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WikiProject Japan (Talk)

Founded
2006-03-18

Shortcuts
WP:JA • WP:JP • WP:JPN • WP:WPJ • WP:Japan • WP:JAPAN
Task forces
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↔ = joint task force

Project links
Category • Deletions • List • Japan • Meta • MOS-AM • MOS-JA • New articles • Notice board • Portal (Tokyo • Osaka)

Descendant project links
Anime and manga/Collaboration (Dragon Ball, Yu-Gi-Oh!) • Entertainment (Hello! Project, Tokusatsu) • Games (Digimon, Final Fantasy, Nintendo, PlayStation, Pokémon/PAC/Portal, Square Enix, Zelda) • Japan (Bibliography, Trains/New)

Project parentage
Countries, Geography

Welcome to WikiProject Japan, a WikiProject set up to better organize and present information in all articles related to Japan. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians to improve all Japan-related articles in order to make Wikipedia an excellent resource for Japan-related information for all who visit. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

[edit] Scope and goals

This project is designed to help those interested in improving all of the Japan-related articles on Wikipedia to find a particular area in which they are interested in working. As "Japan" is a broad subject, there are many taskforces and collaborations in which you can participate. We want to:

  1. Allow people to more easily locate groups working on Japan-related WikiProjects
  2. Create a body of articles that accurately depicts the history and culture of Japan and the Japanese
  3. Expand the number of articles regarding Japan and Japanese subjects
  4. Further #3 by expanding all Japan-related article stubs
  5. Highlight Japan's relationship and contributions to the rest of the world
  6. Properly source all Japan-related articles, preferably using the <ref> element and the {{cite}} series of templates
  7. Standardize the style and format of articles on Japan or Japanese subjects; and
  8. Standardize the use of Japanese-language terms, names, and translations into English across all related articles, bringing them in line with the WP:MOS-JA.
  9. Patrol recent changes to existing Japan-related articles for vandalism and poor-quality edits, and correct them to maintain the articles.

Contents


[edit] To-do items

Please "Be Bold!" and help us out. There are plenty of things to do in the lists below, including the creation of brand new articles. Please list all Japan-related Good and Featured Articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/FAC.

[edit] New articles

You can manually list articles you have created or found at Template:Newest Japan-related articles#Manually maintained list.

[edit] FAC and FAR requests

Editors of Japan-related articles are encouraged to involve the community by listing Featured article candidates and Featured article review requests here. Please list the newest at the top.

Listed Article FAC/FAR Result Completed
2008-04-06 1995 Japanese Grand Prix (Talk) FAC Not promoted May 17, 2008
2008-03-10 Flag of Japan (Talk) FAC Not promoted March 22, 2008
2008-01-23 Manga (Talk) FAC Not promoted February 1, 2008
2008-01-20 Gifu, Gifu (Talk) FAC Not promoted February 3, 2008
2007-10-18 Japan Airlines (Talk) FAC Not promoted October 23, 2007
2007-10-13 Tōru Takemitsu (Talk) FAC Promoted December 7, 2007
2007-10-07 Branded to Kill (Talk) FAC Promoted November 4, 2007
2007-09-08 Battle for Henderson Field (Talk) FAC Promoted September 17, 2007
2007-09-08 Heian Palace (Talk) FAC Promoted September 24, 2007
2007-08-28 The Rape of Nanking (book) (Talk) FAC Not promoted September 3, 2007
2007-08-22 Mana (series) (Talk) FAC Not promoted September 29, 2007
2007-08-16 Manzanar (Talk) FAC Promoted September 17, 2007
2007-08-07 Aikido (Talk) FAC August 30, 2007
2007-07-29 Mazie Hirono (Talk) FAC Not promoted August 3, 2007
2007-07-18 Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision (Talk) FAC   July 25, 2007
2007-06-06 Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident (Talk) FAC   July 16, 2007
2007-05-02 Ayumi Hamasaki (Talk) FAC Not promoted   May 7, 2006
2007-03-26 Japan (Talk) FAC 2007-04-12
2007-03-10 Japan (Talk) FAC Restarted  2007-03-26 
2007-02-19 Aikido (Talk) FAC Not promoted  2007-03-20 
2007-01-17 List of RahXephon media (Talk) FLC 2007-02-02
2006-12-27 Serial Experiments Lain (Talk) FAC 2006-12-31
2006-12-23 Battle of Leyte Gulf (Talk) FAR 25 January 2007
2006-12-10 Kitsune (Talk) FAC 2006-12-16
2006-10-21 Boshin War (Talk) FAC 2006-11-02


[edit] Peer review requests

Editors of Japan-related articles are encouraged to involve the community by listing peer review requests here. This list is for telling the community that you have (or someone has) already submitted an article for Peer Review. Before you list an article here, submit it for Peer Review. To do that, go to Wikipedia:Peer review and follow the nomination procedure there.

Date listed Article PR link Result Date completed
2008-06-03 Alien registration card (Talk) PR    
2008-06-03 Japanese alias (Talk) PR    
2008-05-29 Shigeru Miyamoto (Talk) PR    
2008-04-11 Hatamoto (Talk) PR   April 26, 2008
2008-04-10 Posting system (Talk) PR GA April 15, 2005
2008-04-04 Ayumi Hamasaki (Talk) PR   April 19, 2008
2008-03-30 Tokyo Tower (Talk) PR   April 14, 2008
2008-03-07 Sanja Matsuri (Talk) PR   March 22, 2008
2008-01-11 Flag of Japan (Talk) PR FAC March 11, 2008
2008-01-11 Gifu, Gifu (Talk) PR FAC January 20, 2008
2007-12-15 Anglo-Japanese alliance (talk) PR    
2007-12-15 The Rape of Nanking (book) (Talk) PR    
2007-07-16 Manzanar (Talk) PR FAC August 16, 2007
2007-10-13 Takeshi Kawamura (Talk) PR    
2007-10-02 Kobe (Talk) PR    
2007-09-26 Kunichika (Talk) PR   October 25, 2007
2007-08-04 The Rape of Nanking (book) (Talk) PR FAC  
2007-07-16 Manzanar (Talk) PR FAC August 16, 2007
2007-06-27 Diet_of_Japan (Talk:Diet of Japan) PR    
2007-06-24 Tōru Takemitsu (Talk) PR    
2007-06-14 Kondō Isami (Talk) PR    
2007-06-13 Yuji Ide (Talk) PR    
2007-06-12 Taiwan under Japanese rule (Talk) PR    
2007-05-08 Heian Palace (Talk) PR   June 8, 2007
2007-03-29 Nick Baker (prisoner in Japan) (Talk) PR    
2007-03-21 Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598) (Talk) PR    
2007-03-12 Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū (Talk) PR    
2007-02-26 Morning Musume (Talk) PR    
2007-02-12 Japanese castle (Talk) PR    
2007-02-03 Ami Mizuno (Talk) PR    
2007-01-17 List of The Big O media (Talk) PR    
2007-01-16 Charter Oath (Talk) PR    
2007-01-16 Ikata, Ehime (Talk) PR    
2007-01-07 Velfarre (Talk) PR    
2007-01-05 RahXephon (Talk) PR A 2007-01-20
2006-12-28 Kumi Koda (Talk) PR    
2006-12-24 Okinotorishima (Talk) PR    
2006-12-16 Azumanga Daioh (Talk) PR   2006-12-18
2006-12-09 Yoshiaki Omura (Talk) PR   2006-12-10
2006-11-04 Minamata disease (Talk) PR   2006-11-12
2006-07-07 Hideki Noda (Talk) PR   2006-07-07
2006-07-06 Boogiepop series (Talk) PR GA 2006-07-28
2006-06-03 Neon Genesis Evangelion (Talk) PR   2006-08-13
2006-04-30 Nerima Daikon Brothers (Talk) PR   2006-05-01
2006-03-26 Matsuo Bashō (Talk) PR GA 2006-06-24
2005-09-15 Sendai (Talk) PR   2006-10-30

[edit] Former FAC

These are mostly well written articles that need a little improvement in order to become FA quality.


[edit] Projects

These are big tasks that require a lot of work from a lot of people helping out in order to improve something. Feel free to jump right in and help with any of them. We always welcome more help!

  1. Education in Japan needs some major reworking to make it a better article overall. (in particular recent reforms in laws)
  2. Gaijin was recently cleaned up and is now a big mess again.
  3. Rick Block requests help updating articles due to Gappei. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Gappei.
  4. LordAmeth would like to enlist everyone's help in converting all articles, both in title and in context, to properly macronned form.
  5. Japanese people is horribly substandard for a top-importance article and garnered 22 votes at ARCAID. Please help fix this oft-linked page. Most importantly, it needs to be synched with Demographics of Japan and to contain an explanation of burakumin.
  6. Kansai region compared to the Tohoku region, Kansai related articles are systematically sub-standard and have articles of towns and cities missing.
  7. Dozens of pages shown at Special:Allpages/Japan and Special:Allpages/Japanese lack WikiProject Japan tags and assessments.
  8. Shinzo Abe and Yasuo Fukuda's Cabinet Members needs more info added in regards to biography and previous positions. One place to start would be Masahiko Kōmura

[edit] Cleanup tasks

These are anything smaller or more specific than projects and anything that individuals can work on.

  1. Various articles on historic people, especially the new articles
  2. Omoiyari Yosan This article is in Engrish, I would clean it up myself if I knew what it supposedly is saying.
  3. The Tale of the Heike is in need of expansion.
  4. Sesshū Tōyō also needs expansion.

You can also work on files listed on Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Japan.

  1. expand Girls with guns to be inclusive of Japanese media as well-currently written from a single perspective, while Japan has a long tradition of such.

[edit] Requested moves and merges


The following are from WP:RM:

[edit] Disambiguation

The following are from User:RussBot/DPL:
  1. Japanese: 386 links
  2. Hitachi: 143 links
  3. Chiba: 114 links
  4. Sasebo: 114 links
  5. Jiu jitsu: 97 links
  6. Kamakura: 90 links
  7. Saitama: 68 links
  8. Kobudō: 65 links
  9. Aomori: 63 links
  10. Fujiwara: 59 links
  11. Kanazawa: 59 links
  12. JP: 57 links
  13. Kiyosato: 56 links
  14. Ōita: 50 links
Others
  1. Many disambiguation pages for Japanese names have incoming links which need to be aimed at the correct articles. Examples include: Tokugawa, Akira, Takeda.
  2. Many Japanese place names also need to be disambiguated for prefectures, cities and towns, and old provinces and domains. Examples include: Chōshū, Satsuma, Kanagawa and Kawasaki.

[edit] Pages marked for deletion

Japan-related articles for deletion are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Japan. Please go and express your opinion regarding any articles listed there.

[edit] Stubs

You can find a list of all Japan-related stub categories on the Category talk:Japan stubs page. All of the articles on the main Category:Japan stubs page need to be sorted into these more specific categories while they are stubs (last performed on July 29th, 2006). Of course, you can also expand the stubs in such a way as to make them no longer stubs. If none of the existing stubs apply, please use {{Japan-stub}}.

If you want to make a new stub for a particular category, please note that all stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will probably be deleted. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on creating stub templates and categories.

[edit] Requests

The articles on these pages need to be created (or pointed to existing articles under slightly different names). You can also add requests to one of these pages. If you aren't sure which page to add your request to, please ask on the talk page.

[edit] Requested photographs in Japan

[edit] Requested interwiki links

[edit] Proposed new or updated articles

List any Japan-related articles on which you are working that aren't quite ready for prime time, or proposed replacements or updates for currently existing articles. This will allow an informal peer review of sorts by anyone interested in the particular topic, thereby helping Wikipedia to become better.r

  • Not totally sure if this is the place for listing any new articles but ive started a stubby on Shigeo Hirose which could do with some attention from anyone with some knowledge/experience of his work/robotics technology and industry in general. siarach 01:16, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
  • 1955 System and San Francisco System - terms coined by John Dower to describe the two overarching systems of forces which govern Japanese post-war history.
For the former, see ja:55年体制 (widely used term in Japanese) Fg2 21:15, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Motojiro Kajii (Dead bodies are buried under the cherry trees!), just updated from stub-class to B-class -- 62.147.39.131 01:38, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Kumiko Kato:New (Talk:Kumiko Kato). I was going to start this article, but never did due to a lack of sources. However, I noticed that someone made a stub which wasn't very good, so I took it upon myself to improve it, however slightly. Unfortunately my only source was an archive of this artist's now defunct homepage. It would be nice if anyone with sources could share them, and maybe help improve the article. izalithium 06:53, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Amy Yamada:really stubby stub (Talk:Amy Yamada). I started this article about the contemporary Japanese author a while ago, but haven't been as successful in expanding it as I had hoped. Any contributions are welcome and I would love to have a picture to put in the infobox... Thanks! -Sarfa 18:25, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Article assessment

Japan articles
Quality
Featured article FA 71
A 7
Good article GA 28
B 620
Start 3717
Stub 7661
List 183
NA 127
Unassessed 3555
Total tagged: 15,969
Importance
Top 65
High 334
Mid 507
Low 1287
Unassessed 12,925

Any member of WikiProject Japan may assess Japan-related articles by following the guidelines below. If you aren't sure about an article, ask about it on the assessment page.

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If a rating is not assigned, the article will be filed in Category:Unassessed Japan-related articles. The class should be assigned according to the grading scheme. A list of Unassessed and In dispute articles can be discussed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Assess.

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Article importance grading scheme
Label Criteria Examples
Top Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopedia. High probability that non-Japanophiles would look this up. Must have had a large impact outside of Japan and be known in the majority of the world. For example, Sudoku is very popular worldwide and known in most of the world. No member should give this rating to any article without first getting Project approval from the other members. Sudoku
High Subject contributes a depth of knowledge to the encyclopedia. Must have had a large impact in Japan, and had some impact outside Japan. Fundamental Law of Education
Mid Subject fills in more minor details, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic. Important in Japan, but not necessarily known as well outside of Japan. Cuteness in Japanese culture
Low Subject is peripheral knowledge, possibly trivial. Don Tacos

[edit] Top importance articles → FA

Please consider working on the Top importance articles in the chart below in order to bring them to Featured Article quality. The chart shows the current status of these articles (listed alphabetically by how close they are to reaching FA status), and there's plenty to work on.

Please jump right in and help us out by indicating in the chart which ones you want to work on (and then working on them, of course).


Article title Current status Completed Who is working on it?
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Talk) A  
Japanese art (Talk) A   日本穣
Junichiro Koizumi (Talk) A  
Hirohito (Talk) Good article GA  
Shinzo Abe (Talk) B  
Anime (Talk) B  
Demographics of Japan (Talk) B  
Economy of Japan (Talk) B  
Education in Japan (Talk) B  
Empire of Japan (Talk) B  
Fukuoka, Fukuoka (Talk) B  
Geisha (Talk) B   MightyAtom
Geography of Japan (Talk) B  
History of Japan (Talk) B   Black_Lupin
Hokusai (Talk) B   Marrio
Japan Self-Defense Forces (Talk) B  
Japanese castle (Talk) B  
Japanese cuisine (Talk) B  
Japanese language (Talk) B  
Japanese literature (Talk) B  
Japanese poetry (Talk) B  
Kabuki (Talk) B  
Karaoke (Talk) B  
Kimono (Talk) B  
Kitakyushu (Talk) B  
Kobe (Talk) B   Exitmoose
Akira Kurosawa (Talk) B  
Kyoto (Talk) B  
Manga (Talk) B  
Music of Japan (Talk) B  
Osaka (Talk) B  
Religion in Japan (Talk) B  
Samurai (Talk) B  
Sendai (Talk) B  
Senkaku Islands (Talk) B  
Shogun (Talk) B  
Sushi (Talk) B  
The Tale of Genji (Talk) B  
Tokyo (Talk) B  
Toyota (Talk) B  
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Talk) B  
Chiba, Chiba (Talk) Start  
Culture of Japan (Talk) Start  
Foreign policy of Japan (Talk) Start  
Government of Japan (Talk) Start  
Hiroshima (Talk) Start   日本穣,
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Talk) Start   日本穣,
Japanese people (Talk) Start   Dekimasu
Kawasaki, Kanagawa (Talk) Start  
Meiji Restoration (Talk) Start   Monocrat
Ministry of Defense (Japan) (Talk) Start  
Nagoya (Talk) Start  
Noh (Talk) Start  
Politics of Japan (Talk) Start  
Saitama, Saitama (Talk) Start  
Sakai, Osaka (Talk) Start   Dekimasu
Sapporo (Talk) Start  
Shizuoka, Shizuoka (Talk) Start  
Yasuo Fukuda (Talk) Start  
Yokohama (Talk) Start  


[edit] Recognized content

Featured articles Good articles Did You Know? (DYK)
—alphabetically—
  1. Image:LinkFA-star.png Actions along the Matanikau
  2. Image:LinkFA-star.png Adolfo Farsari
  3. Image:LinkFA-star.png Aikido
  4. Image:LinkFA-star.png Axis naval activity in Australian waters
  5. Image:LinkFA-star.png Battle for Henderson Field
  6. Image:LinkFA-star.png Battle of Cape Esperance
  7. Image:LinkFA-star.png Battle of Edson's Ridge
  8. Image:LinkFA-star.png Battle of Rennell Island
  9. Image:LinkFA-star.png Battle of Savo Island
  10. Image:LinkFA-star.png Battle of Tassafaronga
  11. Image:LinkFA-star.png Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo
  12. Image:LinkFA-star.png Battle of the Eastern Solomons
  13. Image:LinkFA-star.png Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
  14. Image:LinkFA-star.png Battle of the Tenaru
  15. Image:LinkFA-star.png Boshin War
  16. Image:LinkFA-star.png Branded to Kill
  17. Image:LinkFA-star.png Carlson's patrol
  18. Image:LinkFA-star.png Comet Hyakutake
  19. Image:LinkFA-star.png Defense of Sihang Warehouse
  20. Image:LinkFA-star.png Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision
  21. Image:LinkFA-star.png Felice Beato
  22. Image:LinkFA-star.png Hasekura Tsunenaga
  23. Image:LinkFA-star.png Heian Palace
  24. Image:LinkFA-star.png History of Buddhism
  25. Image:LinkFA-star.png Imperial Japanese Navy
  26. Image:LinkFA-star.png Invasion of Tulagi (May 1942)
  27. Image:LinkFA-star.png Japan
  28. Image:LinkFA-star.png Koli Point action
  29. Image:LinkFA-star.png Kimi ga Yo (Featured Sound)
  30. Image:LinkFA-star.png Kitsune
  31. Image:LinkFA-star.png Krill
  32. Image:LinkFA-star.png Manzanar
  33. Image:LinkFA-star.png Matanikau Offensive
  34. Image:LinkFA-star.png Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident
  35. Image:LinkFA-star.png Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
  36. Image:LinkFA-star.png Operation Downfall
  37. Image:LinkFA-star.png Operation Ten-Go
  38. Image:LinkFA-star.png Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi
  39. Image:LinkFA-star.png Pierre Rossier
  40. Image:LinkFA-star.png Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
  41. Image:LinkFA-star.png Ran (film)
  42. Image:LinkFA-star.png Sino-German cooperation (1911–1941)
  43. Image:LinkFA-star.png Toilets in Japan
  44. Image:LinkFA-star.png Tōru Takemitsu
  45. Image:LinkFA-star.png USS Missouri (BB-63)

—peripherally related—

  1. Image:LinkFA-star.png Humpback Whale
  2. Image:LinkFA-star.png Orca
  3. Image:LinkFA-star.png Right whale
  4. Image:LinkFA-star.png Sei Whale
  5. Image:LinkFA-star.png Shrimp farm
  6. Image:LinkFA-star.png Taiwanese Aborigines

See also FA anime articles

 —alphabetically—
  1. Good article Asama-Sanso incident
  2. Good article Botan Doro
  3. Good article Charter Oath
  4. Good article Curse of the Colonel
  5. Good article Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu
  6. Good article Diet of Japan
  7. Good article Flag of Japan
  8. Good article Fujiwara no Teika
  9. Good article Gifu, Gifu
  10. Good article Hiroh Kikai
  11. Good article Hirohito
  12. Good article Ikata, Ehime
  13. Good article Japanese grammar
  14. Good article Japanese war crimes
  15. Good article Kano Jigoro
  16. Good article Kigo
  17. Good article Kimi ga Yo
  18. Good article Manzanar
  19. Good article Matsuo Bashō
  20. Good article Posting system
  21. Good article Sakurajima
  22. Good article Shigin
  23. Good article Shogun
  24. Good article Tetsuji Takechi
  25. Good article Tsunami
  26. Good article Yotsuya Kaidan
  27. Good article X Japan

See also GA anime articles

 —chronologically—


[edit] Resources

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[edit] Templates

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[edit] Barnsensu

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  1. To award this to an editor, place the following on their talk page: {{WPJ-Barnsensu|1=Your message to the recipient. ~~~~}}
  2. In general, you shouldn't award this to someone who has awarded it to you (in order to avoid any appearance of quid pro quo).
  3. After awarding this to an editor, please make an entry on Barnsensu recipients page.

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