Talk:Japanese nationalist thinking in the Meiji era

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[edit] Copyediting needed

This article has been created using a very poor machine translation. I just have tried to "copyedit" it, but there is more here than any copyediting might accomplish: the syntax is a mess -- the meanings are completely garbled. The article needs to be entirely rewritten, by someone well-acquainted with the history rather than simply by someone who knows English and editing well.

This said, the article could be a very interesting one. It clearly is intended to answer a very interesting and increasingly-important question, about the origins of nationalist thinking which has caused problems for Japan in its past and may be resurgent again today.

So, although the article makes almost no sense in English, in its present syntactical form, instead of simply deleting it I am going to find some sort of warning template -- in addition to the copyedit template -- and put it in at the top and hope that somebody will take the trouble to do a rewrite. I'd like very much to read the rewrite myself, as the topic to me seems very timely and interesting.

--Kessler 16:53, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

You assert 'machine translation'. But you are wrong about that. See User:Charles Matthews/Imperial Japan for the full story. By all means add clean-up tags. That's what should be done in these cases. Charles Matthews 18:18, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

I cleaned up the first half of the article, except for two places which I couldn't decipher... Can the original author offer me some insight please. Thank you. MCM 01:59, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

I added the NPOV tag. User:Reader72 takes his "inspiration" from Japanese extreme-right webpages. Not only do we have to correct his obfuscated English, he also believes everything that is written on these pages and dumps it on Wikipedia. Of course we need an article on nationalism in Meiji Japan, but the only way to save this one here is delete and complete rewrite. -- Mkill 23:24, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

My impression is that this is anti-right. I find it more damning than praiseful in its overall thrust. Or is that my mistaken impression?

Bathrobe 14:16, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tokugawa Yoshinobu info

I know I'm a newbie, but didn't Tokugawa Yoshinobu resign his post as shogun and accecpt the Restoration without too much of a fuss? And I think there are several other factual problems with this article. Tell me if I'm wrong please. MCM 01:35, 4 August 2006 (UTC)