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Somebody did a cut & paste move from Ōgon Batto to Ogon Batto, and so I moved it back. Please keep an eye on it.-- Endroit 20:48, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
I went through and updated the macrons for that article as well. MightyAtom 06:35, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
I brought this up at the J-myth project page as well, but that place has been a bit of a ghost town lately, so I figured I'd mention it here as well.
Anyway. This article is, IMO, complete rubish. Hofus? It does appear in quite some ghits, but they all seem to draw from the same source. If the article gets a Fakelore tag, then I can see the merit of keeping it, if not I'd say it needs to go. TomorrowTime 19:54, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
This legend can be found on quite a few Japanese sites, but they all list it as a Western legend. Can't find the original country, but the Japanese sites all call the story "Hans the Stonecutter", or just say 自分自身になれ.
blog.livedoor.jp/drj1966/archives/2006-09.html
http://www.hpmix.com/home/911/D10_1.htm
This site gives a similar tale, but it is a puppy that keeps changing shape, and says it is a legend from Thailand.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/fuse/abraham/asia/thailand/ti-story/ti-story.htm
Sooo....probably not complete rubish, but rather a folklore tale with an unknown origin being attributed to "Over there...", meaning a country that isn't your own. MightyAtom 03:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
I have made a proposal for a WikiProject Sumo Proposal. Yesterday I spent part of the day sourcing Akebono with a few other people. Most sumo articles are not well sourced. Though under two WikiProjects already, I think it would be to the advantage of both the articles of sumo and wikipedia as a whole if Sumo is placed under its own WikiProject. If you would like to join or have any comments, please go to the Project proposal page. Thanks! XinJeisan 17:18, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
For anyone with a few free minutes for cleanup/fixing errors, Second city#Japan could use a look. I'm a bit busy at the moment, but I ran across the section and it made me laugh a little more than a Wikipedia section should. Dekimasu よ! 02:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
The article List of metropolitan areas in Japan by population needs some loving care. I've found some references for it (so it shouldn't be deleted again), but the references don't always agree, and don't necessarily have things grouped the way the table on that page has them grouped. Any assistance in updating this page is appreciated. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon joe 20:13, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident passed GA review and I'll be nominating it for featured article, probably sometime today. If anyone would like to look over it and help give it a final scrub for anything that I or the GA reviewer missed, it would be greatly appreciated. CLA 00:34, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed the goal of 40 Japan FA articles by the end of this year. I can provide two more right now. Battle of Edson's Ridge and Actions along the Matanikau were promoted to FA recently, but I just added the Japan project banner to them today. CLA 00:40, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Are these really related to Japan, or are we just trying to buff up our featured articles quotient? MightyAtom 03:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Category:Women of medieval Japan needs cleanup. Many women listed are pre-medieval. I removed some; there are more. Do we have categories for other time periods? If so, the articles could be switched from one category to another. Fg2 10:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
The page at Karafuto Prefecture was very redundant compared to Sakhalin, so I made some major edits to remove more general Sakhalin info and add a little more Karafuto Prefecture-specific info from the Japanese Wikipedia. The article could still use some help, as I'm no expert on this issue and some of the dates in the English article conflicted with dates in the Japanese article, and I was also unsure of a few WWII- and administrative-specific terms (like whether Karafuto was even a full "prefecture"). It also had a bit of a right-wing "Karafuto's still ours" type of slant to it, which I attempted to tone down, but again could still use some work. Just an FYI to people who might be interested. CES 21:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm finding a lot of outdated articles of now-dissolved municipalities. I've tagged some as per List of mergers and dissolutions of municipalities in Japan, but it's becoming too daunting. Additionally, some new municipalities such as Misaki, Okayama and Akaiwa, Okayama still lack articles. Am I the only one checking these articles? Ranma9617 01:59, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello all. I would love some reaction to my comments on the "popular culture" section of the Haniwa article. Please could anybody interested add their comments to Talk:Haniwa. -- Auximines 20:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Somebody prodded the article, stating that it was OR and not a suitable subject for an encyclopedia. As all of you who have been to Japan or are there now know, gōkon are a widespread and thoroughly present phenomenon, and would deserve a better article then they have now. I didn't want to simply remove the prod as I cannot guarantee that I can work on the article and improve it, so I'm bringing this up here, in case somebody might care to adopt the article. TomorrowTime 07:33, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
I've fiddled with it to the best of my extremely underinformed ability. Others are most welcome to take over. -- Hoary 08:09, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm never sure where to place things on the front page of this Project... do we even still have a Collaboration of the Fortnight/Week/Month/Whatever? In any case, I do not know why I never noticed earlier that Edo is a stub! Geez. This article could be massive and dense with fascinating, interesting, and important information. I have nominated it for Article Creation and Improvement Drive, and am mentioning it here again. This is definitely the kind of thing that could benefit from some intense collaboration - I have neither the time nor the resources nor the inclination to do this all on my own. Please help! (While I'm here, I'd like to mention that there are a great many Edo-culture related topics that are likewise in serious need of help, such as Yoshiwara, sharebon, and Ichimura-za.) LordAmeth 08:25, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
The Japanese Wikipedia has a ton of high-quality SVG maps of each municipality (or at the very least for the Tohoku and Hokkaido regions, which were the only ones I checked). Look here for an example. I think these would make great additions to this Wikipedia (along with much of the other information on their municipality articles, though to be fair, they have their own WikiProject devoted to Japanese municipalities). If someone can come up with a way to efficiently move these to Wikimedia Commons, that'd be awesome.
Also, I've started lists of municipalities on my user page (click link in signature and follow the two links at the top of the page). The first is just a list while the second is a sortable list that I'm trying to get to the standards of List of municipalities of Portugal, a featured list. If all goes well, we can make it into an actual list, though it's possible we'd have to split them up (but it'd be nice if we didn't have to).
Finally, the city symbols have been a project of mine for the last few months (I'm still nowhere near completing any prefecture completely) and I came up with some criteria that might allow us to standardize the images (similar to the crests in the above Portugal article, although those were apparently all created by the same person). If anyone's interested in helping out, please let me know (here would work).
- Nameneko 18:14, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
I've added a merge tag to Yamato people suggesting that any relevant information be added into Japanese people and redirected there. The introduction for Japanese people currently links the Yamato article without any semblance of an explanation as to how the two are different. While recognizing that they are different to the extent that we recognize "the Japanese people" to consist of multiple ethnic groups, and that we have separate articles for the Ainu and Ryukyu peoples, I think it would make more sense to explain "Yamato" within Japanese people. I'm not confident of my analysis here, though. If there's a good reason for them to stay separate, please provide input.... Dekimasu よ! 06:22, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
There has been an edit war between users at Talk:Culture of Taiwan over whether it should be included as a part of WikiProject Japan; I was wondering if any project member would be willing to help out this issue. Thanks! - Penwhale | Blast him / Follow his steps 02:48, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
I have a question. What is a ja:武将? Is it a leader of samurai? Thanks, Cattus 18:53, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Me, along with others, are expanding the article, hoping to eventually get it to featured status. I welcome your assistance on this expansion. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 09:24, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
It is my understanding that official documents in Japan are still dated in terms of the reign; viz., events from 1927 to 1989 dated in a manner where AD 1927 is counted as the first full year of Shōwa (昭和) and post-1989 dated where 1990 is counted as the first year of Heisei (平成). Does this Project have any procedures for accomodating the formal Japanese date procedure? - B.C.Schmerker 16:54, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
The above post got me browsing through pages of emperors past, present, and future ... can we come up with a better picture of Naruhito? The current one is a little odd. CES 18:20, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
I notice the page "Japanese Idol" is under this project so I thought I'd ask here: is anyone interested in helping me make a page for "Virtual Idols", as used as a reoccurring theme in various literature, anime, et cetera? I'm familiar mostly with their description in BESM 3rd edition and with the American book Aidoru (by William Gibson) and sequals, but I know they're treated in I think Macross, and if they're popular enough to be mentioned in BESM there have to be other works with the concept. Oh yeah, and there was that disney movie.
(If you don't know what I mean, I'm talking about the concept of programming a computer to act like a Japanese "Idol" singer and, usually with holographic technology, using them as the newest pop sensation). Kuronue 04:43, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
The Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident failed FAC review. The chief opposer said that it needed more copyediting. I've reread the article several times and can't see where further copyediting is needed and the chief opposer didn't provide many examples. I guess I'm too close to the article since I wrote most of it. If someone could please look at the article and make any necessary changes, I'll then renominate for FAC. CLA 23:12, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
I just created Japanese Movie Database. It's just like the IMDB, but for Japan. Please use this when looking up references for Japanese films. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:30, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
I've revamped and organized Category:Japanese magazines a bit, so please make yourselves familiar with the new organization. There wasn't really any organization before. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 10:26, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey guys, I'm not in WP:J, but I want to let you guys know that some CPOV idiot tried to fulfill his nationalist duties by merging Jiaoji with Gyoza (also with Korean Mandu) - they're all dumplings. So, I reworked everything out to their original stats. Keep an eye on them. Thanks! : ) ( Wikimachine 05:03, 21 June 2007 (UTC))
Since the glossary rarely gets used (at least by me as I never go over there) or updated over on Wiktionary, I've set it up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Film credits glossary as I think it will be much more useful to this project and its descendants. Feel free to update the list. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:41, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
For the first time, at least for me, I have put the city hall address in the template in Western format in Kitaakita, Akita which, according to this site, is essentially the Japanese address backwards:
{Street Address} {Subarea}
{City / Town, District}, {Prefecture} {Postal Code}
JAPAN
I'm not sure how well this would work, given that it is very possible for the second line to be very lengthy whereas the first line might not be. In addition, I don't know how it's supposed to work for Hokkaido with its subprefectures, the postal code symbol is still left in the template but there is no number with it in
Kitaakita, Akita, and "JAPAN" would technically have to follow every address.
The plus side to all of this would be, though, that the address is in a format that is usable to the readers of the English Wikipedia articles.
Comments appreciated.
- Nameneko 08:04, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
- banchi neighborhood, town
- district, prefecture postal code
- JAPAN
A user ( Auximines) has embarked on a single-handed crusade to eliminate the countless "In Popular Culture" sections of Japan-related articles. He has my full-hearted support, but his actions also got me to thinking, especially since one of his deletions has already been reverted. In view of the enormous ammount of these, in most cases completely useless sections, shouldn't there be a rule or something? Is this the right place to discuss a possible setting of rules regarding these sections? If not, where should I turn to?
My proposed rule would be something to this extent: "For Japan-related articles, an "In Popular Culture" section should be limited to noteworthy instances of the article subject in anime, manga, dorama and other Japanese media. This includes main heroes or villains, important story line objects and similar. This excludes lesser heroes or vilains, less important story-line objects, references in ending songs, brief appearances and similar. Furher, the mention should be brief and to the point - story arcs belong in the articles on the respective anime, manga, dorama or other."
I realize this rule is not nearly clear-cut enough to be fully useful in all instances, but it could work to reduce clutter such as this:
And on and on. What say ye? TomorrowTime 04:24, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
Here is the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles).
There's a debate on this page, concerning weither it should remain at Iwo Jima or be moved to Iwo To. Contentious issue - Is Iwo To the new English version of the island's name? GoodDay 21:07, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
I just created Senjafuda. It's a sub-stub currently, though a decent-sized article exists in Japanese if anyone feels like translating. Exploding Boy 23:13, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
Due to the dispute on where Bank of Manchukuo should be moved to Talk:Bank of Manchukuo#Requested move, I started pondering about how the kanji national qualifier for Manchukuo, 満州(Manshū), should be translated.
Manchukuo, or in kanji 満州国, literally meant "State of Manchuria" and hence translating 満州 as "Manchukuo" is linguistically incorrect. However, if we use "Manchuria" confusion would result; Dekimasu has mentioned, I think there's a large number of talk pages wholly dedicated to determining how to represent historical distinctions between the region and the Japanese puppet state on Wikipedia, and those tend to support using Manchukuo in this sort of situation.
I wonder if we should have a fixed guideline about this-- even currently the number of articles affected is limited; besides Bank of Manchukuo there's only Manchukuo National Airlines.-- Samuel di Curtisi di Salvadori 14:02, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I've recently tried to build my own Wiki about Japanese music artists and realized that this can not be carried out by just one person. The magnitude of work involved is mind-boggling! So I have turned to Wikipedia, to look for like-minded individuals who may share a common interest to build a central information depositry for anyone looking for any information regarding Japanese artists.
If anyone is interested please post a message on my User:jmlz87 page and I will get back to you.
Thanks! Jmlz87 06:38, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I was wondering if this sentence is true and, if so, has a source: "In 1994, a representative bloc was also introduced for the House of Representatives, at first at an even split of 250:250. When the LDP regained power in 1996, this was changed into the current numbers." Thanks. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 02:10, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
I've been working through these articles and doing a quick assessment (FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, etc.) in order to try to empty out the unassessed category. Anyone who wants to help is welcome. I've done from Numbers through to most of the way through the H section. Just post here which section you are working on (pick a letter) so others don't try to do the same one. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Is there a difference between Imadate, Imadate, Fukui and Imadate, Fukui? If not, they should likely be merged. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 23:41, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
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Somebody did a cut & paste move from Ōgon Batto to Ogon Batto, and so I moved it back. Please keep an eye on it.-- Endroit 20:48, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
I went through and updated the macrons for that article as well. MightyAtom 06:35, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
I brought this up at the J-myth project page as well, but that place has been a bit of a ghost town lately, so I figured I'd mention it here as well.
Anyway. This article is, IMO, complete rubish. Hofus? It does appear in quite some ghits, but they all seem to draw from the same source. If the article gets a Fakelore tag, then I can see the merit of keeping it, if not I'd say it needs to go. TomorrowTime 19:54, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
This legend can be found on quite a few Japanese sites, but they all list it as a Western legend. Can't find the original country, but the Japanese sites all call the story "Hans the Stonecutter", or just say 自分自身になれ.
blog.livedoor.jp/drj1966/archives/2006-09.html
http://www.hpmix.com/home/911/D10_1.htm
This site gives a similar tale, but it is a puppy that keeps changing shape, and says it is a legend from Thailand.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/fuse/abraham/asia/thailand/ti-story/ti-story.htm
Sooo....probably not complete rubish, but rather a folklore tale with an unknown origin being attributed to "Over there...", meaning a country that isn't your own. MightyAtom 03:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
I have made a proposal for a WikiProject Sumo Proposal. Yesterday I spent part of the day sourcing Akebono with a few other people. Most sumo articles are not well sourced. Though under two WikiProjects already, I think it would be to the advantage of both the articles of sumo and wikipedia as a whole if Sumo is placed under its own WikiProject. If you would like to join or have any comments, please go to the Project proposal page. Thanks! XinJeisan 17:18, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
For anyone with a few free minutes for cleanup/fixing errors, Second city#Japan could use a look. I'm a bit busy at the moment, but I ran across the section and it made me laugh a little more than a Wikipedia section should. Dekimasu よ! 02:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
The article List of metropolitan areas in Japan by population needs some loving care. I've found some references for it (so it shouldn't be deleted again), but the references don't always agree, and don't necessarily have things grouped the way the table on that page has them grouped. Any assistance in updating this page is appreciated. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon joe 20:13, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident passed GA review and I'll be nominating it for featured article, probably sometime today. If anyone would like to look over it and help give it a final scrub for anything that I or the GA reviewer missed, it would be greatly appreciated. CLA 00:34, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I just noticed the goal of 40 Japan FA articles by the end of this year. I can provide two more right now. Battle of Edson's Ridge and Actions along the Matanikau were promoted to FA recently, but I just added the Japan project banner to them today. CLA 00:40, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Are these really related to Japan, or are we just trying to buff up our featured articles quotient? MightyAtom 03:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Category:Women of medieval Japan needs cleanup. Many women listed are pre-medieval. I removed some; there are more. Do we have categories for other time periods? If so, the articles could be switched from one category to another. Fg2 10:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
The page at Karafuto Prefecture was very redundant compared to Sakhalin, so I made some major edits to remove more general Sakhalin info and add a little more Karafuto Prefecture-specific info from the Japanese Wikipedia. The article could still use some help, as I'm no expert on this issue and some of the dates in the English article conflicted with dates in the Japanese article, and I was also unsure of a few WWII- and administrative-specific terms (like whether Karafuto was even a full "prefecture"). It also had a bit of a right-wing "Karafuto's still ours" type of slant to it, which I attempted to tone down, but again could still use some work. Just an FYI to people who might be interested. CES 21:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm finding a lot of outdated articles of now-dissolved municipalities. I've tagged some as per List of mergers and dissolutions of municipalities in Japan, but it's becoming too daunting. Additionally, some new municipalities such as Misaki, Okayama and Akaiwa, Okayama still lack articles. Am I the only one checking these articles? Ranma9617 01:59, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello all. I would love some reaction to my comments on the "popular culture" section of the Haniwa article. Please could anybody interested add their comments to Talk:Haniwa. -- Auximines 20:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Somebody prodded the article, stating that it was OR and not a suitable subject for an encyclopedia. As all of you who have been to Japan or are there now know, gōkon are a widespread and thoroughly present phenomenon, and would deserve a better article then they have now. I didn't want to simply remove the prod as I cannot guarantee that I can work on the article and improve it, so I'm bringing this up here, in case somebody might care to adopt the article. TomorrowTime 07:33, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
I've fiddled with it to the best of my extremely underinformed ability. Others are most welcome to take over. -- Hoary 08:09, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm never sure where to place things on the front page of this Project... do we even still have a Collaboration of the Fortnight/Week/Month/Whatever? In any case, I do not know why I never noticed earlier that Edo is a stub! Geez. This article could be massive and dense with fascinating, interesting, and important information. I have nominated it for Article Creation and Improvement Drive, and am mentioning it here again. This is definitely the kind of thing that could benefit from some intense collaboration - I have neither the time nor the resources nor the inclination to do this all on my own. Please help! (While I'm here, I'd like to mention that there are a great many Edo-culture related topics that are likewise in serious need of help, such as Yoshiwara, sharebon, and Ichimura-za.) LordAmeth 08:25, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
The Japanese Wikipedia has a ton of high-quality SVG maps of each municipality (or at the very least for the Tohoku and Hokkaido regions, which were the only ones I checked). Look here for an example. I think these would make great additions to this Wikipedia (along with much of the other information on their municipality articles, though to be fair, they have their own WikiProject devoted to Japanese municipalities). If someone can come up with a way to efficiently move these to Wikimedia Commons, that'd be awesome.
Also, I've started lists of municipalities on my user page (click link in signature and follow the two links at the top of the page). The first is just a list while the second is a sortable list that I'm trying to get to the standards of List of municipalities of Portugal, a featured list. If all goes well, we can make it into an actual list, though it's possible we'd have to split them up (but it'd be nice if we didn't have to).
Finally, the city symbols have been a project of mine for the last few months (I'm still nowhere near completing any prefecture completely) and I came up with some criteria that might allow us to standardize the images (similar to the crests in the above Portugal article, although those were apparently all created by the same person). If anyone's interested in helping out, please let me know (here would work).
- Nameneko 18:14, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
I've added a merge tag to Yamato people suggesting that any relevant information be added into Japanese people and redirected there. The introduction for Japanese people currently links the Yamato article without any semblance of an explanation as to how the two are different. While recognizing that they are different to the extent that we recognize "the Japanese people" to consist of multiple ethnic groups, and that we have separate articles for the Ainu and Ryukyu peoples, I think it would make more sense to explain "Yamato" within Japanese people. I'm not confident of my analysis here, though. If there's a good reason for them to stay separate, please provide input.... Dekimasu よ! 06:22, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
There has been an edit war between users at Talk:Culture of Taiwan over whether it should be included as a part of WikiProject Japan; I was wondering if any project member would be willing to help out this issue. Thanks! - Penwhale | Blast him / Follow his steps 02:48, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
I have a question. What is a ja:武将? Is it a leader of samurai? Thanks, Cattus 18:53, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Me, along with others, are expanding the article, hoping to eventually get it to featured status. I welcome your assistance on this expansion. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 09:24, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
It is my understanding that official documents in Japan are still dated in terms of the reign; viz., events from 1927 to 1989 dated in a manner where AD 1927 is counted as the first full year of Shōwa (昭和) and post-1989 dated where 1990 is counted as the first year of Heisei (平成). Does this Project have any procedures for accomodating the formal Japanese date procedure? - B.C.Schmerker 16:54, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
The above post got me browsing through pages of emperors past, present, and future ... can we come up with a better picture of Naruhito? The current one is a little odd. CES 18:20, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
I notice the page "Japanese Idol" is under this project so I thought I'd ask here: is anyone interested in helping me make a page for "Virtual Idols", as used as a reoccurring theme in various literature, anime, et cetera? I'm familiar mostly with their description in BESM 3rd edition and with the American book Aidoru (by William Gibson) and sequals, but I know they're treated in I think Macross, and if they're popular enough to be mentioned in BESM there have to be other works with the concept. Oh yeah, and there was that disney movie.
(If you don't know what I mean, I'm talking about the concept of programming a computer to act like a Japanese "Idol" singer and, usually with holographic technology, using them as the newest pop sensation). Kuronue 04:43, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
The Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident failed FAC review. The chief opposer said that it needed more copyediting. I've reread the article several times and can't see where further copyediting is needed and the chief opposer didn't provide many examples. I guess I'm too close to the article since I wrote most of it. If someone could please look at the article and make any necessary changes, I'll then renominate for FAC. CLA 23:12, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
I just created Japanese Movie Database. It's just like the IMDB, but for Japan. Please use this when looking up references for Japanese films. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:30, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
I've revamped and organized Category:Japanese magazines a bit, so please make yourselves familiar with the new organization. There wasn't really any organization before. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 10:26, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey guys, I'm not in WP:J, but I want to let you guys know that some CPOV idiot tried to fulfill his nationalist duties by merging Jiaoji with Gyoza (also with Korean Mandu) - they're all dumplings. So, I reworked everything out to their original stats. Keep an eye on them. Thanks! : ) ( Wikimachine 05:03, 21 June 2007 (UTC))
Since the glossary rarely gets used (at least by me as I never go over there) or updated over on Wiktionary, I've set it up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Film credits glossary as I think it will be much more useful to this project and its descendants. Feel free to update the list. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:41, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
For the first time, at least for me, I have put the city hall address in the template in Western format in Kitaakita, Akita which, according to this site, is essentially the Japanese address backwards:
{Street Address} {Subarea}
{City / Town, District}, {Prefecture} {Postal Code}
JAPAN
I'm not sure how well this would work, given that it is very possible for the second line to be very lengthy whereas the first line might not be. In addition, I don't know how it's supposed to work for Hokkaido with its subprefectures, the postal code symbol is still left in the template but there is no number with it in
Kitaakita, Akita, and "JAPAN" would technically have to follow every address.
The plus side to all of this would be, though, that the address is in a format that is usable to the readers of the English Wikipedia articles.
Comments appreciated.
- Nameneko 08:04, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
- banchi neighborhood, town
- district, prefecture postal code
- JAPAN
A user ( Auximines) has embarked on a single-handed crusade to eliminate the countless "In Popular Culture" sections of Japan-related articles. He has my full-hearted support, but his actions also got me to thinking, especially since one of his deletions has already been reverted. In view of the enormous ammount of these, in most cases completely useless sections, shouldn't there be a rule or something? Is this the right place to discuss a possible setting of rules regarding these sections? If not, where should I turn to?
My proposed rule would be something to this extent: "For Japan-related articles, an "In Popular Culture" section should be limited to noteworthy instances of the article subject in anime, manga, dorama and other Japanese media. This includes main heroes or villains, important story line objects and similar. This excludes lesser heroes or vilains, less important story-line objects, references in ending songs, brief appearances and similar. Furher, the mention should be brief and to the point - story arcs belong in the articles on the respective anime, manga, dorama or other."
I realize this rule is not nearly clear-cut enough to be fully useful in all instances, but it could work to reduce clutter such as this:
And on and on. What say ye? TomorrowTime 04:24, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
Here is the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles).
There's a debate on this page, concerning weither it should remain at Iwo Jima or be moved to Iwo To. Contentious issue - Is Iwo To the new English version of the island's name? GoodDay 21:07, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
I just created Senjafuda. It's a sub-stub currently, though a decent-sized article exists in Japanese if anyone feels like translating. Exploding Boy 23:13, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
Due to the dispute on where Bank of Manchukuo should be moved to Talk:Bank of Manchukuo#Requested move, I started pondering about how the kanji national qualifier for Manchukuo, 満州(Manshū), should be translated.
Manchukuo, or in kanji 満州国, literally meant "State of Manchuria" and hence translating 満州 as "Manchukuo" is linguistically incorrect. However, if we use "Manchuria" confusion would result; Dekimasu has mentioned, I think there's a large number of talk pages wholly dedicated to determining how to represent historical distinctions between the region and the Japanese puppet state on Wikipedia, and those tend to support using Manchukuo in this sort of situation.
I wonder if we should have a fixed guideline about this-- even currently the number of articles affected is limited; besides Bank of Manchukuo there's only Manchukuo National Airlines.-- Samuel di Curtisi di Salvadori 14:02, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
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Hello, I was wondering if this sentence is true and, if so, has a source: "In 1994, a representative bloc was also introduced for the House of Representatives, at first at an even split of 250:250. When the LDP regained power in 1996, this was changed into the current numbers." Thanks. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 02:10, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
I've been working through these articles and doing a quick assessment (FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, etc.) in order to try to empty out the unassessed category. Anyone who wants to help is welcome. I've done from Numbers through to most of the way through the H section. Just post here which section you are working on (pick a letter) so others don't try to do the same one. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Is there a difference between Imadate, Imadate, Fukui and Imadate, Fukui? If not, they should likely be merged. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 23:41, 27 June 2007 (UTC)