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Talk:Culture of Japan

message: Hello everyone, I just wanted to make a post informing any interested party that I am planning on making some contributions to the language section of the Culture of Japan page. I intend to add a statement on Ainu and Ryukyuan languages referencing both the following articles:
Pellard, Thomas (2015-02-17), "1. The Linguistic archeology of the Ryukyu Islands", 1. The Linguistic archeology of the Ryukyu Islands, De Gruyter Mouton, p. 13, doi:10.1515/9781614511151.13, ISBN 978-1-61451-115-1, retrieved 2023-10-25
Shiraishi, Hidetoshi (January 2022). "Ainu: An urban-rural indigenous language of the north". Oxford Academic. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198856610.003.0007. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
 Fluoroid (talk) 22:15, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello. I'm guessing this is part of a class assignment or similar? If so, please see Wikipedia:Student assignments, especially Wikipedia:Student assignments#Advice for students. Thanks. Grayfell (talk) 05:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Preparing to Add to Language Section 

message: Hi everybody, I also wanted to post to inform anyone interested that I'm planning on contributing and editing the Music section of this Culture of Japan article. As a rough plan, I intend to:
-add citations where needed 
-add a paragraph about origins, history, and influences 
-involve both instrument names as well as artists both historical and contemporary
-verify and add to current popular music info.
Some of the sources I will be drawing from are as follows:
https://www.ifpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Global_Music_Report_2023_State_of_the_Industry.pdf
Matsue, Jennifer. Focus: Music in Contemporary Japan. Routledge, 2015.
Malm, William P. Traditional Japanese music and musical instruments. Kodansha International, 2000.
Keister, Jay Davis. Shaped by Japanese Music: Kikuoka Hiroaki and Nagauta Shamisen in Tokyo. Routledge, 2004.
Hughes, D.W. (2008). The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music (A.M. Tokita, Ed.) (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315172354 EMcDonald at uofu (talk) 04:08, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello. I'm guessing this is part of a class assignment or similar? If so, please see Wikipedia:Student assignments, especially Wikipedia:Student assignments#Advice for students. Thanks. Grayfell (talk) 05:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Preparing to edit Music section 

message: — Assignment last updated by Fatima Al-Thani (talk) 10:41, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: MIT 398 Intercultural International Communication
Talk:Skene's gland

message: Headbomb, regarding this? I wouldn't have reverted that far back. Saidmann and Zefr did improve the article, and I'm okay with this version. After reviewing the changes, can you be okay with that version? Flyer22 Frozen (talk) 18:40, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm fairly indifferent, just against the spurious removal of sources based on flawed logic.  Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:35, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay. I restored the article to the improved version. I will certainly report support you on any unjust removals. Flyer22 Frozen (talk) 19:41, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

text: Definitely meant "support", not "report." Sorry about that. Flyer22 Frozen (talk) 19:42, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

text: "Support you on arguing against, reverting, and/or reporting any unjust removals." Flyer22 Frozen (talk) 19:52, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverting to a previous version 

message: I don't know squat about phonetics or how these IPA templates work, but to me the pronunciations in the IPAc-en template (which suggests the vowel sound is like the I in kind) and the respell (SKEEN) are not consistent with each other. We may want to also check the IPA template at Alexander Skene. Larry Hockett (Talk) 13:35, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation
Talk:Idiom dictionary

message: See Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Idiom_dictionary --- Vroo (talk) 19:15, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  multiple issues, nominate for deletion 

message: French is difacalt than english Ali mohamud (talk) 17:33, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  French 

message: Rkdvsulwvwjwksvd 41.13.110.43 (talk) 16:10, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idioms
Talk:Localization

message: Why would someone remove the most common meaning of localization? Is it better to have obscure meaning of words in an encyclopedia? Bensaccount 17:19, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I would also suspect that the most common meaning of localisation is when the economy is "local". In that sense localisation is the opposite to globalisation, where the economy is "global". --Mats33 (talk) 12:07, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The most common meaning

message: I propose merging "L10n" into this page. That page has too little info and is part of the info on this "Localization" page. Mistakefinder (talk) 22:01, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: DoneFgnievinski (talk) 18:19, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger proposal
Talk:Bitumen

message: * 
** I moved Asphalt to Bitumen, but there is an issue that Asphalt is currently linked from whopping 6,999 pages that shouldall  be disambiguated. I've read the RM and generally agree with the sentiment that "asphalt" is ambiguous between Bitumen and Asphalt concrete, but I'm reluctant to break 7,000 links (and I foresee that many are intended for Asphalt concrete). Plus, the redirect has a history that would be buried under Asphalt (disambiguation) after a page swap. Perhaps this should be raised at WT:DISAMBIG or discussed at WP:RFD, I'm unsure how to proceed. No such user (talk) 15:22, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Id suggest its fine, given the disambiguation for Asphalt currently includes both potential use cases for Asphalt. Garfie489 (talk) 13:10, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: On second thought, you're probably right. I'm just used to categories (and articles) which are sharply defined according to a topic, rather than a word. But I suppose it's not worth the effort to try to refine it further. No such user (talk) No such user (talk) 22:27, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post-close discussion 

message: We still have :Category:Asphalt which needs revisiting. It seems to be a sort of Frankestein, since it hosts both the petroleum-related and road-related stuff. No such user (talk) 17:49, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Id suggest its fine, given the disambiguation for Asphalt currently includes both potential use cases for Asphalt. Garfie489 (talk) 13:10, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: On second thought, you're probably right. I'm just used to categories (and articles) which are sharply defined according to a topic, rather than a word. But I suppose it's not worth the effort to try to refine it further. No such user (talk) No such user (talk) 22:27, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Category

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Oil (road) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at  until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Steel1943 (talk) 19:59, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Oil (road)" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:List of pacifists

message: I disagree with Woodrow Wilson. Yes, he founded the League of Nations. Yes, in his administration, the U.S. initially stayed out of WWI. On the other hand, he was involved in some central American imbroglios and even in fighting in Russia, on Russian territories, against the new Communist government. Danny
Removed Woodrow Wilson, American President, he was Commander in Chief of Military Forces Never heard to him as Pacifist.
:Which only goes to show ... well, what? Obviously that someone who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1919) is not automatically a pacifist? I for my part  do not understand the inclusion of Morihei Ueshiba: The first thing that struck me when I read his page was the word "martial arts".
:So what is a pacifist?
:*someone who advocates peace in their writings?
:*someone who, neglecting their own personal safety, demonstrates against warfare?
:*someone who signs a peace treaty?
:*someone who is officially recognized as peace-loving?  --KF 11:27 Jan 20, 2003 (UTC)
::I think the first two are the most important criteria you mention.
::What is also important: The _rejection_ of violence, even for "valid" targets. The Nobel Peace Prize does not make you automatically a pacifist. To wage a war and then to end it does not make you (automatically) a pacifist.
::About Morihei Ueshiba: Yes I would call him a pacifist. The article about him is not very good, and only mentions some steps in the development of Aikido, but nothing about his thoughts and intentions.
::Aikido means "The Way of Harmony of the Spirit", and is indeed a highly ethical and non-violent art.
::--zeno 01:40 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC)
:::According to his son Kisshomaru (second Doshu) his father was absolutely not a pacifist. ~~
:::This article is a pendant's picnic.  Oswald Moseley was against World War II. Why not include him? Kransky 11:44, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Lists of encyclopedias

message: Yes:
# Angela
#Ellmist - mention that it has about 1,000 articles and numerous affiliate links
#Mintguy
# Fred Bauder 05:29, 27 Oct 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Include [[EncycloZine]] in List of encyclopedias vote

message: This list is a mess, regardless of all previous discussion  :) ,
things are not easily retrievable, there is no proper alpha sort under some headins, and so on.
someone needs to either clean up the 'others' or the point of either being an example or comprehensive falls flat! User:SatuSuro 04:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where from here? 

message: The article that the book from the list links to appears to be a different book of the same name.--Filthy swine 21:35, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliotheke  

message: Where should I add the recently-released Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation, if anywhere? Esn 07:39, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Where to add?

message: Found the article through :Category:Lists of lists, where it stuck out for using the singular "list." It appears this was indeed a list of encyclopedias but was broken down into several sub-lists, making this a list of lists. Moved appropriately. Hope this is uncontroversial. --— Rhododendrites talk |  14:18, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  List &rarr; Lists
Talk:Grace note

message: This page says (for bagpipe music):
"All of these are played before the beat, while grace notes on other instruments tend to be played on the beat"
I think this is wrong. They are also played *on beat*  for the bagpipe (except the toarluath) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 03:53, 6 April 2009 (talk) OC
:Grace notes can be played in a variety of places and can even displace the notes they're attached to. It is a matter of taste and interpretation, so long as there is concensus as to what's being done among the musicians performing. This is true for any instrument; it is a stylistic choice. I don't know the exact science, but there is definitely literature on it. Greg Ravn (talk) 08:26, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bagpipe music

message: Not to be harsh, but does this section really need to exist? Ask me, using the term grace note this way is kind of like calling a party foul a Bush administration. Or, more accurately, like calling the Iraq war a comma. Greg Ravn (talk) 08:26, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Metaphorical use

message: Why and where does this article need additional citations for verification? What references does it need and how should they be added? Hyacinth (talk) 22:47, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional citations
Talk:Anarchism and violence

message: What exactly is the source for "In this climate, some anarchists began to advocate and practice terrorism (i.e., attacks on civilians)" ? It sounds like a POV edit to me, and needs to be changed. 206.124.94.150 12:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Un-Sourced Statements

message: What is this about Anarcho-capitalists opposing violence except for self defense, yet supporting the American Revolution? Of course they support the American Revolution, it was self defense. Americans did not go to England and start shooting people, the British came to America and started shooting Americans. I am removing this, it is an obvious bias against anarcho-capitalists by someone who does not understand the American Revolution or self-defense.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xiamcitizen (talk • contribs) 19:50, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Anarcho-capitalists

message: The image of the anarchist as terrorist must be considerably earlier than the McKinley Assassination, and probably ahve a European origin because Nietzsche wrote his aphorism that "No more than anarchists harm princes. Only because the latter are shot at do they once more sit securely on their thrones."·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 05:30, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Nietzsche and history of Anarchist terror
Wikipedia talk:FAQ/Editing

message: I noticed that there is a page titled Wikipedia:Paid editing (guideline). This page talks about editing Wikipedia and getting paid for it, but it doesn't seem to include some crucial details such as the following:
- How does Wikipedia evaluate your article-writing capabilities? How does it verify that you should get paid to write?
- If your skills in writing are not good enough, does Wikipedia teach you how to write better? Does it tell you where to find writing courses?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dominic inquisitive (talk • contribs) 07:39, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paid editing and experience 

message: How do I add  an external link to a town page.
Margaret  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alltheinfo (talk • contribs) 21:01, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia:External links. Also read the part about which links are appropriate, for example "You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent". PrimeHunter (talk) 22:40, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Link 

message: This section needs a major update.  --—— Gadget850 (Ed) talk -  14:54, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:   How can I add pictures to pages? 

message: As with much of Wikipedia help, I found this section quite unreadable for people who don't use the program frequently.  When help says "the "page name" can come from a URL," it is simply utterly unclear to someone who doesn't know the syntax already. There is no reference made to the text that is being edited, so, there is no context. One must say explicitly what code is is to be inserted (or even that code is inserted) and what it will do. It would be REALLY nice if when one goes for help, there is a simple list of the possible commands and what they do. I have never been able to search for help and find what I wished without clicking about five more links. Sorry, rant for the day. I love Wikipedia otherwise! If my replacement is unclear, please change. I had no clue from what was written how you use the search command to make a link, and the link from there was not helpful. Peacedance (talk) 03:40, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "How do I add a link?" Section 

message: Is there any shortcut or easy way to translate and create a wiki page into different language? --Rashid Jorvee 04:54, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation
Talk:Long Live Rock 'n' Roll

message: "were appeared"?  Also song titles should be in quotes,Ortolan88
----
Also need to decide how to spell the title! Rock 'n' Roll, Rock 'N' Roll, Rock & Roll or Rock and Roll ??? --Auximines 16:05, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The cover art suggests the first option is correct. - Lee (talk) 16:13, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article needs to tell which songs Bob Daisley and David Stone appeared on. Gringo300 (talk) 16:18, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bob Daisley and David Stone

message: The list metal rules put together of "The top 500 heavy metal albums" was used on Metallica's Master of Puppets page. If it was fine on that page than why was it remove here(and also on GNR's Appetite for Destruction page).-- 03:57, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That link is not used on the Master of Puppets article as a reference nor should it be used anywhere for a reference. Peter Fleet (talk) 13:30, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why was my link and editing removed?
Talk:Beru Whitesun

message: In A New Hope, she and Beru were killed by Imperial Stormtroopers.
I know nothing about Star Wars, but I got confused after reading the above sentence. the words she and Beru seem to refer to the same person: Beru Whitesun. Does Beru have to be replaced by Owen? D.D. 20:33 Jan 11, 2003 (UTC)
:Yep. -- Arteitle 10:43, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Sample space

message: It would be useful to include a discussion of the relationship between sample space and sample from a population. I'm not sure enough on this point to write anything on the article myself, but for discussion I'll suggest the following:
In statistics the result of conducting an experiment is viewed as a sample from a population. In this case the sample space consists of all possible ordered sequences of members of the population (all possible samples). A sequence of random variables is then defined on the sample space, which give the observations x_1,x_2,...,x_n. 
This is my idea of how this connection is formalised, anyone got anything to add (or take away!) ? --SgtThroat 11:29, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Connection between probability and statistics 

message: We should:
What? this don't make since!
<3 Falon(:
(a) Incorporate the articles on "Sample Space" and "probability space" into the article on "probability theory";
(b) Be careful to distinguish between "Probability Space" and "Sample Space"; the distinction between them is indeed both mathematically and conceptually important; confusing the two is akin to the following:  not distinguishing between the domain and range of a function; not distinguishing between the image under a funtion and its preimage.
(c)  Improve the article on "probability theory".
Note corrections to the entry on probability space that have already been done.
Please, as mathematicians, let us be precise. 
MathStatWoman 19:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestions

message: A sample space must be the sample itself since all the sample points constitute a space, the sample or the sample space. The examples in the article here are actually "measurability" or scale space for the relevant experiments. They are not the samples of the experiments. ----Yuanfangdelang (talk) 16:14, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  My opinion
Talk:Mixmaster Morris

message: Mixmaster Morris's real name is Morris Gould.  Strongly suspect that the article here has been written by the man himself. He was born in 1961, not 1965, and was the leading light of the four-piece punk band, The Ripchords (not to be confused with another band of the same name) whilst still at school.  The Ripchords' sole release, The Ripchords EP is now a collectors' item.
- I concur with this - the EP was released in 1979, which would make Morris 15 according to the chronology of the article, and I distinctly remember him being in the 6th form at the same time as me!  Fine EP, by the way, I still treasure my copy
Cjb71 (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Possibly, probably.  However, you need a reliable source for this, whereas Allmusic cites 1965 here -  - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 22:06, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mixmaster Morris 4 Years Older ?
Talk:Japanese cuisine

message: "Due to the lack of meat products Japanese people minimized spice utilization." I don't understand the logic behind this statement. Indian food is largely vegetarian and as spicy as it gets. Why would eating little meat have an effect on spice utilization? That doesn't make any sense to me.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.191.152.95 (talk) 20:45, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone explain? 

message: I've moved some main headings into subheadings so there are now 13 main headings instead of 26 but the structure still feels all over the place. It may need attention from an expert. Crookesmoor (talk) 12:40, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Structure of article
Talk:The Nation – Irish newspaper

message: Just in case anyone does try, don't change the spelling on John Mitchel. He DID spell his surname with one 'l' not two, which is the more usual spelling.
This text was created under a different article name The Nation (Irish newspaper). I put a redirect there and placed the text here. Perhaps someone who knows something of the subject can merge it? -- Viajero 11:17, 26 Oct 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: The Nation was an Irish nationalist newspaper.  Its editor was John Joseph Clancy, the Nationalist MP for North Dublin from 1885 to 1918.
I've moved the article to The Nation (Irish newspaper) which is the standard method of disambigulation. FearÉIREANN 18:15, 26 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Talk:Babylonian law

message: The article states that "Vestal virgins were not supposed to have children, yet they could marry and often did. The Code contemplated that such a wife would give a husband a maid, as above."
But "Vestal virgins" were a Roman custom, and not a Babylonian one! So clearly there is some sort of mistake in this instance.
Joe Gatt 09:14, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose the author of this phrase meant to say temple priestess, temple prostitutes, or women of equal or similar positions. I will change that.Gw2005 (talk) 00:30, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Vestal Virgins

message: :(in particular, the bibiliography ends at 1903)
What are law murts?  And is this material original?  -- Zoe
: hammurabi's laws, all 282 of them! (unsigned comment by ) on Jan 24 2006
: This material is not original, but a copy of the public domain Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. That's acceptable in Wikipedia, although updates are welcome. David Brooks 19:57, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Its not original, but it might be linked to other earlier sources of Babylonian law such as the Letter of Nanse and the form of Contracts in the ANE discussed by Kenneth Kitchen who uses passages from the Pentateuch, sharia law and Egyptian Law Hotep Rktect 20:34, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

text: This page mentions a law refering to "changelings".  I believe the original law by Hammurabi (Law 194?) referred to a wet-nurse switching a dead child for someone else's live (and human) baby without the knowledge of the parents.  I'm not sure where the reference to changelings came in, but I don't think it's appropriate and I don't think the changeling myth was even in existence at the time of the law's creation.  Does anybody know more about this? Susangibba (talk) 23:10, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Updates

message: I'm not sure what the current consensus is for spelling the three social classes, so I just went by number of google book hits. If anyone knows differently, please explain here and update the article.
* amelu (vs. amilu, awilu, awelu)
* mushkenu (i.e. muškenu) (vs. mushkinu)
* ardu (vs. wardu)
IansAwesomePizza (talk) 21:49, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The spelling of the three social classes 