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If anyone is in Kyoto and happens to visit the Kōdai-ji temple, a freely licensed photo of the android Mindar would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, gobonobo + c 21:42, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
The family trees on articles relating to Japanese mythology are big mess.
What do you guys thing? CycoMa1 ( talk) 21:33, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
I tried my darndest to try to make sure that the sources used in Puff-puff (Dragon Quest) are used accurately, but being that I ain't got Japanese knowledge, I can't guarantee that I didn't flub details. Would anyone be so kind as to check to see that I did? - Cukie Gherkin ( talk) 22:04, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
It is not uncommon to see a pronunciation, usually the perceived "correct" foreign (i.e. "English") pronunciation shown in IPA as part of or alongside a brand name. E.g. ɛ̃fini, or Olympus μ [mju:] (as it should be written †). (There was a small section in the IPA article, sourced to a blog written by John Wells, who is an international authority on all things phonetical, but it was removed for some stupid WP:REASON. So not much help available.) But the Olympus article has ended up being called "Olympus mju", which is simply nonsense. I put a comment on the talk page 10 years ago, as a result of which nothing happened. What would be the best way to go about sorting this out?
† The parenthetic bit is there because I don't know how to include something ending in ']' in a link.
Imaginatorium ( talk) 08:16, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Could someone from this WP:JAPAN take a look at Kasane Teto? I don't know how the notability of fictional characters are assessed or whether this is related to the scope of this WikiProject (it looks like it might be), but I'm not seeing how this meets (at least at the moment) WP:GNG or even WP:NFICTION. Perhaps there something there worth WP:DRAFTIFYing per WP:NEXIST which is why it's probably better for someone who might be more familiar with this type of article to take a look at it. There is a Japanese Wikipedia article about the subject at ja:重音テト which seems much more developed and which might be a helpful for additonal sourcing and expansion. FWIW, I came across the article via a recent Wikipedia Teahouse question WP:THQ#Wikipedia:Piccadilly. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 08:24, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
|access-date=
after verifying the source). Japanese Wikipedia doesn't really follow
MOS:MOS so you can find lots different styles of being used for non-Japanese words
MOS:ALLCAPS, and it often uses
zenkaku characters for brackets, punctuation marks, spaces, etc. It would also be helpful if you could use the |script-title=
, |title=
, |language=
and |trans-title=
parameters when adding citations to Japanese sources because it makes things that much easier for the reader. If you're not sure how to use these parameters, you can find examples in
Template:cite web. Finally, since Japanese Wikipedia doesn't really need to worry about
MOS:ENGVAR and
MOS:DATEUNIFY when it comes to its articles, please try to remain consistent with the style chosen by the article's creator when adding dates or other text content. Doing so may help reduce the amount of cleanup need later on and helps article remain consistent stylistically. --
Marchjuly (
talk)
01:17, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
I'm improving (I hope) the article for Japanese engineer Kaichi Watanabe. This brief article lists his employers later in his life. It lists their names under their late-19th century / early 20th century incarnations. I'm trying to resolve each to their current names/owners. Two I have problems with:
Thanks for your help. -- Finlay McWalter··–· Talk 10:22, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
I recently created an article for the 2024 series Extremely Inappropriate!. It may be of interest to members of this project. Thriley ( talk) 17:01, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
Would someone from WP:JAPAN mind taking a look at Akira Watanabe (chess) and assessing it for notability for reasons other than being a chess player? (I've asked about that at WT:CHESS.) The current focus of the article and claim of notability seem to be the subject's chess achievements, but there might be other things the subject is also Wikipedia notable for. The article also appears to be a translation of the Japanese Wikipedia article ja:渡辺暁 (based on User talk:Ebefl#Ways to improve Akira Watanabe (chess)) but is lacking proper attribution per WP:TFOLWP. The attribution part most likely can be "fixed", but a lack of notability can't. The Japanese Wikipedia article does seem to be pretty much the same content-wise and is also basically only supported by a single WP:PRIMARY source (the other sources listed as "references" seem more like "explanatory notes"). -- Marchjuly ( talk) 21:51, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I'm trying to compile information on Noriaki Kiguchi ( 木口宣昭) to write an English language article. He was a wrestler for the Japanese national team that became a coach, founding his own dojo/school, influenced the development of wrestling and MMA in Japan, and trained several notable wrestlers and MMA fighters. I've found some info on the internet (in English and Japanese by using his name) and a surprising lot of coverage in archived American newspapers thanks to the WP Library. However, I would still like to find more Japanese-language resources, but I have no knowledge of Japanese, just Google Translate. I've tried several of the top newspapers with his name but haven't had much luck, but I know the coverage is out there. I'd appreciate all the help/direction that I can get. Spagooder ( talk) 23:27, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
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If anyone is in Kyoto and happens to visit the Kōdai-ji temple, a freely licensed photo of the android Mindar would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, gobonobo + c 21:42, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
The family trees on articles relating to Japanese mythology are big mess.
What do you guys thing? CycoMa1 ( talk) 21:33, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
I tried my darndest to try to make sure that the sources used in Puff-puff (Dragon Quest) are used accurately, but being that I ain't got Japanese knowledge, I can't guarantee that I didn't flub details. Would anyone be so kind as to check to see that I did? - Cukie Gherkin ( talk) 22:04, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
It is not uncommon to see a pronunciation, usually the perceived "correct" foreign (i.e. "English") pronunciation shown in IPA as part of or alongside a brand name. E.g. ɛ̃fini, or Olympus μ [mju:] (as it should be written †). (There was a small section in the IPA article, sourced to a blog written by John Wells, who is an international authority on all things phonetical, but it was removed for some stupid WP:REASON. So not much help available.) But the Olympus article has ended up being called "Olympus mju", which is simply nonsense. I put a comment on the talk page 10 years ago, as a result of which nothing happened. What would be the best way to go about sorting this out?
† The parenthetic bit is there because I don't know how to include something ending in ']' in a link.
Imaginatorium ( talk) 08:16, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Could someone from this WP:JAPAN take a look at Kasane Teto? I don't know how the notability of fictional characters are assessed or whether this is related to the scope of this WikiProject (it looks like it might be), but I'm not seeing how this meets (at least at the moment) WP:GNG or even WP:NFICTION. Perhaps there something there worth WP:DRAFTIFYing per WP:NEXIST which is why it's probably better for someone who might be more familiar with this type of article to take a look at it. There is a Japanese Wikipedia article about the subject at ja:重音テト which seems much more developed and which might be a helpful for additonal sourcing and expansion. FWIW, I came across the article via a recent Wikipedia Teahouse question WP:THQ#Wikipedia:Piccadilly. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 08:24, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
|access-date=
after verifying the source). Japanese Wikipedia doesn't really follow
MOS:MOS so you can find lots different styles of being used for non-Japanese words
MOS:ALLCAPS, and it often uses
zenkaku characters for brackets, punctuation marks, spaces, etc. It would also be helpful if you could use the |script-title=
, |title=
, |language=
and |trans-title=
parameters when adding citations to Japanese sources because it makes things that much easier for the reader. If you're not sure how to use these parameters, you can find examples in
Template:cite web. Finally, since Japanese Wikipedia doesn't really need to worry about
MOS:ENGVAR and
MOS:DATEUNIFY when it comes to its articles, please try to remain consistent with the style chosen by the article's creator when adding dates or other text content. Doing so may help reduce the amount of cleanup need later on and helps article remain consistent stylistically. --
Marchjuly (
talk)
01:17, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
I'm improving (I hope) the article for Japanese engineer Kaichi Watanabe. This brief article lists his employers later in his life. It lists their names under their late-19th century / early 20th century incarnations. I'm trying to resolve each to their current names/owners. Two I have problems with:
Thanks for your help. -- Finlay McWalter··–· Talk 10:22, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
I recently created an article for the 2024 series Extremely Inappropriate!. It may be of interest to members of this project. Thriley ( talk) 17:01, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
Would someone from WP:JAPAN mind taking a look at Akira Watanabe (chess) and assessing it for notability for reasons other than being a chess player? (I've asked about that at WT:CHESS.) The current focus of the article and claim of notability seem to be the subject's chess achievements, but there might be other things the subject is also Wikipedia notable for. The article also appears to be a translation of the Japanese Wikipedia article ja:渡辺暁 (based on User talk:Ebefl#Ways to improve Akira Watanabe (chess)) but is lacking proper attribution per WP:TFOLWP. The attribution part most likely can be "fixed", but a lack of notability can't. The Japanese Wikipedia article does seem to be pretty much the same content-wise and is also basically only supported by a single WP:PRIMARY source (the other sources listed as "references" seem more like "explanatory notes"). -- Marchjuly ( talk) 21:51, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I'm trying to compile information on Noriaki Kiguchi ( 木口宣昭) to write an English language article. He was a wrestler for the Japanese national team that became a coach, founding his own dojo/school, influenced the development of wrestling and MMA in Japan, and trained several notable wrestlers and MMA fighters. I've found some info on the internet (in English and Japanese by using his name) and a surprising lot of coverage in archived American newspapers thanks to the WP Library. However, I would still like to find more Japanese-language resources, but I have no knowledge of Japanese, just Google Translate. I've tried several of the top newspapers with his name but haven't had much luck, but I know the coverage is out there. I'd appreciate all the help/direction that I can get. Spagooder ( talk) 23:27, 27 June 2024 (UTC)