Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Gappei

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In recent years, literally thousands of municipalities of Japan have merged, forming hundreds of new towns and cities. Wikipedia has an article on every city, town, village, district, and prefecture in Japan, thousands of which should be updated to reflect this merger activity. What is needed is:

  • For each city, town, village, district dissolved by merger:
    • Change to past tense
    • Mention merger, specifically what it merged into
    • (except districts) Add to Category:Dissolved municipalities of Japan (with sort key="Prefecture, Municipality") (do not delete from existing city/town/village category)
    • If towns/villages merge into existing city, update (increase) the city's population and size and density (and mention merger)
    • Update External Links section, point to merged municipality's website
  • For each city or town created by merger:
    • Add at least a stub, mentioning how/when it was formed ("founded on <date> from the merger of ....")
  • District article
    • Update population, size, and density if towns/villages merged into cities
    • Update list of towns and villages
    • Add or update section about mergers
  • Prefecture article
    • Update lists of cities, districts, towns, villages
    • Update municipality/district counts in infobox
    • Add or update section about mergers
  • Prefecture navigational template
    • Update lists of cities, districts
  • Prefectures of Japan
    • Update municipality/district counts in table
  • List of dissolved municipalities of Japan
    • Update
  • List of cities in Japan
    • Update (add new cities, delete dissolved cities, update population stats)
  • Disambiguation articles (find by What Links Here)
    • Update as appropriate
  • Miscellaneous other articles (find by What Links Here)
    • Update as appropriate


I have been systematically working through the prefectures making updates as above for many months (more than a year) and am only up to Miyazaki Prefecture.

The Japanese Wikipedia articles are generally up to date. Another source I've found that is generally up to date (and includes links to every municipality's web site) is http://www.watanabesato.co.jp/link/linkse/prefecturee.html.

Please help!

Rick Block (talk) 14:45, 20 April 2006 (UTC)


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