating parts of the article for Kume District, Iyo. User:BigBang19 8 November 2007 12:37 (PST)
I am wished to explain to you why below deleted.
They are termed "woman who isn't dead yet" (未亡人, Mibōjin). In ancient times in the East, the widow had to commit suicide and follow her husband. In medieval times, the custom was for them to enter monkhood. See
Junshi.
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Thank you for your contributions for the article Yoji Totsuka. Regards, Masterpiece2000 14:45, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
this regards your procedural decline of PROD here
I will cross-post to User talk:OccamzRazor
I will not be reversing or otherwise changing the impact of your editing with regard to this article; I just wanted to provide context for the recent edits. I removed the PROD notice because it did not contain a reason. I was contacted by the person who placed the original PROD and we were working out the appropriate usage of PROD in this case in that I was assisting the editor to insert a reason for the PROD. My removal of the PROD was procedural and I don't think it is outside acceptable behavior to allow re-PRODding after a procedural decline. It is unfortunate that you took the step you did - not inappropriate based on the letter of the policy, but unfortunate in that I was trying to help an editor to best use this procedure. I do understand that an addition to the edit summary that specifically indicated that rePRODding would be acceptable under the circumstances would be OK would have been the right course for me to take. Regards --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 12:25, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi Ceyockey,
It's regrettable that this happened. I don't have an opinion about the article; my removal was also procedural.
Best regards, Fg2 20:41, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi Fg2! I don't understand this edit. I asked it to the editor and his reply was this. I think Japanese archaeologists try to find out what Jomon people ate from middens, don't they? And Japanese preference to short grain rice is a prejudice? Am I wrong? Oda Mari ( talk) 06:40, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
The distinction I am trying to make is that one is a place name and one is an electoral district. It seems silly to me to say that Hideyoshi was born in "Aichi District," which is an electoral district that did not exist until Japan began to hold democratic elections. On the other hand, saying that he was born in the "Aichi district of Owari" works for me. What's more, I'm pretty sure that the Aichi district of Owari and modern-day Aichi District are not 100% congruous.
Spventi 03:39, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
My captialization was intentional. Fg2 23:33, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Are you Japanese?-- Inhomeyoshi 07:49, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi. You participated in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/USS Watseka (YT-387) which has now closed as "keep". I think it's worth having a more general discussion as to the notability of small noncombatant auxiliaries such as harbour tugs and I have raised this question at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Maritime warfare task force#Follow-up. I'm inviting all the AfD participants, both pro and con, to join in with their thoughts on the topic. -- A. B. (talk) 17:07, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
I didn't want to crowd the AfD anymore than it is, but I still wanted to address your comment. You said that notability is inherent just because it is a train station. How? I mean when will it stop. How many train, bus, and subway stations are there? Should we have an article on every single one of those? What I am trying to say is that just because something "is", doesn't make it notable. Hope this explains my thoughts.
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Hi! Thanks so much for helping out with Misaki. By the way, there are a total of 8 breeds of horse or pony considered indigenous to Japan, according to the source material I was looking at, there are currently articles on three others, Noma pony, Hokkaido Pony, and Yonaguni (horse). You may want to take a look at those, if you haven't already.
If you are into creating articles, we still need articles on these four other Japanese horse breeds:
For the Japanese horse breeds Kiso, Miyako, Toakara, and Tsushima, note very basic statistical info at: "Country Report (For FAO State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources Process)", Editorial Committee Office of the Japanese Country Report, Animal Genetic Resources Laboratory, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan.
If you (or someone you tip off about this need) do decide to create these articles, either give me a heads up, or enter them over on list of horse breeds. Thanks! Montanabw (talk) 05:17, 18 November 2007 (UTC) (accidentally, somehow, the unofficial organizer of some of the horse articles on Wikipedia)
Hi! I saw you posted comment on the talk page. 2 years ago though. The second paragraph of the address elements section is far from the accuracy. I want to edit it but the elements are too complicated for me to edit it right. Could you help me? And recent editors seem not to understand the difference between special wards in Tokyo and designated cities' wards. Not between Machi as towns and as area names too. I posted my comment and info. on the talk page. It would be nice of you to give me an advice. Oda Mari ( talk) 18:54, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
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Sorry, that was the fault of Twinkle. It sends that notice to the original author, and because you reverted the pagemove, it assumed you were it. It even did it to me once. Apologies. -- Closedmouth ( talk) 02:32, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
put into English version of article which pictured Kayano-ō sugi in the shrine, ( Japanese: 栢野大杉)in article Cryptomeria which took picture and up the article. Its a world asset.(solicit)-- Namazu-tron ( talk) 05:42, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Are you sure you want to undo them? I suppose I can help if you're sure they should be reverted. - Justin (koavf)· T· C· M 10:26, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Oops. Sorry about that. Perhaps I should read the whole article before making changes! :) Thanks for the information! 200.207.152.195 10:28, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment.
From Daijisen: みい‐でら〔みゐ‐〕【三井寺/御井寺】 1) 園城寺(おんじょうじ)の異称。 2) 奈良県にある法輪寺の異称。 3)(三井寺)謡曲。四番目物。さらわれたわが子を尋ねる母が、物狂いとなって近江(おうみ)の三井寺の鐘をつき、子との再会を果たす。
So 御井寺 applies to both according to them.
There are about one hundred Google hits for "御井寺" "園城寺", i.e.: http://www.kokuhoworld.com/bb05.html http://www.rekihaku.otsu.shiga.jp/jiten/data/085.html
The latter gives the reading of 御井寺 as みいのてら, but it is the only website to do so. Bueller 007 ( talk) 09:50, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
statistics education Thank you for notifying me about the deletion of my proposed entry statistics education. I strongly believe that it should not be deleted since it is a well-established discipline and and educatioanl/research international comminity, similar to the mathematics education entry and community. I am new to editing in Wikipedia, but in the coming days we shall make an effort to edit the item. Please help me in preserving this important entry. Best, Dani-- Dbenzvi ( talk) 05:20, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello Fg2. I created the article 1703 Genroku earthquake today. I noticed that you have made several important contributions to articles related to Japan. Can you please add some more information in the article? Regards, Masterpiece2000 ( talk) 06:24, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
The naming of this article provides an opportunity to raise a few questions which seem worthy of further discussion. Up until today, the staid style of an article about Mt. Fuji exemplified the model I most preferred:
Gregorian calendar date?
A first blush, I wondered how useful is it to begin an article name with a Gregorian calendar date -- especially when the event is better known by in relation to a specific nengō or Japanese era name? But I have noticed that there are a number of Wikipedia articles about earthquake disasters which incorporate the date as an essential part of the title. Would each one be improved significantly by deleting that date?
Would it be better to remove Gregorian calendar dates from these titles? In my view, these dates are likely to become a kind of stumbling block for the Wikipedia user; but maybe I've got it precisely backwards? Maybe it's best to accept that this format has become a Wikipedia convention; but if so, how shall I be guided in creating new articles in the future? For example, the following list of significant pre- Meiji period fires in Kyoto comes from Ponsonby-Fane's Kyoto: the Old Capital, 794-1869. Would these as-yet-unwritten articles be significantly improved if the titles were formatted with a Gregorian calendar date?
Great?
Many events are conventionally known as "great" -- as in the
Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995, which includes the following explanation:
As we all know, there are many earthquakes and many fires in Japanese history. In the context of Japanese history and Wikipedia, which ones need to be called "great"? For example: The Significant Earthquake Database lists an earthquake at Kyoto on the 25th day of the 7th month of the 13th year of Bunsei (文政十三年六月二十五日) or Friday, August 19, 1830 (equicenter: 35.000 latitude/136.000 longitude); but no Richter scale approximation was suggested.<ref.>Online "Significant Earthquake Database" -- U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). ...Click link for NOAA/Japan: Significant Earthquake Database<./ref> Nevertheless, the earthquake was perceived by Emperor s Ninkō as sufficiently "great" for the era name to be changed:
If a potential source does happen to provide more information about this specific fire, how should I reasonably expect to entitle a Wikipedia stub article?
For now, I guess I can't do better than to follow the excellent example set by Masterpiece2000. I guess I would entitle the article with the Gregorian date included; and I'd simultaneously create re-directs from alternate plausible names as has been done with 1703 Genroku earthquake. Am I correct in taking this to be the exemplar I should imitate?
If so, should I begin a process of renaming
Hōei eruption of Mount Fuji to read
1707 Hōei eruption of Mount Fuji?--
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Further context for these questions
The following may help provide helpful context:
Hi, can you help settle a petty edit war over at Mare (horse)? The spat is over the following sentence: "Interestingly, in many East Asian languages, the word for "horse" sounds very similar to "mare", such as the Korean 말 (mar),[9] Chinese ma,[citation needed] and Japanese uma.[citation needed]"
Essentially, I didn't create this, but it is a rather intriguing homophonic parallel and fun to keep in the article. However, another user thinks it's "original research" and keeps blanking it. I see no reason to blank it and would like to source it instead. Babelfish showed that the Korean character is correct (and I assume whoever added this knew how to pronounce the word). Thus, could you kindly consider adding the Japanese character for Uma to the article, perhaps with some source that verifies that "this is the character for "horse" which in Japanese is pronounced "uma"?? If you can't that's OK, but I'd hate to toss something verifiable. Many thanks. Also if you know folks fluent in Korean or Chinese, can you tip them off to this, also? Montanabw (talk) 20:52, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I wish you a Merry Christmas and all the best in the new year. - Darwinek ( talk) 12:18, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the photograph of the Kyoto Manga Museum to the manga article. I posted a few questions on the talk page of the manga article, asking what the photograph adds to the article. Could you perhaps respond on the manga talk page? Thank you. Timothy Perper ( talk) 03:46, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm one of the people who's been working on bringing this article up to GA status. Your comments are very helpful, and thanks for the careful reading. A number of the problems you mention arise because a variety of people have worked on the article, adding things in different styles and formats. One of our biggest problems has been cleaning up the resulting mess. Our first priority was bringing the sourcing up to something resembling GA status and balancing the coverage of topics. We've started to work on various formatting problems. We will take your comments to heart and see what we can do. Once again, thanks for taking the time to look at the article. Timothy Perper ( talk) 15:55, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
I don't think I noticed that you were an administrator, which means (I guess) this is not appropriately addressed to you -- but if not you, who?
In each of the articles I have created, the consolidated in-line citations have been "named" with the first letter of the author's last name plus the relevant page number; ergo -- I've NOT created a name a mere integer ... and, although there has been no problem prior to 27 December 2007/17:00 (EST) ... everything has suddenly gone awry. -- Ooperhoofd ( talk) 22:51, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks to both of you. I'm not an administrator, and hadn't noticed the problem, but it's nice to know it has been corrected. Fg2 ( talk) 00:53, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I uploaded an edit that deals with the blue cast that you mentioned. I completely desaturated the fully exposed snow. Let me know if that takes care of the problem. -
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Actually, apparently the nomination was just closed as a promotion, so thanks for your time anyway. -
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If you are not too busy, I want to hear your opinion. Please take a look at the Misinformation section on the talk page of Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thank you. Oda Mari 10:20, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for coming up with a new category. This is filling a major lacuna, and will come in quite useful in future. I'll go see which other articles I've already written which ought to fit here. LordAmeth 15:10, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi there and not a problem. I had to take care of some things and now I'm headed off to bed. The only section I still have material to add and edit is the Operational History Section, which I'll work on tomorrow night. Anything else I have added is fair game for anyone to edit, so please do if you think it can be improved.
Warmest Regards
Brent
Bwmoll3 06:41, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
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Please let me know if you have any questions, and thank you for helping out! ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 08:40, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you voted to keep the Wp:an/i and Wp:afd redirects at the Redirects for deletion page. I also voted to keep these redirect pages. I thought that if they were removed, then I would not automatically get to the pages I was looking for if I happened to type all lowercase letters, which would be pretty inconvenient. However, it turns out I was wrong. The software will automatically send someone to the appropriate page, even if they type all lowercase, and even if the redirect pages are deleted. It's just like a redirect, but without the redirect page. Deleting them will remove needless clutter in mainspace searches. With this knowledge, I wonder if you might consider changing your vote to delete. Thanks, and have a good day. Nick Graves 18:21, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
I wanted to inform you that I replaced your image with one I found at Flickr under a free license. I don't want to upset anyone in doing things like this, so I want you to know it doesn't matter which photo stands as far as I'm concerned. I just found the angle and clarity rather good in the current photograph; though I did like how you captured the cherry blossoms. ( Mind meal 02:54, 12 August 2007 (UTC))
There's an RfC up on Talk:History of Japan#Request for Comment. I notice that you were involved in a similar discussion on the Japan page and that your views might be useful to the conversation. Thanks, John Smith's 18:12, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
So, do you have a preference in the discussion or were you just making a general comment? John Smith's 12:56, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I've tweaked your wording (mostly for readability). I don't remember whether it's been discussed before but I added the "都 " to the Kanji (which, I gather, is "to") and changed the bold subject to Tokyo Metropolis (to match the translation and the name in the infobox). It seems like adding "Metropolitan prefecture" somewhere in the first sentence would be good as well, but I can't quite seem to make it work (and I'm not sure how it should be capitalized). Maybe
This doesn't sound quite right to me. Another alternative might be to start the sentence with Tokyo Metropolis or Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture ... If this ever gets to FA review, I suspect someone will object to the nebulous "certain municipal services" (which services? why?), but I think it is better than what I came up with before. -- Rick Block ( talk) 02:37, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello, my friend. I would like to start several stubs about Japanese volcanoes, to kill redlinks in List of volcanoes in Japan. All Indonesian and almost all Russian volcanoes have already their articles. Point is, I don't know if there is any naming convention for Japanese mountains. How should I, e.g., name this: [1] volcano? Suwanosejima, Suwanose-jima or maybe Mount Suwanose? Same with -yama suffix [2], and -dake suffix [3]. Thanks. - Darwinek 09:48, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
You removed the prod saying the article is verifiable and notable [4] but did not supply references to meet WP:V and WP:N. Without references it is unlikely to survive a WP:AFD. If you would like to add the references it would go a long way to support your claims. Jeepday ( talk) 02:32, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
I nominate this discussion for the first Wikipedia WikiProject Japan Midſommer Nights Dreame Mujutsu Myſticalle Barnſensu Award. Recommended reading for all of us ſuffering from the strict leftover heat that is continuing. Fg2 12:15, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
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Regarding Gare de Pas-des-Lanciers; I'm afraid I disagree with your assessment that railway staitons are notable. Not every station or any thing is notable, this article distinctively lacks the information proving it is notable; it may very well be a platform with a bus shelter, thus making it unnotable and not worthy of an article. Deletion is not the end of the article, it could be reopened later and have more information added to it with references and notable details. My understanding of PROD is that PRODing articles is used to indicate that an article seems unnotable and there is nothing in the article proving it isn't. In this case I believe PROD was justified since as a stub the article be deleted for not asserting its importance. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 10:47, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
I checked the website for the film Ooku and found that its title is romanized as "Oh! Oku" - I moved the article to that title - would that name apply to the TV series? Or does the :Oh! Oku" romanization only apply to the film? WhisperToMe 16:23, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi! Can you change this image name? And please take a look at the current version of the name section of this article? -- Oda Mari 09:27, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Melles Griot, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melles Griot. Thank you. -- B. Wolterding 16:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand how on Earth a context-less infobox in the shape of a scoreboard is considered a valid stub. It's certainly your right to remove the proposed deletion template for any or no reason, but I'd like to know if your reasoning here is based on any specific policy or other documented wiki-consensus or if this is just your own personal opinion. It's certainly possible I'm just not aware of some consensus I do need to be aware of, so please do let me know if that is the case. Erechtheus 01:01, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Fg2,
Thanks for your insightful and informed comment at the end of the Japanese Gardens FPC nomination; unfortunately you did so only about 20mins before the nom was closed, so most people will never see what you said.
I have responded there if you want to check it out. I'm certainly no expert in Japanese Gardens, but thought the photos I put in were useful contributions. As I said in my response, I'm happy for them to be replaced if someone can contribute something better. If I ever go to Japan that may be me, but I don't plan to be travelling there anytime soon, so will have to wait for someone else.
Cheers, -- jjron 02:54, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
I've renamed this article to Seismology of the Sanriku coast following your expansion of its scope. Does that seem like a sensible title? WjB scribe 02:30, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Is this new article wrongly named? Should I have created Tōeizan Kan’ei-ji? I wouldn't want to make the same mistake again in the future, if indeed this was a mistaken beginning. -- Ooperhoofd 03:00, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
-- Carabinieri 13:48, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
The reason I undid the deletion of the ISO list was because it is very useful and convenient, located right next to the map for my research. I've been using this webpage for months and was startled by the change. I know the table is sortable by ISO number but the previous list had all the prefectures neatly separated by region, making the map references a breeze. If it doesn't affect anyone's life tremendously, can we keep it like this? (or at least for a couple weeks) User:Incognitocharm 20:05, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
I read the article Togyu. It categorized as Okinawa pref. and Ryukuan culture, and is written solely about the togyu in Okinawa. But it takes place several places in Japan. I asked the main editor to expand the article. What else can I do? (I don't have much interest about togyu.) Oda Mari 05:26, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks so much for your helpful edits. -- Clhowson 14:16, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Does "Hopiakuta" mean anything in Japanese? Just curious (it's a username). -- Rick Block ( talk) 04:09, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Fg2! I found this image used on 東京都 page in Ja. WP and thought it not bad. Isn't it used on Tokyo or Shinjuku, Tokyo? What do you think? Best regards. Oda Mari ( talk) 14:51, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
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Will you please comment or edit the "box" in the Genealogy section of Emperor Sutoku? Also, please look at a similar "box" in the Genealogy sectoin of Emperor Go-Fukakusa? I wonder how better to have handled this ...? -- Ooperhoofd 21:24, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi man, are you the one that used to take care of that page? "List of stock photography archives" was named. It got deleted! I also did some contributions there, what a shame... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brodder ( talk • contribs) 03:45, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello again. You have "Image:Akishino.....jpg" with "Personality rights warning" stub. I would like to up load to Wikimedia commons the similar kind of picture via Japanese edition of Wikimedia Commons with all prompted in Japanese, including "copy right" choice. Could you teach me a selection/choice to have "Personality rights warning" stub in case of English edition with full sentence. I will interpret it then accommodate in Japanese edition. Copy right choice is not easy job to me. Thank you in advance.-- Namazu-tron 12:32, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
How exactly does Image:EngrishSweatshirt.jpg show an example of Engrish? the juggreserection 14:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for translating parts of the article for Kume District, Iyo. User:BigBang19 8 November 2007 12:37 (PST)
I am wished to explain to you why below deleted.
They are termed "woman who isn't dead yet" (未亡人, Mibōjin). In ancient times in the East, the widow had to commit suicide and follow her husband. In medieval times, the custom was for them to enter monkhood. See
Junshi.
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Thank you for your contributions for the article Yoji Totsuka. Regards, Masterpiece2000 14:45, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
this regards your procedural decline of PROD here
I will cross-post to User talk:OccamzRazor
I will not be reversing or otherwise changing the impact of your editing with regard to this article; I just wanted to provide context for the recent edits. I removed the PROD notice because it did not contain a reason. I was contacted by the person who placed the original PROD and we were working out the appropriate usage of PROD in this case in that I was assisting the editor to insert a reason for the PROD. My removal of the PROD was procedural and I don't think it is outside acceptable behavior to allow re-PRODding after a procedural decline. It is unfortunate that you took the step you did - not inappropriate based on the letter of the policy, but unfortunate in that I was trying to help an editor to best use this procedure. I do understand that an addition to the edit summary that specifically indicated that rePRODding would be acceptable under the circumstances would be OK would have been the right course for me to take. Regards --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 12:25, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi Ceyockey,
It's regrettable that this happened. I don't have an opinion about the article; my removal was also procedural.
Best regards, Fg2 20:41, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi Fg2! I don't understand this edit. I asked it to the editor and his reply was this. I think Japanese archaeologists try to find out what Jomon people ate from middens, don't they? And Japanese preference to short grain rice is a prejudice? Am I wrong? Oda Mari ( talk) 06:40, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
The distinction I am trying to make is that one is a place name and one is an electoral district. It seems silly to me to say that Hideyoshi was born in "Aichi District," which is an electoral district that did not exist until Japan began to hold democratic elections. On the other hand, saying that he was born in the "Aichi district of Owari" works for me. What's more, I'm pretty sure that the Aichi district of Owari and modern-day Aichi District are not 100% congruous.
Spventi 03:39, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
My captialization was intentional. Fg2 23:33, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Are you Japanese?-- Inhomeyoshi 07:49, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi. You participated in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/USS Watseka (YT-387) which has now closed as "keep". I think it's worth having a more general discussion as to the notability of small noncombatant auxiliaries such as harbour tugs and I have raised this question at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Maritime warfare task force#Follow-up. I'm inviting all the AfD participants, both pro and con, to join in with their thoughts on the topic. -- A. B. (talk) 17:07, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
I didn't want to crowd the AfD anymore than it is, but I still wanted to address your comment. You said that notability is inherent just because it is a train station. How? I mean when will it stop. How many train, bus, and subway stations are there? Should we have an article on every single one of those? What I am trying to say is that just because something "is", doesn't make it notable. Hope this explains my thoughts.
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Hi! Thanks so much for helping out with Misaki. By the way, there are a total of 8 breeds of horse or pony considered indigenous to Japan, according to the source material I was looking at, there are currently articles on three others, Noma pony, Hokkaido Pony, and Yonaguni (horse). You may want to take a look at those, if you haven't already.
If you are into creating articles, we still need articles on these four other Japanese horse breeds:
For the Japanese horse breeds Kiso, Miyako, Toakara, and Tsushima, note very basic statistical info at: "Country Report (For FAO State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources Process)", Editorial Committee Office of the Japanese Country Report, Animal Genetic Resources Laboratory, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan.
If you (or someone you tip off about this need) do decide to create these articles, either give me a heads up, or enter them over on list of horse breeds. Thanks! Montanabw (talk) 05:17, 18 November 2007 (UTC) (accidentally, somehow, the unofficial organizer of some of the horse articles on Wikipedia)
Hi! I saw you posted comment on the talk page. 2 years ago though. The second paragraph of the address elements section is far from the accuracy. I want to edit it but the elements are too complicated for me to edit it right. Could you help me? And recent editors seem not to understand the difference between special wards in Tokyo and designated cities' wards. Not between Machi as towns and as area names too. I posted my comment and info. on the talk page. It would be nice of you to give me an advice. Oda Mari ( talk) 18:54, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
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Sorry, that was the fault of Twinkle. It sends that notice to the original author, and because you reverted the pagemove, it assumed you were it. It even did it to me once. Apologies. -- Closedmouth ( talk) 02:32, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
put into English version of article which pictured Kayano-ō sugi in the shrine, ( Japanese: 栢野大杉)in article Cryptomeria which took picture and up the article. Its a world asset.(solicit)-- Namazu-tron ( talk) 05:42, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Are you sure you want to undo them? I suppose I can help if you're sure they should be reverted. - Justin (koavf)· T· C· M 10:26, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Oops. Sorry about that. Perhaps I should read the whole article before making changes! :) Thanks for the information! 200.207.152.195 10:28, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment.
From Daijisen: みい‐でら〔みゐ‐〕【三井寺/御井寺】 1) 園城寺(おんじょうじ)の異称。 2) 奈良県にある法輪寺の異称。 3)(三井寺)謡曲。四番目物。さらわれたわが子を尋ねる母が、物狂いとなって近江(おうみ)の三井寺の鐘をつき、子との再会を果たす。
So 御井寺 applies to both according to them.
There are about one hundred Google hits for "御井寺" "園城寺", i.e.: http://www.kokuhoworld.com/bb05.html http://www.rekihaku.otsu.shiga.jp/jiten/data/085.html
The latter gives the reading of 御井寺 as みいのてら, but it is the only website to do so. Bueller 007 ( talk) 09:50, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
statistics education Thank you for notifying me about the deletion of my proposed entry statistics education. I strongly believe that it should not be deleted since it is a well-established discipline and and educatioanl/research international comminity, similar to the mathematics education entry and community. I am new to editing in Wikipedia, but in the coming days we shall make an effort to edit the item. Please help me in preserving this important entry. Best, Dani-- Dbenzvi ( talk) 05:20, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello Fg2. I created the article 1703 Genroku earthquake today. I noticed that you have made several important contributions to articles related to Japan. Can you please add some more information in the article? Regards, Masterpiece2000 ( talk) 06:24, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
The naming of this article provides an opportunity to raise a few questions which seem worthy of further discussion. Up until today, the staid style of an article about Mt. Fuji exemplified the model I most preferred:
Gregorian calendar date?
A first blush, I wondered how useful is it to begin an article name with a Gregorian calendar date -- especially when the event is better known by in relation to a specific nengō or Japanese era name? But I have noticed that there are a number of Wikipedia articles about earthquake disasters which incorporate the date as an essential part of the title. Would each one be improved significantly by deleting that date?
Would it be better to remove Gregorian calendar dates from these titles? In my view, these dates are likely to become a kind of stumbling block for the Wikipedia user; but maybe I've got it precisely backwards? Maybe it's best to accept that this format has become a Wikipedia convention; but if so, how shall I be guided in creating new articles in the future? For example, the following list of significant pre- Meiji period fires in Kyoto comes from Ponsonby-Fane's Kyoto: the Old Capital, 794-1869. Would these as-yet-unwritten articles be significantly improved if the titles were formatted with a Gregorian calendar date?
Great?
Many events are conventionally known as "great" -- as in the
Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995, which includes the following explanation:
As we all know, there are many earthquakes and many fires in Japanese history. In the context of Japanese history and Wikipedia, which ones need to be called "great"? For example: The Significant Earthquake Database lists an earthquake at Kyoto on the 25th day of the 7th month of the 13th year of Bunsei (文政十三年六月二十五日) or Friday, August 19, 1830 (equicenter: 35.000 latitude/136.000 longitude); but no Richter scale approximation was suggested.<ref.>Online "Significant Earthquake Database" -- U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). ...Click link for NOAA/Japan: Significant Earthquake Database<./ref> Nevertheless, the earthquake was perceived by Emperor s Ninkō as sufficiently "great" for the era name to be changed:
If a potential source does happen to provide more information about this specific fire, how should I reasonably expect to entitle a Wikipedia stub article?
For now, I guess I can't do better than to follow the excellent example set by Masterpiece2000. I guess I would entitle the article with the Gregorian date included; and I'd simultaneously create re-directs from alternate plausible names as has been done with 1703 Genroku earthquake. Am I correct in taking this to be the exemplar I should imitate?
If so, should I begin a process of renaming
Hōei eruption of Mount Fuji to read
1707 Hōei eruption of Mount Fuji?--
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Further context for these questions
The following may help provide helpful context:
Hi, can you help settle a petty edit war over at Mare (horse)? The spat is over the following sentence: "Interestingly, in many East Asian languages, the word for "horse" sounds very similar to "mare", such as the Korean 말 (mar),[9] Chinese ma,[citation needed] and Japanese uma.[citation needed]"
Essentially, I didn't create this, but it is a rather intriguing homophonic parallel and fun to keep in the article. However, another user thinks it's "original research" and keeps blanking it. I see no reason to blank it and would like to source it instead. Babelfish showed that the Korean character is correct (and I assume whoever added this knew how to pronounce the word). Thus, could you kindly consider adding the Japanese character for Uma to the article, perhaps with some source that verifies that "this is the character for "horse" which in Japanese is pronounced "uma"?? If you can't that's OK, but I'd hate to toss something verifiable. Many thanks. Also if you know folks fluent in Korean or Chinese, can you tip them off to this, also? Montanabw (talk) 20:52, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I wish you a Merry Christmas and all the best in the new year. - Darwinek ( talk) 12:18, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the photograph of the Kyoto Manga Museum to the manga article. I posted a few questions on the talk page of the manga article, asking what the photograph adds to the article. Could you perhaps respond on the manga talk page? Thank you. Timothy Perper ( talk) 03:46, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm one of the people who's been working on bringing this article up to GA status. Your comments are very helpful, and thanks for the careful reading. A number of the problems you mention arise because a variety of people have worked on the article, adding things in different styles and formats. One of our biggest problems has been cleaning up the resulting mess. Our first priority was bringing the sourcing up to something resembling GA status and balancing the coverage of topics. We've started to work on various formatting problems. We will take your comments to heart and see what we can do. Once again, thanks for taking the time to look at the article. Timothy Perper ( talk) 15:55, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
I don't think I noticed that you were an administrator, which means (I guess) this is not appropriately addressed to you -- but if not you, who?
In each of the articles I have created, the consolidated in-line citations have been "named" with the first letter of the author's last name plus the relevant page number; ergo -- I've NOT created a name a mere integer ... and, although there has been no problem prior to 27 December 2007/17:00 (EST) ... everything has suddenly gone awry. -- Ooperhoofd ( talk) 22:51, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks to both of you. I'm not an administrator, and hadn't noticed the problem, but it's nice to know it has been corrected. Fg2 ( talk) 00:53, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I uploaded an edit that deals with the blue cast that you mentioned. I completely desaturated the fully exposed snow. Let me know if that takes care of the problem. -
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Actually, apparently the nomination was just closed as a promotion, so thanks for your time anyway. -
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