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Does anyone know the source of Image:IwaneRidesIn.jpg? It would be good to add it back to the article once we have the source. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:09, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Nihonjoe was nice enough to give the Kobe article a good once over a few months back, recommending that redlink articles be created and major stations added to the Transportation section. This has been done, and moreover most of the tedious lists have been dealt with. The list that used to occupy the "Education" section has since been moved to its own article, leaving the section a bit languid, but I feel that once that section is fleshed out the article's quality should be re-evaluated. Given its "Top" importance, any help would be much appreciated along with any helpful ideas. -- Exitmoose 07:41, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
How can an article be marked as needing attention? Japanese nationalist thinking in the Meiji era is an important and, I think, very interesting subject; the article contains a lot of good information, but it's quite poorly organized and would benefit from a real expert writing a full article with a consistent logic. Thank you. LordAmeth 21:50, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know a correct name for this architectural element in a Japanese garden? If you do, could you please edit the caption (on Commons) accordingly? And I suspect that someone who knows a lot about Japanese gardens might also be able to improve captions on other images in the same category. Thanks in advance for any help. - Jmabel | Talk 02:19, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia strongly encourages editors to add references to articles, but as with so many timely topics, the Web references become unavailable quickly. What is the best thing to do -- leave the references in the article, or remove them? Fg2 08:01, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
The disambig page National theatre has a red link to National Theater (Tokyo). Does anyone know if the topic is covered under a different article title? This seems a tad too important a topic to be overlooked. Thanks. LordAmeth 10:51, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Should we provide a sort of link that provides readers who were those who became JDA secretary/MOD secretary?
Kinda like this shown at the Yuriko Koike page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ominae ( talk • contribs).
It was proposed in September 2006 that Zen Teacher/Zen Master be merged into Zen, but no discussion was made of it. If you are interested, please discuss here. JohnnyMrNinja 17:53, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
The article Toyotomi Hideyoshi has been rated Start class by various WikiProjects. WikiProject Japan has not assigned a rating or a priority. I suggest top or high priority for this extremely important historical figure, and would like suggestions for bringing this article up to A class. Fg2 02:45, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Chibi has gone to AfD. The discussion is here. JohnnyMrNinja 08:17, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
There has been a lot of growth in this article recently. I would appreciate someone giving it an importance and quality evaluation. In the next week or so I would like to see it make it's way to a "B" rating. It ties in with a number of other important articles on Japan (see talk page) which could also use our attention. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 17:20, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Hooray! We got something on the front page! - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 15:41, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
I've just nominated this article for A-class review and since it also concerns this project I thought I'd post it here also if anyone would like to participate. The review is here. Cla68 03:26, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
The bonsai article is not listed as part of this project. Funnily enough, it is listed as part of WP China, which seems a bit of a stretch, especially since there is a separate Penjing article, and the Bonsai article really only covers Japan's miniature trees. How do I go about listing the article in the project? Is simply putting the tag { {WikiProject Japan} } on the talk page enough? TomorrowTime 13:03, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I'd like to request that anyone capable of doing so come look at some of the articles that requests for translation have been created for at Japanese to English translations as we're starting to have a good-size backlog there. Thank you to any and everyone who comes to help. - Yupik 21:31, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
The following articles need to be linked to. If anyone can find some appropriate articles (3-4 is best) and place links to these articles in them, that would be a great help.
(more to come)
Please strikeout the articles once you've linked to them.
Thanks for any help. I'm not sure which articles could link to it. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:11, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
I've just come across the article Penalty game, which describes, very briefly, the phenomenon of suffering some sort of punishment for losing a Yu-gi-oh game. Unless there is more widespread applicability of this term to sports or other games (playing an extra penalty game after losing in cards, mahjong, or the like), I would suggest that it be redirected to Batsu game.
Next problem is that there is no full-fleshed article for "batsu game", only a listing in the Glossary of owarai terms. I'd be happy to move this to its own article (as it is just as relevant to TV variety/game shows as it is to the narrower field of owarai), and to expand on it in whatever tiny ways that I can. On the other hand, I wouldn't want to inspire a listing of different punishments and batsu games which would almost inevitably result from this becoming an article.
Thoughts? Thanks. LordAmeth 09:50, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Anyone have any pics of Ōendan? If so, and you don't mind uploading them under GFDL, could you upload them to Commons and then ad one or more to this article? It would be especially useful to have pics of different kinds of them (bands, cheerleaders, drummers, flag/banner wavers, etc.) Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:44, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Are any of the entries on Kanagawa enough reason not to redirect the word to Kanagawa Prefecture and move the dab to Kanagawa (disambiguation)? In particular, is the topic of our one-line stub on Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama (probably the only other entry that belongs outside a "See also" section) important enough to stop that redirect? Dekimasu よ! 01:11, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you guys - my normal gig is requesting free images from article subjects. I got an e-mail request from Midori (author) to add the kanji version of her name to the article, and would appreciate any help in this regard. If necessary I can put you in touch with the article subject. Videmus Omnia Talk 02:12, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
This is the reply I got - thanks for any help in getting this into the article:
"My name consists of 3 kanji characters.
Thanks again! Videmus Omnia Talk 04:54, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
There is an ongoing poll for moving Senkaku Islands at Talk:Senkaku Islands. Mr. Killigan 04:44, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
To my surprise there's no article about Tarako Tarako Tarako. Depending on the article where this information is added, a hatnote might need to be placed in Tarako, Kewpie and Kigurumi. Shinobu 06:22, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
A short article, informing the reader that "konichiwaw" [sic] was Japanese for Good Afternoon, was recently prodded and deleted. (not quite certain why, I sure as hell didn't know konichiwaw meant that...) Anywho, the talk page ( talk:konichiwaw) still remains. Could someone with admin powers delete that? TomorrowTime 15:18, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone help to improve this article which is currently up for deletion here [1]. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nick mallory ( talk • contribs).
Check out the Template:Location map please. People have made them for an entire plethora of places in the world, but Japan is clearly missing. You can do so many things with this template, with just a list of places and their coordinates you can place them all onto a standard map of a place and give them different kinds of dots, and whatever else you need.
I've made a few of these templates myself, with mixed results, it is indeed difficult to find out EXACTLY what coordinates the edges of the map are at, furthermore, the map has to be projected in a certain way. Let me stress that this template would be VERY useful in a great number of Japan related articles. I've gotten pretty good at using them, but I really am hesitant to make them since they require a lot of technical ability, I've also yet to make one correctly, nor do I know what the best maps we have for this are.
Please consider learning about this and making one for Japan. Thanks. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 22:15, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Awesome! I've been working with the kind where you can put multiple items on the map, so hopefully sometime in the next day or so I'll demonstrate a more complex effective use of it at Template:Japan nuke plant map2. I'm impressed that the coordinates are working right, good work. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 02:40, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
It seems that you can't omit the label attribute, but you can fudge it to give you just a dot without a label. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 05:44, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
See Nuclear power in Japan for where I used this with a whole bunch of junk. It should be calibrated a little better now. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 05:13, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Hey, since we had a good number of people eager to try stuff, I was wondering if you would like to move this section to another page as a subdirectory of WP:Japan to be a common sandbox for this. Some time I might try out doing one of these for a specific prefecture to identify the towns in it or something. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 00:29, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
This poor orphaned article is in need of some attention - it really hasn't been touched since 2005. 24.4.253.249 23:55, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
I want to add 日本発送電 to the to-do list on the project page, but I don't even know what it's called in English. It is very important to have a complete set on the industrial development of Japan and the electric infrastructure development, but it was dissolved in the 40s by good old MacArthur and I don't even know if it ever had an English name. Anyway, that's really important for the history of Japan, but I'm pretty lost myself, hope someone else can contribute. Thanks! - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 16:05, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
I do not believe that there ever was an official English language name. The Nihon Hassoden K.K. was the wartime State-owned electrical utility, and as such, was created at a time when English usage was very much out of favor (the government was doing its best to purge words of European origin out of the Japanese language) and most likely had no need for an official translation of its name. As per User:Fg2, no reason not to use that name for an article, until someone finds out otherwise. -- MChew 16:15, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Does ANYONE have a clue what this junk is about: ja:画像:Aomori_Shimokita-gun.png
They have a copyright on it, but say it can be used for any purpose and give no information whatsoever as to where it came from (well, they give one broken link). Whatever, I'm going to try to upload it here, it that isn't possible, it shouldn't ever have been used on the Japanese page to begin with. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 16:40, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
On another point, do you think they are updated to 2003 at the latest, per the 1998-2003 copyright? I tried to sit down and color the Aomori map for the districts, but there have been a lot of city mergers and none of the maps I was looking at were consistent. I know that in particular the area around Mutsu had some mergers, which makes me think that the image I liked to there has too many towns and needs to be updated. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 17:46, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Just FYI, you can link to things on other language wikis with [[:(lang):(link)]], for instance ja:ウィキ. - Amake 11:34, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
This latest edit to Tokyo's top ranked private universities, in which an editor perhaps indignantly points out that Sophia is not in the front rank of universities (its truth-value aside, not a ridiculous claim), and therefore that Sōkeijōchi [...] refers to Waseda (Sō/早) and Keio (Kei/慶) universities (Huh?!) reminds me yet again that this article is unencyclopedic.
Whatever our personal opinions on the relative merits of Tokyo's universities -- and I have no opinion on Jōchi as a whole, whereas I do have strong opinions on the relative merits of particular departments (whereby department X in unimpressive university Y easily outclasses department A in famous university B) -- can we agree that "Tokyo's top ranked private universities" is no more encyclopedic than "Italy's sexiest sports cars" or "The USA's worst presidents"?
Ah, it may be pointed out, while the occasional rogue editor may indeed attempt to push this article one way or another, you shouldn't use that to condemn the article: The responsible majority of editors will use the published ratings of others.
I don't buy that, either. Some of the sources look dodgy or old. And in this kind of thing much (of course not all) of the "logic" is anyway circular, even if this or that author has managed to wangle publication.
I was thinking of sending this thing to AfD but thought I'd sound out you people first. -- Hoary 05:04, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Are there formal rankings for Japanese universities, as there are for American ones? The WP article on College and university rankings describes in some detail the rankings formally published by a number of companies and agencies on American, European, and International universities. If a similar publication exists for Japan, then its rankings should be considered official enough to be a NPOV, accurate/factual, and encyclopedic topic. LordAmeth 18:50, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I commented about this on Talk:Japantown some time ago and got no responses, so I'm porting the discussion over here. The Japantown article as it stands right now discusses modern-day Japantowns, primarily in North America. With some expansion, this could become a fine parallel to the article on Chinatown. Problem is, I was thinking of creating an article on the Nihonmachi (Japantowns) of 16th-17th century Southeast Asia, a phenomenon closely tied into the Age of Commerce and inherently quite different in cultural and historical context from that of today's North American Japantowns. In my experience, these communities in Pho Hien, Hoi An, Ayutthaya, Phnom Penh, Manila, and Jakarta (Batavia) are most commonly called Nihonmachi in scholarship, but right now Nihonmachi is a redirect to Japantown, and the two being essentially identical in meaning, I'm not sure what to do with these two separate topics.
Advice? Suggestions? Thanks. LordAmeth 18:45, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
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Does anyone know the source of Image:IwaneRidesIn.jpg? It would be good to add it back to the article once we have the source. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:09, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
Nihonjoe was nice enough to give the Kobe article a good once over a few months back, recommending that redlink articles be created and major stations added to the Transportation section. This has been done, and moreover most of the tedious lists have been dealt with. The list that used to occupy the "Education" section has since been moved to its own article, leaving the section a bit languid, but I feel that once that section is fleshed out the article's quality should be re-evaluated. Given its "Top" importance, any help would be much appreciated along with any helpful ideas. -- Exitmoose 07:41, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
How can an article be marked as needing attention? Japanese nationalist thinking in the Meiji era is an important and, I think, very interesting subject; the article contains a lot of good information, but it's quite poorly organized and would benefit from a real expert writing a full article with a consistent logic. Thank you. LordAmeth 21:50, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Does anyone know a correct name for this architectural element in a Japanese garden? If you do, could you please edit the caption (on Commons) accordingly? And I suspect that someone who knows a lot about Japanese gardens might also be able to improve captions on other images in the same category. Thanks in advance for any help. - Jmabel | Talk 02:19, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia strongly encourages editors to add references to articles, but as with so many timely topics, the Web references become unavailable quickly. What is the best thing to do -- leave the references in the article, or remove them? Fg2 08:01, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
The disambig page National theatre has a red link to National Theater (Tokyo). Does anyone know if the topic is covered under a different article title? This seems a tad too important a topic to be overlooked. Thanks. LordAmeth 10:51, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
Should we provide a sort of link that provides readers who were those who became JDA secretary/MOD secretary?
Kinda like this shown at the Yuriko Koike page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ominae ( talk • contribs).
It was proposed in September 2006 that Zen Teacher/Zen Master be merged into Zen, but no discussion was made of it. If you are interested, please discuss here. JohnnyMrNinja 17:53, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
The article Toyotomi Hideyoshi has been rated Start class by various WikiProjects. WikiProject Japan has not assigned a rating or a priority. I suggest top or high priority for this extremely important historical figure, and would like suggestions for bringing this article up to A class. Fg2 02:45, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Chibi has gone to AfD. The discussion is here. JohnnyMrNinja 08:17, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
There has been a lot of growth in this article recently. I would appreciate someone giving it an importance and quality evaluation. In the next week or so I would like to see it make it's way to a "B" rating. It ties in with a number of other important articles on Japan (see talk page) which could also use our attention. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 17:20, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Hooray! We got something on the front page! - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 15:41, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
I've just nominated this article for A-class review and since it also concerns this project I thought I'd post it here also if anyone would like to participate. The review is here. Cla68 03:26, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
The bonsai article is not listed as part of this project. Funnily enough, it is listed as part of WP China, which seems a bit of a stretch, especially since there is a separate Penjing article, and the Bonsai article really only covers Japan's miniature trees. How do I go about listing the article in the project? Is simply putting the tag { {WikiProject Japan} } on the talk page enough? TomorrowTime 13:03, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I'd like to request that anyone capable of doing so come look at some of the articles that requests for translation have been created for at Japanese to English translations as we're starting to have a good-size backlog there. Thank you to any and everyone who comes to help. - Yupik 21:31, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
The following articles need to be linked to. If anyone can find some appropriate articles (3-4 is best) and place links to these articles in them, that would be a great help.
(more to come)
Please strikeout the articles once you've linked to them.
Thanks for any help. I'm not sure which articles could link to it. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:11, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
I've just come across the article Penalty game, which describes, very briefly, the phenomenon of suffering some sort of punishment for losing a Yu-gi-oh game. Unless there is more widespread applicability of this term to sports or other games (playing an extra penalty game after losing in cards, mahjong, or the like), I would suggest that it be redirected to Batsu game.
Next problem is that there is no full-fleshed article for "batsu game", only a listing in the Glossary of owarai terms. I'd be happy to move this to its own article (as it is just as relevant to TV variety/game shows as it is to the narrower field of owarai), and to expand on it in whatever tiny ways that I can. On the other hand, I wouldn't want to inspire a listing of different punishments and batsu games which would almost inevitably result from this becoming an article.
Thoughts? Thanks. LordAmeth 09:50, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Anyone have any pics of Ōendan? If so, and you don't mind uploading them under GFDL, could you upload them to Commons and then ad one or more to this article? It would be especially useful to have pics of different kinds of them (bands, cheerleaders, drummers, flag/banner wavers, etc.) Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:44, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Are any of the entries on Kanagawa enough reason not to redirect the word to Kanagawa Prefecture and move the dab to Kanagawa (disambiguation)? In particular, is the topic of our one-line stub on Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama (probably the only other entry that belongs outside a "See also" section) important enough to stop that redirect? Dekimasu よ! 01:11, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you guys - my normal gig is requesting free images from article subjects. I got an e-mail request from Midori (author) to add the kanji version of her name to the article, and would appreciate any help in this regard. If necessary I can put you in touch with the article subject. Videmus Omnia Talk 02:12, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
This is the reply I got - thanks for any help in getting this into the article:
"My name consists of 3 kanji characters.
Thanks again! Videmus Omnia Talk 04:54, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
There is an ongoing poll for moving Senkaku Islands at Talk:Senkaku Islands. Mr. Killigan 04:44, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
To my surprise there's no article about Tarako Tarako Tarako. Depending on the article where this information is added, a hatnote might need to be placed in Tarako, Kewpie and Kigurumi. Shinobu 06:22, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
A short article, informing the reader that "konichiwaw" [sic] was Japanese for Good Afternoon, was recently prodded and deleted. (not quite certain why, I sure as hell didn't know konichiwaw meant that...) Anywho, the talk page ( talk:konichiwaw) still remains. Could someone with admin powers delete that? TomorrowTime 15:18, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone help to improve this article which is currently up for deletion here [1]. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nick mallory ( talk • contribs).
Check out the Template:Location map please. People have made them for an entire plethora of places in the world, but Japan is clearly missing. You can do so many things with this template, with just a list of places and their coordinates you can place them all onto a standard map of a place and give them different kinds of dots, and whatever else you need.
I've made a few of these templates myself, with mixed results, it is indeed difficult to find out EXACTLY what coordinates the edges of the map are at, furthermore, the map has to be projected in a certain way. Let me stress that this template would be VERY useful in a great number of Japan related articles. I've gotten pretty good at using them, but I really am hesitant to make them since they require a lot of technical ability, I've also yet to make one correctly, nor do I know what the best maps we have for this are.
Please consider learning about this and making one for Japan. Thanks. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 22:15, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Awesome! I've been working with the kind where you can put multiple items on the map, so hopefully sometime in the next day or so I'll demonstrate a more complex effective use of it at Template:Japan nuke plant map2. I'm impressed that the coordinates are working right, good work. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 02:40, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
It seems that you can't omit the label attribute, but you can fudge it to give you just a dot without a label. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 05:44, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
See Nuclear power in Japan for where I used this with a whole bunch of junk. It should be calibrated a little better now. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 05:13, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Hey, since we had a good number of people eager to try stuff, I was wondering if you would like to move this section to another page as a subdirectory of WP:Japan to be a common sandbox for this. Some time I might try out doing one of these for a specific prefecture to identify the towns in it or something. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 00:29, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
This poor orphaned article is in need of some attention - it really hasn't been touched since 2005. 24.4.253.249 23:55, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
I want to add 日本発送電 to the to-do list on the project page, but I don't even know what it's called in English. It is very important to have a complete set on the industrial development of Japan and the electric infrastructure development, but it was dissolved in the 40s by good old MacArthur and I don't even know if it ever had an English name. Anyway, that's really important for the history of Japan, but I'm pretty lost myself, hope someone else can contribute. Thanks! - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 16:05, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
I do not believe that there ever was an official English language name. The Nihon Hassoden K.K. was the wartime State-owned electrical utility, and as such, was created at a time when English usage was very much out of favor (the government was doing its best to purge words of European origin out of the Japanese language) and most likely had no need for an official translation of its name. As per User:Fg2, no reason not to use that name for an article, until someone finds out otherwise. -- MChew 16:15, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Does ANYONE have a clue what this junk is about: ja:画像:Aomori_Shimokita-gun.png
They have a copyright on it, but say it can be used for any purpose and give no information whatsoever as to where it came from (well, they give one broken link). Whatever, I'm going to try to upload it here, it that isn't possible, it shouldn't ever have been used on the Japanese page to begin with. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 16:40, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
On another point, do you think they are updated to 2003 at the latest, per the 1998-2003 copyright? I tried to sit down and color the Aomori map for the districts, but there have been a lot of city mergers and none of the maps I was looking at were consistent. I know that in particular the area around Mutsu had some mergers, which makes me think that the image I liked to there has too many towns and needs to be updated. - Theanphibian ( talk • contribs) 17:46, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Just FYI, you can link to things on other language wikis with [[:(lang):(link)]], for instance ja:ウィキ. - Amake 11:34, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
This latest edit to Tokyo's top ranked private universities, in which an editor perhaps indignantly points out that Sophia is not in the front rank of universities (its truth-value aside, not a ridiculous claim), and therefore that Sōkeijōchi [...] refers to Waseda (Sō/早) and Keio (Kei/慶) universities (Huh?!) reminds me yet again that this article is unencyclopedic.
Whatever our personal opinions on the relative merits of Tokyo's universities -- and I have no opinion on Jōchi as a whole, whereas I do have strong opinions on the relative merits of particular departments (whereby department X in unimpressive university Y easily outclasses department A in famous university B) -- can we agree that "Tokyo's top ranked private universities" is no more encyclopedic than "Italy's sexiest sports cars" or "The USA's worst presidents"?
Ah, it may be pointed out, while the occasional rogue editor may indeed attempt to push this article one way or another, you shouldn't use that to condemn the article: The responsible majority of editors will use the published ratings of others.
I don't buy that, either. Some of the sources look dodgy or old. And in this kind of thing much (of course not all) of the "logic" is anyway circular, even if this or that author has managed to wangle publication.
I was thinking of sending this thing to AfD but thought I'd sound out you people first. -- Hoary 05:04, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Are there formal rankings for Japanese universities, as there are for American ones? The WP article on College and university rankings describes in some detail the rankings formally published by a number of companies and agencies on American, European, and International universities. If a similar publication exists for Japan, then its rankings should be considered official enough to be a NPOV, accurate/factual, and encyclopedic topic. LordAmeth 18:50, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I commented about this on Talk:Japantown some time ago and got no responses, so I'm porting the discussion over here. The Japantown article as it stands right now discusses modern-day Japantowns, primarily in North America. With some expansion, this could become a fine parallel to the article on Chinatown. Problem is, I was thinking of creating an article on the Nihonmachi (Japantowns) of 16th-17th century Southeast Asia, a phenomenon closely tied into the Age of Commerce and inherently quite different in cultural and historical context from that of today's North American Japantowns. In my experience, these communities in Pho Hien, Hoi An, Ayutthaya, Phnom Penh, Manila, and Jakarta (Batavia) are most commonly called Nihonmachi in scholarship, but right now Nihonmachi is a redirect to Japantown, and the two being essentially identical in meaning, I'm not sure what to do with these two separate topics.
Advice? Suggestions? Thanks. LordAmeth 18:45, 28 July 2007 (UTC)