Talk:Botan Dōrō

message: Doro is not どろう but どうろう (something like Dourou) thus I fixed it. However, there're four options for the kanji of とうろう (you know, どうろう is rendaku of とうろう) and I don't know which is the best: 灯籠, 灯篭, 燈籠, and 燈篭. I chose 燈籠灯籠 with no specific reason (I just googled a bit but I failed to put...). Hazukashinagara, I know nothing about this kaidan, so please change to another one or just leave it as hiragana if it's better. (note: in :ja:怪談 they use three of them. the best selection remains uncertain...) --marsian 10:05, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  Yeah, 燈籠 is the correct kanji.  I had meant to fix that, but forgot...MightyAtom 10:14, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, I made a mistake... thanks for your fix (I meant to choose 燈籠,  but somehow put 灯籠... even though I'm using reputable ATOK! perhaps I need to upgrade it :) --marsian 11:26, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: This article is fantastic!  I really can't say enough about how nicely done the article is.  However, there is one flaw that currently prevents this article's approval as a good article, and that is the lack of citations, inline or otherwise.  Though the references are provided, they are not cited in the article, and therefore this article would fail based on this criterion.  If this is work that the editors believe possible within the seven day window of the hold period available, and the current twenty-four hour hold I'm placing on the nomination, please indicate the intention to add citations here.  Because of the amount of editing that will be required to comply with this seven day window, if the editors would kindly announce their intentions within in the next twenty-four hours, I will be happy to extend the hold for the full seven days.  If not, I encourage you to improve this article and renominate at your own pace.  Once the article has been passed or failed, I will discuss my thoughts on the other aspects of the article more thoroughly, but before that, this critical area needs to be addressed.  Cheers!  Chuchunezumi 02:41, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *Seeing no changes made by this late stage of the hold, I have decided to fail this article.  I do, however, encourage the editors to cite their passages and resubmit this article for further criticism in the pursuit of good article status.  Cheers!  Chuchunezumi 04:36, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  On August 16th, you gave me a 7 day window to update the article. By the normal established way of counting time, that gives me until the 23rd to make the changes. Which would be tomorrow.  Sooo....I just spent several hours updating the article with the requested changes, came to log on only to find that you had prematurely failed me.  Why did you bother to establish the timeline of seven days if you had no intention of keeping it? MightyAtom 05:38, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

text: *These issues have been addressed on your user talk page. Chuchunezumi 18:58, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Good article status

message: I think this article can make it with a few minor issues:
*No need, IMO, to indent all the footnotes.
*In 1884, Botan Doro was adapted by famous storyteller Encho Sanyutei into a rakugo, which increased the popularity of the tale. This isn't sourced, amidst a number of other things in that passage that are.
*Rename "Trivia" "Miscellanea" as has been done elsewhere. Truly trivial information would not be in an encyclopedia article.
As this article is about Japanese horror, I will yield to temptation and close thusly: Seven days ... you have seven days. Daniel Case 03:12, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 9/19 hold

message: Jezhotwells (talk) 16:03, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: GA Reassessment (2009)