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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)
Greetings! Over the past few years, there have been no objections to converting Latin letters and Arabic numerals to ASCII from their full-width forms when they appear in horizontal Chinese, Korean, or Japanese text. I've raised it on MOS and Wikiproject talk pages and made many cleanup edits to articles. I'm making a push to finish that cleanup, and I've been noticing that punctuation, currency symbols, and spaces have the same problem. It looks weird to have the full-width versions mixed in, and they sometimes leak into English-language text. My plan was to start converting punctuation and currency symbols in horizontal text (except where the characters themselves are being discussed) when the July 1 database dump becomes available in a week or two. If you have any questions, objections, concerns, or suggestions, please let me know! Open-circle full stop is not included; the affected characters are: " # $ % & ' * + - / @ \ ^ _ ` ¢ ¥ ₩ < = > | ¦ and the space character. -- Beland ( talk) 17:51, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Unequal treaty#Requested move 6 July 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Remsense 诉 18:06, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello. I'm trying to update information about Japanese theatre. Pages like Theater of Japan, Category:Japanese Musicals etc. are so empty it's scary, when there's so much going on here that's so vibrant.
Apparently, Stage Natalie, Oricon, and the like aren't considered reputable sources because they don't have bylines. Yomiuri Shinbun, Asahi Shinbun and the like don't do theatre reviews the way the New York Times does. But these are major productions by Toho and producers like that. They're as high quality as anything on Broadway. I'm mostly concerned with original shows, since they aren't represented at all. With adaptations, like In This Corner of the World, I can add the musical information to the page of the source. But they still won't show up under the Japanese musicals category if the musical doesn't have its own page. I did find newspaper articles about In This Corner of the World, but not about original productions like Isabeau, Cross Road, that Mouldman Bellringer thing that's at Tokyo International Forum Hall C now...
There were articles in English and Japanese about Shakespeare in Year 12 of the Tempo Era, but I haven't seen that (I want to see it this winter) so if anyone has seen it, can you please help with making a page for it?
I just feel like there must be reputable, independent source coverage of something like Isabeau. It was such a major event. Nozomi Futo has a column in one of the newspapers, that was the only thing that came up when I searched it. The Japan Times didn't cover it at all.
Can anyone please tell me why these things don't get covered, and where to find better coverage? I'm buying issues of Musical magazine, but that's only one source. EncreViolette ( talk) 09:27, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
I recently created a draft for Japanese artist and musician NTsKi. Any help with translation would be appreciated. I have no knowledge of the Japanese language. Best, Thriley ( talk) 16:14, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
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Talk & archives for WP Japan |
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Task force talk/archives ↔ = joint task force |
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V· T· E |
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)
Greetings! Over the past few years, there have been no objections to converting Latin letters and Arabic numerals to ASCII from their full-width forms when they appear in horizontal Chinese, Korean, or Japanese text. I've raised it on MOS and Wikiproject talk pages and made many cleanup edits to articles. I'm making a push to finish that cleanup, and I've been noticing that punctuation, currency symbols, and spaces have the same problem. It looks weird to have the full-width versions mixed in, and they sometimes leak into English-language text. My plan was to start converting punctuation and currency symbols in horizontal text (except where the characters themselves are being discussed) when the July 1 database dump becomes available in a week or two. If you have any questions, objections, concerns, or suggestions, please let me know! Open-circle full stop is not included; the affected characters are: " # $ % & ' * + - / @ \ ^ _ ` ¢ ¥ ₩ < = > | ¦ and the space character. -- Beland ( talk) 17:51, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Unequal treaty#Requested move 6 July 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Remsense 诉 18:06, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello. I'm trying to update information about Japanese theatre. Pages like Theater of Japan, Category:Japanese Musicals etc. are so empty it's scary, when there's so much going on here that's so vibrant.
Apparently, Stage Natalie, Oricon, and the like aren't considered reputable sources because they don't have bylines. Yomiuri Shinbun, Asahi Shinbun and the like don't do theatre reviews the way the New York Times does. But these are major productions by Toho and producers like that. They're as high quality as anything on Broadway. I'm mostly concerned with original shows, since they aren't represented at all. With adaptations, like In This Corner of the World, I can add the musical information to the page of the source. But they still won't show up under the Japanese musicals category if the musical doesn't have its own page. I did find newspaper articles about In This Corner of the World, but not about original productions like Isabeau, Cross Road, that Mouldman Bellringer thing that's at Tokyo International Forum Hall C now...
There were articles in English and Japanese about Shakespeare in Year 12 of the Tempo Era, but I haven't seen that (I want to see it this winter) so if anyone has seen it, can you please help with making a page for it?
I just feel like there must be reputable, independent source coverage of something like Isabeau. It was such a major event. Nozomi Futo has a column in one of the newspapers, that was the only thing that came up when I searched it. The Japan Times didn't cover it at all.
Can anyone please tell me why these things don't get covered, and where to find better coverage? I'm buying issues of Musical magazine, but that's only one source. EncreViolette ( talk) 09:27, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
I recently created a draft for Japanese artist and musician NTsKi. Any help with translation would be appreciated. I have no knowledge of the Japanese language. Best, Thriley ( talk) 16:14, 12 July 2024 (UTC)