Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan/Archive/June 2007

message: Somebody did a cut & paste move from Ōgon Batto to Ogon Batto, and so I moved it back.  Please keep an eye on it.--Endroit 20:48, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And apparently, it's been moved to Ogon Batto (Gold Bat) without discussion.  Is the parentheses thing allowable?--Endroit 15:25, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, they should be reserved for disambiguation. Jpatokal 05:53, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nominated for WP:HISTMERGE. --Samuel di Curtisi di Salvadori 14:07, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

text: MOved back and asked the mover to ask for a RM nom.--Samuel di Curtisi di Salvadori 14:11, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ōgon Batto → Ogon Batto → Ōgon Batto → Ogon Batto (Gold Bat) 

message: I have made a proposal for a WikiProject Sumo Proposal. Yesterday I spent part of the day sourcing Akebono with a few other people.  Most sumo articles are not well sourced.  Though under two WikiProjects already, I think it would be to the advantage of both the articles of sumo and wikipedia as a whole if Sumo is placed under its own WikiProject.  If you would like to join or have any comments, please go to the Project proposal page.  Thanks! XinJeisan 17:18, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It may work better as a task force under an existing project. Outside of WP:JA, which other WikiProject is it under? ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry to not wikifiy this, I am just pretty busy and want to make a comment before long.  A person from WikiProject Martial Arts already said making sumo its own project was a good idea and that editor stated that he would put us as a decendent project of Martial Arts.  I think we have a strong team now which to build Sumo into a longstanding Wikiproject.  If you have any other comments, could you direct them to the Wikiproject Proposal page.  Thanks! XinJeisan 18:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sumo Wikiproject 

message: For anyone with a few free minutes for cleanup/fixing errors, Second city#Japan could use a look. I'm a bit busy at the moment, but I ran across the section and it made me laugh a little more than a Wikipedia section should. Dekimasuよ! 02:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd never even heard of a "second city" until seeing this. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:21, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Bah! Osaka is second to none! :P (realizes that wasn't helpful but has also never heard of the concept of a second city...) MightyAtom 04:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow... This... is a novel concept. I never heard of second cities as a category either, nor do I see the immediate need for this article as such, but I'll take a few minutes and go through the grammar. I'll do this automatically (correcting poor English is what I do for a living :), so I'd still appreciate a second pair of eyes to go through this, to look for any factual errors. TomorrowTime 07:43, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Second city]] 

message: The article List of metropolitan areas in Japan by population needs some loving care. I've found some references for it (so it shouldn't be deleted again), but the references don't always agree, and don't necessarily have things grouped the way the table on that page has them grouped. Any assistance in updating this page is appreciated. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 20:13, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of metropolitan areas in Japan by population 

message: Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident passed GA review and I'll be nominating it for featured article, probably sometime today.  If anyone would like to look over it and help give it a final scrub for anything that I or the GA reviewer missed, it would be greatly appreciated. CLA 00:34, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  FA nomination 

message: I just noticed the goal of 40 Japan FA articles by the end of this year.  I can provide two more right now.  Battle of Edson's Ridge and Actions along the Matanikau were promoted to FA recently, but I just added the Japan project banner to them today. CLA 00:40, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool. Feel free to add them to the list. (^_^) ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 00:46, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I should have just added them to the list, but I was afraid of screwing something up like I did when I added the Michael Brown article to the peer review list. CLA 00:57, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added them, as well as several others I found. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:14, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Two more FA articles

message: Are these really related to Japan, or are we just trying to buff up our featured articles quotient? MightyAtom 03:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: All of them have decent chunks of the articles talking about Japan in some way. Japan has a huge krill industry, and they like to slay orcas and right whales for some reason. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:58, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

text: I moved some of them to their own section. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:06, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "and they like to slay orcas and right whales for some reason"  Because they are yum-yum yummy!  I do love me some whale meat!  But that aside, the Whaling in Japan article gives no mention of orca or right whale, and I have never heard of either of these species being targeted for whaling in modern Japan. The orca article says "Today, no country carries out a substantial hunt."  It seems the connection to this wikiproject is dubious.MightyAtom 06:08, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm...looks like I misread the orca article. There is historical whaling in their case. It appears the same is true of the right whales. They are historically important, but not as much today. The main connection today is that both living in the waters surrounding Japan. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:09, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Orca]], [[krill]], [[right whale]]?

message: Category:Women of medieval Japan needs cleanup. Many women listed are pre-medieval. I removed some; there are more. Do we have categories for other time periods? If so, the articles could be switched from one category to another. Fg2 10:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The category's description is "Japanese women from the Asuka period (538) to start of the Edo period (1603). This covers Classical Japan and Feudal Japan classification periods." The women I removed from the category fall in the named time periods, but are those time periods medieval in Japan? If so, I'll gladly put them back. However, in case some or all those time periods are not medieval in Japan, it would save effort to work out the time periods before putting too many people in the category. Fg2 10:48, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am sure there are other definitions out there, but I believe that in the most widely agreed upon system of periodization, medieval Japan covers 1185-c. 1600. 1185 marks the end of the Heian period, the rise of the samurai class at the expense of the Court and Imperial power, and thus the end of the Classical period. 1600 or 1603 or 1615 represents the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate, i.e. the Edo period, and the beginning of the Early Modern period. We may need to figure out whether to use "medieval Japan" or "feudal Japan" to describe this period, as it seems that many of the categories right now (:Category:Feudal Japan, :Category:Economy of feudal Japan, :Category:Kuge of Feudal Japan) currently use the other term from what is most widely used in scholarship. But, all told, if the proper categories don't exist for what you're trying to do (e.g. :Category:Women of Classical Japan), go ahead and create them. LordAmeth 12:44, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:Women of medieval Japan 

message: The page at Karafuto Prefecture was very redundant compared to Sakhalin, so I made some major edits to remove more general Sakhalin info and add a little more Karafuto Prefecture-specific info from the Japanese Wikipedia.  The article could still use some help, as I'm no expert on this issue and some of the dates in the English article conflicted with dates in the Japanese article, and I was also unsure of a few WWII- and administrative-specific terms (like whether Karafuto was even a full "prefecture").  It also had a bit of a right-wing "Karafuto's still ours" type of slant to it, which I attempted to tone down, but again could still use some work. Just an FYI to people who might be interested. CES 21:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article's come a long way over the years! An early version, which was nominated for deletion, seemed to say that it's a modern prefecture of Japan, and had all the text in the infobox (check it out). It's been vastly improved. Fg2 21:24, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, that's crazy ... kind of an "If-Japan-had-won-the-war alternate reality" page.  I agree, it's in a lot better shape now (and hopefully less redundant re: Sakhalin) but still could use some TLC. CES 22:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I moved the map to commons as it was GFDL. No visible change on this end, but there you go. (^_^) ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 22:30, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Karafuto Prefecture]] 

message: I'm finding a lot of outdated articles of now-dissolved municipalities. I've tagged some as per List of mergers and dissolutions of municipalities in Japan, but it's becoming too daunting. Additionally, some new municipalities such as Misaki, Okayama and Akaiwa, Okayama still lack articles. Am I the only one checking these articles? Ranma9617 01:59, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been working through all the prefectures updating articles due to gappei, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Gappei.  Because of the sheer number of articles involved and because it cannot be automated (I've been thinking more about this lately - it may be possible to automate at least parts of this), it is an immense project.  I've been working on this (somewhat sporadically) for more than a year.  Please help! -- Rick Block (talk) 13:41, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

text: I'm also working on this.  I've been updating articles of dissolved municipalities as such, creating articles for new municipalities, and adding geodata to articles of current municipalities.  I've finished all of Shikoku and Kyūshū, and will be making my way up Honshū eventually.  Amake 14:12, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated articles of now-dissolved municipalities 

message: Hello all. I would love some reaction to my comments on the "popular culture" section of the Haniwa article. Please could anybody interested add their comments to Talk:Haniwa. --Auximines 20:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Haniwa 

message: Somebody prodded the article, stating that it was OR and not a suitable subject for an encyclopedia. As all of you who have been to Japan or are there now know, gōkon are a widespread and thoroughly present phenomenon, and would deserve a better article then they have now. I didn't want to simply remove the prod as I cannot guarantee that I can work on the article and improve it, so I'm bringing this up here, in case somebody might care to adopt the article. TomorrowTime 07:33, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm afraid I have nothing to add, but it's definitely an interesting and worthwhile article, not worthy of deletion. Thanks guys. LordAmeth 08:28, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah...the gōkon...all I would have to add is personal experience, unfortunately.  But no original research, eh?MightyAtom 03:34, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As for the word, 合 is a shortened form of 合同/goudou. コンパ is also a shortened form;company, kompanie, compagnie. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%91 might help for the article expansion. --Oda Mari 05:55, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Go-kon]] 

message: I'm never sure where to place things on the front page of this Project... do we even still have a Collaboration of the Fortnight/Week/Month/Whatever? In any case, I do not know why I never noticed earlier that Edo is a stub! Geez. This article could be massive and dense with fascinating, interesting, and important information. I have nominated it for Article Creation and Improvement Drive, and am mentioning it here again. This is definitely the kind of thing that could benefit from some intense collaboration - I have neither the time nor the resources nor the inclination to do this all on my own. Please help! (While I'm here, I'd like to mention that there are a great many Edo-culture related topics that are likewise in serious need of help, such as Yoshiwara, sharebon, and Ichimura-za.) LordAmeth 08:25, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Is it a stub, or does it deserve start class? Regardless, it deserves better. Alas, the collaboration of the  is quite dead. Let's hope the ACID brings in fresh blood, and let's give them something to work with. Great idea! Fg2 10:50, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edo Expansion 

message: The Japanese Wikipedia has a ton of high-quality SVG maps of each municipality (or at the very least for the Tohoku and Hokkaido regions, which were the only ones I checked).  Look here for an example.  I think these would make great additions to this Wikipedia (along with much of the other information on their municipality articles, though to be fair, they have their own WikiProject devoted to Japanese municipalities).  If someone can come up with a way to efficiently move these to Wikimedia Commons, that'd be awesome.
Also, I've started lists of municipalities on my user page (click link in signature and follow the two links at the top of the page).  The first is just a list while the second is a sortable list that I'm trying to get to the standards of List of municipalities of Portugal, a featured list.  If all goes well, we can make it into an actual list, though it's possible we'd have to split them up (but it'd be nice if we didn't have to).
Finally, the city symbols have been a project of mine for the last few months (I'm still nowhere near completing any prefecture completely) and I came up with some criteria that might allow us to standardize the images (similar to the crests in the above Portugal article, although those were apparently all created by the same person).  If anyone's interested in helping out, please let me know (here would work).
-Nameneko 18:14, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Lincun's maps are used throughout Japanese Wikipedia.  The prefecture maps already exist in Commons, and I already went through and added them to the prefecture pages here.  Some other maps are also in the commons, for instance all of the Ehime Prefecture municipality maps, which I also already added to the articles.  However, the ones outside of Ehime are spotty at best, and are often not named consistently.  I'm also interested in getting Lincun's maps into Commons, but I don't want to sit around uploading them one-by-one.  Amake 22:58, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese muncipalities 

message: There has been an edit war between users at Talk:Culture of Taiwan over whether it should be included as a part of WikiProject Japan; I was wondering if any project member would be willing to help out this issue. Thanks! - Penwhale | Blast him / Follow his steps 02:48, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Comment made.  To me, including Taiwan in WPJ seems to be reaching outside of the Project's domain. CES 03:14, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't understand why people get so worked up over whether or not an article falls under a specific project or not. To me, if more people want to help out with an article, more power to them. Taiwan has definitely been greatly influenced by Japan for hundreds of years, so I think it would be fine to include that article under the project as long as someone from this project is willing and able to work on that article. All these stupid cultural pissing matches are really getting dumb, IMHO. We have wingnut editors from Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan all arguing over various articles, edit warring, ripping on each other, and so on, rather than just working on the articles and putting aside their petty differences in order to make the encyclopedia better. Sure, Japan (and China and Korea, and probably Taiwan, too) has done some stupid things in their history, but people need to learn to quit dwelling on the past and harboring generation-spanning grudges. It's very unlikely that most of the people working on Wikipedia were even alive during WWII, and most of their parents were either not born or very young then. It makes me want to break out the whiffle bat and start whacking some heads. </rant> ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 06:10, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: True, but there are some POV warriors, as you know... - Penwhale | Blast him / Follow his steps 13:04, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need a little help 

message: I have a question. What is a :ja:武将? Is it a leader of samurai? Thanks, Cattus 18:53, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It means simply "military commander" in the very general sense, applying both (I believe) to samurai and to modern-day national military types, and does not denote any particular rank. 「武」is the "mu" in "musha" (武者, "warrior") or the "bu" in "bushi" (武士, essentially a synonym for samurai); 「将」is the "shō" in "taishō" (大将, General) or in Shogun (将軍). LordAmeth 23:11, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! Cattus 17:41, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  武将 

message: Me, along with others, are expanding the article, hoping to eventually get it to featured status. I welcome your assistance on this expansion. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 09:24, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Flag of Japan]] 

message: It is my understanding that official documents in Japan are still dated in terms of the reign; viz., events from 1927 to 1989 dated in a manner where AD 1927 is counted as the first full year of Shōwa (昭和) and post-1989 dated where 1990 is counted as the first year of Heisei (平成).  Does this Project have any procedures for accomodating the formal Japanese date procedure? - B.C.Schmerker 16:54, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you seen the pages on Showa, Heisei, Japanese era name, etc.? CES 18:20, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the procedural clarification.  I stand corrected on both start years. - B.C.Schmerker 22:51, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formal date-of-event practices 

message: The above post got me browsing through pages of emperors past, present, and future ... can we come up with a better picture of Naruhito?  The current one is a little odd. CES 18:20, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I had a good laugh at that one.  There's some better pictures here, but the site explicitly disallows reproduction.  http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/e03/ed03-03.html  All the other articles use the same image, sadly.  Is there someone familiar with asking for permission to use images that could email the Imperial Household site? -- Exitmoose 07:07, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I tried Flickr, I tried google and many others. I will see if others work. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 07:41, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

text: I think it's the best I have. On that day I was able to photograph some nice groups, but that seems to be the best one of him. Regrets Fg2 11:12, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's ok, don't blame yourself. There are other photos I found, but they seem to be from the AP, Japanese Government or under Crown copyright. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 18:06, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture of Naruhito 

message: I notice the page "Japanese Idol" is under this project so I thought I'd ask here: is anyone interested in helping me make a page for "Virtual Idols", as used as a reoccurring theme in various literature, anime, et cetera? I'm familiar mostly with their description in BESM 3rd edition and with the American book Aidoru (by William Gibson) and sequals, but I know they're treated in I think Macross, and if they're popular enough to be mentioned in BESM there have to be other works with the concept. Oh yeah, and there was that disney movie. 
(If you don't know what I mean, I'm talking about the concept of programming a computer to act like a Japanese "Idol" singer and, usually with holographic technology, using them as the newest pop sensation). Kuronue 04:43, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Can't really help out with the article (you already give more info then I knew in the first place), but you might want to check out this article as well: Max Headroom... Not quite a Japanese idol, but it is one of the first instances of the "virtual TV persona" concept in a show, aired on TV, if I'm not wrong. TomorrowTime 05:55, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Yes, I remember something like that from Macross Plus. I haven't seen any of the other Macross stuff. Dekimasuよ! 10:14, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Virtual Idol 

message: The Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident failed FAC review.  The chief opposer said that it needed more copyediting.  I've reread the article several times and can't see where further copyediting is needed and the chief opposer didn't provide many examples.  I guess I'm too close to the article since I wrote most of it.  If someone could please look at the article and make any necessary changes, I'll then renominate for FAC. CLA 23:12, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Michael Brown FAC non-promotion

message: I just created Japanese Movie Database. It's just like the IMDB, but for Japan. Please use this when looking up references for Japanese films. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:30, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, this is a very useful site for Japanese cinema. If anyone else can use it, here's a template I've been using for citing this database:  Dekkappai 22:15, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese Movie Database 

message: I've revamped and organized :Category:Japanese magazines a bit, so please make yourselves familiar with the new organization. There wasn't really any organization before. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 10:26, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese magazine category 

message: Hey guys, I'm not in WP:J, but I want to let you guys know that some CPOV idiot tried to fulfill his nationalist duties by merging Jiaoji with Gyoza (also with Korean Mandu) - they're all dumplings. So, I reworked everything out to their original stats. Keep an eye on them. Thanks! : ) (Wikimachine 05:03, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I see no evidence that 2 articles (Gyoza & Jiaozi) ever existed in parallel until you came along, Wikimachine.  However, there appears to have been a cut & paste move back in June 2004, and a "histmerge" may be in order.--Endroit 05:29, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In Japan gyōza are not recognized to be "Japanese dumplings", as the article now suggests. They are considered Chinese food. Thus, it might make sense for Gyoza to become a section in the other article. Dekimasuよ! 05:34, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Dekimasu that the merged article should be at Jiaozi, like it has always been for 3 years.  Just follow the procedure at Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves to merge them again.--Endroit 05:39, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, well, how the article was trying to say Mandu was also Jiaoji is contrary to Mandu's status in Korea as an indigenous food. That's quite interesting. You guys should put that info. (Wikimachine 15:03, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey, I have come too late? As Japanese, I think "Gyoza" is just a Japanese pronounceation for Jiaozi ... as well as you call foreign names in English localized ones (Muenchen -> Munich, Koeln -> Cologne ...). While Japanese standard Gyoza has been localized and get its particularity, in Japan no one think two as different dish. --Aphaia 11:47, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gyoza & Jiaoji 

message: Since the glossary rarely gets used (at least by me as I never go over there) or updated over on Wiktionary, I've set it up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Film credits glossary as I think it will be much more useful to this project and its descendants. Feel free to update the list. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:41, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Film credits glossary

message: There's a debate on this page, concerning weither it should remain at Iwo Jima or be moved to Iwo To. Contentious issue - Is Iwo To the new English version of the island's name? GoodDay 21:07, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Iwo Jima]]

message: I just created Senjafuda.  It's a sub-stub currently, though a decent-sized article exists in Japanese if anyone feels like translating.  Exploding Boy 23:13, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I've listed it on Template:Newest Japan-related articles for you. Fg2 20:08, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Arigato-san.  I've translated the first 1 or 2 sections from the Japanese, but it still needs plenty of work.  Exploding Boy 06:39, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New article

message: Due to the dispute on where Bank of Manchukuo should be moved to Talk:Bank of Manchukuo#Requested move, I started pondering about how the kanji national qualifier for Manchukuo, 満州(Manshū), should be translated.
Manchukuo, or in kanji 満州国, literally meant "State of Manchuria" and hence translating 満州 as "Manchukuo" is linguistically incorrect. However, if we use "Manchuria" confusion would result; Dekimasu has mentioned, I think there's a large number of talk pages wholly dedicated to determining how to represent historical distinctions between the region and the Japanese puppet state on Wikipedia, and those tend to support using Manchukuo in this sort of situation.
I wonder if we should have a fixed guideline about this-- even currently the number of articles affected is limited; besides Bank of Manchukuo there's only Manchukuo National Airlines.--Samuel di Curtisi di Salvadori 14:02, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've always thought that strange, since (a) manshūkoku is not pronounced as Manchukuo in Japanese, so why is this Chinese-pronunciation name used for the Japanese puppet state to begin with, and (b) as you point out, it simply means "Manchu country" or "State of Manchuria" and thus it would seem to not really be a "new" placename imposed by the Japanese. (Similarly, the Japanese colony of Chōsen is simply the Japanese name for Joseon, a Japanese pronunciation of the same term Koreans likely used to refer to themselves, and thus also not a new and different placename.) In any case, despite the above reasons, I think Manchukuo is by far the most common, and most recognized, term to refer to this puppet state, and so "Manchukuo National Airlines" and "Bank of Manchukuo" should, I suppose, stay; the national/ethnic adjective for things not relating to the puppet state is of course still "Manchu", though, as in "the Manchu invaders took over China and began a Manchu dynasty, forcing the people of China to dress in Manchu fashion and wear their hair in a Manchu manner." LordAmeth 17:16, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Manchukuo, after all, is nominally an independent state which has a Han Chinese majority, hence the use of a Chinese name (Chinese-- called manshū-go-- and Japanese are both official languages).--Samuel di Curtisi di Salvadori 17:35, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The National Qualifier for [[Manchukuo]]-related Articles 

message: Hi there. I've recently tried to build my own Wiki about Japanese music artists and realized that this can not be carried out by just one person. The magnitude of work involved is mind-boggling! So I have turned to Wikipedia, to look for like-minded individuals who may share a common interest to build a central information depositry for anyone looking for any information regarding Japanese artists.
If anyone is interested please post a message on my User:jmlz87 page and I will get back to you.
Thanks! Jmlz87 06:38, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese music artists (specific) 

message: * Editing on Stroke order has largely been stalled due to disagreements over certain edits, and could use some fresh eyes.
* It has been proposed to move CJK strokes to Stroke (CJK character).  See  Move requests and Talk:CJK strokes#Requested move
* It has been proposed to merge the above 2 articles (Talk:CJK strokes#Proposed merger).  Exploding Boy 16:23, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Two articles needing attention

message: Hello, I was wondering if this sentence is true and, if so, has a source: "In 1994, a representative bloc was also introduced for the House of Representatives, at first at an even split of 250:250. When the LDP regained power in 1996, this was changed into the current numbers." Thanks. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 02:10, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry without source, but Japanese Wikipedia article :ja:小選挙区比例代表並立制 says 250:250 was the proposal from the cabinet, which didn't realize. In January 1994 the Law about Diet reform passed, but at that time, the proportion was 300:200 (200 for bloc). In 1996 the general election was held and then the legally determined proportion was realized ... I have no good reason to combine with "when the LDP regained" ... it seems to reverse the logical consequence. And :ja:衆議院 (House of Representatives) says the proportion was changed into 300:180 (180 for bloc) in 2000, not 1996. You may find good sources in English. --Aphaia 12:01, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fact checking from [[Diet of Japan]] 

message: Is there a difference between Imadate, Imadate, Fukui and Imadate, Fukui? If not, they should likely be merged. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 23:41, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The description of the town's location, population, and washi specialty on Imadate, Imadate, Fukui, and the merger information on Imadate, Fukui all match 今立町.  I think it's a safe bet that they're the same.  -Amake 05:11, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The jp.wiki article mentions that Imadate used to be part of Imadategun before it was merged into Echizen. That would explain the odd title of the first article. I'd say the two articles in question are about the same thing. TomorrowTime 07:35, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Imadate