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Talk:Kasukabe, Saitama

message: One of the first western references to Kasukabe is in Isabella Bird's 1878 diaries "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan", in which she unflatteringly refers to it as "a good-sized but miserable-looking town."  I can't say her opinion is far wrong, even 130 years later. Atanovic 12:21, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Tezukayama University

message: ===Duplicate stub===
Notwithstanding the assertion above, Tezukayama College is a now defunct institution established by Tezukayama University. The college is discussed at Tezukayama University#Women's junior college, since I merged an earlier version of Tezukayama College there. Given that the junior college no longer exists as a separate entity, it seems unlikely that additional information will be forthcoming to expand the article beyond the current stub. Therefore, I propose that the redirect be reinstated.
(Editors interested in this discussion may also be interested in a similar one at Talk:Nara Medical University College of Nursing#Duplicate stub.)
Cnilep (talk) 02:03, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the content of this article can and should be merged with and redirected to Tezukayama University, as it is unlikely to ever be expanded beyond its current (poorly-sourced) stub status. --DAJF (talk) 03:04, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger proposals transclusions

message: Notwithstanding the assertion above, Tezukayama College is a now defunct institution established by Tezukayama University. The college is discussed at Tezukayama University#Women's junior college, since I merged an earlier version of Tezukayama College there. Given that the junior college no longer exists as a separate entity, it seems unlikely that additional information will be forthcoming to expand the article beyond the current stub. Therefore, I propose that the redirect be reinstated.
(Editors interested in this discussion may also be interested in a similar one at Talk:Nara Medical University College of Nursing#Duplicate stub.)
Cnilep (talk) 02:03, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the content of this article can and should be merged with and redirected to Tezukayama University, as it is unlikely to ever be expanded beyond its current (poorly-sourced) stub status. --DAJF (talk) 03:04, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplicate stub
Talk:2004 Israel–New Zealand passport scandal

message: With respect...the personal opinions of a former MP who has never been elected to Parliament under ACT hardly constitutes reasonable or fair comment in a Wikipedia article about Israeli-New Zealand relations. Clearly this former Labour man has an axe to grind and his personal assumption concerning the relationship between Phil Goff and Arafat would be better vented in some gutter tabloid, not in Wikipedia. Political or religious opinion belongs somewhere else.
Lest we not forget that Gabi Ashkenazi is the chief of staff to the IDF and his associates had just been done for passport fraud in NZ. The last thing New Zealand needs is for the holder of a NZ passport to be convicted somewhere in the world for an assassination which goes wrong and takes out women and children! 
I propose that this paragraph is removed forthwith..Mombas 22:51, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed. Mombas 12:49, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism of the Clark administration 

message: The current title of this page is '2004 Israel-New Zealand spy scandal'. Given that the two men were neither charged, nor convicted, with espionage, and there is no public evidence for the claim that they were spies, I feel the 'spy scandal' wording is inappropriate. 2004 Israel-New Zealand passport scandal would be a more neutral title, and also better comply with the requirements of WP:BLP policy. Terraxos (talk) 04:47, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Title?
Talk:Mutsu Province

message: Possibly appropriate addition to this article -- but perhaps better placed elsewhere?
* 1536: Date Tanemune issues Jinkaishū.Hall, John Whitney et al., eds. (1981). Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500 to 1650, Katsumata Shizuo and Martin Collcutt, "The Development of Sengoku Law." Princeton: Princeton University Press [p. 102].
Just another possibility not yet fully realized .... --Ooperhoofd 20:55, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sengaku House Codes

message: I translated the rest of the old districts and added a reference, but many of the districts were split, merged into other districts, etc.  Many of them also have names which are the same as current or previous districts in other areas of Japan.  I've tried to note this where possible; please try not to link to the districts in Gunma or Kochi, for example.
Also, many of the kanji have either been changed during modernization or disambiguation.  The "iwa" kanji was changed from 磐 to 岩 some time ago, and the "ta/da" in 志太郡 was later changed to 志田郡 for example.  But as this article is about an archaic province the names should be left in their original form.  Please don't alter the kanji unless you really know what you are doing.
It still needs cleanup, but at least now it's mostly translated.  I'd also suggest ordering them by modern prefecture to make things easier.RabidDeity (talk) 02:35, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Districts 

message: I think we should split this article into two articles, one for Mutsu from 700s until 1868 and the other Mutsu from 1868 --BigBang19 (talk) 05:14, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split Mutsu into two 

message: Congrats, the article no longer contains obvious grammatical mistakes, so I removed the copyedit tag and replaced it with Expand. If someone reads French (or finds more refs and cites them), expansion on each of the paragraphs in "Historical Record" would be great! RabidDeity (talk) 08:39, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please expand! 

message: "Voxu" redirects here, but that name is not mentioned anywhere in the article, which just leaves one guessing... 86.183.0.248 (talk) 01:44, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The term (sometimes also written Woxu) is found in old European sources from the 17th century (like the Historia del regno di Voxu del Giapone, 1615) as a rendering of Ōshū. --Mps (talk) 19:43, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Voxu 

message: I've been trying to find references to these 709 and 712 events in the official history resources of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures (the official successors of Mutsu Province). I have been able to find very little online, but the Fukushima Prefectural Government seems to be under the impression that it was in 709 that Michinoku and Dewa separated. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 11:16, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does ''NOI'' say, and why?
Talk:Honkyoku

message: Where is a single source in any of this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.188.228.180 (talk) 05:18, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  

message: it’s hard to understand what the subject of this article even is… 74.101.188.117 (talk) 02:11, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguity
Talk:List of Wazamono

message: This list seems a valuable and interesting addition. If we can just expand the prose paragraph of the historical background and such, maybe throw in a picture of a sword, it could be worth B status. LordAmeth 10:51, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: WP:Japan Assessment

message: Unfortunately, I can't find online very many references to this work even in Japanese. Old style kanji representation is "懐寶劍尺", and this yields a blog that refers to a seemingly hard to find book by  entitled 「実戦刀譚」(1941), that apprently discusses it. 
I'm not sure about the translation "Pocket Treasured Sword Length" given by original wikipedian contributor. The word kaihō, i.e., "pocketed treasure" apparently means "treasure that you carry around with you". So IMO, the title can be made better sense of if interpreted as "Reminescence on Treasure-Sword Yardsticking", since 
* kai (wikt:懐) can also be read, natsukashimu, omou "yearn, think on", etc.  and occurs in the term 述懐 (reminesce), and 
* shaku (wikt:尺), while it is a measure very close to a foot, and used to give the length measurement of swords, also has another sense of shakudo「尺度」 "scale or ruler, yardstick, or standard" by which you measure various attributes (wikt also lists  as one of the variant readings). 
--Kiyoweap (talk) 12:34, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kaihō-kenshaku
Talk:Nemuri-neko

message: Currently the article starts with "Nemuri-neko [眠猫] or Nemuri-no-neko [眠り猫] ..." but this doesn't look right to me. I would say 眠猫 and 眠り猫 are probably both "Nemuri-neko", and "Nemuri-no-neko" would be 眠の猫／眠りの猫. Is that right? Which of these variants are in actual use in Japan in this context? I see the ja article is called 眠り猫, and the other variants do not seem to be mentioned. 86.176.211.72 (talk) 00:03, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: 眠り猫 is the most widely used name, but 眠猫 is also used and can be found on the web too. See , , ,and . The first link is an online encyclopedia page. I've never heard of 眠の猫／眠りの猫. BTW, I replaced the lead image as the new one had the upper part of the carving. And I added a close-up image to the article too. I hope you do not mind. Oda Mari (talk) 07:43, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your reply. I changed the article. However, could you confirm that 眠猫 and 眠り猫 are both pronounced ねむりねこ? I think they are, but I am not absolutely certain. 86.176.213.97 (talk) 18:45, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Both are/can be pronounced ねむりねこ. ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 09:01, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. This is just a matter of with/without okurigana. I think it's somewhat like the difference between US and British spelling. Oda Mari (talk) 09:17, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese name 

message: The first section refers to Nemuri-neko in the singular: as a famous wood carving by Hidari Jingorō located in the East corridor at Tōshō-gū Shrine. The two accompanying photographs are captioned using the singular definite article the: 'The Nemuri-neko at Tōshō-gū' and 'The close-up image of the cat'. However, in the Gallery section featured below, the hand-colored collotype photograph shows a different sleeping cat 'at Nikko Toshogu Shrine' from that appearing in the earlier illustrations (in the collotype, both paws are outstretched in front rather than partially folded under the body). So -- is there more than one carved wooden sleeping cat at the Nikko Toshogu Shrine?  If there is more than one, this needs to be made much clearer in the initial section, for example, by stating that Nemuri-neko refers to a style of sleeping cat made famous by the work of Hidari Jingorō at Tōshō-gū Shrine. It would also be useful to note how many of these images occur at the Shrine. (Note that the diacritics are missing from the word Toshogu in the collotype caption). 180.200.149.87 (talk) 22:07, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification
Talk:Kanuma, Tochigi

message: Kanuma is one of the Hindu festivals, which on the third day of the Sankranthi festival in Andhra Pradesh. It is believed that Lord Krishna lifted the Govardhan hill to protect the people of Gokulam on this day. Mukkanuma is observed the day after Kanuma and is primarily a day of feasting and merry making.
Kanuma festival is quite similar to the Mattu Pongal observed in Tamil Nadu. The festival is dedicated to cows, bulls and other animals that are part of agrarian economy. Cattle and cattle sheds are cleaned on the day. Cows are decorated with marigold flowers and are worshipped. 
In Hindu mythology, Kanuma is the day when Lord Krishna performed the miracle of lifting the Govardhan hill. Lord Krishna asked the people of Gokul to worship the Govardhan hill, which blocked the clouds and provided rain. This enraged Lord Indra, who until then was seen as the rain god, and to avenge this insult, Indra created thunderstorms and rain and flooded Gokul. To protect the people, cows and other animals, Lord Krishna lifted the Govardhan hill. People found shelter under the hill. Soon Indra realized his folly and took refuge in Krishna.
Interestingly, there is a festival named Kanuma Autumn festival in Japan.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.180.165.2 (talk) 06:02, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Talk:Mitsugi Ohno

message: I need help. I have the last Klein bottle which Mr. Ohno ever made which was in 1998. I am trying to determine its value and have had no luck in locating anyone who knows anything about it. Anyone with any info or suggestions on where to turn please email me at aaronnonaka@yahoo.com
Should this not be at "Mitsugi Ōno"? Unless his name is commonly spelled Ohno in English-language documents, Wikipolicy as well as most normal romanization schemes dictate that the "Oh" as representative of "Oo" or "Ō" is no longer used. LordAmeth 11:02, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Hello!  I have found a YouTube video of Mitsugi Ohno working on his US Capitol glass sculpture, along with some footage of people enjoying the final results.  It came from someone's personal home 9mm film collection and was digitized by the Home Movie Depot people.  If it would fit the Wikipedia article, you are free to include it; the URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWOSS1PbgqU .  Thank you!  2602:306:BD68:740:2428:7A0:82AB:3FD7 (talk) 09:32, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  YouTube video??
Talk:USS Harder (SS-257)

message: She was sunk by IJN Subchaser 102 - the converted ex  (captured in damaged condition at Soerabaja in 1942.)
Evidence indicates that you are correct - but the ship was Patrol Boat No. 102 (formerly the USS Stewart).
:I see conflicting accounts of this event, some claiming she was sunk by Stewart and others by a Thai vessel. Do we have a reliable source for this? Drutt (talk) 02:44, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Antony Preston's 1977 publication "Destroyers" () credits the sinking of the Harder to a thai destroyer Phra Ruang, which was an ex British destroyer built as the HMS Radiant in 1916 sold to Thailand in 1920. she was under Japanese control at the time  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.238.122.224 (talk) 19:20, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sinking

message: Between these missions Harder was dispatched from Darwin to extract a group of Z Special Unit operatives from Borneo and returned them to Fremantle, she was depth charged during this. source is Born of Blood by Jack Sue . Gnangarra 01:37, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  mission 5 & 6
Talk:Kegon Falls

message: does Wikipedia list Kegon Falls at the third highest in Japan, while the World Waterfall Database (http://www.worldwaterfalldatabase.com/country-tallest-waterfalls/Japan/1/) lists it as about 37th highest?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.105.92.15 (talk) 01:53, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Why
Talk:Arsenius the Great

message: This section is for assessment discussions for the WP:Christianity assessment department.
=== March 29th === 
Set quality to start and importance to low. I'm wondering what people think about setting it to C. This is a figure that not much is known about, and given the relatively low importance of this figure, it might warrant a C rating (the information is incomplete, but might be as complete as it can be given the lack of historical info.)ReformedArsenal (talk) 13:27, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment Talk Section 

message: Set quality to start and importance to low. I'm wondering what people think about setting it to C. This is a figure that not much is known about, and given the relatively low importance of this figure, it might warrant a C rating (the information is incomplete, but might be as complete as it can be given the lack of historical info.)ReformedArsenal (talk) 13:27, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  March 29th 

message: I have restored this article to this page.  If it needs to be moved - please do so through the contested moves section at requested moves.  However, Wikipedia naming conventions prefer to not use the title "saint" in article names.   The same policy is the recommended standard by Wikiprojects Saints.  Pastordavid 18:42, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've moved this article from Arsenius the Deacon to Arsenius the Great, per a request at Wikipedia:Requested moves.  There was a non-trivial history already at Arsenius the Great, so I moved that history to Arsenius the Deacon, swapping the two page histories.  That's where it can be found, if anybody's looking for it. -GTBacchus(talk) 22:51, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name 
Category talk:Hokkaido

message: It is just too confusing that there are two Hokkaido categories. In which category do we place people born in Hokkaido? Badagnani (talk) 09:15, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Where to put people?

message: Should we not have a separate category for the fauna of Hokkaido? So much of Japan's animal life is on Honshu and the more southern islands, and Hokkaido is pretty distinct in that regard. I feel it needs its own category.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.147.205.47 (talk) 00:42, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Fauna of Hokkaido
Talk:Senjōgahara

message: The previous revision stated "It is about 650,000 m², east of Odashirogahara". Earlier in the article, it's claimed to have an area of 4km2 (4,000,000 m2), which is supported by the reference. So I'm not sure what this is supposed to refer to or whether it's some confused measure of the distance from Odashirogahara (which, incidentally, is about 1km to the east but I'm not sure this is really important enough to mention) and the Japanese version of the article doesn't seem to mention this either. In any case, I've removed this. Scleractinian (talk) 20:19, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment about Odashirogahara
Talk:DyLogic

message: I'm the author of this page - I'm new to Wikipedia, and I think I've been doing a mess with the articles I wanted to write...
I read Wikipedia's editing policies carefully, and I can understand why some articles I wrote have been tagged for speedy deletion... But what's wrong with this article about DyLogic? I modified some parts of it and removed all the links, except the one redirecting to the company's homepage - but I noticed that there are articles about similar companies with a comparable structure that have not been deleted...
Any suggestion for fixing the article?
Thanks
Michael6398 12:33, 2 November 2006
:The main reason I tagged this article is that no sources aside from the company's own site are cited. You may find the guidelines under WP:CORP helpful to decide whether a company warrants an article at all. If so, the best sources to write it up from are ones like neutral newspaper, magazine, or reliable and editorially-controlled Web site reviews of the company and/or its products. Industry-specific publications, if they're neutral and reliable, can also work quite well for sources about companies. This would of course include both positive and negative reviews, if both exist. As you seem to have a genuine interest in improving the article I'll withdraw the speedy nom on this one for now (though leaving it on the other ones, I think everything about the company will fit into one article.) If you would like any assistance with finding sources or the rewrite please ask away! Seraphimblade 11:45, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

message: I added some new sources - mainly on-line articles from editorially-controlled, renowned websites dealing with the 3G world.
I hope it's enough - I also found articles about DyLogic on some magazines/newspapers, but they're all from Italy and less recent.
Do you think I can also add some generical information about the product lines in the same page?
Thanks again for your support!
Michael6398 15:02, 2 November 2006
:Looking quite a bit better, thanks for your work on it. It still could use some third-party sources, I'm having a bit of trouble finding them online. Did find a mention of them here: . Are there any offline publications such as industry journals that could provide more information? Seraphimblade 18:39, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New sources for DyLogic
Talk:Dorion level crossing accident

message: Booms have to be installed where there are two or more tracks, because there is always a risk of a second train.
NSW practice is that booms will not rise if a second train is coming and the booms would not be raised for at least 15 seconds.
If the second train is so close that the booms would not be raised for 15 seconds, then the booms will remain down after the passage of the first train until the second (and subsequent) train has passed.
Tabletop (talk) 09:08, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second trains and booms. 

message: Located three published news stories about the accident. Added appropriate references. Two are available online. 
A digital image of the third reference – the entire issue of the paper for that day, in fact – can be accessed through news.google.com, but I can't determine the actual archive location. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19770309&id=gZAjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fKEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2917,2057384&hl=en
All back issues of the Montreal Gazette are on microfiche or similar, but I don't know what I would use as an archive URL for the issue or the news story.
Is this sufficient to remove the warning template?
/Bruce/ [aka Slasher] (talk) 13:31, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cites Identified
Talk:Suprapubic cystostomy

message: I personally think that suprapubic cystostomy should have been merged into cystostomy and not vice versa. There is cystostomy information that will not fit into this article but no suprapubic cystostomy that will not fit into a general cystostomy article. InvictaHOG 11:37, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: Currently, vesicostomy redirects here.  Is that appropriate?  Are these one method, or two methods?  I gather a vesicostomy involves daily insertion of a catheter merely to dilate the sinus;  a cystostomy involves an indwelling catheter (catheter remaining in the sinus).  Una Smith 23:22, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: vesicostomy

message: :People with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) may reqiure a catheter if they have difficulty urinating.
Does not belong in this article. Una Smith 17:26, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: stray sentence

message: I removed all disambiguation redirects to this user page. User pages cannot be used for fake article content! This is absurd. I will NOT tolerate reverting these changes. larz (talk) 01:36, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  All redirects removed
Talk:Kuriyama, Tochigi

message: Unless it has been absorbed by another municipality, Tochigi still has one village left... Ranma9617 01:32, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yuzukami isn't an independent village any longer. I will update the articles. --Umebo (talk) 12:34, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disputed
Talk:Xagħra Stone Circle

message: The article just says a Maltese aristocratic familay, and doesn't say any of them could paint. m.e. 11:40, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi me, I don't think the link to Brockdorff is relevant.  You may wish to view the external link, which provides insite on Charles Brockdorff (spelling may differ), who was actually a painter. Maltesedog 16:03, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Who was Brockdorff? 