Wikipedia talk:Japan-related topics notice board/Dec05

message: I have just deleted Dodompa but left a neutralised copy of it at Talk:Dodompa. I note that the article had a link to :ja:ドドンパ. Either:
* the word is an hoax and should be deleted from ja: or
* it is genuine, in which case perhaps the article here should be re-instated.
-- RHaworth 15:44, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The Japanese site indicates the word is legitimate ... personally I only know it from the context of Hikawa Kiyoshi's song (Kiyoshi no Dodonpa) but I think it's fair to say it's not a hoax.  I'd call this one a "keep and expand" if it were up for a vote. CES 16:39, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dodompa 

message: Hello,
The article List of kanji by group has been nominated for deletion. If anyone has an opinion, please express it on the article's entry on Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion. 
Is anyone aware of another article on the same topic on Wikipedia?
Fg2 02:14, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Deleted. Fg2 08:17, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of kanji by group 

message: Half a dozen Japanese astronomers are on the list of most wanted stubs. The articles are in the format "XXX is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids." If anyone knows more about these people, please see #106, 108, 165, 199, 208, and I'm pretty sure there was one more... Fg2 02:03, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most Wanted List 

message: i am looking to purchase a minko and move it to Fukuoka.
where do i begin??
:I have no idea, but we could use an article on minka ... the article on Minka was ... um ... not what I expected! CES 03:58, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  looking for Minka 

message: I moved the former article "Japanese translation note" to the Wikipedia namespace. It's now at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles)/Translation note. The reason for the move is that it's not an article; it's about Wikipedia conventions, and those conventions are most closely related to the Manual of Style. Fg2 11:24, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese translation note 

message: The article Miyamoto Musashi has been listed on Wikipedia:Peer review. The listing is at Wikipedia:Peer review/Miyamoto Musashi/archive2. This is an excellent opportunity to discuss the present state of the article, identify its strengths, isolate its weaknesses, so that it can improve and perhaps reach Featured Article status. Fg2 05:02, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer Review Request: Miyamoto Musashi 

message: A recent conversation at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles) prompted me to finish something I started a couple of months ago.  Of course, if it was really finished, I wouldn't need help.
:Category:Lists of railway stations in Japan has been remade from the old Japanese AIUEO order, and I scrubbed the Japanese WP for all of the stations it had listed.  A couple of perl scripts later, and the lists you see in that category are the result.  A lot of red links, but that is only a minor concern right now.
There are two main things to fix.  The biggest glaring problem is that the romanization script didn't know about macrons.  Lots and lots of ou's to fix, etc.  Secondly, there are many stations already with entries which will need disambiguation links, based on the fact that their romaji name is the same as another station (many of these did not have any disambig pages in the Japanese site because the kanji are different).
Besides those two areas, hyphenation (I admit that I don't know when it should be used) and maybe some romaji-to-English conversion (the obvious ones like dizuni-rando I've already taken care of... probably) can stand some work.  There are probably a few isolated places where the scripts hiccoughed too.
Feel free to grab a letter and start in.  It will probably work best if messages are left on each section's talk page documenting the progress (ie, macrons fixed).  
I think that I've stretched the automated part of this about as far as it can go, and that's why they're posted now.  Neier 15:16, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Station List Help Request 

message: I don't know why, but on the Shikoku Pilgrimage page, the list of 88 temples appears below the external links instead of above them where they belong.  I've tried fixing it, but with no success.  Could someone please take a look at it and see if they can figure out what's going on?  Thanks a lot. CES 01:16, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed it.  The end of the table was marked |-} instead of |}.  Neier 02:40, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks a lot, I appreciate it! CES 03:31, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help! 

message: I've updated the list of article titles that I mentioned in August. These are listed in a project as "missing articles" and seem to be Japan-related. If you're looking for ideas for new articles, this list will give you a lot of suggestions. It's at Wikipedia:Japanese Wikipedians' notice board (section)/Topics. For comparison, the original list is at the bottom. All titles in the original list were red when I compiled it; you can see how many new articles (or redirects) have turned the links to blue. Fg2 04:01, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions for new articles 

message: The article Imperial Japanese Navy is now a featured article. Fg2 11:17, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured-article candidate is now featured

message: I was not quite sure whether to put Ikebana and some related articles to :Category:Japanese crafts or :Category:Japanese visual arts. They#re now in the second one, but maybe they should be moved? -- Mkill 23:32, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Ikebana]] 

message: Ashiro, Iwate, Nishine, Iwate, and Matsuo, Iwate recently merged, forming the city of 八幡平市.  Google translates this as "Yamata flat city", but the new city's website is http://www.city.hachimantai.lg.jp/.  I assume the correct English name is "Hachimantai".  Can someone verify this please?  Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 02:04, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  八幡平市 

message: I'm a little unsure if this category should list all articles about ethnic Japanese or only those that don't fit in one of the subcategories. What's the standard? -- Mkill 00:27, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Japanese people]] 

message: To get more structure in the history, I'd like to split the history in broad era categories. But I'd like to get a few opinions beforehand, as there are a few options:
One is to use a broad scheme, like | Prehistoric Japan - Ancient Japan - Feudal Japan - Early Modern Japan - Modern Japan |. Or we could use the scheme of Template:History of Japan: | Paleolithic - Jomon - Yayoi - Kofun - Asuka - ... - Heisei |. Or mix and match, depending on how many articles are there...
I'm also unsure on how to split the history after 1868: Meiji - Taisho - Showa - Heisei is not optimal, as Taisho is rather short, while Meiji and Showa are long periods, and the breaks between the periods are not the big breaks in modern Japanese history, like the the Surrender. :Category:Empire of Japan gives a broad range from 1868 to 1945, maybe we should keep this one (or rename it to :Category:Imperial Japan) and create subcategories for important events, like :Category:Meiji Restoration. :Category:Japan during World War II would be another one. For the period after 1945 I would suggest :Category:Occupied Japan and :Category:Post-occupation Japan, or :Japan since 1952 -- Mkill 01:07, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd definitely prefer the use of periods, e.g. Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi, Sengoku, Edo/Tokugawa, Meiji, though I agree that it's a bit unclear what to do after that. Perhaps Mkill's last suggestion, "Imperial Japan", "Japan under the American Occupation" and "Post-Occupation Japan" would be best. LordAmeth 16:46, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subdivisions of [[:Category:History of Japan]] 

message: I've been puttering around on Holidays of Japan for a couple of weeks, and am nowhere near my goal of submitting it for Peer Review (to nobody's surprise). I invite the community to visit the article, help fill in more detail on the remaining holidays, spruce up my prose, add nuggets of interesting information, provide illustrations, correct errors, and improve the article in any way you see fit. Fg2 11:56, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Holidays of Japan 

message: A discussion has begun about whether to delete Wikipedia:Japanese Collaboration of the Week. The community is invited to take part in the discussion. Please visit Wikipedia talk:Japanese Collaboration of the Week. Fg2 01:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaboration of the Week: Delete? 

message: In editing Itabashi, Tokyo, I happened across the article :ja:江戸四宿 and would like to translate it. I'm not sure "Four post towns of Edo" is best. Can anyone make a better suggestion? The post towns were the first stops for travellers leaving Edo. They are Shinagawa, Naito Shinjuku, Itabashi, and Senju, so links from those articles are natural, as well as from the Kaido articles. Fg2 01:41, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Outposts of Edo ?? Neier 03:26, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's a good title? 

message: This article has seen quite a lot of good activity today, including a move from its previous title, seitan.  I'd like to encourage anyone who might be interested in fleshing out the Japanese and macrobiotic sections.   Particularly the different types of fu and their culinary use in Japan.  It could use some copyediting as well.  Dforest 07:16, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wheat gluten (food)]] 

message: Is there an article (or even a category) encompassing the old forms of Japanese currency? Koku has an article, but it's not quite a currency, in the same way that ryō is. But is there an article that encompasses those, as well as koban and oban and kan and monme? (If not, I'll get a start on it.) I just can't seem to find it, and I'm not positive what it would be under. LordAmeth 12:20, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: From 和同開珎 to the B Yen of occupied Okinawa, it would be a great topic. A good addition would be hansatsu. I don't see it in the Japanese Wikipedia. There's a stub on zeni. I don't know of anything on silver in the English Wikipedia, but the gold-silver exchange was important internally, and became more important internationally in early Meiji, I think. There are brief entries on :ja:一部銀, :ja:二朱銀, :ja:豆板銀 etc. Check :ja:Category:通貨 and within it :ja:Category:硬貨.  All of this would make a great article, perhaps with ryo merged in. BTW, "momme" is fully English (with two m's) even though monme is the Japanese word. -- Fg2 12:59, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I know, we are still missing such an article (or set of articles). I though about it, too, but so far I only created the stub de:Hansatsu. Maybe we can start small by creating smaller articles on different currencies, and later creating a bigger overview article Currencies of Japan. -- Mkill 20:53, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  old Japanese currency 

message: I just saw Kagawa Toyohiko as a requested article on the main Community Portal page and created it. Thought I'd drop a line here and ask for people more knowledgable about Japanese topics to check it over. Thanks! — Jonel | Speak 02:47, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kagawa Toyohiko 

message: hello all, i tried searching wp for anything on those ultra-expensive japanese fruits, you know, like the square watermelons and $15 apples with calligraphy on them. anyways, i can't find anything, and though it's probably my incompetence at searching properly, i would like to request that such an article be created by someone who knows more about this, if any such article(s) don't already exist. thank you.
Eduardo Cuellar 09:44, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  crazy fruits