Talk:Japanese Wikipedia

message: I notice that the Japanese wikipeida tends to lack pictures.  Is there a reason for this, and if so, could it be addressed>?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.105.253.43  (talk • contribs) 
:From the article: "The fair use provisions of US law are not considered to apply. Articles and media files which do not have a GFDL-compatible license are prohibited, even if they would be legal under the "fair use" doctrine in the US." Springbreak04 07:38, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lack of pictures

message: What exactly does this mean - "Most articles' point on Japan only"?
The English is a bit broken. Does it mean that most articles are about Japan-related topics? --Amir E. Aharoni 07:49, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Most articles' point on Japan only" 

message: Many points in the Characteristics section sound a lot like original research. For example, "In keeping with the strong aversion to edit wars, the administrators react negatively to cases where many minor edits are made to a single article in a short period of time" may have been written by an editor in the Japanese Wikipedia who had a couple of arguments with an admin. At the very least this article should point to a policy in the ja.wiki that advises against frequent edits to the same article and to a few cases in which that happened, and even that would be a primary source. Currently there are no directly quoted sources at all.
I am marking it as original research. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:29, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research 

message: Hi, I've added a "Culture section" on the article. I assume this may be somewhat controversial, so please feel free to discuss and advise any comments in mind. Thank you --Makesdark (talk) 16:18, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Culture section added 

message: I've found the corresponding history on the Japanese Wikipedia:Announcements page :ja:Wikipedia:%E7%99%BA%E8%A1%A8#2004.E5.B9.B4, and:ja:Wikipedia:発表/第2回Webクリエーション・アウォード. Though the title of the Award was something like "2004 Special Prize award the 2nd Web creation". google translation for :ja:Wikipedia:受賞.--Makesdark (talk) 05:26, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awards section 

message: ...as it implies that the GNU Free Documentation License is still the only license that the Japanese version of Wikipedia uses (is uses the same liscence as the English version).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karjam (talk • contribs) 13:26, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Even though the footer and some of the documentation has been updated to reflect the license change, the change has not entirely sunk in (yet) among the community. In fact, :ja:Wikipedia:Copyrights only mentions GFDL. Many request for deletion still get deleted on the grounds of GFDL violation. I'm not reflecting this on the article because that'll be my OR, though. --朝彦 (Asahiko) (talk) 04:26, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is outdated... 

message: Well, this article is a little bit outdated now: his name doesn't appear in the title of the ja.wp article, but is mentioned (and even bolded!) in the lede since this edit. Double sharp (talk) 04:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  mentioning of Shosei Koda 

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message: I understand that you don't want acknowledge, but It is fact. HAHAHA --101.128.237.20 (talk) 02:51, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The word "fact" means a lot of different things to different people and your edit is considered original research on Wikipedia. You still haven't provided a rationale or source for this change. Please stop edit warring and instead gain consensus for this change first. Opencooper (talk) 04:16, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:Otaku 

message: I found out Swedish and Cebuan Wikipedia  are just so big because most of their articles are created by bots. Why are Wikipedias in French, German, Spanish, so much bigger? And I think connection of Japanese Wikipedia with others is low because few outside Japan speak Japanese, and the Japanese on average don't speak many other languages (living on an island is one factor). Crotopaxi (talk) 07:14, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are there few articles in the project as compared to the [[List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers|language's importance by number of speakers]]? 

message: Just curious - why is Wikipedia's prefix 'ja' rather than 'jp'?  Was the ccTLD 'ja' when Wikipedia started? Jimw338 (talk) 22:33, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The subdomains Wikipedia uses for each language are based on their two-letter ISO 639-1 codes if they exist or three-letter ISO 639-3 code. For Japanese, these are ja/jpn respectively. Opencooper (talk) 15:50, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is Wikipedia prefix 'ja' rather than 'jp'? 

message: "As of March 2022, it has over 1,317,000 articles with 15,639 active contributors, ranking fourth behind the English, Spanish and Russian editions." -- What does the rank mean? Is the rank by number of articles, is it the rank by active editors, etc.? Sheep (talk) 03:01, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification needed 

message: The use of Flash here is concerning. Flash is a shūkanshi, which in general is not reliable enough and should be discouraged per WP:RS. Is there any better source to use instead? --2001:240:2428:5951:8602:AC8:4458:1C8C (talk) 12:32, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been more than a year. If the paragraph about Oyamada is not going to be better sourced, it doesn't make sense to keep it here. All the news coverage indicates is that it was Oyamada's controversy, not Wikipedia's. --2001:240:2471:DA45:EBF5:2D1F:3399:44AC (talk) 02:53, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed. --2001:240:2466:3790:A4E0:32EF:DD6B:DD69 (talk) 23:39, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you the same person who made the above two comments? toobigtokale (talk) 19:18, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. I thought it was obvious enough. --2001:240:2460:8806:3F8C:CDF2:675F:F4C9 (talk) 03:15, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flash 

message: The current Characteristics section of this article delves into overly intricate and technical details about Japanese Wikipedia policies that are of interest only to a small number of active Wikipedia contributors. It also assumes that the audience has some prior knowledge of Wikipedia's editorial process, as terms such as "IP users" and "edit war" suddenly appear without any explanation of what IP editing or edit warring means.
The section needs to be substantially rewritten to provide context and summary of the information presented for non–Wikipedia contributors to understand. Pacifio (talk) 10:48, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Characteristics section