Wikipedia talk:Japan-related topics notice board/Feb06

message: ;JA
1月8日（日）夕方から関西のウィキメディアンで新年会を企画しています。
:集合場所：梅田・ビックマンの上
:集合時間：午後5時
参加をご希望の方はウィキメールにて土曜日夕5時までに幹事までご連絡ください。
6日夕現在で、幹事を含む3人が参加を表明しています。
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On the next Sunday evening, January 8, 2006, Wikimedians in Kansai will hold a meetup in Umeda, a northern neighborhood of Osaka, Osaka.
All interested Wikimedians are invited to join and celebrate the new year, though most of participants are active on JA WP expectedly. 
Our meeting point will be ...
;Place:corridor over "Bicman" (a big display near to the Kinokuniya bookstore)
;Time:1700 in local time
Your notice by wikimail to the organizer is strongly recommended, though your surprise apperance will be warmly welcomed.  --Aphaia 08:45, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meetup in Osaka 

message: A short while ago, I noticed that the only article on Japanese Buddhist temples was the list of Buddhist temples worldwide. I therefore began an article called Buddhist temple (Japan). It is meant to cover the history of architectural styles, the traditional layout of a temple grounds, the structures typically found at a temple (i.e. Great Hall, Founder's Hall, Pagoda, etc.)... I did some preliminary work on it, but realized I have neither the time nor the resources (texts) to do much more on my own. Thus, I bring it to your attention; I'll go nominate it for Collaboration of the Month, but I thought I might attract some attention here too. (If you look at the articles on Cathedral, Monastery, and Basilica, you'll see the kind of length and detail I was thinking of putting into this article.) Thanks!! LordAmeth 02:21, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buddhist temples in Japan 

message: A user has added the singer Ayumi Hamasaki to the page List of best-selling music artists. As a source, the user has provided a website in Japanese - I was wondering if someone could take the time to verify that this page claims she has sold over 50million records in her career?
The list only looks at reasonable claims made, and counts sales of all singles and albums, so that is the information that ought to be on the link somewhere. The page is: .
Thanks Robdurbar 13:30, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't see sales figures there. Does anyone else see them? Fg2 21:57, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just went through the whole site but I couldn't find anything like that.  50 million seems like a big number for a Japanese singer whose career has only spanned 6 years. --awh (Talk) 08:49, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This Wikipedia entry Ayumi_Hamasaki_discography claims that the total of albums and singles is 43,000,000. --awh (Talk) 08:55, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you all! Robdurbar 10:34, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Her career spanned 10 years, which is like a millenium in one-hit-wonder heavy Japan. Her face sells big enough you can't walk 100 meters in Tokyo without seeing her face on some ad. If there is a Japanese Madonna, it would be her. (And yes, neither like her face nor her music, but fact is fact.) -- Mkill 00:15, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for the help of a Japanese-Speaker

message: The discussion of name order has started again at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style for Japan-related articles/Name order. Fg2 21:15, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Order Discussion 

message: A new discussion about a a different type of ordering has been started at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles)#Ordering of Lists.  This is about the order of lists of Japanese words on the English Wikipedia. Neier 22:17, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List ordering 

message: The article Parasite singles has been nominated for deletion. If you have an opinion, please visit the article and click on the link to "this article's entry" to express your view. Fg2 09:53, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for always bringing these to everyone's attention Fg2 CES 12:44, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're welcome!
The result of the discussion was keep. Fg2 02:07, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Parasite singles]] nominated for deletion 

message: Wikipedia is testing a new deletion method, Proposed Deletion. The article Kon-nichiwa has been nominated for proposed deletion. If you have an opinion about this, please visit the article. Fg2 02:06, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed deletion: Kon-nichiwa 

message: Through the regular deletion process Fg2 07:10, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles for Deletion: [[Towa Oshima]] 

message: Over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japanese mythology, we're trying to sort out the categorization tree for :Category:Religion in Japan, :Category:Japanese mythology, :Category:Japanese folklore, and related categories. Please drop by; greater input is very desirable. — BrianSmithson 19:04, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories related to Japanese religion, mythology, folklore 

message: The page for the A Taxing Woman film has some question marks next to the Japanese title. Could someone check if the name is correct and then remove the question marks? Also, if anyone can add info to the article, that would be great. Thank you AdamSmithee 23:10, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Does anyone see the question marks?  I thought it may be the nihongo template, but I can't see either a ? or the template in the source. Neier 11:03, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see them. Perhaps the user has katakana but not hiragana or kanji installed, so that the browser displays マルサ properly but の女 comes out as question marks? Fg2 11:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Taxing Woman 

message: I've made an edit to Seibu Ikebukuro Line using data pulled from the Japanese page on that line, and in fact I plan to move the chart of station, transfers, and stops over from the same page.  How should I go about citing the Japanese wikipedia?  --awh (Talk) 11:38, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's just the article you need: Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia Fg2 07:41, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems to be an article about how to cite Wikipedia if I was making something else (like, handing in a report for a high-school history class).  However, all I want to do is put a note on the English wikipedia page to the effect of "stolen shamelessly from the Japanese page on the same topic" --awh (Talk) 08:30, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Now I see the goal. Try Wikipedia:Citing sources. This page has the official word. Fg2 09:46, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How should you cite Japanese wikipedia?