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Founded: 18 March 2006 (18 years, 2 months and 23 days ago) Articles: 92,113 (181 featured)
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Hi I’d appreciate some help from a native/fluent reader of Japanese. A number of new articles have been created recently that have appeared in the queue for New Pages Patrol, including Katō Yasutoki, Yamazaki clan, Takagi Masahira and Matsudaira Yorisato (there are many others). All of these articles are sourced to the same half dozen offline sources, for which no page numbers are provided. I’d like some assurance that these sources exist and actually cover the topics described, as I fear they may perhaps just be there for decorative purposes to validate an otherwise unsourced or poorly sourced translation from ja.wiki. Many thanks Mccapra (talk) 22:06, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

WP:TNT may apply because there is no clean version that isn't a copyvio and there is no original contribution. As for the books that are listed, they exist. I don't have quick access to their contents, but given that the Japanese-language article does not cite them, I have no reason to believe that they corroborate the places in the article where they are being applied. Dekimasuよ! 04:02, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply

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The second source cited is about Toyotomi Hideyoshi and there is no reason why a minor aristocrat from the 19th century would be discussed in a book on 16th-century Japan. This appears to be an attempt to mask the direct and/or machine translation as a cited article creation. Dekimasuよ! 04:09, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:ANI—a preventive and/or disruption block and copyvio deletions are in order. If you take this to ANI, please feel free to reference this section, and if further input from a Japanese speaker becomes necessary I can try to reply there later on. Best, Dekimasuよ! 04:18, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply

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@Dekimasu: thank you I’ll try and put together an ANI case tomorrow. Mccapra (talk) 21:37, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

WP:CSD#G5. However, if there turns out to be any meaningful objection to the block, please do take this to ANI. Best, Dekimasuよ! 22:16, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply

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@Dekimasu: oh great thank you. Mccapra (talk) 06:04, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Actually I’ve moved all their creations to draft. The topics are all certainly or plausibly notable but just lack sources. If another editor wants to tidy the translations, verify the use of Japanese text (I discovered Exam26 does not read Japanese) and provide decent sources, there’s no reason why those articles should not be in mainspace. Mccapra (talk) 07:11, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Cool, I might salvage those if I have my sanity, so I'm putting that to my user page when I'm free. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 09:44, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Amagasaki derailment#Requested move 28 April 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Wikiexplorationandhelping (talk) 22:59, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In a shocking turn of events, even though I redirected

Hazawa yokohama-kokudai Station. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 01:09, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply

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Finished ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 09:41, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Could someone reassess Taketoyo Line? I've tried my best to expand it to its potential but aren't sure if something is messed up or not. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 09:43, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yasuke, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. RomeshKubajali (talk) 23:17, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If anyone is in Kyoto and happens to visit the Kōdai-ji temple, a freely licensed photo of the android Mindar would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, gobonobo ^{+ c} 21:42, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Damn, I just went to Kyoto last Golden Week... ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 02:29, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting article. Although I can't go there to take pictures, I translated the article into Japanese and posted notices on several pages requesting images. Good luck 狄の用務員 (talk) 04:26, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you 狄の用務員. gobonobo ^{+ c} 15:46, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The family trees on articles relating to Japanese mythology are big mess.

• For starters I do not understand why we have 2 family trees at Jimmu.
• Family tree of Japanese monarchs and Family tree of Japanese deities are way too similar and the Family tree of Japanese monarchs has some people groups and clans that aren't even connected to the imperial family.
• Many of these family trees make it unclear whether or not they come from the Nihon shoki or Kojiki.
• Also some of these family trees just looks bad.

What do you guys thing? CycoMa1 (talk) 21:33, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I am aware that the first family tree at Jimmu is from the Kojiki. But the Consorts and children section still looks pretty bad. CycoMa1 (talk) 21:38, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@CycoMa1, it seems that the Japanese version of Jimmu has 2 trees as well. Might as just well leave it be. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 23:03, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did forget to mention but many of these family trees were created by

WP:DIS.CycoMa1 (talk) 23:11, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply

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I tried my darndest to try to make sure that the sources used in Puff-puff (Dragon Quest) are used accurately, but being that I ain't got Japanese knowledge, I can't guarantee that I didn't flub details. Would anyone be so kind as to check to see that I did? - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 22:04, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I checked the article's description against 10 Japanese sources.

As far as I could see, all the sentences that were sourced from the Japanese article were identified within the article from which they were sourced. There appears to be no contradictory descriptions in the article and the source.

In addition, all 10 sites are operated by companies with solid identities and appear to meet Wikipedia's criteria. 狄の用務員 (talk) 21:04, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 22:22, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It is not uncommon to see a pronunciation, usually the perceived "correct" foreign (i.e. "English") pronunciation shown in IPA as part of or alongside a brand name. E.g. ɛ̃fini, or Olympus μ [mju:] (as it should be written †). (There was a small section in the IPA article, sourced to a blog written by John Wells, who is an international authority on all things phonetical, but it was removed for some stupid WP:REASON. So not much help available.) But the Olympus article has ended up being called "Olympus mju", which is simply nonsense. I put a comment on the talk page 10 years ago, as a result of which nothing happened. What would be the best way to go about sorting this out?

† The parenthetic bit is there because I don't know how to include something ending in ']' in a link.

Imaginatorium (talk) 08:16, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]