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[edit] Open Source and Capitalism

I read your sub-article User:TakuyaMurata/Capitalist_view_of_Open_Source and have posted a response User_talk:Chevan/Open_Source_and_Capitalism. Would be curious to hear your thoughts. Chevan 15:26, Apr 8, 2004 (UTC)

I will give my thoughs later, so I can say exactly when.

[edit] Your orphan images

I noticed you have some superb photos in your orphan images page. Perhaps if you add any information to the Image: page we can find an article to host them? =) —John | Talk 04:48, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

Yes, they are nice ones. I have found them over the Internet and I put them to orphan images page because I also didn't know the details of those images. Legality is fine I think. They are put under GFDL or copyright free (there is no such a thing as public domain in Japan by the way). Now that I am in Japan for vacation now, I will shot some my own photos. I will have much knowledge about them then :) -- Taku 09:33, May 14, 2004 (UTC)

Just found out that Image:Nishioka.jpg and Image:Isozaki.jpg are both toriis. My guess is that the first one is from the town of Nishioka while the second one is probably from the harbor of Isozaki in Kumano or Kumanosi [1] [2] —Joseph | Talk 21:29, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Aozora Bunko

Greetings and felicitations. I just wanted to point out that the Aozora Bunko: I article has a date on the end that is not associated with a title or author, and thus needs clarification. DocWatson42 10:16, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

For your information, I've also entered the Aozora Bukno: W redirect for deletion (see Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion), as it is the obvious result of a typographical error. DocWatson42 11:06, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The death date of Tadaaki Matsudaira on the Aozora Bunko: M page needs clarification—does "1999-10" mean "October 1999"? DocWatson42 11:28, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

More issues:

  • First, I corrected the following names:
Arthur Doyle Conan to Arthur Conan Doyle
Mikhail Artsybashev Petrovich to Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (still no article)
Fyodor Dostojewski Mikhailovich to Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostojewski

For the last one, did you mean Fyodor Dostoevsky?

  • Second, Aozora Bunko: H consists only of entries beginning with "Ha—". Is this correct?
  • Third, the following articles have entries that may be duplicates of each other, and those conflicts need to be resolved; I am not competant in Japanese, and so am unable to do it. Please see their individual talk pages for details.
Aozora Bunko: H
Aozora Bunko: K
Aozora Bunko: M
Aozora Bunko: N
Aozora Bunko: S
Aozora Bunko: W

Good luck! DocWatson42 21:48, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Just to thank you Taku for 'doing' the stub on Walter Charleton. That's one less highlighted red link in Library of Sir Thomas Browne for me to worry about. As ever the link here in my heavily monothematic studies is that a MSS copy of the weird Musaeum Clausum by Sir T.B. was found dedicated to Charleton amongst his papers when he died. The two men may have met, they definitely corresponded, how ever did they in the 17th. century. The mind boggles at the postal system. How much easier today to say thanks again Taku for taking the trouble. Norwikian 15:54, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Don't mention it. That was really nothing. I am in middle of porting a number of entries in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. I am just doing "copy and paste". He was one of them and it took me literally a second to create the stub. Anyway, I am glad I helped. The use of public domain is quick way to have decent articles. -- Taku 16:05, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Unicode merges

Your proposed merges in the area of Unicode related articles are next to invisible. You didn't put a {{mergefrom}} in Unicode and you didn't list them on Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles.

Also I don't agree with ypit proposal, but not violently enough for active opposition.

Pjacobi 18:03, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Ok, I didn't know about {{mergefrom}}. Should I put that template? It seems to me that people are not using it or maybe I am wrong. About Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles, I don't think we need to maintain two lists which are supposed to be identical. But again, it is a requirement I am not against putting it. I just thought putting {{merge}} is good enough as when editing unicode, you don't have to know about ones needed to be merged to it, but again you may disagree. In short, I do not oppose to listing those merge proposals in Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles and putting {{mergefrom}} in unicode.
Also, I understand that you don't agree with merger proposal so I will put my reason for merger in each unicode-related article which I think should merge to unicode.
I think this is all you want from me. Let me know if I am missing something.
-- Taku 01:32, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
The requirement of manually adding the entries Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles relates to having a central place to see the merge request. Which other list are you referring to? {{mergefrom}} is a relatively new template, but before its existance you would have to put {{merge}} in Unicode, see the instructions at Wikipedia:Duplicate articles#Mark current duplicates. -- Pjacobi 07:35, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Another list I was talking is [[Category:Articles_to_be_merged]], which I usually use. I used to but nowadays I don't use Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles so I didn't see why I want to put entries there. But anyway you want to see them listed then I can add them. As I said I am not opposing to listing, I just can't see necessity. -- Taku 16:58, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
IMHO the Category is a bad substitute for the list, as no comments and discussion can be added to the listings. Of course, having both will always give some confusion, so you may want to start a merge proposal for the two merge lists. -- Pjacobi 17:57, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Redirects

You have something against them, do you? -- user:zanimum

Why would I? If you are referring to my proposal for deletion of some redirects, I think those redirects are unused ones and are probably needless in the future. Besides, it takes a second to create a redirect if anyone thought we need one. -- Taku 02:32, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Data Management Wiki Committee

Thank you for your contribution to one, or more, articles that are now organized under Data management.

Because of your previous intrest, you are recieving an invitation to become a founding member of the Data Management Wiki Committee.

The members, of course, will form and solidify the purpose, rules, officers, etc. but my idea (to kick things off) is to establish a group of us who will take responsiblity to see that the ideas of Data management are promoted and well represented in Wikipedia articles.

If you are willing to join the committee, please go to Category_talk:Data_management and indicate your acceptance of this invitation by placing your three tilde characters in the list.

KeyStroke 01:06, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

[edit] Text size on maps

Wow, I'd like an Apple cinema display! But for now, I display at 120% on an old Compaq; I think it's 13". The Prefectures page has too narrow a space at the left of the map for any text, so I agree that the map's too wide.

I've been putting maps on Tokyo Metro lines. They're too small to read in the article, but I've been captioning them, "Click on the map to expand" or something similar. Don't know whether I'm doing the right thing. Any opinions are welcome! Fg2 03:46, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

I think the current size of the prefecture map is minimal; numbers are barely readable. And about Tokyo Metro. You are right that names are not quite readable. The use of different fonts may help or may not. I think some note like "click to enlarge" is a good compromise. New York Times is doing that and it seems a common practice in the web nowadays. Also, one thing to note is we shouldn't use colors to indicate lines given that some people cannot recognize colors. But again what is an alternative?
Conincidentaly, the prefecture map is really nice. Many people are lazy to read actual text and the map explains quite a lot.

-- Taku 03:58, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments about text size and also color. Maybe what I'll do is try to find a way to outline the color in black? That way, there's both color and contrast information in the lines. Fg2 04:43, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Woodblock artist names

Hello, following Wikipedia policy on article names (which says "What .. would the average user of the Wikipedia put into the search engine?") we have been listing these people under the names they are commonly known by in the West - which means we do not use their complete names (which are rarely used in the West, and for artists of this era change over time anyway). Please leave them where they are. Thank you. Noel 20:18, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I will reply this in the talkpage of Yoshitoshi. -- Taku 20:31, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

I didn't mean to wipe out Wikipedia:New user log with my revert. - MattTM 22:50, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)

You see actually I didn't try to revert your edit but 198's. Did you have an edit confict with me? I didn't have one, but the edit times indicate we were reverting at the same time. Weird. -- Taku 22:53, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
Nope, I'm not entirely sure what happened. I was trying to revert the anonymous edit as well, but my edit blanked the page. I was about to hop over to another browser and fix it when I noticed your edit had restored the page. The edit conflict might have been bypassed since the page was blank. - MattTM 23:00, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Taku! Best wishes. --Whosyourjudas (talk) 00:16, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ack! It's not Oct 19 yet here. But thanks a lot. How did you find out my birthday? You are the first to tell me happy birthday this year. That was very surprising, well pleasantly surprising. -- Taku

[edit] Possible vandalization?

An IP that also vanalized other pages edited Kobuchisawa, Yamanashi and changed the area.

[edit] Requesting your opinion on an image resource

Hey Taku, I just found this Japanese website, with good illustrations of historical figures. They aren't public domain or GFDL, but they're apparently free for non-commercial use. The license is here and I think we can use them on Wikipedia, but I'm not sure. What do you think? - Sekicho 01:06, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

The second sentence of the lisence says "even if the use is educational, the commercial use is prohibited." This conflicts with GFDL. We can't help this. -- 15:07, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Time project

Hi, I've set up a new template for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Time. I'm leaving a note out of courtesy for the participants of Wikipedia:WikiProject Years since it is a descendant of Time. Any suggestions welcome, I haven't got a plan yet for the project. Thanks --FrankP 12:31, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Translation

始めまして。まだIDを取っていない（これから取る予定の）者です。[[ja:Wikipedia:翻訳依頼|]]の翻訳活動にぜひご参加ください。 日本語のページはお持ちでないのでしょうか。--211.128.71.202 06:50, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Picture source ? Image:Underworld.jpg

can you post were you got it from please. Togo 05:54, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No, I don't remember about the source. I said public domain, so I think we can trust me. -- Taku 17:19, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

  • Image:Deng.PNG

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 05:53, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Unfortunately to us, I have no recollection about where I got that image. The comment said I converted from a bitmap file to a png but the bitmap file was already lost. -- Taku 17:05, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)
As part of the same project I came across Image:Prohibition.jpg. Note that images from the Library of Congress are not automatically public domain. This one from the Chicago Historical Society collection is subject to this statement:[3]
Permission to reproduce these works for purposes beyond those permissible as
fair use or to republish them in any form must be granted in writing by the
Chicago Historical Society. Please address questions to the Rights and
Reproductions Office at

   Chicago Historical Society
   Clark Street at North Avenue
   Chicago, IL 60614-6071
That "republish in any form" sounds like a "gotcha". If you cannot verify that its use on Wikipedia is legit, perhaps you should remove it. If it remains, could you please tag it appropriately? Thanks! Kbh3rd 05:20, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
To me, our use of the image is fair use and thus seems ok according to the page. Am I missing something? -- Taku 05:37, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

Also: Image:Printingpress.PNG and Image:Printingpress.png. - Kbh3rd 06:46, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I will check this (Printingpress) later. -- Taku 05:37, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Taku. What about all the Unicode characters - Image:2FA1.PNG for instance? Can you recall the source of these, for tagging purposes? Thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

I really wish I were some help :) Only I can say at this moment is that I am working on this--cheking the history, trying to remember things I have almost no thread of memory. As to Unicode characters, I think we can delete them as we are not using them anymore. -- Taku 05:32, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] image tagging

Hi. I have just started looking at the list of untagged images, and found those unicode characters. I just wanted to let you know that if there are dauntingly too many to attach tags, I am more than happy to help doing that. Well, for a super active wikipedian like you, maybe that is not an issue, but just in case. Cheers, Tomos 08:32, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for offering me help, which I should really need. Lucky for us, it seems someone deleted those character images. As they have not been used currently, I think that was fine. I tend to upload a sizable number of files from the same location, so I am working on compiling some list to tell people where I got them. After that, you should be able to have easy time killing your spare time :) -- Taku 05:41, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

Okay that sounds good. Please let me know when a big list arrives. :-) Tomos 11:20, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Government Department Fun

Hey, thanks for the reply on Wikipedia:Naming conventions (government departments and ministers). Apologies for continuing to rearrange Japanese govt stuff since then; I missed your response and I'll keep my hands off until we reach some kind of consensus.

Of random note is that the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Post, Small Animals and the Kitchen Sink has decided to simplify its English name to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. -- The Tom 07:37, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

That was no problem, and thanks for Ministry of Internal Affairs. I guess the new name makes wikipedian's lives easier :) -- Taku 05:10, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Districts in Kyoto Prefecture

Hi - Some time back you deleted Komano, Naka, and Takeno districts from the Kyoto Prefecture article. At this point the tables in the prefecture article and in Prefectures of Japan indicate the number of districts is 12 but the list only includes 9. I assume Komano, Naka, and Takeno are (were) the other 3. Were these districts dissolved some time since 2000? There are a few other anomalies like this as well I'm trying to chase down involving districts in Ehime Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture, Hyogo Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Nagasaki Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, and Yamaguchi Prefecture. I think two districts from Gifu Prefecture were dissolved and I've updated the appropriate counts. I've added them back to the list in the Gifu article with a note that they were dissolved (and added articles about them). If you know anything about any of this, please let me know. Thanks. -- Rick Block 02:51, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] template:akita (and others)

Hi -What would you think about adding a small prefectural symbol to template:akita and the other "cities of prefecture" templates you're creating? It seems like adding the districts might be nice as well (in which case, the category line from the template would need to be removed). For example, the Akita one might look like this:

Akita Prefecture Akita prefectural symbol
Cities
Akita (capital) | Honjo | Kazuno | Noshiro | Oga | Odate | Omagari | Yokote | Yuzawa
Districts
Hiraka | Kawabe | Kazuno | ...

-- Rick Block 22:06, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I don't think adding districts is a good idea. The problem is akita has only a handful of cities but prefectures like Tokyo and Kanagawa have a quite a bit, the table can be too big. In any case, we probably should put a sample template at Wikipedia:WikiProject Japanese districts and municipalites. -- Taku 23:54, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC) Oops, forgot to mention about the prefectural symbol. I think that is good. -- Taku 00:47, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
How about adding districts in those cases where it wouldn't be too voluminous? I assume Tokyo's template will be kind of special anyway (wards rather than cities?) and Hokkaido's as well (perhaps subprefectures rather than districts?). In any event, I'll add the symbol. BTW - you haven't responded about the district counts (above item). Is this something you know about or can find out? I've tried to find information in English about dissolved districts but have not had any success. There are some discrepancies in the municipality counts as well (assuming each municipality should be listed as a city or as a town or village within a district). -- Rick Block 01:44, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I've created a few with cities and districts and I don't think the tables are too big - see Template:Fukuoka, Template:Gifu, Template:Hiroshima, Template:Hyogo, Template:Ibaraki (and there was an existing Template:Hokkaido that included only the subprefectures that I've changed to include the cities). Just to see how it looks, I've included the templates in the prefecture articles for Gifu, Hiroshima, Hyogo, and Ibaraki (placed before the {{Japan}} template, note the similarity to US states, e.g. Colorado). Let me know what you think (and perhaps we should move this discussion to the talk page for Wikipedia:WikiProject Japanese prefectures). -- Rick Block 18:20, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I am sorry for not giving a prompt reply. Although I still have my reservation, it cannot be wrong to create them and see how they look. Who knowns this may beget more inputs from others. Also you might want to consider the use of metatemplates so we can change the format later on with ease. (We can give a name like meta-japanese-prefecture or something.) Finally, as for dissolution, I didn't ignore you but just was gathering some information. I have noticed New Year Day's issue of newspaper says there are several dissolutions or mergers that would be in effect from Jan 1, 2005. I couldn't find the details of this is in English yet. (I can't just use Japanese information because I don't know the readings of the names in kanji!) The principle is that we should reflect articles accordingly as new dissolutions and mergers went in effect but not before that. In the end, I have faith in you, so just do what you think is good. It's just I may be available to help you or may not. Looks like my new year begins just with crucking through overdue tasks :) -- Taku 17:47, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Saku, Nagano

Hi - I'm continuing to work through the prefectures, adding navoboxes (as we've discussed) and categorizing the cities, towns, and villages. As part of this, where it hasn't already been done, I'm moving the city articles so the name is "city, prefecture" (I gather this is somewhat controversial, but I think it's the dominant pattern and is what Wikipedia:WikiProject_Japanese_districts_and_municipalites currently says). In any event, there seems to be a town named Saku in Nagano at the article name Saku, Nagano which means I can't move the Saku city article to this name. I guess a couple of questions:

a) Do you think it's reasonable to be moving city articles to "city, prefecture" (per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Japanese_districts_and_municipalites, I gather this is your preference - the question is do you think this is fairly well settled)?

b) In this case, would you agree the article named "Saku, Nagano" should be the city and should include a disambig link to an article for the town named something like "Saku, Nagano (Minamisaku)"? As a non-administrator I can't do this, but I can add it to the requested moves page.

Let me know what you think. Thanks. -- Rick Block 18:49, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

a) I assume that is the standard except for some conversial cases like Hiroshima and Osaka.
b) Personally, I am using Tosa for reference. I believe it's better to have somehow unified disambig page rather than a disamig page for each prefecture. (Like the case for Asahi or Ikeda; there are tons of them in Japan). If you see a problem in this approach, let me know.
To me, Wikipedia has been extremely slow, so I really can't do much. I should be able to help you in a couple of days. Or it's more like you are just finishing my unfinished jobs :) -- Taku 20:18, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)
Yes, Wikipedia has been extremely slow (there's a mention of it in the latest issue of PC World magazine - which likely doesn't help much :). I've avoided creating disambig pages except when absolutely necessary (Chino seemed necessary). I've added some disambig links at the beginning of articles that are the target of ambiguous redirects, like the link to Iiyama Corporation from the Iiyama, Nagano article that is the target of the redirect at Iiyama. I think if there's a 80% or better chance a user obviously wants to see one of the potential articles I'd rather the ambiguous name be a redirect to that article rather than a disambig page. If there is more than one possible alternative, linking from the "main" article to an article named "name (disamguation)" seems like a reasonable approach. In any event, I'd imagine "Saku" should redirect to "Saku, Nagano" which should be the city. And the city should have a disambig link to the town. I've noticed the town names are quite commonly reused in different prefectures (and sometimes in different districts within the same prefecture). In these cases (like Asahi) I guess it makes sense to have a disambig page listing all of them (sigh). In what I've done so far I haven't tried to keep track of cases like this. At this point I'm mainly trying to categorize all the towns and villages (and cities if they haven't been categorized already) - and I'm only doing this so that "helpful" folks who go to random pages and "fix" things don't end up screwing it up and creating orphans for Beland's scans which he posts at Category:Orphaned categories (I haven't yet, but I'll likely list a couple "towns in xxx district" categories for deletion). While I'm there, I'm fixing any of the &sup2 with missing trailing ";" I run into, capitalizing "prefecture" if it should be capitalized, adding a {{Japan-geo-stub}}, and updating the prefecture article to use the prefecture template (which includes finding out who the governor is) and also arrange the districts in columns and include the "cities/districts in xxx template". I've seen a few town or village articles with more content than you originally added, and have sometimes wikified or otherwise improved what I've found in these cases. I'm also adding navoboxes (with cities and districts :) for all the cities where you haven't done this. I still think including districts makes sense (and no one else has commented on this yet ??). I've stopping adding the template to the districts, so if we ultimately decide the templates shouldn't include the districts we won't have to re-edit the districts and remove it. I'm keeping track of prefectures where the listed municipality count doesn't match the list of cities and towns/villages. I assume most of these are due to recently formed cities. I've successfully tracked one of these down, for Kagawa, and updated the prefecture article and the table in the Prefectures of Japan article. In any event, I'm distinctly only building on what you've started. Turning at least the city articles into non-stubs seems like a reasonable next goal (and since I don't read Japanese, I'm not sure if I can actually help much). -- Rick Block 03:59, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Izu and Omaezaki, Shizuoka

Hi - I've added stubs for the new cities in Shizuoka: Izu, Shizuoka and Omaezaki, Shizuoka. If you can add anything to these (Japanese names, population, density, area, towns/villages that combined to form the new cities, etc.) please do. Thanks. -- Rick Block 05:19, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nanto, Toyama

Hi Taku, I added a stub for Nanto which is a fairly new city in Toyama. Can you add the Kanji for the name? I've found lots of references to the city, including its own website, so I know what the characters look like but I haven't been able to figure out how to get the unicode numbers (other than "shi"). Thanks. -- Rick Block 16:46, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Done. Keep up good work. At the meantime, we should really organize this; like what has been done and what needs to be done more, especially as cities and towns are born and disappear whether we would like or not :). -- Taku
Thanks. BTW - I've recently been adding town/village websites as well, from [4] (which strikes me as an unlikely source but has been invaluable). I like their clickable map of Japan (very clever). They seem to be up on city/town/village merge activity also. -- Rick Block 03:23, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Prefecture navoboxes

Hi - There's been a deafening lack of response on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japanese prefectures#Prefecture navoboxes about cities only vs. cities and districts in the prefecture navoboxes. I've done about 30 with both and although the largest one (perhaps fittingly so) is Template:Tokyo most are about the size of Template:Tochigi. I've been including the template in both the city articles and the prefecture article (placed before the Template:Japan in the prefecture articles). Given that we can't force anyone else to voice an opinion on this, are you OK with me adding districts to the ones you've created, e.g., Template:Akita? If you'd like to look at all of the ones I've created there's a list on my user page. Thanks. -- Rick Block 05:04, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship 2

Hey, I recently noticed that you're not an admin, despite the fact that I've seen you around for years. I know you didn't accept before, but it would enable you to get around inconveniences like protection on pages you want to fix and moving to a page that already has a redirect, as well as let you participate in deletion processes and speedy deleting vandalism and help out in other ways like that. I assure you, it's not all about the glory. :-) Please consider accepting a new nomination for adminship. Deco 07:53, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Printed newsletter

Hi Tak!

Re: an old question of yours : The first few printed newsletters will cost around $2 US for printing and shipping. Once we start printing them en masse, costs will drop to $0.50 or so.

+sj + 18:40, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

See the page history to retrieve old talks.

[edit] Open Source and Capitalism

I read your sub-article User:TakuyaMurata/Capitalist_view_of_Open_Source and have posted a response User_talk:Chevan/Open_Source_and_Capitalism. Would be curious to hear your thoughts. Chevan 15:26, Apr 8, 2004 (UTC)

I will give my thoughs later, so I can say exactly when.

[edit] Your orphan images

I noticed you have some superb photos in your orphan images page. Perhaps if you add any information to the Image: page we can find an article to host them? =) —John | Talk 04:48, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

Yes, they are nice ones. I have found them over the Internet and I put them to orphan images page because I also didn't know the details of those images. Legality is fine I think. They are put under GFDL or copyright free (there is no such a thing as public domain in Japan by the way). Now that I am in Japan for vacation now, I will shot some my own photos. I will have much knowledge about them then :) -- Taku 09:33, May 14, 2004 (UTC)

Just found out that Image:Nishioka.jpg and Image:Isozaki.jpg are both toriis. My guess is that the first one is from the town of Nishioka while the second one is probably from the harbor of Isozaki in Kumano or Kumanosi [5] [6] —Joseph | Talk 21:29, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Aozora Bunko

Greetings and felicitations. I just wanted to point out that the Aozora Bunko: I article has a date on the end that is not associated with a title or author, and thus needs clarification. DocWatson42 10:16, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

For your information, I've also entered the Aozora Bukno: W redirect for deletion (see Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion), as it is the obvious result of a typographical error. DocWatson42 11:06, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
The death date of Tadaaki Matsudaira on the Aozora Bunko: M page needs clarification—does "1999-10" mean "October 1999"? DocWatson42 11:28, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

More issues:

  • First, I corrected the following names:
Arthur Doyle Conan to Arthur Conan Doyle
Mikhail Artsybashev Petrovich to Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (still no article)
Fyodor Dostojewski Mikhailovich to Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostojewski

For the last one, did you mean Fyodor Dostoevsky?

  • Second, Aozora Bunko: H consists only of entries beginning with "Ha—". Is this correct?
  • Third, the following articles have entries that may be duplicates of each other, and those conflicts need to be resolved; I am not competant in Japanese, and so am unable to do it. Please see their individual talk pages for details.
Aozora Bunko: H
Aozora Bunko: K
Aozora Bunko: M
Aozora Bunko: N
Aozora Bunko: S
Aozora Bunko: W

Good luck! DocWatson42 21:48, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Just to thank you Taku for 'doing' the stub on Walter Charleton. That's one less highlighted red link in Library of Sir Thomas Browne for me to worry about. As ever the link here in my heavily monothematic studies is that a MSS copy of the weird Musaeum Clausum by Sir T.B. was found dedicated to Charleton amongst his papers when he died. The two men may have met, they definitely corresponded, how ever did they in the 17th. century. The mind boggles at the postal system. How much easier today to say thanks again Taku for taking the trouble. Norwikian 15:54, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Don't mention it. That was really nothing. I am in middle of porting a number of entries in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. I am just doing "copy and paste". He was one of them and it took me literally a second to create the stub. Anyway, I am glad I helped. The use of public domain is quick way to have decent articles. -- Taku 16:05, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Unicode merges

Your proposed merges in the area of Unicode related articles are next to invisible. You didn't put a {{mergefrom}} in Unicode and you didn't list them on Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles.

Also I don't agree with ypit proposal, but not violently enough for active opposition.

Pjacobi 18:03, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Ok, I didn't know about {{mergefrom}}. Should I put that template? It seems to me that people are not using it or maybe I am wrong. About Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles, I don't think we need to maintain two lists which are supposed to be identical. But again, it is a requirement I am not against putting it. I just thought putting {{merge}} is good enough as when editing unicode, you don't have to know about ones needed to be merged to it, but again you may disagree. In short, I do not oppose to listing those merge proposals in Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles and putting {{mergefrom}} in unicode.
Also, I understand that you don't agree with merger proposal so I will put my reason for merger in each unicode-related article which I think should merge to unicode.
I think this is all you want from me. Let me know if I am missing something.
-- Taku 01:32, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
The requirement of manually adding the entries Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles relates to having a central place to see the merge request. Which other list are you referring to? {{mergefrom}} is a relatively new template, but before its existance you would have to put {{merge}} in Unicode, see the instructions at Wikipedia:Duplicate articles#Mark current duplicates. -- Pjacobi 07:35, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Another list I was talking is [[Category:Articles_to_be_merged]], which I usually use. I used to but nowadays I don't use Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles so I didn't see why I want to put entries there. But anyway you want to see them listed then I can add them. As I said I am not opposing to listing, I just can't see necessity. -- Taku 16:58, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
IMHO the Category is a bad substitute for the list, as no comments and discussion can be added to the listings. Of course, having both will always give some confusion, so you may want to start a merge proposal for the two merge lists. -- Pjacobi 17:57, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Redirects

You have something against them, do you? -- user:zanimum

Why would I? If you are referring to my proposal for deletion of some redirects, I think those redirects are unused ones and are probably needless in the future. Besides, it takes a second to create a redirect if anyone thought we need one. -- Taku 02:32, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Data Management Wiki Committee

Thank you for your contribution to one, or more, articles that are now organized under Data management.

Because of your previous intrest, you are recieving an invitation to become a founding member of the Data Management Wiki Committee.

The members, of course, will form and solidify the purpose, rules, officers, etc. but my idea (to kick things off) is to establish a group of us who will take responsiblity to see that the ideas of Data management are promoted and well represented in Wikipedia articles.

If you are willing to join the committee, please go to Category_talk:Data_management and indicate your acceptance of this invitation by placing your three tilde characters in the list.

KeyStroke 01:06, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

[edit] Text size on maps

Wow, I'd like an Apple cinema display! But for now, I display at 120% on an old Compaq; I think it's 13". The Prefectures page has too narrow a space at the left of the map for any text, so I agree that the map's too wide.

I've been putting maps on Tokyo Metro lines. They're too small to read in the article, but I've been captioning them, "Click on the map to expand" or something similar. Don't know whether I'm doing the right thing. Any opinions are welcome! Fg2 03:46, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

I think the current size of the prefecture map is minimal; numbers are barely readable. And about Tokyo Metro. You are right that names are not quite readable. The use of different fonts may help or may not. I think some note like "click to enlarge" is a good compromise. New York Times is doing that and it seems a common practice in the web nowadays. Also, one thing to note is we shouldn't use colors to indicate lines given that some people cannot recognize colors. But again what is an alternative?
Conincidentaly, the prefecture map is really nice. Many people are lazy to read actual text and the map explains quite a lot.

-- Taku 03:58, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments about text size and also color. Maybe what I'll do is try to find a way to outline the color in black? That way, there's both color and contrast information in the lines. Fg2 04:43, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Woodblock artist names

Hello, following Wikipedia policy on article names (which says "What .. would the average user of the Wikipedia put into the search engine?") we have been listing these people under the names they are commonly known by in the West - which means we do not use their complete names (which are rarely used in the West, and for artists of this era change over time anyway). Please leave them where they are. Thank you. Noel 20:18, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I will reply this in the talkpage of Yoshitoshi. -- Taku 20:31, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

I didn't mean to wipe out Wikipedia:New user log with my revert. - MattTM 22:50, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)

You see actually I didn't try to revert your edit but 198's. Did you have an edit confict with me? I didn't have one, but the edit times indicate we were reverting at the same time. Weird. -- Taku 22:53, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
Nope, I'm not entirely sure what happened. I was trying to revert the anonymous edit as well, but my edit blanked the page. I was about to hop over to another browser and fix it when I noticed your edit had restored the page. The edit conflict might have been bypassed since the page was blank. - MattTM 23:00, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Taku! Best wishes. --Whosyourjudas (talk) 00:16, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ack! It's not Oct 19 yet here. But thanks a lot. How did you find out my birthday? You are the first to tell me happy birthday this year. That was very surprising, well pleasantly surprising. -- Taku

[edit] Possible vandalization?

An IP that also vanalized other pages edited Kobuchisawa, Yamanashi and changed the area.

[edit] Requesting your opinion on an image resource

Hey Taku, I just found this Japanese website, with good illustrations of historical figures. They aren't public domain or GFDL, but they're apparently free for non-commercial use. The license is here and I think we can use them on Wikipedia, but I'm not sure. What do you think? - Sekicho 01:06, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

The second sentence of the lisence says "even if the use is educational, the commercial use is prohibited." This conflicts with GFDL. We can't help this. -- 15:07, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Time project

Hi, I've set up a new template for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Time. I'm leaving a note out of courtesy for the participants of Wikipedia:WikiProject Years since it is a descendant of Time. Any suggestions welcome, I haven't got a plan yet for the project. Thanks --FrankP 12:31, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Translation

始めまして。まだIDを取っていない（これから取る予定の）者です。[[ja:Wikipedia:翻訳依頼|]]の翻訳活動にぜひご参加ください。 日本語のページはお持ちでないのでしょうか。--211.128.71.202 06:50, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Picture source ? Image:Underworld.jpg

can you post were you got it from please. Togo 05:54, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No, I don't remember about the source. I said public domain, so I think we can trust me. -- Taku 17:19, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

  • Image:Deng.PNG

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 05:53, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Unfortunately to us, I have no recollection about where I got that image. The comment said I converted from a bitmap file to a png but the bitmap file was already lost. -- Taku 17:05, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)
As part of the same project I came across Image:Prohibition.jpg. Note that images from the Library of Congress are not automatically public domain. This one from the Chicago Historical Society collection is subject to this statement:[7]
Permission to reproduce these works for purposes beyond those permissible as
fair use or to republish them in any form must be granted in writing by the
Chicago Historical Society. Please address questions to the Rights and
Reproductions Office at

   Chicago Historical Society
   Clark Street at North Avenue
   Chicago, IL 60614-6071
That "republish in any form" sounds like a "gotcha". If you cannot verify that its use on Wikipedia is legit, perhaps you should remove it. If it remains, could you please tag it appropriately? Thanks! Kbh3rd 05:20, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
To me, our use of the image is fair use and thus seems ok according to the page. Am I missing something? -- Taku 05:37, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

Also: Image:Printingpress.PNG and Image:Printingpress.png. - Kbh3rd 06:46, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I will check this (Printingpress) later. -- Taku 05:37, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Taku. What about all the Unicode characters - Image:2FA1.PNG for instance? Can you recall the source of these, for tagging purposes? Thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

I really wish I were some help :) Only I can say at this moment is that I am working on this--cheking the history, trying to remember things I have almost no thread of memory. As to Unicode characters, I think we can delete them as we are not using them anymore. -- Taku 05:32, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] image tagging

Hi. I have just started looking at the list of untagged images, and found those unicode characters. I just wanted to let you know that if there are dauntingly too many to attach tags, I am more than happy to help doing that. Well, for a super active wikipedian like you, maybe that is not an issue, but just in case. Cheers, Tomos 08:32, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for offering me help, which I should really need. Lucky for us, it seems someone deleted those character images. As they have not been used currently, I think that was fine. I tend to upload a sizable number of files from the same location, so I am working on compiling some list to tell people where I got them. After that, you should be able to have easy time killing your spare time :) -- Taku 05:41, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

Okay that sounds good. Please let me know when a big list arrives. :-) Tomos 11:20, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Government Department Fun

Hey, thanks for the reply on Wikipedia:Naming conventions (government departments and ministers). Apologies for continuing to rearrange Japanese govt stuff since then; I missed your response and I'll keep my hands off until we reach some kind of consensus.

Of random note is that the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Post, Small Animals and the Kitchen Sink has decided to simplify its English name to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. -- The Tom 07:37, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

That was no problem, and thanks for Ministry of Internal Affairs. I guess the new name makes wikipedian's lives easier :) -- Taku 05:10, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Districts in Kyoto Prefecture

Hi - Some time back you deleted Komano, Naka, and Takeno districts from the Kyoto Prefecture article. At this point the tables in the prefecture article and in Prefectures of Japan indicate the number of districts is 12 but the list only includes 9. I assume Komano, Naka, and Takeno are (were) the other 3. Were these districts dissolved some time since 2000? There are a few other anomalies like this as well I'm trying to chase down involving districts in Ehime Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture, Hyogo Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Nagasaki Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, and Yamaguchi Prefecture. I think two districts from Gifu Prefecture were dissolved and I've updated the appropriate counts. I've added them back to the list in the Gifu article with a note that they were dissolved (and added articles about them). If you know anything about any of this, please let me know. Thanks. -- Rick Block 02:51, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] template:akita (and others)

Hi -What would you think about adding a small prefectural symbol to template:akita and the other "cities of prefecture" templates you're creating? It seems like adding the districts might be nice as well (in which case, the category line from the template would need to be removed). For example, the Akita one might look like this:

Akita Prefecture Akita prefectural symbol
Cities
Akita (capital) | Honjo | Kazuno | Noshiro | Oga | Odate | Omagari | Yokote | Yuzawa
Districts
Hiraka | Kawabe | Kazuno | ...

-- Rick Block 22:06, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I don't think adding districts is a good idea. The problem is akita has only a handful of cities but prefectures like Tokyo and Kanagawa have a quite a bit, the table can be too big. In any case, we probably should put a sample template at Wikipedia:WikiProject Japanese districts and municipalites. -- Taku 23:54, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC) Oops, forgot to mention about the prefectural symbol. I think that is good. -- Taku 00:47, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
How about adding districts in those cases where it wouldn't be too voluminous? I assume Tokyo's template will be kind of special anyway (wards rather than cities?) and Hokkaido's as well (perhaps subprefectures rather than districts?). In any event, I'll add the symbol. BTW - you haven't responded about the district counts (above item). Is this something you know about or can find out? I've tried to find information in English about dissolved districts but have not had any success. There are some discrepancies in the municipality counts as well (assuming each municipality should be listed as a city or as a town or village within a district). -- Rick Block 01:44, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I've created a few with cities and districts and I don't think the tables are too big - see Template:Fukuoka, Template:Gifu, Template:Hiroshima, Template:Hyogo, Template:Ibaraki (and there was an existing Template:Hokkaido that included only the subprefectures that I've changed to include the cities). Just to see how it looks, I've included the templates in the prefecture articles for Gifu, Hiroshima, Hyogo, and Ibaraki (placed before the {{Japan}} template, note the similarity to US states, e.g. Colorado). Let me know what you think (and perhaps we should move this discussion to the talk page for Wikipedia:WikiProject Japanese prefectures). -- Rick Block 18:20, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I am sorry for not giving a prompt reply. Although I still have my reservation, it cannot be wrong to create them and see how they look. Who knowns this may beget more inputs from others. Also you might want to consider the use of metatemplates so we can change the format later on with ease. (We can give a name like meta-japanese-prefecture or something.) Finally, as for dissolution, I didn't ignore you but just was gathering some information. I have noticed New Year Day's issue of newspaper says there are several dissolutions or mergers that would be in effect from Jan 1, 2005. I couldn't find the details of this is in English yet. (I can't just use Japanese information because I don't know the readings of the names in kanji!) The principle is that we should reflect articles accordingly as new dissolutions and mergers went in effect but not before that. In the end, I have faith in you, so just do what you think is good. It's just I may be available to help you or may not. Looks like my new year begins just with crucking through overdue tasks :) -- Taku 17:47, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Saku, Nagano

Hi - I'm continuing to work through the prefectures, adding navoboxes (as we've discussed) and categorizing the cities, towns, and villages. As part of this, where it hasn't already been done, I'm moving the city articles so the name is "city, prefecture" (I gather this is somewhat controversial, but I think it's the dominant pattern and is what Wikipedia:WikiProject_Japanese_districts_and_municipalites currently says). In any event, there seems to be a town named Saku in Nagano at the article name Saku, Nagano which means I can't move the Saku city article to this name. I guess a couple of questions:

a) Do you think it's reasonable to be moving city articles to "city, prefecture" (per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Japanese_districts_and_municipalites, I gather this is your preference - the question is do you think this is fairly well settled)?

b) In this case, would you agree the article named "Saku, Nagano" should be the city and should include a disambig link to an article for the town named something like "Saku, Nagano (Minamisaku)"? As a non-administrator I can't do this, but I can add it to the requested moves page.

Let me know what you think. Thanks. -- Rick Block 18:49, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

a) I assume that is the standard except for some conversial cases like Hiroshima and Osaka.
b) Personally, I am using Tosa for reference. I believe it's better to have somehow unified disambig page rather than a disamig page for each prefecture. (Like the case for Asahi or Ikeda; there are tons of them in Japan). If you see a problem in this approach, let me know.
To me, Wikipedia has been extremely slow, so I really can't do much. I should be able to help you in a couple of days. Or it's more like you are just finishing my unfinished jobs :) -- Taku 20:18, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)
Yes, Wikipedia has been extremely slow (there's a mention of it in the latest issue of PC World magazine - which likely doesn't help much :). I've avoided creating disambig pages except when absolutely necessary (Chino seemed necessary). I've added some disambig links at the beginning of articles that are the target of ambiguous redirects, like the link to Iiyama Corporation from the Iiyama, Nagano article that is the target of the redirect at Iiyama. I think if there's a 80% or better chance a user obviously wants to see one of the potential articles I'd rather the ambiguous name be a redirect to that article rather than a disambig page. If there is more than one possible alternative, linking from the "main" article to an article named "name (disamguation)" seems like a reasonable approach. In any event, I'd imagine "Saku" should redirect to "Saku, Nagano" which should be the city. And the city should have a disambig link to the town. I've noticed the town names are quite commonly reused in different prefectures (and sometimes in different districts within the same prefecture). In these cases (like Asahi) I guess it makes sense to have a disambig page listing all of them (sigh). In what I've done so far I haven't tried to keep track of cases like this. At this point I'm mainly trying to categorize all the towns and villages (and cities if they haven't been categorized already) - and I'm only doing this so that "helpful" folks who go to random pages and "fix" things don't end up screwing it up and creating orphans for Beland's scans which he posts at Category:Orphaned categories (I haven't yet, but I'll likely list a couple "towns in xxx district" categories for deletion). While I'm there, I'm fixing any of the &sup2 with missing trailing ";" I run into, capitalizing "prefecture" if it should be capitalized, adding a {{Japan-geo-stub}}, and updating the prefecture article to use the prefecture template (which includes finding out who the governor is) and also arrange the districts in columns and include the "cities/districts in xxx template". I've seen a few town or village articles with more content than you originally added, and have sometimes wikified or otherwise improved what I've found in these cases. I'm also adding navoboxes (with cities and districts :) for all the cities where you haven't done this. I still think including districts makes sense (and no one else has commented on this yet ??). I've stopping adding the template to the districts, so if we ultimately decide the templates shouldn't include the districts we won't have to re-edit the districts and remove it. I'm keeping track of prefectures where the listed municipality count doesn't match the list of cities and towns/villages. I assume most of these are due to recently formed cities. I've successfully tracked one of these down, for Kagawa, and updated the prefecture article and the table in the Prefectures of Japan article. In any event, I'm distinctly only building on what you've started. Turning at least the city articles into non-stubs seems like a reasonable next goal (and since I don't read Japanese, I'm not sure if I can actually help much). -- Rick Block 03:59, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Izu and Omaezaki, Shizuoka

Hi - I've added stubs for the new cities in Shizuoka: Izu, Shizuoka and Omaezaki, Shizuoka. If you can add anything to these (Japanese names, population, density, area, towns/villages that combined to form the new cities, etc.) please do. Thanks. -- Rick Block 05:19, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nanto, Toyama

Hi Taku, I added a stub for Nanto which is a fairly new city in Toyama. Can you add the Kanji for the name? I've found lots of references to the city, including its own website, so I know what the characters look like but I haven't been able to figure out how to get the unicode numbers (other than "shi"). Thanks. -- Rick Block 16:46, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Done. Keep up good work. At the meantime, we should really organize this; like what has been done and what needs to be done more, especially as cities and towns are born and disappear whether we would like or not :). -- Taku
Thanks. BTW - I've recently been adding town/village websites as well, from [8] (which strikes me as an unlikely source but has been invaluable). I like their clickable map of Japan (very clever). They seem to be up on city/town/village merge activity also. -- Rick Block 03:23, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Prefecture navoboxes

Hi - There's been a deafening lack of response on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japanese prefectures#Prefecture navoboxes about cities only vs. cities and districts in the prefecture navoboxes. I've done about 30 with both and although the largest one (perhaps fittingly so) is Template:Tokyo most are about the size of Template:Tochigi. I've been including the template in both the city articles and the prefecture article (placed before the Template:Japan in the prefecture articles). Given that we can't force anyone else to voice an opinion on this, are you OK with me adding districts to the ones you've created, e.g., Template:Akita? If you'd like to look at all of the ones I've created there's a list on my user page. Thanks. -- Rick Block 05:04, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship 2

Hey, I recently noticed that you're not an admin, despite the fact that I've seen you around for years. I know you didn't accept before, but it would enable you to get around inconveniences like protection on pages you want to fix and moving to a page that already has a redirect, as well as let you participate in deletion processes and speedy deleting vandalism and help out in other ways like that. I assure you, it's not all about the glory. :-) Please consider accepting a new nomination for adminship. Deco 07:53, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Printed newsletter

Hi Tak!

Re: an old question of yours : The first few printed newsletters will cost around $2 US for printing and shipping. Once we start printing them en masse, costs will drop to $0.50 or so.

+sj + 18:40, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Dissolved municipalities of Japan

Hi Taku - I notice you created this category a while ago. I haven't been adding to it (I've just been leaving dissolved towns and villages in their "towns in prefecture" or "villages in prefecture" categories). What would you think about deleting this category. I suspect it will get huge if we actually put every dissolved municipality into it. An alternative might be to create a category like this one for each prefecture. Let me know what you think. -- Rick Block 02:05, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I don't like to have a category for each prefecture. After all, each prefecture article has a list of dissolved municipalities in its prefecture. I agree that the category would get huge, but I don't think that is a problem. At least, as a marker, I believe this kind of category is useful in whatever way it is put. -- Taku 02:26, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
I just counted the dissolved municipalities already listed in the 10 prefectures, Aichi to Gunma, and it's a little more than 100. I think I heard somewhere that there were going to be perhaps one or two thousand mergers in the next year or two. To me, this seems like too big of a category. I suppose we could add as we go and subdivide later, but if we can easily foresee a need now why not subdivide now? -- Rick Block 03:12, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
A thousand? LOL. According to prefectures of Japan, each prefecture has roughly, I say, 60 municipalities. Since there are 47 prefectures, we can estimate there are about 3000 municipalities exist in Japan. And you heard that there is going to be a thousand or two mergers. Then I guess we really don't have a choice but follow your scheme. The bottom line is, as said above, we should use a category as a marker. Anyhow, I now seriously wonder what politicians in Japan are thinking. -- Taku 05:35, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
I don't think a thousand is actually too far off (100 from 10 out of 47 prefectures means there should be about 500 that we should already list). In any event, how about sorting them by prefecture name in the one category? This might be kind of annoying, but we could include a sort key e.g. [[category:Dissolved municipalities of Japan|Hiroshima, Fukutomi]] (reversing the prefecture and town/village name). This would group the entries in the category listing by prefecture rather than simply alphabetical by town/village name (sort of a sub-categorization mechanism without creating more categories). Something else we could consider doing is renaming the articles for the dissolved towns/villages with a prefix like "ex-" or something. This would make the articles stand out in the Towns/Villages in Prefecture categories. -- Rick Block 17:06, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Yes, I tried the sorting key method. I prefer this to having 47 subcategories. Though it requires extra work, I think it's in the end less confusing. In my (most likely humble) opinion, we have too many categories. And you know what is happening is that people are spending too much time fixing categories. As for the prefixing or suffixing for the matter, I think it's a bad idea. One of principles in naming articles is that you do not use a title in a programming manner. The rationale is that if you do, it requires people to learn how to program titles, confuse readers and, when we change our mind, to change a vast number of titles and fixes links. Since we have the list of towns and villages in each prefecture article any way, I think the towns/village categories are fine as they are now. (That was a great work anyway.) -- Taku 18:34, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
I've added all the dissolved towns/villages in Aichi through Hiroshima to the category (sorted first by prefecture name). BTW - the notion that there might be a thousand is from here: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050215a9.htm . -- Rick Block 17:37, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Biweekly special article

Dear Fact and Reference Check member,

After many months, the biweekly special article has been brought back! The article we will be referencing is Titan (moon). Please do your best to help out!

I'm asking all members to verify at least three facts in the article, and I'd really appreciate it if you could try and help with this. We have about 19 members, so if even 3/4 of us try and fulfil this 'dream', that'll be 45 references!

If you need some information on how to use footnotes, take a look at Wikipedia:Footnote3, which has a method of autonumbering footnotes. Unfortunately, they produce brackets around the footnotes, but it seems to be our best alternative until they integrate the footnote feature request code into MediaWiki. You may be interested in voting for the aforementioned feature request.

Cheers,

Frazzydee|✍ 20:04, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Biweekly special article

Dear Fact and Reference Check member,

After many months, the biweekly special article has been brought back! The article we will be referencing is Titan (moon). Please do your best to help out!

I'm asking all members to verify at least three facts in the article, and I'd really appreciate it if you could try and help with this. We have about 19 members, so if even 3/4 of us try and fulfil this 'dream', that'll be 45 references!

If you need some information on how to use footnotes, take a look at Wikipedia:Footnote3, which has a method of autonumbering footnotes. Unfortunately, they produce brackets around the footnotes, but it seems to be our best alternative until they integrate the footnote feature request code into MediaWiki. You may be interested in voting for the aforementioned feature request.

Cheers,

Frazzydee|✍ 20:06, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Quarto by email

Hi Takuya, a new mailing list has been set up to distribute news about the Wikimedia foundation, specifically at the moment to publicise Quarto. I saw your name on the quarto talk page requesting a copy by email, and I think this mailing list is how we're going to do it for the moment. It'll be a html email, which I've added to the Quarto talk page m:Talk:WQ. Mailing list is called Foundation-news-l (We also need translators!) Cheers w:User:Cormaggio

[edit] Javac, Jikes

I don't completely follow what's going on with Javac, Java compiler, and Jikes (i.e. whether one has been renamed to another, or copied/speedy deleted/whatever), but as it stands, Javac links to Jikes, which redirects to Java compiler, which you nominated for speedy deletion, presumably to be replaced by Javac. Anyway, I don't see why Jikes doesn't merit its own article, as it was before.. Thanks. —Fleminra 21:24, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)

To be honest, I am not sure either :) I was writing articles about those topics, and for some reason, there appears to be duplicate articles java compiler and javac. If you can delete it, I think we can just merge them. As for jikes, someday we might want to have a dedicated article for it but for now I think the redirect suffices. -- Taku 05:26, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Comment

Hi! Two questions: 1) Why did you remove all the headings in the Usage-section? I respectfully disagree with the necessity for that. It gave the article a bit of structure; now the Usage-section is one long block of text (the grey blur effect). Also it made it clear what bit the quotations applied to. 2) Why did you add the f's to your example? When you add an example keep in mind that it is better to keep it very simple. The in-context samples are an exception. They should come from real-life situations.

Also remember not to refer to hypothetical persons as he or she. (And he or she sounds a bit odd and too PC to me.) It is better to either rephrase your sentence in such a way that the pronoun is not needed. If you think avoiding pronouns this way is too PC too, then please remember that in English the default pronoun to be used when it is impossible is he.

Okay, I hope this doesn't intimidate you or anything... I really appreciate you contributing stuff. I really do! But sometimes I just need a clarification on an edit, because just reverting without asking the w-question just leads to chaos.

Cordially yours, Shinobu 23:34, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

If you felt intimidated I am sorry. I thought saying too many headings is enough as usual. So if not, I was mistaken. Also, if you disagree with the wording, grammar, examples or writing style, please don't hesitate to correct it. It is often hard for me to predict what wording would make everyone happy. I will explain about the example in the talkpage of the article. -- Taku 00:19, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

Okay. I'll sleep a night or two on the headlines question. Thank you for your comments about the example. I've read them and now I understand why you added the f's. I have tried to give a few suggestions on the example on the talkpage of the article. I hope you can do something with it. Or maybe you can think of something even better!

Apart from that I have a totally wiki-unrelated question. You see, I know Japanese only from anime and some songs. My native language has two sounds, spelt uu and oe. (There is no relation to English spelling. I might as well have used x and y.) I once met someone who insisted that he learned from a Japanese person that う should be pronounced oe. However in the songs I clearly hear uu (except on a few places). The same applies to the anime, as far as I can actually hear (my knowledge on Japanese is probably worse than Quenya I'm afraid...). I have tried to find a definite answer on the web. However this has proven to be difficult - the English don't seem to have the uu sound. So my question to you is: "Do the voice actors in anime speak with a strange accent?" I realize the answer to this question might not be a simple yes or no. If you have any comments on Japanese as spoken in anime, songs (in anime or otherwise), I would love to hear from you.

I'll probably ask this question to many people, without getting a definite answer. But as I get more ansers, they might fit together in some way.

Cordially yours, Shinobu 02:04, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

You see many people ask me about Japanese language, and chances are I am not a linguist. I don't know which language is your native one, but the bottom line is, not surprisingly, there is no nice corresponds between sounds in Japanese and those in English. I once heard that English speakers tend to have a difficulty pronouncing a Japanese "o", which is not pronounced "oh" in the case of English. The best way to see the difference is to look at Japanese-English. For example, say windows. In Japanese, it sounds u-i-n-do-u-zu (- being a pause). So my guess is w in English seems to be the closet thing to u in Japanese. Indeed, to me, water sounds like u-ater. As for a singer, for one thing, Japanese singers often sing English songs, and English speakers, it seems, fail to recognize they are English, maybe because of the accents or lack thereof. So I suggest at least you make sure she was singing Japanese songs not of other languages.
I am not sure if this helped you or confused you more :) -- Taku 23:46, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

@make sure she was singing Japanese songs: yes, I'm quite sure of that. I have the Japanese lyrics on my pc for sing-along fun. ;-)

My native language is Dutch. The uu comes close to German ü or French u. The oe comes close to German u or French ou. Shinobu 19:02, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mac OS X name

The proper names of the Mac OS X operating system releases have "v" in them, like "Mac OS X v10.0". Apple uses "v10.0" on its web site and in its documentation. Calling it "Mac OS X 10.0" is incorrect. The "X" stands for "10", so "X 10.0" would be redundant. For example, see [9]. - Brian Kendig 01:13, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I see your point. But still "mac os x v10.4" [10] in google yields far fewer results than "mac os x 10.4" [11]. On the other hand, you are right in that apple uses "v10.4" so I guess it is more official name. I am now not sure which name is correct. I leave this to you. Let me know if you want to me revert my moves or do reverting yourself. -- Taku 01:20, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

I don't have the capability to move an article over a redirect that already exists, so would you please move the articles back for me? I believe the articles should be named with the "correct" product names as defined by Apple Computer itself. These names are:

  • Mac OS X v10.0
  • Mac OS X v10.1
  • Mac OS X v10.2
  • Mac OS X v10.3
  • Mac OS X v10.4

Apple's literature sometimes includes the double-quoted cat names as part of the product name, like Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger", but I don't think Wikipedia allows double-quotes in article names. Apple also sometimes refers to the OS releases without the version number, like Mac OS X Jaguar, but I think that would introduce confusion here. Listing the OS releases as "Mac OS X 10.2" bothers me because that's like saying "ICBM missile" or "ATM machine" or "AC current" or "PIN number" or "CD discs". - Brian Kendig 01:35, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Actually I think you can move those if the redirects have only the history of redirects. Anyway, I correct them myself as you should notice. As for redundancy, this is not uncommon. There are tons of examples like HIV virus (V being virus) and ones in Japanese articles like Hokkaido Prefecture (do means a prefecture), Horyuji temple (ji means a temple). I know you feel they are not right, nonetheless they are abundant. -- Taku 03:14, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
User:Cantus has just gone through and moved the articles back to the incorrect names, even moving one to an even more nonsensical name (Mac OS X 10). I tried to move these to the correct names again, but Wikipedia won't let me because the redirects exist. I've asked Cantus to undo his moves, but if he doesn't, would you please? Actually, belay that; it looks like he's "moving" the articles by cutting the text from one and pasting it to the other. This is easy for me to undo. - Brian Kendig 03:47, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

For the record: double quotes are indeed allowable in article names, so you can have Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" as a valid article name. -- Grunt  ҈ 03:38, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)

Thank you very much; I didn't know that! - Brian Kendig 03:47, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sandbox & Sandbot

If you were paying any attention to the Sandbox, there is a Sandbot which is suppose to be operating to clean out the sandbox. Should the sandbot stop operating, please let me know. -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:02, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Japan Pages

I'm surprised you don't take more pride in your heritage Takuya. I am just a stupid WASP, but I can appreciate that Japan has a much longer history and arguably richer culture then the United States. I am sure your pages are factually correct, but they appear to be unneccisarily opinionated against the Japanese. Also, I'm sure you will agree that the fact the Japanese still visit Shinto shrines today means that it is not a dead religion.

I am not sure of your point. But Japanese get married in a Christian church in the front of a priest or someone. Does it make Japanese Christians for instance? Please post how the article is biased at its talkpage. Then I or other will respond. -- Taku 23:05, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Award

For your extensive work in articles pertaining to Japan, I, Redux, hereby award you The Barnstar of National Merit. Congratulations! Redux 19:12, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
For your extensive work in articles pertaining to Japan, I, Redux, hereby award you The Barnstar of National Merit. Congratulations! Redux 19:12, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm impressed with the amount of work you've put into our coverage of Japan! This award is well-deserved. Too bad you're on a break right now and won't see it for a while, but when you do come back: surprise! Congrats, Redux 19:12, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WP:JCOTW

こんにちは。Aphaiaです。 お時間がありましたらWP:JCOTWの投票にご参加くださいませ（化けて編集画面で読みにくいので英語でも書いときます） If you have an interest, pleaee visit WP:JCOTW and vote, thanks. --Aphaea* 04:45, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations

on finishing your bachelor's degree in math! Fg2 00:59, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Now I've got to face the reality after college. -- Taku 23:26, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Victory over Japan Day

Thanks for the translation. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:52, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

No problem. We need translation for non-English words. -- Taku 23:28, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Quicksort#Could_anyone_write_this_addition_on_the_article.3F

You said:

Finally, I think P3do, your comment is a little too unhelpful or unfriendly; apparently, this guy is upset. I mean aren't we allowed to have little more fun and friendly yet irrelevant conversations in the talkpage?

Barcelo's comment appeared to be neither fun nor friendly, so I was trying to clarify what he was asking for. If he has concrete suggestions that could have averted his misunderstanding, I'd like to know what they are. Regardless, the article talk page is not the place for personal rebukes. That's why I have put mine here instead. --P3d0 02:03, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

I am sorry if that comment appeared to be a personal attack. I was suggesting that you want to make more productive questions. In any case, we don't need to go further on this. -- Taku 22:17, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shōwa (era)

I removed the "merge" message on Showa (era) (正和), as it is a completely different timeperiod from Showa period (昭和). I'm curious as to your motivation for the merger of the two? JeroenHoek 14:46, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

That was entirely my mistake; I thought the two are the same period. Forgive my clumsiness. -- Taku 22:15, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
I thought the same at first as well, so no shame there. :) JeroenHoek 22:24, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Table suffixes

Template:Table suffixes has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Table suffixes. Thank you. — Xiong熊talk* 10:32, 2005 May 25 (UTC)

[edit] "The bomb"

It's not worth making a fuss about, but "the bomb" isn't necessarily a reference to one(1) specific bomb; it can be a colloquial equivalent for "atomic/nuclear weapons". E.g. in Tom Lehrer's song:

First we got the bomb and that was good,
'Cause we love peace and motherhood.
Then Russia got the bomb, but that's O.K.,
'Cause the balance of power's maintained that way!

Or, maybe, more recently:

Somebody set up us the bomb.

—wwoods 07:59, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese topics

Hi Taku. I noticed you wrote a nice little article about Takahama Kyoshi. Thanks! The reason I noticed was that he was listed on Wikipedia:2004 Encyclopedia topics as a person that Encyclopedia Britannica has an article but we didn't. After you wrote that article, he's now been removed from the list. However I often see historic Japanese figures and articles about parts of dynasties on the lists... it occured to me to suggest to you to have a look at the list and see if there any others you fancy tackling. There are 28 pages (!) in all. I am currently tackling page 26. Thanks again for Takahama, Pcb21| Pete 23:21, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I am glad that my contribution is noted and that was at leat small help in achiving our goal of creating a great encyclopedia. As you notice, we badly need write about those basic topics. It is amazing that with the half million articles there is still a big shortage. I mean, Takaham Kyoshi is a very prominent poet in Japan; most schoolchildren have heard of him. Good news for us is that Japanese wikipeida have been getting a good coverage of Japanese historical figures and incidents, so I can translate many articles from there to here (as I am doing that recently). And, after that, you or others can fix some problems with writing if any. That is the point of wikipedia, anyway. Let me conclude this reply by saying good luck for your undertaking. -- Taku 23:40, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Linux

背景
村田さん: さて、I read the changes you made to the initial paragraph of Linux, and respectfully I must say I do not think they will be acceptable to most contributors to the article. The reasons for that are because:

  • The previous version does a very good job of conveying the necessary information (i.e., the fact that Linux is open-source, and that it is an operating system) without overloading the reader with too much extraneous detail. The new version you added, unfortunately, appears to give no more information than the previous one, but adds many more words and leads the reader's attention to details that might be considered superfluous;
  • The previous version did not emphasize assertions that, although you and I might agree with them, might nonetheless be considered as non-neutral point of view. In particular, you mention that Linux "vindicates" the idea that open source can produce software as good as that produced by big software companies—while I myself agree with you that this is true, it may be controversial to others. Moreover, frankly, I don't think that is important enough to be mentioned in the first paragraph of the article, because it is opinion (not fact) and because it is already discussed further down in the article; and
  • Finally, the version you added contains several wording and/or grammatical (or stylistic) mistakes. This, however, is the easiest issue to correct, of course; and I wouldn't mind copyediting your contribution, if some agreement is reached regarding its factual content.

Please understand I am replying to you and setting forth my frank opinions and analysis in good faith (and in response to your invitation), and that I in no way intend to disparage your contributions.

敬具 —Ryanaxp 22:18, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

I am moving a part of this to the talkpage of Linux. We can continue the dicussion there. I am quite open to word changes or any suggestion. -- Taku 22:47, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ex-inclusionist?

Just wondering what you mean by your comment at m:Inclusionism. ··gracefool |☺ 04:27, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Life ironies

sended greetings and desires mores sucesses!

i am are the Uhknowed author of some polemic topic japanese ww2 articles included in my making page of japanese nationalism.

my name if wlad and i from latinoamerica.i having comment my certain japanese identification with these historical period and at you comment why inclusive i are one of very little western persons why poses some oportunity of making comments with rigth-wing japanese nationalists associations,veteran groups or inclusive certain japanese ancient residents in ancient lost provinces how Ancient Karafuto resident Association.

preciselly in my cultural interchanges i receiving for theirs one ancient japanese map of Karafuto province and i sended some maps of little maps of Japanese empire and mantain some contact with japanese experts in ww2 weapons and military topics.

the irony if for my rare oportunity of seeing in Japanese side in ww2 and for way knowed some japanese dates in ancient 30s or 40s old books my informations results more interestings at one chinese person.

between my articles one why appareing poses some interests to experts if this: Observations of Japanese Soldier in Chinese front this provided from some american writer in chinese side in Chinese front.i sayed over this how you are japanese citizen pose some oportunity to confimr of identity this member of japanes imperial army why writing these war dairy.i treated to confrim this with other japanese friends why poses ww2 knowledge in nexts days.

i am poses oportunity in knowed details of manchukuo,Kwantung and other details of Japanese times during 30s and pacific war.

but i in nexts days decided to definetivelly retireing for reconoited why no poses the habilities for well writing and poses very bad english grammar.the writing area if not for me,but i in nexts days sended some dates of japanese population in exterior provinces and certain dates of japanese tank warfare.

i am poses some information about japanese empire why i confirm with my japanese friends. for other part i am poses between my ancestors one japanese bussinessmen and ancient parents knowed during wartimes some japanese fishers why results secret agents in my country.for this if my personal identification with Japan,one country i admired much too in all aspects.

[edit] Arigato gozaimas ^_^

Thank you for fixing my edit in the Asahi article *bow*

Project2501a 01:51, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Don't mention it. This is wikipedia :) -- Taku 02:06, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to a Japan Wiki project, Takipedia

Because you are an active Wikipedia participant with a deep knowledge of Japan, I would like to invite you to participate on Takipedia. It is a newly started Wiki that attempts to serve as sort of an "Expatriate's Guide To Living In Japan" written by people who live in Japan or are knowledgable about Japan. Your participation is emphatically welcome!

[edit] Japanese calendar

Just to let you know I reverted your reversion of the BC->BCE change. The "Common Era" system is becoming much more common in academic writing and is a better choice given its lack of religious... affiliation. Exploding Boy 01:09, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Is it? If so, I guess fine. -- Taku 02:54, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reply to inquiry

Taku, See my talk page for a reply to your inquiry concerning study abroad. Vonkje 02:31, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Garbage collection (computer science)

Hi. I have replaced your link to Boehm garbage collector with a link to Category:Memory management software. It seems superior to allow the reader to find all examples of such software rather than simply privileging one of them. If you disagree with this, please let me know why. Bovlb June 28, 2005 13:58 (UTC)

Well, I replaced a link to the category page by it because (1) we don't usually give a link to a cateogy but put an article in a category; your use looked odd to me. (I am open to discussion on this; I am just giving my rationale) and (2) because I didn't mean to give a privilege to a particular gc; it was only gc I know and we should add more GCs to the list. I am hoping in the end the article gives a brief summuary of well-used GCs. It is always good to give practical examples beside explanations. (By the way, Boehm garbage collector is not a piece of software.) -- Taku June 29, 2005 00:48 (UTC)
I agree that it's not common to refer to categories, and it arguably breaks Wikipedia:Avoid self-references, but it is sometimes useful. (See, for example, Artificial intelligence#AI Researchers.) I have found six examples of GC/MM software on Wikipedia (only one or two of which I have been involved in developing), which I put under the category. Boehm's is probably the most widely used (although Hoard is popular for manual memory management). I'm not sure what you mean by "not a piece of software". If you had said, "It's a library, not an application!", then I would agree. I tend to lean toward categories, being somewhat of an ontologist by profession, but Wikipedia's implementation leaves a little to be desired. If we're just going to have a list of links, then I think the category reference is superior. A list all relevant GCs would be justified if we had a short summary of the properties of each. Bovlb June 29, 2005 03:31 (UTC)

[edit] Showa Emperor

hi Taku, i wrote down some ideas about the renaming. may i ask you why you are so adamantly against a renaming, i mean is the idea so terrible? i don´t really understand... monarchs are named a certain way, i mean look at Taisho Emperor for example, so why would the other two emperors Hirohito and Akihito be an exception, it doesn´t make sense? a user who would not be familiar with these figures, using wikipedia for the first time, would not understand what he is beeing confronted with. to rename the article would help the average user in navigating, don´t you think? of course us experts we know who and what they were, but try to put yourself in a situation where someone (like in school) is doing a research for the first time. and wikipedia is supposed to be everyone, and not just experts, right? if you having something against Hirohito himself and don´t like him beeing called emperor, i understand. i am not fan of this person myself, trust me. however he was what he was, the Emperor of Japan. this simple fact needs to be reflected in the naming of the article, regardless of what we personally thought of him. Bhinneka 29 June 2005 12:20 (UTC)

I tried to explain my rationale in the talkpage of Hirohito. For a start, I am not the only one who opposes. I hate to say but I don't think you are familiar with this issue. It's not I don't like a term emperor. It's much more complicated. There are reasons why it is named Hirohito, as most of other reference works do. Wikipedia cannot be an exception. If you simply want to follow the convention, then the article title should be Emperor Hirohito of Japan, as showa is an era name and Hirohito is the name of the Emperor like John. -- Taku June 29, 2005 13:37 (UTC)
oh wow, so now you are getting personal with me? sorry to dissapoint you, I do happen to be quite familiar with this issue, but I´m not going to tell my whole personal story and relationship to Japan here.
  • in Japan he is not known as "Hirohito", but as "Showa tenno";
  • around the world he is known as "Emperor Hirohito of Japan", even in academia. "Hirohito" would be a stark abbreviation, just like "Hitler", "Churchill", "Roosevelt", and "Mussolini".;
  • and the current heading is in violation of Wikipedia rules on naming monarchs.

i have just listed three basic criterias for renaming. you have stated above that the name would have to be "Emperor Hirohito of Japan", so would you be ok with that name? again, I am not trying to force something here, but you will have to agree that the current name cannot be. none of the other japanese emperors are listed that way either, no "Nintoku" or "Mutsuhito" either (who could possibly make sense of such name either, except history expert?) Bhinneka 29 June 2005 19:13 (UTC)

This is nothing personal. Can I ask references that back your claims? For example, Google shows "Emperor Hirohito of Japan" only 950 hits. I have seen many "Emperor Hirohito" but it is analogous to saying President Bush or Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Many Japanese emperor are named like Emperor Godaigo of Japan because Godaigo is not the personla name but a posthumous name the post while Hirohito is the name of a person. Also, showa is an era name. Thus, it would be very misleading to have names like Emperor Hirohito of Japan or Emperor Showa of Japan. Needless to say, other reference books use the name Hirohito not Emperor Hirohito or Emperor Showa or any variants. You do agree that Wikipedia should use generally accepted terms in academic and reference works, don't you. I am open to the discussion. It is just I need to see more convincing arguments. -- Taku June 30, 2005 01:13 (UTC)

[edit] Modular arithmetic

Maybe you should not rush to merge things again. I think you posted the merge template just today. You could wait a couple of days to see what other people have to say. Oleg Alexandrov 5 July 2005 03:36 (UTC)

Ok. I will make suggestion there. -- Taku July 5, 2005 03:42 (UTC)

[edit] Trigonometric identity

Taku, I think your contributions to that article need to be edited to conform to the Wikipedia style for formulas. I think you should know what I mean. :) Oleg Alexandrov 5 July 2005 16:02 (UTC)

Well, I didn't write that one. So what I can say. -- Taku 06:42, July 10, 2005 (UTC)
I meant this But I took care of it (I removed it). Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov 14:12, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Have you played Rise of Nations?

It's a really fun game. If you haven't, you're missing out!

[edit] Translation services

The Wikiquote article on Kill Bill, found [12], requires quite a bit of Japanese translation. I am also wary of some of the Japanese translations we already have.

You could either directly translate the English text into Japanese, or you could rent the Japanese edition of Kill Bill, and copy the words back into there. But, no matter how you do it, it would be greatly appreciated! ^ ^ - Gavin 19:24 UTC, July 20, 2005

[edit] wikiproject years

Hi, I've proposed updating the standards here. Your input would be appreciated.Trevor macinnis 19:41, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Years Survey

Hi. To get everybody thinking, I've created a survey about Year pages here. I'm telling all the participants of WikiProject Years and everyone else who has shown an interest or participated in the discussion. If you could check it out it would be appreciated, and tell anyone you think may be interested.Trevor macinnis 02:44, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Uesugi Norizane

You recently created the articel Uesugi Norizane. Please expand this articel a bit indicting why this person is significant or notable. I think that as it stands this is subject to deletion under WP:CSD A7, An article about a real person that does not assert signifiance or notability. Besides this is so shrt as to be of little help to the reader who doesn't know who this person is. You might also want to use {{bio-stub}} or one ofm its more specific stub-types instead of just {{stub}}. DES 21:53, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

That he was a kanto kanrei pretty much explains who he was. Of course, some may have never heard of the nation called United States of America. But other than expecting readers to have a bit of knowledge, I don't know how I can show he is significant. You might want to make some suggestions. Finally, stub works fine for me; if not for you, you can change it. -- Taku 22:04, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
Indeed some may not have heard of the United States of America. If an article writer provides a wiki-link as you and I both did, the ignorant reader can find out more. Similarly, if you provide a wiki-link about kanto kanrei, this ignorant reader can learn more.
If you visit WP:SSC you will find that the bare stub category is generally disfavored, and there is a whole list of avilable stub types. if you create a new stub with only the generic stub tag, you are creating extra work for others.
I am trying to be helpful here, not agressive. You doubtless know more about this person and his place in history than i do, please help me and others, instead of having the article go through a VfD or a speedy deletion. DES 22:24, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
I do certainly agree that we have to make sure each article says clearly how he or what he does or did is significant. But at the same time, as I said above, we have to make some assumptions on readers' knowledge. True, the article makes little sense to those who don't know what is kanto kanrei. But I think it is similar to say "George W. Bush is the president of US", we being expecting readers to know what is a president and what is US. I don't know why this time is different. Indeed, I started Glossary of Japanese history; this can be helpful in those unfamiliar with tons of terms in Japanese history.
As for stubs, I don't think all contributors in wikipedia have to agree on how to use them. Finally, I have no doubt on your good intent, but I am just talking about the practical consideration. -- Taku 22:59, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fujimura Shinichi

For my reply see the talkpage so that others can comment as well.

[edit] discussions ongoing to establish conventions in some eastern civilizations

hi I observed that you have contributed to the discussion about article headings for Japanese monarchs and royals. It seems that these weeks, there are attempts to standardize such issues at several spots. One example is whether to standardize Thai royal persons. Of course, Thai and Japanese are totally different, for example regarding the need of disambiguation etc, and should probably be as separate as Eastern are in relation to european royalty naming. I think Japanese naming and Thai naming could end up to different conventions, and that is good if there are sufficient reasons for that. However, discussions may give new ideas and/or give reinforcement and more arguments for existing reasoning. Would you see the arguments and "votes" at: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Thailand-related articles) and do you have any opinion? 217.140.193.123 09:56, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Atomic bombing

You've reverted five times over the edits of three independent editors. You're clearly violating WP:3RR (claiming the need for "consensus" is both not even justified in this instance, but also not a way to get around the 3RR. Go ahead and read the policy if you must). Knock it off or you'll get blocked for the day -- consider this a formal warning. --Fastfission 02:33, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
I don't think you are familiar with this issue. Please follow the past dialog in the talkpage. I am just trying to follow that. -- Taku 02:37, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Japan general election, 2005

While I understand that you may have a different perspective on the election as an interested Japanese citizen, your deletes of my edits on this page were rather brash and do not represent adherence to NPOV. Please revert to the previous version and discuss on the talk page. Aconnelly 05:53, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

I am not sure what edit you are referring to. But if you are saying that the personality of Koizumi is at stake, I just don't think that is the case. Of course, a foreign policy would be among issues in the election, but there has to be an appreciate way to mention that, especially not in the way this is a major issue. -- 09:33, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
I apologize-- I did not check your talk page, as I expected you would post comments on mine. I jsut realized that you had responded on your own page. Neverthless, I have posted a wattered-down version of my original edit on the JGE05 page. I hope that this version will meet with your approval. Please see my comments on the talk page for that article, and we can continue this colloquy there. Aconnelly 15:38, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Victory over Japan Day

はじめまして、こんにちは。Victory over Japan Dayの項について一つ意見があります。私が日本語版「対日戦勝記念日」を作成しました。記事名を「VJ day」と「対日戦勝記念日」（←英語版の直訳）のどちらにするか悩み、日本語版Wikipediaなので日本語の記事名にしました。それをTakuyaMurataさんが英語版に転記されたのでしょうけど（もしそうでなければ無視してください）、日本語において「対日戦勝記念日」という定訳があるわけではなく、私が便宜的に訳したものなので、英語版に記載する必要性は薄いと思います。手間をわずらわせて申し訳ないですが、対日戦勝記念日という語は削除が妥当だと思います。ご検討お願いします。--Mochi 15:35, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

ご指摘、ありがとうです。早速、記事の方に反映して参ります。推察の通り、こちらの記事は日本語版からきてます。-- Taku 23:10, August 14, 2005 (UTC)
編集、ありがとうございました。--Mochi 06:23, 15 August 2005 (UTC)


[edit] a wiki for nerds

Hi, I found you from the Jochen Liedtke page history. I think you are a nerd, just like me, so I thought you may be interested to learn that I have started an effort to create wikis for nerds (not related to Wikipedia nor Wikimedia). The idea is to create a wiki for maths, another one for computer science, et cetera. For this, i'm trying to recruit experienced wiki editors and sysops. If you would be interested in this effort, you can find the webaddress from my user page, or send me an email explaining in what kind of non-Wikimedia wiki you would be interested to work on (such as, maths, physics or whatever, so I can create it). If you aren't interested then you can just delete this comment. Thank you very much! Wikinerd 19:42, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese name explanation

Hi Taku, the explanation is at User:Fg2/Japanese names. It was vandalized so I blanked it for a while but now it should be ok. Fg2 01:38, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

No page is immune to vandalism, oh my. Anyway thanks. -- Taku 01:45, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thai MoS

Please visit Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Thailand-related articles)#Cast votes 217.140.193.123 10:52, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] shi/gun vs. county

I am confused by the explanations of shi/gun in Japanese addressing system which says:
"Unlike countries such as the US, cities belong directly to prefectures"

Then in Districts of Japan
"Cities, unlike counties in the US, belong directly to prefectures."

I assume that Districts of Japan has a typo? Counties in the US belong directly to states (pref). Maybe it should say:

"Cities, unlike cities in the US...

[edit] Hiroshima, Hiroshima

There's a discussion you might like to join at Talk:Hiroshima, Hiroshima, about whether it should be moved back to Hiroshima - apparently you moved the page to its current location after a previous move request ended in no consensus. sjorford (?!) 18:07, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese place naming conventions, specific questions

As there's been 49 kilobytes of discussion on the MoS (J) page without much progress or any willingness on the part of the editors of that page to have outside input, I thought I'd be better of asking you (as an actual resident of the country) some specific questions I have, rather than burying them there. I'm hope you don't mind humouring my ignorance on some of the specifics people have been arguing. I'll respond to other points on that page in a min.

  • Proportion of placenames that require disambiguation
It's been variously claimed that most placenames belong to multiple towns, are also surnames, or would cause other namespace clashes. Doing a deeply unscientific sample I see that only 1/13 cities actually has disambiguation, and the rest have redundant redirects. On ja.wikip almost all places seem to be at their root name with no disambiguation pages, the question is how many clashes stripping the 市/etc suffix and down-converting to the roman alphabet (and in some cases collapsing long vowels) is likely to cause. I'd suggest that names are not a good reason to require a dab page at root (see Kent, Brown, etc), but you're going to be able to make a far better estimate than me on this.
  • Reason for prefering Name, Prefecture to Name Designation
Even when the page was at Osaka, Osaka it began with 'Osaka City' (a reasonable partial translation of 大阪市), is there a reason the naming scheme prefers the US-style <city, state> format? When looking for info on a particular incident, I noticed 'Tokai' and 'Tokaimura' were used about equally, I have no idea if there are any kind of general standards for what a smaller place in Japan is called in English at all. Obviously wikipedia needs one, but especially for aticle titles it need not be 100% homogeneous - what matters is that readers can find what they're looking for.
  • Prefecture naming
Is there any good reason to enforce the use of 'Prefecture' on the regions that are not designated as 県? Tokyo has not been, but the manual of style currently insists that Hokkaido Prefecture should be used, which has been objected to several times. While the Prefectures of Japan article explains quite well, the MoS(J) seems to be suggesting a misleading naming convention.

Hope I'm not distracting you too much from an exciting election too much by making you explain things too me, :) --zippedmartin 23:17, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

I will make a quick response here. Please refer to MoS (J) page to have actual discussion. I am not quite responding there partly because I don't have a particular position (but will be trying to say something).
Anyway, here goes. In Japan, city names never collide, because of the law or the convention or whatever reason the government has. This is evident in a case like Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido. It was once Hiroshima before its status was promoted from town to city. Indeed, like ja wikipedia, we had <city> format before. We had adopted <place-name, pref> format as we (basically I) are creating an article for every single municipality. As you can see from List of cities in Japan by population, there is even a city of population of 5,396. So it made sense and the decision was, I think, uncontroversial. As for the case of Hokkaido, this is another issue, and I don't think there is much disagreement to change the wording in MoS(J).

-- Taku 00:57, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

Eehhe, I'm still only half way through typing my rely on the Mos(J) page, keep getting distracted. I asked here mainly because I felt I was maybe missing the point maybe on certain issues, or having not been involved in early discussion unaware of extraneous reasons. Oh, that list is an excellent example of an article where having the prefecture as well as the name is useful. I'd stick by my basic assertion that if you're creating redirects from common names, something is wrong. Anyway, you've basically answered the questions I had, so back to typing that MoS(J) reply... :D --zippedmartin 01:25, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] On mathematicians

Hi Taku. Thank you for adding mathematician biographies. And one request. It is good if you use the mathbiostub template instead of math-stub. Then, my bot will add that entry to the List of mathematicians instead of list of mathematical topics. By the way, if you fill in the nationality category (say Category:French mathematicians), and birth/death categories (say Category:1903 births), my bot will add that info to the list of mathematicians too. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov 23:39, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

I noticed your edit. I tried to add a nationality but in some case it was hard to determine it. I didn't want to venture to second-guess; say, if a person died in Paris, it doesn't certainly mean he is French. Anyway, at least I can promise I will try if I remember. -- Taku 23:45, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question about the Japanese title of a cartoon.

I managed to dig up among others a Japanese title (Arkadia Monogatari) for the show Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, and asked for help translating it into Japanese writing at the Language reference desk. And they did. However one person said I only had a partial title and that the full title for the show was Onigiri Arkadia Monogatari, おにぎり・アルカディア物語. However he also said that he could not confirm it since he did not understand Japanese :-/

A machine translation of Onigiri Arkadia Monogatari returns "Rice ball Arkadia story" (as in Onigiri I guess). So my question is basicaly can that be right? I mean there could be some dual meaning that get lost in translation, but the "Rice ball" thing seems very odd. My attempts at finding more info on Google have failed, so I figured since Japanese is your native language and you do translation work around here you might be eable to set the record straight. Thanks. --Sherool 14:37, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Operation Downfall

I have been looking at the talk page for Operation Downfall page on Wikipeda. The reason I happened to come across it is due to the fact that there was a request for comments. This means people that usually aren't editors of the page are invited to comment regarding chances so a consensus can be reached.

Although I came in somewhat late (no real substantial comments have been made in the past three weeks), I honestly agree with Raul that this should be in the article. Why? Simply because BOTH sides were spared enormous casualites because this operation was canceled. It does have an impact because it is causally tied to the bombings and Russia's declaration of war.

The better question is why do you persist on whitewashing history? Is it to save face in terms of the way World War II ended? If so, history can not be changed. I'm not trying to be rude, just blunt. Davidpdx 9/18/05 14:18 (UTC)

I don't think you are understanding my point, which I tried to make at the talkpage. Suffice it to say I have no agenda. Instead, I have a problem with how historical facts are presented. If after you read my comments you still believe there is an agenda. I am afraid I didn't do a good job of explaining myself. -- Taku 05:52, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
I have in fact read your comments and the comments of others a few times. The only issue I see that you are making is to the insertion of the comment that Operation Downfall was canceled due to the bombings and declaration of war by Russia. Is that a correct analysis? Davidpdx 9/29/05 7:26 (UTC)

No, no, I was arguing that we would be better off if we choose to stay away from putting the analysis on what caused Japan to surrender at the intro of the article. I don't think the analysis you said is utterly incorrect but not sure if every one shares the same view; some believe, I think, Russian invasion was needless, for example. Or, as I said in the talkpage, Japan's surrender followed not just these two but others as well like Okinawa and other strategic bombings. Is that an incorrect analysis, for example, that the operation was canceled due to the strategic bombings at big cities, which basically crippled Japan to continue the war meaningfully? Wouldn't it be less neutral (if not completely problematic) if we choose to cite some events and omit others? Also, I have no problem putting a detailed analysis on the connections between the operation and other historical events in the article. e.g., did people believe the bombing was the only way to avert the operation to mainland Japan? And Who did? It would be fascinating to know.

To clarify, as Raul said I don't think the wording unquestionably implies the causation but a change on wording might help lessen this implication. Am I answering any of your concern? I'm very glad that someone is looking into the issue. -- Taku 01:12, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, whether Russia would have invaded or not, I'm not sure. Certainly Russia stayed pretty neutral in terms of Japan, mainly because of the bigger threat, which was Germany. Once Germany was defeated, only then could Russia focus on Japan. I think the declaration of war itself was another blow to Japan in terms of it facing a large uphill battle. My belief is that Japan probably didn't welcome the Russian's involvement. It meant yet another large country (which was even closer in proximity to Japan) was going to be fighting them. I have to believe that there was some impact on Japan from Russia's war declaration.
In terms of the bombings, this is actually something I've studied for years. I think the Japanese truly thought the US and Britain were bluffing at Potsdam in terms of their warning. Why else would they have totally shrugged off such a harsh statement. My contention is, that when the bombs were dropped, that they were taken by total surprise at the destruction caused by them. In essence, I'm saying the Japanese were quite naive to simply think they were going to provail against the rest of the world.
You state in your analysis "that the operation was canceled due to the strategic bombings at big cities, which basically crippled Japan to continue the war meaningfully." Which I think is watering down the truth of what happened. I take your statement about the "strategic bombings" to mean the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I'm aware other cities were bombed as well, especially Tokyo.
I will admit it is blunt to state that the Japanese surrender was due to Russia's entrance to the war and the two atomic bombs, but this is in fact what happened. Many American's to this day (including myself) believe that the bombs (despite their brutality) ended the war sooner then it would have and saved both Japanese and American lives. I personally believe despite the loses at Okinawa, Guam, etc that Japan would have continued to fight on and would have NOT accepted any kind of surrender unless there was an invasion.
Honestly, that's my take on it. Davidpdx 9/30/05 6:31 (UTC)
First of all, I really can't be contesting on facts as I am not an expert on this topic. But what counts is not what I believe or what you believe. (e.g., I believe the bombing saved more lives than otherwise.) ; whether we agree on what led Japan to surrender, an wikipedia article has to be neutral on every issue. And so as everyone certainly agrees, wikipedia should not take one view over the other, no matter how much that view is close to the truth or widely accepted or we can refute the opposing one. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki now simply states, as it should do, accepted views rather than try to note what happened actually. You do agree that It is quite tricky to assess the effects of each historic event. It is a job of historians to try to figure this.
So I think what comes down in the end is how to reflect works of historians. This seems to be a contested point between me and Raul. He, (and I bet you as well), believe that it is important for us not to compromise a statement to make it more neutral. Quite rightly, to him, it is a compromise (water -downing the fact in your words) to omit the two most important events that played uncontested roles in Japan's surrender, as it is clearly logical to think the bombing and the invasion had "some" effect to convince the Japanese leadership to surrender.
I, on the other hand, am worried about neutrality (I know everyone else does too), and believe that to make the article more neutral we sometimes have to use wording that appears to water down the facts to some people. The problem, I already said in the talkpage, is that it does appear less neutral to be casual about the causations of Japan's surrender. I don't think you disagree that the Japanese public, if not everyone, doesn't believe the bombing was necessary to lead Japan to surrender. They are maybe naive to think like this. But if we do put a view that is not in line with what many people believe or maybe more accurately what they "want to" believe, it does make the article look less neutral to them. Maybe you are right that it is that the Japanese can't face the reality. Maybe they don't teach about why Japan surrendered because they have an "agenda" to, I don't know, bury historic facts. So this is a sort of case I don't think there is an agreement about what to do in wikipedia community. Hope this and some examples at the talkpage can help. -- Taku 05:59, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Please vote on list of lists, a featured list candidate

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[edit] Birthday!

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[edit] Style remark

Hi Taku. Just wanted to remind you that as per the math style manual, one should make variables italic. I changed that now at Lebesgue measure. Thank you for the examples. Enjoy wiki-ing! Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:13, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Positive linear functional

Hi Taku. You redirected this article to linear functional, but on that page the concept of positive linear functional is not explained. So the result is a loss of information. Besides, note that positive linear functionals are rather special, they occur only in C*-algebras, while linear functionals occur in any vector space. So I don't think the merger would be appropriate.

For now I reverted the redirect, and added a bit more information at positive linear functional. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 19:09, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

That's fine. I merged for the simple reason that there wasn't really much stuff in the article. Saying a positive linear functional is a linear functional that is positive really says nothing. Examples you put mitigated this problem. -- Taku 23:45, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Taku, it is not that simple as saying that a positive linear functional is a functional that is positive. That because a positive linear functional does not take positive values all the time (it is linear after all), it takes positive values only for positive elements, and a positive element is something nontrivial.
That is to say, that was a non-trivial and rather subtle definition, and it should have had its own articles, whether there were examples in there, or not. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:22, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
I didn't construct my previous post artfully. I understand the subtlety, but it didn't occur to me when I merged. I will try to make this more clear (that is what you just said), or you can do that too. -- Taku 02:56, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Be my guest. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:02, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Math markup

Taku, just a reminder. Math variables must be italic. I think it is good you fix that at simple function (I fixed your contributions last time, when I also told you about it). By leaving it the way it is you are just creating more work for others. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk)

I understand about the style. I always have. I guess wikipedia has changed; if leaving incomplete works is unwelcome, I think it's better not contribute. -- Taku 11:15, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Taku, you are very encouraged to contribute. But each article has to look good. Wikipedia is of course work in progress, but that should not be an excuse for knowingly sloppy work. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 20:16, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Maybe not exactly translation

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[edit] COTW

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[edit] Fuyu Yoshiaki Afd

[edit] AfD Nomination: Fuyu Yoshiaki

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[edit] Welcome!

Welcome!
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Hi, and welcome to the Countries WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of counties.


There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like:

  • Starting some new articles? See some model pages such as Cambodia!
  • Want to know how good our articles are? The assessment department is working on rating the quality of every country article in Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Shy1520 10:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Japanese city naming debate

Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles). --Polaron | Talk 08:48, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Koizumi manifesto.png

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[edit] proposed deletion of Container_object page

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[edit] WikiProject Former Countries

I would like to invite you back to WikiProject Former countries. You were previously a member of its former incarnation WP Historical States. The objective of this project is still to improve the content and accessibility of articles on former countries. A taskforce for the states of the Holy Roman Empire has also been started and the child project on Prussia has also been revived. This restart is still in its early days but it would be great to have you back. - 52 Pickup 18:50, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Nasa.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Active2

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Active2, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:Active2. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 18:18, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for assistance

The reason I am e-mailing you is that since like on Hokkaido Island is that you may be aware of the upcoming FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo. Click on the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships if you wish to provide additional information leading up to this event that is not already on there from a local prespective. There are other users who not from Japan who are interested in this. If you are not interested, can you please inform me of a user living in Japan who is interested in nordic skiing so I can ask for their assistance? I would greatly appreciate it. Chris 15:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Notability of Blue Eyed OS

A tag has been placed on Blue Eyed OS, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (below the existing db tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

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It was originally deleted due to not meeting notability requirements. Check the log pages. It still doesn't meet notability requirements, and likely never will. Hatch68 06:28, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome back!

Welcome back, Taku. Glad you're on Wikipedia again. Fg2 10:45, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Japan FA nomination

Given you have been editing the article, would you like to consider adding your support to it becoming a featured article? You can do so by leaving a vote here - Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Japan. By the way, I think you should archive your talk page. John Smith's 09:52, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your support. I mentioned on the page that the constitution was largely drafted by the Allies. John Smith's 12:21, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to trouble you but the FAC was closed prematurely. If you could vote again at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Japanthat would help a lot. Thanks, John Smith's 20:02, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Category:OpenHistory" proposed for deletion

A CfD has been called against Category:OpenHistory and most other "categories by source". (The categories are proposed for deletion, not the articles within them). If this category is useful to you, and you would prefer it not to be deleted, please comment at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_March_24#"By-source_categories". Jheald 15:57, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

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