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Hello Revth, welcome to Wikipedia. Here's some tips:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Angela. 07:14, Feb 25, 2004 (UTC)

Hi there. Thanks for your note on the new user log. You're right, the History of Japan and its related articles can use work (of course, everything around here can be improved - that's the point.) Hope you like contributing and decide to stay. Isomorphic 19:31, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I'm currently fixing Post-Occupation Japan to include the basic schoolbook stuff there. Now the events are gathered into decades to make it easy to find a event choronologically. Internal links are not yet there for most part, and this could take a while to fix :(

Revth 16:45, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Seemed nice to me. Methinks it is a decent boilerplate for the other periods of modern Japan as well. -- EmperorBMA / ブリイアン 07:46, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Discrimination in Japan

I found your article most edifying. The quality of the English is very good. As a native English speaker myself, it is clear though from reading your material that you are not :-) The material you provide is so good that I am in a quandry as to whether to attempt to alter the syntax to make it closer to my own model of English, or whether to leave it as you have written it. What are your thoughts? I also put a 'leave a message tag at the top of your talk page, which I hope you don't mind about - it makes it much easier to leave you messages Stan 08:18, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I've added a sentence explaining what 'even among developed nations' is about. I think explanation is more clearer now.
Revth 10:04, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Black ships

Hi! Perhaps you could take a look at this page again, in particular, when were these ships seen? What was their role? Thanks Mark Richards 05:16, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Also, Naruto_characters2 could probably do with a rethink, perhaps a bit more explanation up front of why it is suitable material for an encyclopedia? Thanks! Mark Richards 05:18, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply - fascinating! Mark Richards 21:05, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • 挨拶は時の氏神 "Warm greetings to God, the Kami of our time"?

Is this like "...God, the God of our time?" redundant? -SV(talk) 22:57, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Also, from Loli-con, you wrote "...an adult younger" - English tends to put the modifier in front of the subject: 'a younger adult.' There are exceptions, of course - Dont ask me which ;) -SV(talk) 23:00, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hmm. I must have overlooked when I was editing. It should, literally translated, be "Warm greetings are Kami of our time". Fixed it. Thanks. Revth 05:56, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Featured articles

Please come visit the featured arts again. In particular, ROC elections have passed, and the article is still waiting for approval. +sj+ 07:19, 2004 Mar 31 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese Grammar

You changed e to he and o to wo. But Wikipedia:Manual of Style for Japan-related articles says to use Hepburn with e and o for particles. Please sort this out on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style for Japan-related articles so we can agree on a consensus. Gdr 15:41, 2004 Apr 2 (UTC)

Hmm, sorry about that. Will look it up.Revth 15:03, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Sashimi

In the Sashimi article, you said: However, many traditionalists scoff at this practice as the flavor of wasabi would become much harder to notice. What did you mean? They scoff at putting wasabi in the soy sauce when eating sashimi? Where else would you put it? Or are you talking about sushi? Mdchachi|Talk 14:29, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

  • Wasabi's main flavor comes from several Isothiocyanate. These quickly dissolve in water and lose their hot flavors. Thus, wasabi should be applied after a sashimi slice is dipped in soy sauce. Mixing wasabi into soy sauce makes it milder as flavors are lost and that's why it's a common way to prepare the sauce. One of the reason wasabi is sandwiched between the meat and slice of fish in sushi is to prevent wasabi from being exposed to soy sauce and losing its flavor.Revth 05:31, 26 May 2004 (UTC)
Interesting. I never saw anybody in Japan do this (of course all my Japanese friends & coworkers were not gourmets or anything). Do you have a source for this? Mdchachi|Talk 20:27, 26 May 2004 (UTC)
I took a brief look through few of search result from google but search result had been nearly 1700 site so it's probably there somewhere. Found a site here that support what I wrote but it's other way around. "http://www.mutugoro.com/moriyama/shouyu.htm"(In Japanese) It's a offcial site of a company called Moriyama that makes soy sauce. It says,
"Many people mix wasabi into soy sauce when dipping sashimi. But this is not a good way to eat. The flavor of soy sauce is ruined by the strong wasabi's flavor. Wrap wasabi with sashimi and dip sashimi in soy sauce. The flavor of soy sauce would spread first, taste of sashimi and hot flavor of wasabi next. Soy sauce would tame fishy odor of sashimi.
"http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.02.02/sushi8-0218.html" This site supports my idea of not mixing wasabi into soy sauce. Another Japanese site claims that wasabi should be mixed so it would make wasabi-soy sauce. Several sites wrote that non-Japanese had mixed a large serving of wasabi with drops of soy sauce making a green paste and eaten sushi with it and New York Times had run an article discouraging over use of wasabi. I think it's okay to say that it should be topped separately or in small serving.Revth 06:20, 27 May 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Renga

Nice work on the Renga article. Any plans for Haiku and Tanka? Bmills 10:02, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Orca

Hi Revth. You added "Japanese call them Shachi, believed to come from ancient words meaning "a fish that helps fishermen by herding fish, bringing good catch." to Orca. Thank you! For my own personal curiousity, is that the translation of the most common Japanese name? I know there are several. Also is it common knowledge that that is the ancient meaning in Japan? I want to write about the symbiotic relationship that man had with Orca in hunting Humpback Whales in the early twentieth century - most of the fisherman were Japanese so maybe this is when the word dates from. Do you know for sure? Thanks so much. Pcb21| Pete 15:31, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks so much for the info. Pcb21| Pete 08:42, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] You are a liar

Hey, you are such a liar to say that the 2nd ball bounced on the hand of a chinese defender. As an editor of Wikipedia you have to have integrity. Shame on you.

There should have been tens of camera lined up to take any photo of a mistake by a Japanese player but no one took this particular moment. Do you have a picture capturing this "foul"? Revth 01:54, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese Baseball

I'm currently working on Japanese Baseball and Japanese baseball teams. If possible, it would be great if I could get you to look at my current progress and fix any glaring errors. Thanks.

Plexus 03:30, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Afro

I removed your information about Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo on the Afro page; i didn't think it was really that relevant. Quite a few anime and manga characters have afros. (Nabeshin in Excel Saga, Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop (sort of), Haru from Texhnolyze, i could probably think of more if i was more of an otaku). Feel free to write an article on Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, or create List of anime characters with afro hairstyles. Pyrop 05:10, Aug 25, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Bishojo game

Just wanted to thank you for your help on bishojo game, the article has been nicely expanded with your inside knowledge :). Some nice collaborative editing we've done this evening (er, morning for you?). --Shibboleth 03:53, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

It was great, and now I'm bit depressed now that Pornography in Japan is shorter than this article. Will have to work on it :). Revth 04:12, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Ramen and Chuka Soba in Japanese cuisine

Hi Revth,

Thanks for setting the record straight about these being the same. I added chuka soba to the list because I've been in some restaurants that list them separately. On their menus, ramen is noodles, soup and other ingredients, but not thickened; in contrast, chuka soba is the same noodle, soup (which might be the same), plus thickened, stir-fried things put right on top. I guess that practice of separating the two is not common.

Fg2 10:17, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] user 4.23.83.100 trolling

I believe Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress is the place to report trolling. --Auximines 16:30, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Kigo

I see that you were the last one to edit the kigo article. I have done some additions, but I haven't yet done any changes to what you've written. I made some comments under talk:kigo if you want to see what I may be changing. After I made my last changes to the Kigo page, I found some conflicting information for the date for the Tanabata Festival. I have seen both July 7, and the week before the Bon Festival. I will try to get some information off of the internet, but if you want to provide any information, that would be very helpful. gK 11:48, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Emperor?

Hi Revth, Can you list the emperor in each era? If it's easy, it would be a nice addition to the articles. Fg2 09:47, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Bicycle: Featured article nomination

Hi

I have objected to the nomination of Bicycle for featured article status: One of my objections is this one:

Object, this sentence is to my knowledge inaccurate "Since the 1950s, when pedal driven coaster brakes predominated, cable-pull brakes have been the rule. These feature paired, padded calipers which are squeezed together onto the wheel rims by a cable pulled by the brake handles." For many decades the standard Irish/British country bicycle and I believe equivalent Chinese models used caliper brakes actuated by interlinked rods and levers. I am not aware that pedal driven brakes ever predominated in UK/Ireland/France/Asia. Was this a US phenomenon?

It may be that I am wrong and that pedal actuated brakes were/are very common on bicycles in Japan/Asia. I'd be grateful if you could give me any information on this matter.

--Sf 15:33, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

  • Hello, this is another "sf" on bicycles: I read up on your objections to the "bicycles in war" section, found no documentation for some of the material, and redid the section. If it looks O.K. to you, could you please withdraw the objection. thanks.Sfahey 00:36, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Culture of Greece

Culture of Greece is this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

[edit] Did you know has been updated

And an article you created recently has made the line up and is now featured on the main page. Enjoy! -- [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 14:42, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Bias

I'd like your opinion at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration. Thanks. Chameleon 12:20, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

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I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)[[]] 13:43, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary

Hello. Please provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. Hyacinth 16:19, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Questionnaire for "the text of the Korea Web Weekly article

hi there i see that ur really into far eastern culture and history but i have a little doubt that ur actually caucasian. ur japanese right? (coz u sound like a imperialist japanese historian from 1940s) haha if ur not, take it as a joke ok i wanted to answer some of ur questions u were sort of correct in saying that rice probably originated from south east asia, but, if u REALLY REALLY read newpapers and watched tv news like bbc or cnn, i'm sure u must have came across that the OLDEST RICE was found in korean peninsula which is 15,000 years old...if u don't believe it just go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3207552.stm and about nihonshoki and kojiki..every historian that studies far eastern study knows they're ull of fairy tales, i mean come on man, do u really believea that the jap kings were sons of god and they once ruled the world??? if u do, then i think u need to c a therapist RIGHT NOW

[edit] Japanese Stereotypes in TMNT

Hi, I saw your comment on the Featured Article candidate page for TMNT and I was wondering if you could maybe give some examples, or if you know of any links relating to these stereotypes. I know they're there, I just can't seem to put my finger on what they are, and I'd like to add a section to the article about criticism of TMNT, including violence, marketing and stereotypes. Thanks! --Ntg

See my comments under "washi" =

There is no such word as

tortuorous

There is "tortuous" (probably what is intended) and "torturous" (more painful)

Interesting work - thank you Peter (Pdn)

[edit] Sashimi from living fish illegal in Germany?

Hello,

I believe it was you who wrote in Sashimi:

In some countries, like Germany, the practice of preparing sashimi from a living fish is barred.

I don't find it all that hard to believe, but when editing Ikezukuri I couldn't find any source that verified the claim, so I'm leaving it out for the moment. Can you back it up somehow? Cohen the Bavarian 19:04, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tsubazeriai

Hi ! About Tsubazeriai on tsuba, there is the expression for "to begin doing something" which I recall vaguely... was it Tsubazeriai too ? I put it on the page but it'd need confirmation. Thanks for a very interesting addition, by the way ! Cheers ! Rama 15:24, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Comet Hyakutake

Hi Revth - I wonder if you might be able to help out? The article on Comet Hyakutake is currently nominated for featured status, and something that has been suggested is that it needs a pronunciation guide to the name. I don't know the proper Japanese pronunciation, or how to represent it in the IPA; just wondered if you might be able to assist? Thanks! Worldtraveller 02:09, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for Date Clan information

Revth, My family is descended from senior retainers of the Date Clan. My great-grandmother's family name was Shibata. Her ancestors served in a position called "Bugyo", which is the highest administrative position in the clan. One of her ancestors was Shibata Geki, who was involved in a famous conflict in the Date Clan in the 1660's. It has been difficult to find history of the Date Lineage. Your entry on Wikipedia is the first I have seen in English. I hope you continue. Thank you.

-Masaru 4/17/2005 ronin_forty_seven@hotmail.com

[edit] expos/nationals debate

There is a major debate going on, and I wondered if you might want to chime in. The debate involves how to deal with franchise moves in baseball. The question is whether Montréal Expos should be its own article or if it should redirect to Washington Nationals. All other instances of franchise moves in MLB redirect the old team name to the new team name, and the history of the franchise is covered within the new team name (for MLB, NBA and NFL examples, see here. Some people are confused and think the Expos and the Nats are different teams. Some people don't want to upset Canadian readers.

Indeed, the Washington Nationals are not a new team - the Montreal Expos franchise has moved to Washington, and the old franchise name should redirect to the new franchise name, just like the 20+ instances of this occuring in Wikipedia. For example, Brooklyn Dodger history resides in the Los Angeles Dodgers article. New York Giants history, including the Shot Heard 'Round the World, resides in the San Francisco Giants article.

If you have the time, maybe you could chime in on the conversation there, Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Montréal Expos. Kingturtle 23:16, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WP:JAWNB

Hi, Revth, have you visited our noticeboard? Many editors who are interested in Japan-related topics join it. Also I would like to let you know another Japan related promotion WP:JCOTW, Collaboration of the Week. The current collaboration is on Inland Sea. By the way I am happy to see you active here ;-) Cheers, --Aphaea* 05:36, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. It looks like you're not active anymore, but if you come back and are at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. I've marked you on this list as "inactve". Feel free to update this as well. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) July 3, 2005 18:27 (UTC)

[edit] LOVE PSYCHEDELICO

hi. is the band's name all in caps? ive seen it "Love Psychedlico" and "LOVE PSYCHDELICO" probably an equal number of times. one should redirect to the other, but which should be the article, and which the redirect? thanks. Nateji77 07:48, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Abby (J-Pop)

Hi there! The article Abby (J-Pop) seems to be a stub, but there doesn't seem to be much information for this person. Do you think you can expand it? --HappyCamper 20:05, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] J-Pop vs. band

Hi, I see you've created many articles called XXXX (J-Pop) while I am pretty sure they should be XXXX (band)'. Naming conventions typically don't need as much disambiguation as you have given it and if it did need it you would use XXXX (Japanese band). Just wanted to let you know why many of your articles have been moved. gren グレン 21:22, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Aburadako

See what I posted on the discussion page for the Aburadako article. Why say what the albums are called, if you already stated that they do not title their albums? Are you just describing what the picture on the album is in Japanease? --Notyouravgjoe | Talk 20:30, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hanyo and half-demon

The claim in Hanyo is that a hanyô is from actual Japanese mythology. If that were the case, Kojien should have it (it's got nue, for example, which is pretty obscure), and it doesn't. I think the characters are somebody's creation as well, for that matter. So, that article will probably need some looking at as well. MSJapan 06:25, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

  • I kicked Hanyo around a bit which probably made it much better, so take a look. And nue is nowhere near obscure if you are into Japan's fantasy and myths genre of works, I believe Megami Tensei series always had the nue as an enemy (and friend, so to speak). -- Revth 07:29, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oden and (Miso-)Dengaku

Hi Revth. I'm not sure what to make of the following sentence:

“ Oden was originally what is called Misodengaku or simply Dengaku…”

Oden article

It seems the festival (then?) known at “misodengaku” (always called “dengaku” today?) had its name shortened to “oden” at some time.

  • Did this contraction take place before or after it became the name for a food? That is, when the same name was used for both the food, and the festival, was it “oden” or “misodengaku”?
  • Was the food named like that because it was traditionally consumed during “misodengaku”?
  • Is this the actual etymology or somebody's guesswork?

Any wording more specific than what we have now would be helpful. The article's Spanish and German (and Chinese?) versions, being translations of the English article, have the same needlessly ambiguous wording. Thank you for reading this. Wikipeditor 19:21, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

It should be clear now. -- Revth 01:33, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your change, but I am still confused. The dengaku article seems to be about a festival, whereas the Korean article ko:오뎅 says dengaku is a food (and that the “honorific prefix to make a word polite” o お has been added to dengaku's den to form oden, so it would not be a contraction of misodengaku). So there is a food which is now called misodengaku or dengaku which was formerly (also?) called oden, and a festival called dengaku? Are festival and food in any way related to each other? If not, the oden article's wikilink to dengaku is misleading. Wikipeditor 15:26, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

There is a type of festival called "dengaku" which is also the name for a dish and both use the same kanji with same accent. Apart from this, there is oden which some people call dengaku or even misodengaku (when, obviously, dengaku is cooked with miso). All are related as original dengaku was probably a festival food and that festival may have came to be called dengaku. From a same root of ancient dengaku, oden and misodenganku diverged to became different food (at least, to some people). Dengaku itself also became different from its original form which was actually closer to modern oden. So, articles should really be organized like; Oden, Dengaku (dish), Dengaku (festival), and Misodengaku (as a redirect to Dengaku (dish)). --Revth 02:14, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Wow. Thanks. Wikipeditor 00:45, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gun Politics

I would like to start a discussion about your addition about Japan on the Gun Politics page. I think your knowledge of japaneese history will help flesh out that part of the article. OTOH I think you missed the point about the balance of power, but I think an accurate application of the history could be helpful to the article. Rearden9 14:37, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unreferenced Articles

I am going through the Japanese military history, and found some of your created articles lack sources:

Any chance of getting some of those listed? Thanks! --Kuuzo 06:00, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

They were translated from JP-wiki articles with information available there at that time. I haven't checked them since. --Revth 06:39, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Save the List!

They are trying to delete the lists we've work so hard on help put a stop to it. List of J-pop Artists Vote to keep our precious list!!! -Bilaber 21:55, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Soichi Noguchi

Thank you so much for your help, brother! Is there any documentation for this? Yours in Scouting, Chris 22:18, 19 February 2007 (UTC) ps-where in Japan do you live? I am hoping to get a job out there this year.

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