Talk:Seto Inland Sea

message: Hi, all, I'm proposing that in line with Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names), we move this page to "Inland Sea", which is the name it usually known by in English. Almost all books about Japan in English which I have (and I have a lot :-) refer to it as "the Inland Sea", not "the Seto Inland Sea". (Enough examples to sink the Yamato produced on request! :-) Even as something of a hobby-level expert on a number of aspects of Japanese culture (see my home page, I couldn't have come up with "Seto Inland Sea" as its full formal name, if asked before this. In addition, many pages link to "Inland Sea". Noel 03:36, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think "Inland Sea" is good. Probably, the present title was a translation from the Japanese, but it's more familiar to me in English without the "Seto." However, if there's a reasonable possibility that another inland sea exists, we should consider "Inland Sea (Japan)" to avoid having changing all the links some day when someone decides to make "Inland Sea" a disambiguation page. Fg2 03:52, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
FWIW, here are the usual Google results, for pages in English:
* "Seto inland sea" - 2,270
* "Inland sea" Japan NOT Seto - 22,100
(I added "Japan" to the second search to try and weed out references to any old use of the phrase "inland sea", of which there are about 80K.) Anyway, with this in hand, and no objections, I'll do the move now. Noel (talk) 20:30, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

text: We don't, as far as I know, have a page on inland seas. (Would you like to write one?) If one is ever produced, it would of course be named Inland sea, or, more likely, Inland seas - in either case, a separate name from Inland Sea. Noel (talk) 04:59, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Seto Inland Sea vs. Inland Sea (Formerly titled: "Start")

message: I wrote "oil chemical production" (I meant 石油化学) but someone rewrote it "oil refining". I think those two are related but different. I home anyone will give information kindly. --Aphaea* 21:38, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  oil refining 

message: "The Japanese author Koushun Takami wrote a novel called “Battle Royale” that took place on a fictional island in the Seto Inland Sea." This statement came from an IP address where all the other edits appear to be either vandalism or jokes. -- Jmabel | Talk 02:35, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
:That seems to be true. The story is set in fictional Okishima (沖木島) Island belonging to Kagawa Prefecture. --Pitan 01:22, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone may want to verify 

message: I'm also adding the map at the Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Project wikipage, but put it here as well as it shows the locations of many of the major cities on the Inland Sea mentioned in the "Industry" section above.  I couldn't find an older 'free' map with the bridges on it, so I drew them in myself (caveat). They aren't meant to be exactly accurate, but they give an immediate overview of the 'bridging' of the Inland Sea. Frankly, I was a bit overwhelmed by the complex of actual bridges included within the expressways (e.g., Great Seto Bridge), compounded by the variety of names for each thing (it seemed to me). I was going for an accurate simplification and the Expressways, as organized in the Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Project wiki article, and their website, seemed the way to go.  Jauntymcd 17:40, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  added map with Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressways, Major Cities 

message: I propose to move this page to Inland Sea (Japan). Inland sea can refer to many large bodies of water not just this Japanese example. Ideas? Ozdaren 13:46, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have made a request for that. 65.95.14.96 (talk) 05:32, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Google maps / Satellite (or aerial photography?) imagery suggests two rail tunnels (one Shinkansen and one local servicves?) and a road bridge linking Kyushu and Honshu over (or under) the Kanmon Strait. Is there some reason that the "Transport" section of the article states "On the other hand, no bridge over the Inland Sea connects Kyūshū and another island"? I thought these straits were considered part of the Inland Sea. 16:17, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Travel - Kyushu - Hponshu links 

message: Iyo Nada, Aki Nada, Suonada, Hiro Wan, and Hiro Bay all redirect to this page. I added a brief mention of where the first three are, per the Japanese Wikipedia pages for those places. I know of no place called Hiro wan or Hiro bay, though, and can't find any mentioned at Japanese Wikipedia. Cnilep (talk) 05:18, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incoming redirects 

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.
*Support: I prefer Seto Inland Sea over any name including Japan. Seto is never omitted in Japanese.--Shinkansen Fan (talk) 07:03, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey