Talk:Osaka/Archive 2

message: I have some of my photos of 大坂 from joy-wheel near Kaiyukan. Should I add them in this article? Laitr Keiows 20:38, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If they illustrate the article in a new and informative way, sure! In any case, why not put them on Commons. They can go in :Commons:Category:Osaka and/or :Commons:Osaka. Photos on Commons are available for Wikipedia in all languages, and for all other Wikimedia projects (such as Wiktionary, Wikibooks). Individual Wikipedia articles don't need multiple illustrations of the same topic (e.g. similar cityscapes of the same city) but on Commons there are often lots of similar shots so that people can select the one they like best to illustrate an article. And in a few cases, Wikipedia articles can accommodate additional photos in galleries (see Nikko, Tochigi for an example). So we have lots of possibilities for your photos. Thanks! Fg2 21:46, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Photos 

message: Changed The "United States" link next to Chicago, so it's a link, in the Sister Cities section, and added Cedar Rapids, as it is also a sister city. Impartialitationator 02:02, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Osaka's official Osaka and the World page in English does not list Cedar Rapids. Are you sure it's a sister of Osaka, the city? Or maybe it's a sister of one of the cities in Osaka Prefecture? If you have more precise information, it would be helpful. Fg2 21:05, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sister Cities Change

message: Its 91,500 Korean residents are mainly concentrated around Ikuno Ward, where a famous Korean town, Tsuruhashi, is located.
Is there a Korean town in Osaka? Is that like a chinatown, or is it actual Korean territory (higly doubt that). Can someone explain this? Ninja neko 07:47, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Osaka Korean Town 大阪コリアンタウン is like a Chinatown in Osaka. It is not Korean territory. See for example this sightseeing article which includes photos. Fg2 07:56, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Korean town? 

message: Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles). --Polaron | Talk 08:26, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese city article naming debate 

message: Hi, I was just looking at this page for Version 0.5. I noticed that it's assessed as a B-Class article yet I tagged it as only a Start, so I thought I should explain my reasoning:
*The most serious problem is that many of the sections are mainly lists, with very little prose
*There are no references, inline or otherwise.
*The culture section is interesting, but not very encyclopedic.  Compare New York City; New Yorkers are often described as rude, always in a hurry, and as people who will walk by while a crime is going on near them.  None of that appears in the city article (maybe it should, a little?) - instead it focuses on things like the theatre, etc.  If you can find some quotations from famous people saying "Osakans are ...." that would be great, otherwise it reads more like hearsay or opinion.
*History is nice as far as it goes, but the teaser in the intro, "Osaka is the historical commercial capital of Japan and is still one of Japan's major industrial centers and ports" got me wanting to learn about that side of Osaka - it's not really covered, yet I know it's an important aspect of the city's history.
For an example of a Featured Article on another global city, see Detroit, Michigan or Mumbai.  This is a global city which deserves a great article - I hope that the knowledgable people here can turn it into one. Thanks, Walkerma 05:38, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions for expansion/improvement 

message: Would the page be better served by having some of the larger lists as seperate pages with links?
eg
Osaka Attractions
Major companies
wards
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Osakadan (talk • contribs) .
:I think they are probably fine as is for the moment, unless you can create a substantial article based on the section. Breaking them off into stub articles wouldn't serve any real purpose, and would probably encourage people to suggest they be merged back into the main article. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 17:19, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  lists 

message: This page is about Osaka city and Osaka prefecture has a seperate page. Some of the companies listed are registered in Osaka Prefecture and not Osaka City. Eg. Hankyu Railways is registered in Ikeda city (which has its own page) and technically should not be listed on the Osaka city page. One solution might be to move the whole section over to the Osaka Prefecture article, or to delete it all together and create a category of companies based in Osaka. Any comments? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Osakadan (talk • contribs) 08:59, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In my opinion, a list of companies headquartered in the city has a place in the article on the city; a list of companies headquartered in the prefecture would be a more-selective list of the total of all those in the cities. So let's remove from the city article any company whose headquarters are outside the city. I think we did something similar with universities already. Categories are good too, but there should be a section in the article as well. Preferably in prose form. Fg2 09:10, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major Companies in Osaka

message: Gamba Osaka and Cerezo Osaka of Jleague,
Hanshin Tigers and Orix Buffaloes of NPB
any others?
RIII 00:45, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sport

message: By my calculations, the average high temperature should be 27.7 degrees, not 36.4.  The average temperature should be 17.9 degrees, not 16.5.  The average low should be 9.8 degrees, rather than -0.2.  And the rainfall amount listed under the Year column is a total, not an average.  I'm changing the table to correct averages straight down (though I admit to being too lazy to do a weighted average by number of days), including rainfall. 218.225.111.205 03:32, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weather table mistakes 

message: I added Black Rain directed by Ridley Scott in the list of Osaka in popular culture since the movie took place in this city.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Themanilaxperience (talk • contribs) 07:33, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ridley Scott's movie Black Rain 

message: I've added a new external link to a youtube-hosted video entitled "A Day in Osaka".
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=UIJdYVGnSuo
It's a step above the 'wandering handycam' video and has been professionally titled
and edited. As it has scenes from Sumiyoshi Taisha, Amerika-mura, Dotonbori, Osaka-jo,
JR Loop Line, Kita-ku, HEP-5 and Yodobashi Kamera, I thought it would be a good resource
for those interested in Osaka to see images of Osakan life.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sweetbixkid (talk • contribs) 14:44, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional External Link 

message: Thank you to everybody joining in to expand and improve the article.
Here are some notes related to my edit ---
General:
* Wikipedia itself is not considered a reliable source, so please try look for reliable sources other than from Wikipedia in any case.
Politics:
* Please consider WP:NOTDIRECTORY. There are a lot better resources other than Wikipedia if only a list of offices existing Osaka is needed. A mere listing is not necessarily needed in the article.
Festivals and events:
*"Osaka Marathon" is removed because it is already mentioned below in the Sports section. Please consider it is like a "must" to find a citation from a reliable source especially if it has to be mentioned "the most" xxx.
Sports:
*I have removed Gamba from the article because it is a team with its home in Suita, Osaka prefecture, not the city of Osaka.
You may want to consider creating an article for "Sports in Osaka", covering Osaka prefecture including Osaka city though. --Mantokun (talk) 15:10, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit summary - March 22nd, 2009 

message: *Some of the recently added elements, such as the names of the President of the Council and Vice Mayors were integrated into the existing text, removing some redundancy (eg. number of councilors being 89 and with 4 years term, because they were already mentioned). The name of the President is updated to reflect the current assignment since 2008.
*Political groups (factions) details are updated in accordance with the data avaialable from the City Council web, and incorporated into the infobox.
*Seats by wards is also included in the infobox, by default hidden for space optimization.
-- Mantokun (talk) 06:54, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit note on Politics section on March 25th 

message: I would like to add a small new section on the 21st century Osaka and how it faces the economic and social challenges to reshape itself in modern Japan. I have a very nice picture of the section, 21st century Osaka Igor Berger (talk) 12:15, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  21st century Osaka 

message: Modifications are made to what looked like below previously:
>>Historical records seem to indicate that the Yamato people (the Japanese) first came upon the area, at the mouth of the Yodo River, in 663. They met resistance from the native people of the region and fought them for roughly five years, before enthroning their emperor at a site called Kashiwabara. 
Naniwa was founded by Emperor Temmu in 683, in what is now Osaka's Hōenzaka-chō District. 
In the seventh and eighth centuries, Naniwa served as the site of several emperors' pleasure palaces. The city also served as one of the primary ports, providing economic and cultural contact with T'ang Dynasty China. Naniwa ceased to be the capital in 745, when the Imperial Court moved to Shigaraki no Miya and then to Heijo-kyō (now Nara). It remained a lively port for some time but fell into decline by the 15th century.
– No much clue as to what sources indicates this -- notably the years and the event.
The followings may help:
http://www.city.osaka.jp/city/history/history2.html
http://bun-eido.co.jp/publish/culture/santo/naniwa.html
60s 08:24, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: Why is the Indian city of Kanpur listed as a sister port of Osaka? Kanpur is at least 1300kms from the sea. Is it a misrepresentation of Kandla port in Gujarat, India ?Anish Viswa   04:53, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sister port - Kanpur 

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message: I placed a new part about the ownership Osaka has in nuclear power plants... It was removed... Because it would be speculation.
Was it ? Osaka IS and WAS a big pleyer in this field, and up till a year ago Osaka was very happy with this. Now it has changed its attitude: Osaka wants to get away from nuclear power. And not only Osaka, but two fellow-cities in the region, they changed their views too. 
Is that speculation? Not at all, it is a big change in Japan, whether the towns can get it their way or not, a mayor governmental player in this field, wants to get away from nuclear power.
Of course this is big news in Japan, where all was more or less set to pave the way to the restart, and in this process the population is massaged into the acceptance that restarts might be inevitable. 1947enkidu (talk) 06:33, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree attitude change is happening and this will be a very important item. But the text talks about what will happen in the future (that is not allowed in Wikipedia) -- you have to wait until it actually happens.  Rjensen (talk) 06:55, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Bu the change of attitude is already there, by the way, the wiki does not mention the possession of the stock of Kansai Electric at all, taking all away, was not needed. 1947enkidu (talk) 09:34, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speculatio about the future ? 

message: This  city was named after the great emperor of INDIA named - Ashoka ( Which means no suffering). This city is named around 1 B.C. This city was the post of entry of First Buddhists from South west Asia. After the cruel emperor surrendered to bhudda, he 
donated all his money to spread the ultimate knowledge and peace to whole world.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.135.145.89 (talk) 11:26, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a reliable source for your statement? --Christian140 (talk) 09:17, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Name Osaka 

message: The article states Osaka is the city with the third highest population in Japan after Tokyo and Yokohama. It states the population of Osaka is 16 million plus. However, the article on Yokohama states the population is about 3.7 million. If I wasn't so brain-dead I would do the research and edit the article myself. Someone fix this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.62.129.198 (talk) 21:02, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Errors? 

message: What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content! Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 14:48, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Timeline of Osaka]] 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to  on Osaka. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add  after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add  to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20090322141953/http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp:80/contents/wdu020/english/for_tourists/c_historical_overview.html to http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/contents/wdu020/english/for_tourists/c_historical_overview.html
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20081222175100/http://www.kansai.gr.jp:80/KansaiWindowhtml/Collection/English/000232.html to http://www.kansai.gr.jp/KansaiWindowhtml/Collection/English/000232.html
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20100310133632/http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp:80/contents/wdu020/english/more_about_osaka/administrative.html to http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/contents/wdu020/english/more_about_osaka/administrative.html
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20090406021719/http://www.geocities.jp:80/kyouiku_hiroba/02/osaka-city-education-history.html to http://www.geocities.jp/kyouiku_hiroba/02/osaka-city-education-history.html
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20080214043955/http://www.iiclo.or.jp:80/english/english.htm to http://www.iiclo.or.jp/english/english.htm
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20090323012900/http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp:80/contents/wdu020/english/more_about_osaka/osaka_world/ock002r.html to http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/contents/wdu020/english/more_about_osaka/osaka_world/ock002r.html
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20090323013630/http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp:80/contents/wdu020/english/more_about_osaka/osaka_world/ock003r.html to http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/contents/wdu020/english/more_about_osaka/osaka_world/ock003r.html
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20050309070457/http://www.budapest.hu:80/engine.aspx?page=20030224-cikk-testvervarosok to http://www.budapest.hu/engine.aspx?page=20030224-cikk-testvervarosok
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thread_title:  External links modified