User talk:Fg2/Archive02
Image:HosokawaGyobuTei.jpgI believe the title and caption of this photo to be in error ( found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumamoto ). It is in fact a photo of Suizenji-Jojuen. Compare the image you posted to images on the following pages. Suizenji Park: Note the left-hand photo in the second row of photos. http://www.uchiyama.info/oriori/kanri/toukou/suizenji/ This is an overhead diagram of kyuu-hosokawa-gyoubutei: notice the lack of ponds and big rocks. http://kumamoto.e-machi.ne.jp/sh/gyoubu/mitori.html You took the photo so I thought I'd be courteous and give you the opportunity to make the correction yourself rather than "boldly edit" what you've posted.
Done. Suizenji is considered one of the finest examples of Japanese gardens. I can personally attest to the trim job on the top of "Mt. Fuji". :P Spitzfan 15:45, 19 February 2006 (UTC) Image:Hakodate.jpgImage:Hakodate.jpg's licence has been changed from GFDL to PD by User:61.117.10.244. Is this IP yours? --Miya 13:50, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
RFMI know you're fed up talking about it so I haven't formally included you in it. You can participate if you like but I'll keep trucking either way (at least for a couple more weeks.) WP:RFM freshgavinΓΛĿЌ 01:44, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
You might find this tidbit interesting: Wikipedia:Requests_for_CheckUser#Fg2_.28talk_.E2.80.A2_contribs.29_and_Freshgavin_.28talk_.E2.80.A2_contribs.29. I never realized the similarities! freshgavinΓΛĿЌ 14:52, 22 February 2006 (UTC) National highwaysI've seen various terms used - "national highway X", "national route X", "national highway route X" and "route X". Do you happen to know what, if anything, the agency that oversees the routes calls them in English? In a similar case, state highways in New Jersey, the Department of Transportation uses "Route X" while they are officially "state highway Route X". --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 07:51, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
CongratulationsGreetings ! I just happened to find your page (via Yabusame) and I wanted to congratulate you for your whole photographic work. We have relatively few photographer, so they are precious; and very few of your talent. Thank you ! Rama 10:50, 21 February 2006 (UTC) Thank *you* for getting it started. Elf | Talk 20:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC) Page marked for deletionFg2, the page that you have created, Ike Taiga, has been marked for speedy deletion because it does not meet the requirments of WP:BIO. If you can, please add or revise this article. Reply: Page marked for deletionFg2: I simply quote from WP:BIO: People who have been deceased for some time pose the simplest question, because history is usually clear about the nature and extent of their importance. With historical perspective, there is less controversy about the facts of their contribution. The basic test in this case is: * Has the person made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in the specific field? I do not belive that this person has. EDIT: Oops. I shouldn't have made it a speedy deletion. I have changed it to a regular prod. Recon0 22:23, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Uh...hi...gotta go!!~~ I noticed that you tagged the page Image:Toshodaiji.jpg for speedy deletion with the reason "Same photo now available on Commons". However, "Same photo now available on Commons" is not currently one of our criteria for speedy deletion, so I have removed the speedy deletion tag. You can use one of our other deletion processes, proposed deletion or articles for deletion if you still want the article to be deleted. For images that are now on Commons, use {{nowCommons|imagename on commons}} or {{NCT}} if the name on Commons is still the same. Thanks! Stifle 11:27, 16 March 2006 (UTC) List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo termsThe English term "chuck" [1] is not related to "zipper" [2], while the Japanese term "chakku" [3] is a trademark derived from the Japanese term "kinchaku" [4]. —Tokek 01:51, 17 March 2006 (UTC) Peer review comments replyHi Fg2, I replied to your comments on Wikipedia:Peer review/Girolamo Savonarola/list of film formats/archive1, but haven't received a response back from you yet and was wondering if you wouldn't mind continuing the critique. Many thanks! Girolamo Savonarola 16:40, 20 March 2006 (UTC) Hepburn 'm'Thanks for reminding me about what the WP:MOS-JA says about Hepburn ん -> 'm'. Could you direct me to where in the archives I might find the discussion that led to that guideline? Regards, Dforest 15:31, 21 March 2006 (UTC) Invitation to Wikipedia:WikiProject JapanHey, Fg2. (^_^) As you are active in editing Japan-related topics, I thought you might be interesting in helping out with our new WikiProject (you've already posted there a couple times). We'd love to be able to tap into any particular expertise you may have in order to improve Japan-related articles here on Wikipedia. We look forward to working with you. (^_^) --日本穣 06:12, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
WikiProject Trains in JapanHello Fg2. I see you've made a lot of great edits to articles on Japanese railways. I have proposed the creation of WikiProject Trains in Japan to improve the quality and visibility of such articles. If you're interested, please take a look at the proposal. I hope you can join! Thank you. - Tangotango 08:16, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
New ArticlesHey Fg2, thanks for always finding new Japan-related articles. Can you please consider adding train-related articles to the Template:Newest articles about trains in Japan template as well? I know this cross-posting and synchronization is annoying, but unfortunately this is the only way we can keep Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains in Japan updated :) Thanks. - Tangotango 12:05, 2 April 2006 (UTC) RequestHi Fg2, My name is Fernanda Viégas and I have been studying Wikipedia for a while now (you can see a paper I published on the subject here). I would like to ask you a few questions about your activities as a Wikipedia image creator. I am fascinated by the pictorial side of Wikipedia and it would be great to hear about this community from one of its members. Would you be available to participate an email survey this week? Thanks, — Fviegas | talk
Photo opportunityHi! My name's Aidan Grey, and I work for a travel website (http://www.homeandabroad.com). Since you've supplied a lot of the photos for Japan, I wonder if you'd be interested, or know someone who might, in taking photos of specific sites in Tokyo for us. You can email me at [email protected] for more details. Sorry I put this here - I wasn't sure where else to put it, to get in touch with you. thanksHi - Thanks for fixing the name in the Ayagawa, Kagawa stub. I guess it's obvious which stub I used as a model! -- Rick Block (talk) 14:12, 18 April 2006 (UTC) For your information,
Best wishes, David Kernow 09:42, 21 April 2006 (UTC) Chichibu-Tama National ParkHi Nihonjoe, I was on the verge of moving the article to exactly the title you selected (putting Kai on an equal footing with Chichibu and Tama) but noticed that the Ministry of the Environment link has just Chichibu-Tama (no Kai).
Fg2 04:19, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Tōhoku station awardsNice addition -- I totally skipped everything but the history section when I copied those articles. Are you planning on copying the lists from ja:東北の駅百選 and the other regions into the English wikipedia? Neier 12:07, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
DYK--Cactus.man ✍ 21:41, 4 May 2006 (UTC) link to matsuri imageI have linked to it from my userpage (very few are doing this).
However i can not include every nice picture.
PD-selfSince you have well pointed out that Image:TofukujiGarden1.jpg is your own work, I changed the tag from "PD" to "PF-self" and hope that you will find that appropriate. // Habj 00:13, 14 May 2006 (UTC) Hi, you removed the {{prod}} tag from this article. I put the article up on WP:AFD here. Since you have an interest in the article I thought I'd let you know. Garion96 (talk) 12:27, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Japan Collaboration: JapanIn March, you wrote on the talk page that you nominated the article to collaboration. I can not see that you actually did it on the collaboration page, though. I see that it was a featured article candidate, and failed. Are you still interested in pursuing the collaboration on Japan, or does it belong to the past tense? I know that collaboration idea looks pretty dead, but you never know unless you try. // Habj 23:44, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Hmmm. Since the link to the Collaboration article is on the talk of articles, in the "Project" template, I guess some people might find their way there... I'll make a try. A good reason for me also to make an effort to get a book and make something from it. // Habj 17:48, 4 June 2006 (UTC) Azuchi-Momoyama periodI have two questions about your edit of the opening paragraph of this article. First, insofar as the romaji shown after the Kanji is there to indicate the Japanese pronunciation, wouldn't it be preferable not to capitalize?
Second, would you object if I reverted your word choice of "culminated in the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate" back to my original "led to the establishment of?" It seems a little like saying that the Nazi invasion of France culminated in the establishment of the Vichy government, if you see my point.
Spventi 08:09, 3 June 2006 (UTC) OK. I'll give it some more thought, too, before doing anything. Thanks. Spventi 00:42, 4 June 2006 (UTC) your castle photographies...do you have them online in archive form, or can you make them available in this form easily? i would be interested to have them on my computer hard disk. Yy-bo 18:09, 4 June 2006 (UTC) Thanks for the reply. When meeting it in the 1st instance, matsuri has been explained to me; being a festival. It has taken me a while to get an understanding of it. The japanese subjects are definetively not always obvious to the western people. User:Yy-bo 20:08, 14 September 2006 (UTC) Miyamoto MusashiHi JHunterJ, Please note that both dates given for Miyamoto Musashi are death dates. May 19 (or as I wrote the 19th day of the fifth month) is his death date by the traditional calendar and June 13 is his death date according to the Julian calendar. His year and date of birth are unknown. So I ask you to revert to the version as I entered it. As I noted in the edit summary, the information came from the Japanese Wikipedia, which you can check for confirmation. Thanks Fg2 15:43, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Lake NojiriThanks for creating Lake Nojiri. (^_^) ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 23:25, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
FAC roomPleasing to see your comments on the prose of a nomination. Please return and do more! Tony 12:10, 16 June 2006 (UTC) Knights of ColumbusHi! Tony reccomended you as an excellent copyeditor. I'm looking to bring the Knights of Columbus article up to Featured status. Two people have supported it, one said it was well written, but Tony has a few qualms with the prose. Would you mind taking a look at it? I would really appreciate it. Thanks! Briancua 17:23, 17 June 2006 (UTC) SpellingHi. Thank you for maintaning the articles. I am relatively new to wiki community. As I wrote in the discussion page of "Geinoh Yamashirogumi" and "Tsutomu Oohashi", I think it is desirable to use the original spellings. They themselves have strong identities in the spellings, and they are established institute or person. Thank you in advance. -- Korva 19 Jun, 2006 00:55 (JST) Hail Mary (translations)Hi, I just checked that article again and saw that the contents was moved to wikisource. So wikisource did accepted it. See here [5]. Would you now agree with the deletion of the article? If so, I guess I will put the speedy delete tag on it. And if not, that's ok too. :) It's not that important. I just like to clean up. Garion96 (talk) 21:12, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Narita AirportI don't see why the fact that the airport is not physically in Tokyo should translate to removing its picture. The airport more or less serves the metropolis through its international flights. There can be a note in the picture saying "Narita Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture" WhisperToMe 05:51, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Castles in JapanHi Whlee, Thank you for adding information to the article Castles in Japan. May I suggest creating a new article? Japanese castles in Korea would be a good title. It would be very informative and valuable. You can copy directly from Castles in Japan into the new article. I always enjoy creating new articles and hope you do, too. Thanks again, Fg2 11:39, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Regards Whlee 12:16, 27 June 2006 (UTC) Thanksthanks for taking the time to leave a message in my talk. It nice to know that some of what i do here someone is reading. --Picturetokyo 07:17, 29 June 2006 (UTC) Two JizosI made a comment about the adjusted image and think I probably prefer Image:TwoJizos0053.jpg. You should vote for one, the other or oppose. Dark jedi requiem 03:10, 1 July 2006 (UTC) CapitalizationI agree about living with one extreme or the other being less stressful... but, living with both extremes is even less stressful than that. Sort of like the US/UK English spelling debates. But, if we go to another extreme (since I haven't played devil's advocate in a while), what should we do if an artist spells a word incorrectly, or uses some dreaded double-width roman characters in their CD booklet? Is this more of an artistic statement than capitalization? What about the long tilde 〜 that is in many Japanese song titles? Is it ok to replace that one with a small ~ tilde? For the record (no pun intended), my ripped CD tracks are a mishmash of capitalized tunes and otherwise (even single/double-width ~ characters) so obviously I don't really feel strongly either way. Your position is easier to enforce and codify, even if it is less true to the "official" nature of the work itself. But, it may be a challenge to build any concensus. And, I definitely do not feel strongly enough about it to provoke a mini-firestorm by talking about double-width characters on the general MoS talk page. (^.^) Neier 09:56, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
TokyoThanks again for your post on Talk:Tokyo#NOTE: TOKYO IS NOT A CITY. In addition to resolving the argument over Tokyo's "citiness", it shows you have a deep appreciation and love for the place. It makes me wish I had had the leisure to discover more of Tokyo's charms when I lived there. -- D. Meyer 00:30, 7 July 2006 (UTC) answered--Yurik 02:02, 21 July 2006 (UTC) Hasekura TsunenagaThank you for your comments and support for the article Hasekura Tsunenaga! PHG 05:36, 23 July 2006 (UTC) New EnglandThanks for your comments and advice. I think I'll do that. Nothing wrong with constructive criticism. :) --AaronS 11:22, 27 July 2006 (UTC) Japanese nationalism: ideological development from the 1920s to 1945; Sorry, my mistake. Someone else reverted a to cleanup-rewrite from cleanup-date|June 2005 and I somehow decided to PROD. I noted it was work in progress. Will revert to previous rewrite tag. Next see if you can cleanup again before someone tries to revert to June 2005. Enough so a citations tag can be used. Right now the article is a bit scattered. meatclerk Sorry, my mistake. Wrong article.. too much PRODing in one night. WP:Japan Barn-sensu
LordAmeth 10:55, 30 July 2006 (UTC) 120 frame sizesI'm not sure I agree with your changes to the 120 film article. I originally formatted the aspect ratios the way I did to keep them in the same order as the numbers in the frame size name and the nominal frame size e.g 6x17 => 56x168 => 1:3. I also don't like the decimal approximations. How are they easier to understand than simple and exact fractions? Also, 6x7 should be 1.25:1 just like 6x4.5. --Imroy 06:21, 11 August 2006 (UTC) Articles listAre you using a script to find articles on Japan? freshofftheufoΓΛĿЌ 19:18, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
35 mm film FACHi Fg2! I just wanted to let you know that I have replied to your comments regarding the article and would like to see some further discussion on the topic, if you have the time. Thank you for taking the time to look at the article and comment, and thanks in advance for your future comments! Girolamo Savonarola 21:34, 19 August 2006 (UTC) Image:KamakuraDaibutsu1.jpg listed for deletion An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:KamakuraDaibutsu1.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. howcheng {chat} 00:16, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Pi UnrolledYou commented on this animated GIF's Featured Picture nomination. I'm considering a redesign to incorporate concerns raised but I need more clarity. Please see User talk:John Reid/Pi/Unrolled#FP?. Thank you. John Reid 08:47, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Japanese city namingHi - I've revised my post at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles) since, based on your response, I see I was not being clear at all. The question I meant to be asking is whether common name alone (e.g. Nagano) should ever be used as an article name, not "city" as a suffix. I'm trying to help get to a consensus by dividing the issue into two steps. Step 1 - do we always need a disambiguated name for the city articles (disambiguated by any technique)? If we can gain a consensus that the answer is yes, then step 2 is "OK, what should be the disambiguation technique"? -- Rick Block (talk) 22:00, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
BotsThe reason why there isn't a bot that would recommend link disambiguation is the same reason that automatic wikilink renaming was so unpopular (and I assume the feature is completely gone now). Renaming a link takes the same amount of server time as posting a comment, and since the bots would probably be finding tens, hundreds of thousands of non-ideal links per X amount of very-short time, it would be creating a lot of comments (I can imagine a few cases where there would be dozens of corrections per page). Mediawiki seems to prefer that non-ideal links that at least work and get you to where you want to go are good enough, and it's not worth the resources to correct them. freshofftheufoΓΛĿЌ 09:48, 3 September 2006 (UTC) Peer reviewI'll try and look at Japan for you later today. Yomanganitalk 10:45, 3 September 2006 (UTC) Changes in election categoryHi, thank you for correcting me on the mayor gubernational nameing, my mistake. But I wish to change back to Category:Tokyo Prefecture since there's a ward with the name "tokyo", and if I am not mistaken there's a local assembly there too. So that election would be Tokyo local election, year. See the difference? --Jonte-- 20:43, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Japanese castlesSorry for writing again so soon. But japanese things are important for me. I will download some of the castle pictures now. I have changed to a more expressive user id. User:YBO 23:13, 15 September 2006 (UTC) The pugOK, Gold Filled Jewelry (with bad capitalisation) may not be a blatant ad. But see if you think it is a copyvio from http://www.pugster.org/all-about-14k-gold-filled-jewelry/ . Also review special:contributions/Pinkythepug which mainly invlove creating links to pugster.org. -- RHaworth 12:54, 16 September 2006 (UTC) Tō-jiNo problem and no need to apologize. Wikipedia has been expanding and included much more information for a long time, but now I think it starts the long and meticulous process of checking and confirming all of that information. I had to think about it for a minute myself because I have always associated Tō-ji with Kūkai, but at the time Tō-ji was established, Kūkai had not even been to China. Hope to work with you on more pages in the future. よろしくね Sudachi 17:48, 20 September 2006 (UTC) Thanks for listing that article! It is always fun to learn new facts when quenching the WP addiction.
Optical return lossHi, I noticed that you removed the Prod tag from Optical return loss. It's merely a dictionary definition... maybe. It has odd things like "(P2)" and "T1.106-1988" in it as well. Does the definition make sense, is there some point in the nonsense letters and numbers, and is this topic expandable into something more than a dictionary definition? --Xyzzyplugh 15:25, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Stop your revisionism"Andro" is a glaring occidental error, but the fact remains that it had an established presence in print for about a century, and you know it. Thus, Wikipedia's duty is to report on it and label it as erroneous, NOT to censor and delete it as you've repeatedly been doing. Decent people looking up "Andro Hiroshige" after a book should be able to find this article. Your elitist revisionism would deny them access to this article on the ground that they bought a book using an erroneous romanization. Filthy revisionists like you would delete "Peking" and "Mao Tse-Tung" from the encyclopedia if they had a chance. You disgusts me to no end. 62.147.86.12 20:30, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Removal of deletion tagDid you read my comment on the talk page before you removed the deletion tag from List of English words of Romanian origin? It seems that there are no English words of Romanian origin, which is why I consider the topic to be unworthy of an entry. If you know of any, please include them. Lagringa 02:11, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Japan Portal Selected ArticleHi. Just to let you know that I updated the Selected Article on the Japan Portal to reflect that Mr. Abe has now officially become PM. Bobo12345 01:42, 1 October 2006 (UTC) Railroad stationsAnswered. - Neier 22:12, 1 October 2006 (UTC) Your photo of buskers contains a huge amount of hidden "extras"Whilst looking up the topic "busking", I found your photo of buskers in Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:StationMusicians1357.jpg In fact, I'd only viewed the smaller version (350px). I noticed that it seemed to take a long time to download. I ran it through a program I've written called "JPGExtra", which removes hidden extras from JPG files: http://www.fieggen.com/software/jpgextra.htm On your 350px photo, my program reducing the JPG file from 225536 bytes to just 27378 bytes, saving 198158 bytes of hidden extras (88%!). I then tested the larger 800px version of the photo. JPGExtra reduced it from 306859 bytes to 108647 bytes, a saving of 198212 bytes (65%). As you have contributed a large number of photos to Wikipedia, it may be worth checking whether your other JPG files also contain a similar percentage of "extras". Optimizing those JPG files will help Wikipedia by reducing their bandwidth overheads.Ian Fieggen 01:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC) MacronisingWould you take a look at my changes to Oita Prefecture and Oita, Oita (discussed here)? Am I on the right track? Cheers, Bobo12345 08:05, 3 October 2006 (UTC) DYK--Peta 06:02, 6 October 2006 (UTC) Please check that article and let me know what you think about the table style. I think the info about dual/single tracks between stations is meaningful, but I also wanted to convert the info into a table like other train lines have. The resulting table is a compromise, of which there is probably a better way to do, but I couldn't think of it. I'll get around to filling in the rest of the info soon. Neier 12:47, 6 October 2006 (UTC) Sakae, NagoyaLooks like Sakae, Nagoya is a blatant copyvio so I listed it for speedy deletion. Bobo12345 12:09, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Oops!Sorry for the last Oita -> Ōita edit! My AWB programme was getting a bit overzealous and changing User talk pages too! Bobo12345 08:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC) Thank you for adding the Japanese name for Dainippon Ink & Chemicals. Could you also add the appropriate Japanese name to Dai Nippon Printing? --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 13:00, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Image:ZempoKoen.gif listed for deletionAn image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:ZempoKoen.gif, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you. 03:04, 20 October 2006 Nv8200p
Disambiguation pagesGreetings. FYI, the content on list of people named Makoto was actually pulled from Makoto (disambiguation). My understanding of the disambiguation page guidelines indicates that lists of more than a few names that only include part of the disambiguated term should be in a separate article, being as disambiguation pages are for quick referrals rather than exploration. That's my impression at least. Anyways, thanks for saving the list article. :-) ENeville 05:23, 20 October 2006 (UTC) Boshin WarBoshin War is now a Featured Article Candidate. You are invited to post you votes at the Wikipedia:Featured article candidates page. Best regards. PHG 16:06, 21 October 2006 (UTC) Thanks for the reference you added. That certainly takes it off {{prod}}, although it might still be worthy of an WP:AfD. If you would, could you confirm the sentence about him? It was created by a community-banned user known for adding hyperbolic material on Japanese mathematicians. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 16:32, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Misspelling vs. Alternative spellingI am fairly sure that we will disagree on the issue of macrons and correct spelling. Letting that be, though, I would like to discuss WP:REDIRECT. For misspellings, it says: "pages using this link should be updated to link directly to the redirect target". For alternative spellings, it says "pages using this link may be updated to link directly to the target page". Should the intention not be to get the links updated? That is the reason that I marked them as misspellings. Bots often automate the updates. However, a page that "may" be updated has far less priority. Bendono 08:32, 30 October 2006 (UTC) (Fixed signature)
Fg2 10:12, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Japanese User page translationThanks. That user has been banned here on the En WP. If this is a concern in the Japanese Wikipedia, can the account there be deleted as well?--Ed ¿Cómo estás? 04:12, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
TemplateYou can also skip the English, but you need a blank set of pipes like this kore (これ) Neier 11:11, 17 November 2006 (UTC) Ah, that makes sense too. Thanks. Fg2 11:15, 17 November 2006 (UTC) Popular culture sectionsQuestion for youWould you mind coming over here. If you can help, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:18, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, the creator already removed the speedy deletion tag I added. Hopefully it will be deleted before she does that again. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 04:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Ehima -> EhimeThanks for catching Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 08:08, 5 December 2006 (UTC) Re: Tokyo GA reviewI've replied to your message on my talk page. Shimeru 07:22, 7 December 2006 (UTC) Japanese language link in nihongo templateHi. I agree with you that if it's judged desirable, the Japanese language link should be put into a template rather than added to lots of articles. However, I don't have time to participate in the endless discussions and arguments that I'm sure would ensue if I proposed that to other editors. So I decided to add it here and there and let discussion take place without me, which seems to have begun with you. Sorry for the unorthodox method, but I don't have time to become a full-time Wikipedian! DTOx 17:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC) thank youI wanted to take a moment to offer my thanks for your many image contributions, such as those of Japanese castles. It was wonderful getting a chance to look through all of them. ... aa:talk 03:34, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Fg2. I noticed that you've previously voted in Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles)/Prefectures and macrons. A similar poll on macrons is taking place until Dec. 13 at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles)#Poll: "Ryūkyū" instead of "Ryukyu". The voting seems to be deadlocked, with many outside voters rather than frequent contributors to the WP:JP project like yourself. It would really help if you can either comment or vote there, although I'll understand if you would prefer to stay out of the controversy. Thank you for your consideration. (For full details and background information, see Ryukyu vs. Ryūkyū (in the WP:MOS-JA talk page) and Talk:Ryukyu Islands.)--Endroit 18:42, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
亀甲墓hello there Fg2, I am slowly translating User:DVD R W/亀甲墓 from the article on ja and I noticed that you uploaded the picture Image:Kamekoubaka.jpg and I was wondering if you could provide any more information, either on the image page or the article (I will move it into article space so your edits will be credited in the history). the location would be good and so would anything else. regards, DVD+ R/W 01:57, 11 December 2006 (UTC) American Dad episodeThe mispelled Magnicifent Steven page should be removed and not redirected as BOTH words are mispelled and it seems unlikely anyone would ever type in that combo of both mispelled words Grande13 11:20, 12 December 2006 (UTC) User:DweddellHi, I'm just wondering why you placed a speed deletion template on User:Dweddell after I'd moved the article into the User namespace? --Imroy 11:44, 12 December 2006 (UTC) Nihon RyakkiThanks for adding in the characters. But do you know what the Ryakki means? --Gwern (contribs) 03:54 15 December 2006 (GMT) I'd suppose it means something like "abbreviated chronicle." In other words, "A brief history of Japan." --Fg2 04:06, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thanks for your help with this article! could I perhaps ask of you one more thing, for translations of the restaurant names? or at least verification that i copied the right things from his website? thanks a ton! Frijole 22:25, 15 December 2006 (UTC) There's some possibility of other readings, but my guesses would be 「なだ万」 "Nadaman," 「ふく柳」 "Fukuryū" or "Fukuyanagi," and I agree with 「神田川」"Kandagawa." Fg2 21:29, 18 December 2006 (UTC) about Tanabe Jyuji articleHelo, this is Uryah. I add why the person is important to the article Tanabe Jyuji. And I talk to Neil916 "Can I remove the "{{prod}}" template ?". Thank you. Uryah 09:57, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Important Questions Before MarriageYou just deprodded this article. The reason you gave was that there was no reason given for the prod. While that's techically correct, I hardly believe your actions aid in the goal of making an encyclopedia. Please have a look at the article, and consider its viability. -- Ec5618 08:35, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Merry Christmas![]() Hi! I just want to say Merry Christmas to you! Have a nice holiday time. If you don't observe this event then I hope you don't mind this greeting. :) - Darwinek 20:15, 21 December 2006 (UTC) Rykyuan categoriesHow do you suppose Ryukyuan categories should be handled? I feel somewhat hesitant to simply label things under Japanese categories (e.g. sessei, which is currently listed under "Cat:Government of feudal Japan") but I am also hesitant to isolate them out completely, as there is a significant connection to Japan, and to a degree to China as well, during the Edo period. Creating separate Ryukyuan categories (Ryukyuan scholars, Government of Ryukyu Kingdom, etc) would also result in very small, sparsely populated categories. Maybe we should just create categories for "Ryukyuan people", "Ryukyan officials", "Ryukyuan nobility" or the like, and not sub-specialize out to "Ryukyuan historians" etc. What do you think? Thanks. LordAmeth 16:54, 22 December 2006 (UTC) That's a difficult question... it'll take some thought. It's probably wise to ask more people, e.g. in WikiProject:Japan, since I don't have a ready suggestion. Fg2 03:40, 24 December 2006 (UTC) Question: The Nine Flowers of ChristmasA new user posted the article The Nine Flowers of Christmas. Google returns no matches for "Nine Flowers of Christmas" (including the quotation marks). Is this article true? Fg2 06:25, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
Re: fact tag - Oda NobunagaCheck the Oda Nobunaga talk page. That part of the "fiction" section is questionable, but I don't know how to fix it. --Kuuzo 09:05, 23 December 2006 (UTC) You are most welcome! I always check recent deaths for Japanese listings-and tag the talk pages in hopes that I can find enough information to write a good biography for them. Thank _you_ for doing so! It is my goal to get to Japan in 2007, I should have been there this year, please see my main page. Domo arigato! Chris 06:47, 24 December 2006 (UTC) Serie A articleHi, I appreciate you looking at the Serie A article. As to your complaint, this article is a subpage of the article of the current season of Italy's premier soccer league. At present, it provides just the schedule, though once the games are played, it will contain boxscores. As for the issues with the introduction, I've linked to the main wikipedia page for the league, in the interest of not duplicating information. I hope that clears up the issues. Cheers, Joe
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