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I have proposed that this article be moved to gō. If you'd like to contribute to the vote or discussion, please feel free to do so here. LordAmeth 01:00, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:27, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
I made a bit of a change to the main page of the project in order to make it easier to navigate (IMO) and make some things easier to access without cluttering up the main body of the page. Please let me know what you think, and if you have any suggestions for further improvement. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon joe 06:50, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
This article was recently discovered and posted on the New Japanese-related Articles notice board. I think it's interesting material and, if valid, worthwhile to include somewhere else, but not in its own separate article. I've begun a discussion on the article's talk page, and I am eager to hear others' suggestions as to where to merge this. Thank you. LordAmeth 11:37, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
I was looking for an article on the Tokyo Declaration on Japan-Russia Relations (東京宣言) in both the Japanese and English versions of wikipedia. While I was able to find an English translation of the document on the MOFA website ( http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/n-america/us/q&a/declaration.html) I was unable to find anything about it on either of the wiki's. I personally do not think I know enough about the subject to write about it (hence I was looking to read about it) however I think it would be a good addition to wikipedia if someone more knowledgeable could write about it as Japan calls reference to the agreement when talking about the disputed northern territories. Darintenb 01:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
As a result of reading about this topic for class, I decided to check out the article and found it amazingly short. I've expanded it somewhat, but if there is anyone here who specializes in (or is just interested in) early 20th century Japanese culture, shifting social norms, etc, and can expand on this article, I invite you to do so please. I can try to continue to add things based on what I am reading, but ultimately it is not really the type of thing I am well-versed in, and do not really know how to express it properly. My perspective is very much one of cultural history, and while I can discuss the fashions and such involved, I think someone who is more experienced as a sociologist, social historian, or gender studies person will be able to better describe the significance of the social shifts which this represented. Thank you. LordAmeth 13:04, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
One of these appeared as a prod on the Japan-related deletions page. I'm bringing it to attention here. Does anybody have the knowledge and strength to adopt these two, merge them and keep an eye on the merged article? It seems ninjaken was created and is deliberately kept clean of all implications that the word and the concept may be a neologism, and ninjato was then created to state nothing but the view that the idea of ninja carrying special swords is ludicrous. While ninjaken is easier on the eyes and seems to be written much more in accordance with wikipolicy, fact remains that the whole dubiousness of the matter is not even hinted at. TomorrowTime 09:49, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Was somewhat surprised to find that we had almost nothing on this topic. After a little searching, I think I see why: sources seem somewhat scarce. I've established somewhere over a dozen articles covering most of what seem to be the more important figures; the "hub article" for them all is kamui. Have a few more to do yet, along with inau (er, the sacred wands, not the Romanian villages that currently links to...) and the main article for Ainu mythology. In the meantime, though, I wanted to ask here and see whether anyone knows of any further sources that might prove useful; the one I've been mainly going on, Ashkenazy, is pretty much tapped out, and I haven't got full access yet to the other two I was able to turn up. Shimeru 00:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
I created the category Sounds of Japan on Wikimedia Commons and inaugurated it with a recording of a nightingale floor. If you have other sound files for Japan with compatible licenses, that category is a good place to put them. The category includes some suggestions; feel free to add more suggestions to it. Fg2 05:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm currently working on trying to fill in the lists of colonial governors by year. "Korea" or "Chōsen"? (Whichever one I choose, it will of course link to Korea under Japanese rule; the question is what to call the thing. Chōsen was the name used by Japan at the time, but it is also more or less just the Japanese name for Korea, in which case perhaps the "English" term would be better. LordAmeth 18:26, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Tried to move Japan Defense Agency to Ministry of Defense (Japan) but it's blocked by a redirect. Anyone know enough about the procedures to put in a move request? Fg2 09:34, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
I think we could have 40 articles at featured quality by the end of this year. We currently have 20 according to this page. What do the rest of you think? ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon joe 20:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Someone added Yamato Yagi to the article on Nara Prefecture as the thirteenth of its twelve cities. On further investigation, it turns out that Yamato-Yagi Station is a railroad station in Kashihara, Nara, in Yagi-cho, formerly a separate town but now (and long) a part of Kashihara. So I removed the link to the thirteenth city. And I renamed the article Yagi (Kashihara).
Now the question is, is the article factual? It talks at great length about myths I'm not familiar with, and would benefit from a check by a knowledgeable editor.
Fg2 22:12, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
There's also some material that's really questionable. Fg2 22:21, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Oops. I may have been too quick to speak. It appears Kashihara was indeed determined in 1863 to be the spot where Jimmu descended to earth, guided by Yatagarasu. Huh. The spot of descent is in Okubo, not Yagi, but I guess that's close enough... (The whole story is here: http://www.welove-kashihara.jp/pages/kankou.html, under the heading 神武天皇陵.) TomorrowTime 10:07, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks to all for your help. We've turned a prank into a stub with some value. Fg2 06:57, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
I've edited the Kansai region article to bring it up to reasonable standards, and I'd say in its current form it could give the Tōhoku region a run for its money. There's still quite a lot to do. "Overview" needs to be fleshed out, and it'd be nice to have someone with editing skills run over the "History" section. Nonetheless, I think the project is pretty close to being completed. -- Exitmoose 07:13, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Would someone mind stopping by akabeko and inserting in the appropriate place the kanji for kotobuki, which supposedly means longevity and luck? Thanks! — BrianSmithson 13:28, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
The template {{ Japan topics}} is frequently vandalized. It's used in the article Japan so it's quite visible. I'd like to recommend adding it to your watchlist. Having more people keep an eye on it will be useful in reverting vandalism faster. Fg2 22:25, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Over the past week, I've seen vandalism in the following articles: Japan, History of Japan, {{ Japan topics}}, Economy of Japan, Demographics of Japan, Culture of Japan, Japanese cuisine, Meiji period, Japanese martial arts, Samurai, Ninja, Shinto, Meisa Kuroki, and Nagasaki (not in any particular order). ( Ninja is now semi-protected).
It helps to report vandalism to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism (which I did), but you need to follow the rules there. Alternately, if you see persistent vandalism in any Japan-related article, please let us know here. Thank you.-- Endroit 17:11, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Great Hanshin Earthquake is also quite often vandalised, presumably because it's the topic of many school Geography projects. Bobo12345 03:48, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I am planning to do a series of expansion on Portal:Japan to make it a featured portal. Is there a task force that I can work with?
By the way, if you are interested, come and take a look at Portal:China to see if it meets featured standard. Thanks! AQu01rius ( User • Talk) 03:02, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
As I've posted in WikiProject Korea, I'd like to post here in WikiProject Japan about a very xxx issue over the article Dokdo.
Right now, the article is going under a time of crisis - attacked by two complete JPOV Wikipedia newbies who don't know a single thing about the rules (i.e. burden of proof is on the person who brings the argument & WP:NOR) at two angles - the introductory paragraph's POVness and the name of the article.
As all of you veterans remember, the changing the name of the article from Liancourt Rock to Dokdo was a very slow, painful, and consuming process. Well guys, we're not going to go through that again. But, the article needs support from the rest of the community to clarify that there is general consensus on the title of the article as in status quo.
The article has been maintaining its shape, thanks to me, but I seem to have lost my "authority" to the newbies after having debated and argued them for so long. What we really need is a group of users who understand the situation fully & have been editing in Wikipedia for a long time & voice their opinions.
I think that might shut the newbies up. Or if they're persistent, even against the community's consensus (yet to be revealed), just revert their edits & ban them for WP:3RR. If you think I sound cruel, that's completely not the case. Actually read the discussion. This guy called Opp2 has been so persistent - I've been arguing w him from early December. For nearly one and half months! That's about 50 days. Already, a single archive has been made just for that user's jabbering. A lot of my time, concentration, and will to edit have been completely consumed and decimated by that little guy!
Yes, I want to bring end to this. Any time something like this happens, the community needs to return in a mobilized form, as it has done before in previous conflicts, show general consensus, and bring peace to the world. ( Wikimachine 06:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC))
How would you all feel about using latinised Japanese words and nomenclatures in all Japanese administrative division article texts? eg, use seirei shitei toshi) instead of designated city in the text of all Japanese articles, not just the titles? -- Bob 04:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Since no one has been answering otherwise, please comment on the possible merge of Gakuran and Sailor fuku into the article Japanese school uniform. Much of the early discussion is over a year old and the views expressed in that section should thus be taken with a grain of salt. Thanks for fresh input. Dekimasu 13:45, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I found Tokyo Watcher's editings which seemed to be something inappropriate for the {{Wikiproject Japan}} template at Talk:Mita dori, Talk: Maruyama Jinjya and Talk:Tsuki no Misaki. I had no evidence that all of three articles were highly important, and Mita dori and Tsuki no Misaki seemed not to be featured article candidates for me. (I think most people agree with me, though) Maruyama Jinjya was rated as K-class which isn't in the grade list.
After my deletion of rating on Mita dori and Maruyama Jinjya, and reversion on Tsuki no Misaki, Tokyo Watcher falsified the ratings again and again without any discussion or description on Talk:Tsuki no Misaki, see History of Talk:Tsuki no Misaki. At the bitter end, Tokyo Watcher deleted the {{Wikiproject Japan}} template from it probably because he or she didn't want to show this is a minor article.
I believe the template {{Wikiproject Japan}} should be restored if the Wikiproject Japan wishes, but, ... could anyone help me? -- Excavator 16:56, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Hasekura Tsunenaga will be the featured article on the Main Page on 2007-01-25. We need to make sure we keep an eye on it on that day in order to revert any vandalism that may turn up. Congratulations to everyone who worked on the article! ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon joe 17:51, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
While browsing Category:Japan stubs, I came across several articles related to Musashi. The first one had been prodded as a hoax, due to being created by a banned user. Coating (philosophy) is that one. I subsequently prodded a few more, but, found several others and decided it was better to bring it up here. This is probably an incomplete list, but, it would be nice to hear if these are rooted in reality or fantasy. The banned user was also involved in several samurai copyvio's last year; so there's a chance that these could be copyvio as well. Neier 11:46, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Neier 11:46, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Various editors, both registered and IP users, have over the months repeatedly added London to the list of sister relationships of Tokyo. I put an external link to an official Tokyo web page right in the article, but people persist in adding it. Yesterday and today I posted something like this on the talk pages of two editors:
Yet London keeps reappearing. So I ask members of the Project to keep an eye out for the recurring edit. Tokyo is probably already on your watch list, and if you see this addition, please undo it.
Thanks Fg2 05:15, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
The ongoing naming conflict at Talk:Ethnic Japanese is putting me under a bit of Wikistress. Please take a look at it. The issues are:
I find, as usual, disambiguation to be the most important consideration, and the current title is ambiguous. But one way or another, this discussion needs more eyes to establish consensus, and I'm unable to successfully negotiate between the perspectives of the other two users who are most involved in the debate. I neither feel that "Nikkei" is mandated nor that "Ethnic Japanese" is possible. I will cross-post this at the talk of WP:MOS-JP because WP:NC shows deference to it. Dekimasu 04:44, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
English is not my native language. I struggle with structure of sentences. Please help and review my work. I created new article called Japanese aircraft carrier Ryuho. This article was a feature on Wikipedia Main Page "Did you know?" I also expanded the Japanese cruiser Abukuma from a stub. I also worked on many other articles about Imperial Japanese Navy. I added information about aircraft carried by the aircraft carriers. Shibumi2 00:09, 31 January 2007 (UTC)