User talk:Mkill/Archive 1

Archive 1

ee ja nai ka

was definitely part of the Edo period. There was a date slip on the page which I hadn't noticed. Good that you spotted it, although your conclusion was slightly wrong too. See you around. --DannyWilde 00:23, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Yep, much better now :) -- Mkill 00:24, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

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As for your Japanese education remarks and edits, I do feel compelled to feel some ground in your actions but I did not write what I wrote because I watched some Hollywood flick about Japanese culture. I'm not that ignorant, for one, so perhaps you could stop making judgments about me. Thanks. David

I know. The problem is, that even some established authors on Japan who speak the language and live in the country for X years fall for the old "Japan is exotic and strange and different" trap. I don't mind. I fact, Japan is exotic and different in unique in many ways and it would be a completely boring country if it wasn't. But we can't write that in Wikipedia. It's an encyclopedia. It's about facts. For a Wikipedia article on the Japanese education system, it is completely unimportant what Americans might think about the Japanese education system, as long as the Japanese think it's the right way to do it.

PS: Have some self-esteem. Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I think you are stupid. -- Mkill 23:55, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Trentino-South Tyrol

hello there,

I had a question, there is a discussion going on about renaming Trentino-South Tyrol to Trentino-Alto Adige. But isn't the english translation of Südtirol/Alto Adige "South Tyrol". Since you did lots of translation work, I thought maybe you could be so kind to share some input? with kind regards... Gryffindor 09:14, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

That's a tough one. Btw, I didn't do much translations yet, but I guess I might in the future. -- Mkill 19:23, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

I also wondered thanks 09:55 Nov. 7 Caleb Napier

CFD

Regarding the subcategories of Category:Japanese military aircraft that you nominated on November 8, none of the subcats were tagged with {{cfd}}, so I was unable to make the change. Please tag each subcat (meaning, edit each subcategory and add {{cfd}} to it). I'll keep the discussion open for a week once this is done. If you have any questions, please ask. Thanks. --Kbdank71 15:36, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

There is a problem with the CFD. It makes no sense to delete only the subcategories of Category:Japanese military aircraft, there should be a convenient solution for military aircraft of all countries. That's why I put up another CfD, Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Military aircraft sub-sub-sub-categories. BUT: In this CfD, everybody voted against. I don't quite know what to do about it. If we start deleting parts of the whole system, we only create chaos. Do you have an idea? -- Mkill 18:59, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

I would say the Japanese military aircraft CFD would be superceded by the military aircraft cfd, but since most people there voted to keep, that would effectively kill the whole mess. You might want to take it to the wikiproject to see if they (presumably the experts) would agree with your proposal. --Kbdank71 19:42, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Recategorizing

Thanks for the work in recategorizing. If you get any problems or obstacles, please let me know. --DannyWilde 00:12, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

In fact, I'm done, but thanks for the offer. Have a nice day. -- Mkill 00:15, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Japanese clans vs domains

You obviously know more about this than I do, so go ahead and fix it. Jpatokal 08:55, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

I did. -- Mkill 21:13, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: Typhoons in Japan

Will do, and thanks for the compliment. Hurricanehink 22:16, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Sanssouci

I've been thinking about translating this for a long time, but it's a big project with a lot of subpages that should be translated as well. Would you be interested in working together on a version we could post on one of our user pages? Best, Tfine80 04:45, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

CES

You removed CES from the participants list. Was it deliberate? Just checking. DannyWilde 00:22, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Oops... Sorry, I'll put him / her back in. -- Mkill 13:22, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Sea of Japan

I actually indefinitely blocked him. Pretty nasty character, I must say. Looks like you tried to reason with him as best you could. I actually just saw this because he had moved Dispute over the naming of the body of water between Japan and the Koreas and made it the Koreas and Japan and he removed a redirect as well and started editing it all after it was made clear to him that this wasn't ok. I warned him and undid the moves so then he started moving Sea of Japan as well. Banned him. If he comes on under a different name, let one of us know or go onto the Admistrators Noticeboard and ask them to help. Thanks. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 14:11, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Maybe that was a little hard, but I don't think he is much of a loss for Wikipedia ... -- Mkill 14:26, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

What I am really amazed about is how totally ignorant we Germans are that our own beloved East Sea (the Ostsee) can be called Baltic Sea by the international community. Damn you baltic countries! This is our body of water! Lets go to the UN and have it renamed! Lets revert all Wikipedia articles to East Sea (Baltic Sea)! Yeah, I'm joking. -- Mkill 15:01, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Well I reduced the block to 48 hours since that's how long I blocked the IP he was using. If he comes back and does this again, it will then be a week. I'd rather be lenient than harsh. I've learned on here that nationalism is the worst thing on here. It creates the worst edit wars and problems. It's just a name. But people don't see it that way. Look at Kashmir, which has I think 7 different names. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 16:37, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, it looks like people fight in Wikipedia over things that are used to start wars in real life, too: nationalism, and religion of course. Let's hope the user will learn. Thank you for taking action and see you around. -- Mkill 16:46, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

He emailed me today. Apparently he thought that moves were just as harmless as edits. I tried to explain otherwise but I'm not sure if he'll understand or not. I'm going to unblock him. Hopefully he got my drift. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 02:21, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Honestly

I'm not real hopeful about Cleric71. He's now twice removed warnings from his talk page, because he has become convinced that he didn't break any rules when he performed all of those moves. Even after me explaining this to him twice, he still seems to think that a move is the same as an edit. So he thinks my block was incorrect when it wasn't. I'm going to watch the debate on the naming dispute for the next couple of days, but I'm starting to think that he isn't going to understand what I've been trying to tell him. Oi vey. Well if it doesn't work, we gave it a shot. You were right in recommending that the block be reduced. Gotta give newbies another chance. But I don't think he understands that moves without consensus is not the correct thing to do. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 13:07, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

We will have to see. At least he is willing to use the Talk page, which is much more than some other troublemakers. There are a few people now who have a look at Special:Contributions/Cleric71, so if he gets overzealous again we can fix it within minutes. What he does now is flood the talk page with a discussion that has been fough on Wikipedia one hundred times, but he is free to do so. There are a number of articles with related discussions, including Tsushima Island, Nihonjinron, Korean-Japanese relations, Sino-Japanese relations, Comfort women, Japanese war crimes ... I expect Cleric71 to show up on one of these anytime soon, but there are enough veterans who watch these so there is no need to worry.

since I guess Cleric71 has a grudge against you now (sorry about that), maybe it's best if you leave the issue alone for a while, we'll come back to you if we need another user blocked or page protected... Thank you again for your efforts! -- Mkill 14:49, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Sea of Japan

Thanks for the note, I'd been stuck in the middle of this a bit since I saw him blank an article not realising the overall situation. I've looked into it a bit now and it does seem his view is (currently at least) in a minority. I have already responded on his talk page, suggesting the best solution is discusion and failing that the dispute resolution process and most certainly not unilateral actions. Personally I have no interest in the article contents or naming, but I do have a interest in making sure people "play nice". Thanks again for the heads up --pgk^(talk) 07:39, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

It looks like the debate cooled down. User:Masterchief and others did a nice job at dispute resolution. -- Mkill 00:12, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Category:Muromachi period

Hi Mkill, I noticed you were involved in deleting Category:Muromachi period. Can you tell me what category replaced it? Thanks Fg2 00:19, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Category:Feudal Japan, which should cover everything from Kamakura to Azuchi-Momoyama period. I would not object if you recreate Muromachi, as long as you can find enough articles to fill it. At the moment we have 22 articles in Feudal Japan. -- Mkill 00:29, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm, the articles on the Muromachi Shoguns, authors, literary works, artists, genres like sumi-e, temples like the Kinkaku-ji and Ginkaku-ji (I hope all the Tekkinkonkuriito-jis of the Showa and Heisei Eras meet the earthquake-resistance standards), Higashiyama Bunka, Noh, Kyogen... all seem like candidates for Muromachi. My guess is that Muromachi alone could outdo the 22 in Feudal Japan. If emperors and eras were to go into the category, it would swell a lot. I'll probably recreate it, maybe as soon as the weekend, since you said you don't object.

Thanks again Fg2 01:25, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Of course I don't. When I cleaned up History of Japan there were only 3 articles in category Muromachi period, so I emptied it into Feudal Japan. If you want to recreate it and fill it to the brim, do it. I guess it is a lot of work to collect all articles that meet the criteria "Japan" and "1336 to 1573" ... PS I wouldn't mind if the next earthquake rids Japan of a few ugly concrete erections... Mkill 22:32, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Economy of feudal Japan

Thanks for catching my typo on Category:Economics Economy of feudal Japan. I forgot that things don't, yknow, delete themselves. Silly me. LordAmeth 21:39, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

No prob :) Mkill 22:40, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Inro cat

You changed the Inro page category from Arts of Japan to Japanese crafts; I would have thought both categories applied. Can you explain? Also, does this mean the categories should be similarly changed for all the netsuke/inro photos? Thanks. Cshapiro 13:50, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

The category was broken anyway, it should have been Category:Arts in Japan. I put the article in category crafts, because I think that products of traditional Japanese crafts belong there. As the for the pictures, they should be uploaded to commons, but I don't know how the category structure is there. -- Mkill 14:42, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

I assumed (wrongly, it seems) that the categories were uniform across the wiki family.

The photos are from commons, where I categorized them as Arts of Japan, and used the same category when subsequently creating the Inro page. Of course, inro were craft objects when they were made, but I think they are now works of art as well. For example, Sothebys and Christies don't have Japanese Arts & Crafts sales, just Japanese Works of Art sales. Would it be wrong to use both categories? Cshapiro 16:02, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Uniform categories in different wikis would be great, but no, they aren't. At the moment, there is no other option but to check if you have the category right when writing articles. If you hit "preview", you can see the category if you scroll down to the bottom, below the edit window. If the category is red, you'll have to search for the right category.

As for putting it in both categories: Category:Japanese crafts is a subcategory of Category:Arts in Japan. As a rule of thumb, articles should not be in the parent category if they fit in one subcategory. This rule exists to avoid the overcrowding of categories. I see your point, but this is not how Wikipedia categorization works. -- Mkill 16:14, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Cshapiro 17:18, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Korean wave

It is ironic that I am Korean and I feel it sounds WAY promotional :-) IMO some negative view or criticism should be present in the article, for the sake of balance. Even among Koreans themselves there have been skepticisms for the phenomenon... I've considered to add the thing myself but it is more difficult when you write on your own culture. Hoping someone else would do it, I had applied the tag. But perhaps it is a better approach to discuss this issue on the talk page of the article. --BorgQueen 20:01, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Mkill in Ido

Hi, just noticed your message. I'm just an administrator not a bureaucrat and so can't change names, but I believe the place that you'd be looking for is right here: Wikipedia:Changing_username#Requests_to_usurp_an_existing_account_with_no_edits. It looks like it would be possible, and if you put a request up I could support it as well if needed. I have no idea who the other Mkill is. ^^ Mithridates 23:46, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

どうもありがとうございました --Mkill 23:57, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I just read your request. We can't fulfill any requests for other editions of Wikipedia here. The right place to ask is m:Requests for permissions#Changing username. Warofdreams talk 03:47, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. --Mkill 16:17, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Monetary and fiscal policy of Japan

Hi there, came to this thru' Random article, and have pulled out a few bits that were blatant POV (from your source, not you, I'm sure). One change in particular, has left a very awkward statement : "US economists have called for a reduction in Japan's public spending, especially on infrastructure projects, to reduce the budget deficit." This sentence arises from what I understand your source to be, but it could bear improvement. Cast an eye over what I've done? Cheers JackyR 11:36, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

The text is a more or less unchanged copy of the text published by the library of congress. These are public domain texts, they were written by experts but of course they are US experts. I included these texts in Wikipedia because it was a quick way of adding a lot of new information, and I trusted that Wikipedia users would check and improve these texts. Looks like the system works :) --Mkill 22:48, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Japanese province...

I noticed that you relatively recently created this as a redirect to Provinces of Japan. Doesn't the title of that article violate guidelines about pluralisation? Would Japanese province not be a better title? elvenscout742 23:36, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I guess the article was just waiting for somebody to move it. Please don't forget to fix all redirects and links, including interwiki-links in other wikipedias. --Mkill 23:38, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Splitting Japanese particles content

Hi, Mkill. In Talk:Japanese particles#Merge from Japanese grammar, I followed up on my suggestion to move most Japanese particles content from Japanese grammar to Japanese particles, suggesting also to copy each particle to Wiktionary in order to allow people to look up individual particles (e.g. wikt:ばかり) or to see them in a full list (e.g. wikt:Category:Japanese particles). Before I move forward, I wanted to solicit your input again. Feel free to follow up here or on my talk page or on Talk:Japanese particles. The Rod (☎ Smith) 00:39, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry...

...forgot to inform you at the time: I responded on Talk:Kwaidan. Basically, I disagree, for the reasons I gave, as partly backed up by the other two articles here that carry roughly the same name (both using a "w", as they should on an English language encyclopedia). elvenscout742 00:26, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Invitation to Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan

As you are a member of the Japan-related topics notice board, I thought you might be interesting in helping out with our new WikiProject. 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 06:19, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Japan-related topics template

Thanks for making {{List of Japan-related topics}} template. It is very useful and makes the articles better. (^_^) --日本穣 Nihonjoe 05:56, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Copying information from Globalsecurity.org

You copied at least two paragraphs of text from Globalsecurity.org into Japan Self-Defense Forces. The paragraphs began "Having renounced war, the possession of war potential, the right of belligerency, and the possession of nuclear weaponry," and "Although possession of nuclear weapons is not forbidden in the constitution, Japan, as the only nation to experience the devastation of atomic attack, early expressed its abhorrence of nuclear arms and determined never to acquire them." You did this without attributing the text to Globalsecurity.org. The Web Archive verifies that you are not the original author of this text: [1]. I'll assume that you didn't know this was plagiarism. In the future, please do not submit other people's text to articles without attribution. Thanks. Rhobite 21:20, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

You also copied text from [2]! This is a real mess, it will take a while to clean the article up and make it readable again. Rhobite 21:25, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

The text is public domain content from Library of Congress, Country Studies, Japan, Chapter 8, Self-Defense Forces, Missions. You can stop checking my contributions, its all from there. Globalsecurity.org stole there, too, can't blame them. --Mkill 21:29, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Next time, ask before making assumptions. --Mkill 21:31, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

This could have been prevented if you had used proper edit summaries and cited sources appropriately. Plagiarism and copyright are two separate issues. It is still plagiarism to use PD text without attribution, as you did in the "Despite the nation's status as a major world power" paragraph. Rhobite 21:39, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh will you please stop telling me I'm stupid! There was a clear message: This article contains text from the Library of Congress Country Studies, it's just that somebody deleted it. --Mkill 21:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Israel-Japan relations

Hey, I see you've done a lot on Foreign relations of Japan-pages. You may be interested in Israel-Japan relations. Respectfully, Republitarian 02:45, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Japan-Oceania relations

On OCtober 16, 2005 you created Japan-Oceania relations.[3] I have nominated it for deletion. I feel it would be better if it was merged into other pages on Foreign relations of Japan. Regards, Ya ya ya ya ya ya 23:20, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Domains (han)

Only after doing some major reorganization of List of Han did I realize that you'd been working on this. If you still are, I'd love to work together - that table you've got going looks great, and I'd be more than happy to help out with the translation, and filling in the table. I just don't want to sweep in and grab the rug out from under you, so let me know what stage you're at, and where you would or would not like help. どうも。 LordAmeth 18:38, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Japan taskforces

In order to encourage more participation, and to help people find a specific area in which they are more able to help out, we have organized taskforces at WikiProject Japan. Please visit the Participants page and update the list with the taskforces in which you wish to participate. Links to all the taskforces are found at the top of the list of participants.

Please let me know if you have any questions, and thank you for helping out! ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 00:50, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Japanese Cooperatives

Hi. I noticed that you created Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives. Is this organization related to ZEN-NOH? I'd like to link the articles, but I'm not sure what their relation is. Gobonobo ^{T C} 05:46, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Actually, they are the same. --Mkill 09:09, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Civil Service of Japan

Civil Service of Japan page still refers to Koizumi Government and to a non-privatized Post Office. 220.233.229.140 15:28, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Too many words?

I wonder if you might be willing to suggest ways to edit my writing to make it more succinct, less wordy -- more effective?

I hesitate to add this to the talk page at Hyūga class helicopter destroyer for fear that someone will complain that it has "too many words." In a context which arises before I posted my initial edit to that article's second paragraph, it becomes possible to begin to appreciate what's gone so very wrong as the result of an unthinking reliance on Jane's Fighting Ships and Global Security.org. An unmindful insistence on what is published in a reference book without giving due weight to consequences which flow from the Japanese context leads inexorably to mistakes in some instances.

Wikipedia's current treatment of JDS Hyūga implicates deep-rooted paradigms based on premises which effectively function to exclude or excise crucial issues from the body of the article; and this becomes a defect when it affects significant content which remains otherwise inextricable in reality. Relying solely on English-language naval ship catalogs, the edit history reveals how otherwise credible edits and edits have thwarted, deleted or blocked, thus stunting this subject's development -- see Talk:Hyūga class helicopter destroyer#Article name

Personally, of course, I don't care what the article about JDS Hyūga is named, nor do I care about the terminology used to describe this vessel -- but I'm persuaded that WP:NPOV expects us all to care very much about the "why" which informs whatever name or terminology is selected.

Although generally valued as highly credible resources, Jane's Fighting Ships and Global Security.org promote systemic bias in at least this one instance because their congruent terminology derives from primary sources bearing the imprimatur of the Japanese government. As such, reliance on this "gold standard" for descriptive terminology relating to Japanese naval ships is defensible, and any reasoned consensus based on such standards is also defensible; however, neither can be considered determinative. There is an inherent caveat in reliance on the imprimatur of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force and the newly formed Ministry of Defense (Japan). When the logical progeny of such reliance produce deleterious effects in Wikipedia, this subtle cancer mandates giving more than lip-service to WP:V and WP:NPOV.

As you may know, the Constitution of Japan prohibits "aircraft carriers"; and therefore the Japanese quite sensibly identify the JDS Hyūga with a unique, non-aircraft carrier name. In Japan, if ducks were prohibited by the Japanese Constitution, then something which waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, and behaves like a duck would be sensibly given a unique non-duck name. As it relates to use of the term "aircraft carrier," this unique bias is informed by the constitution which was imposed during the post-war occupation by the Americans; and it, along with many other salutatory aspects of the Constitution, has been embraced by subsequent generations of Japanese.

Among the Japanese, the practical decision-making which sometimes calls for a prudent substitution of flexible notions of "fiction" for "fact" is recorded across the span of centuries. This aspect of Japanese history and culture need not intrude into this Wikipedia article about the Hyūga except when an otherwise useful fiction is proffered as sufficient rationale for devaluing, denying, and deleting edits and citations (consistent with WP:V) which state that JDS Hyūga is an aircraft carrier with another name.

Sdsds construes the phenomenon in terms of a familiar line from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet -- in that passage in which Juliet muses about "that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet". In my view, this specific quotation does capture the essence of a very important aspect of this somewhat complicated issue.

Perhaps a more apt illustrative exchange is to be found in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew in that scene in which Petruccio looks at the sun and defies his new wife to disagree when he identifies it as the moon -- especially in that passage which begins, "I say it is the moon ...

In that Wikipedia article about the first of the Hyūga-class vessels, I would hope to make a constructive contribution by re-casting this controversy using medical terminolgy:

In oncology, the metastasis of cancer is conventionally described as insidious or "developing so gradually as to be well-established before becoming apparent." It is also well-known to be pernicious or "highly injurious or destructive." It is unfortunate that criticism of Wikipedia has not yet encompassed the oncological model, but it is arguably true that the metastasis of systemic bias, like cultural bias elsewhere, is insidious, pernicious and sometimes invasive.

Prior to this, the non-NPOV problems in Hyūga class helicopter destroyer have escaped a thorough examination. The thin record of postings in the initial section of the talk page suggests a nascent pattern of thwarting discussion and inquiry; and the subsequent record on that talk page confirms this unwanted hypothesis.

Across the arc of talk page exchanges amongst potential contributors and others, the consequences of intense, concerted resistance made it impossible even to reach a threshold from which to begin parsing aspects of this non-NPOV cancer. Such illustrative "consensus" becomes a powerful element of proof -- a multi-faceted demonstration of an undetected, highly persistent, insidious and pernicious problem.

Initial examination of this suspect article included a complete review of the edit history, including scrutiny of relevant external links which were deleted without any efforts to incorporate plausibly useful data.

An ameliorative edit was initiated. This involved one sentence only, supported by an in-line citation with an external link to a credible source. The talk page record reveals that this precisely-targeted intervention was reverted twice without substantive discussion. The edit encountered further resistance which blocked access to any threshold from which to begin to address the unacknowledged bias which remains the article's pervasive flaw. --Tenmei (talk) 05:57, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

??? I have no idea what this has to do with me, my Wikipedia edits or my talk page. Whatever you want or need I fear I can't provide it. --Mkill (talk) 01:15, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Japanese-[ ] Relations

I know you were not involved in previous discussions, but the content was merged, as a compromise for this entire type of article, between keeping the article & deleting it, even if there may not have been much content; it was an extremely bitter series of discussions over many months, leading even to a arb case. Since content was merged, we cannot eliminate the redirects because they have the history of the contributions. We would have to actually merge the histories, which is tedious and complicated. DGG ( talk ) 21:26, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Autoreviewer

Hi, after seeing one of your articles at newpage patrol, I was surprised to see that an editor who has contributed quite so many articles as you over such a long period hadn't already been approved as an wp:Autoreviewer. So I've taken the liberty of rectifying that. ϢereSpielChequers 16:20, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Thx. I'm usually at German wikipedia, I'm just here to clean up stuff I'll transfer later. --Mkill (talk) 16:23, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Japanese performing arts

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Category:Japanese history textbook controversies

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Nomination of Japanese values for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Japanese values is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Japanese values (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Netherzone (talk) 18:40, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Fixed your talk page archiving

Hi! I took the liberty of fixing the auto-archiving settings at the top of this page. --rchard2scout (talk) 11:33, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Citizen and consumer movements in Japan

The article Citizen and consumer movements in Japan has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Over-specific Synthesis of ideas. Sources do not support the title. No coherent topic to what's featured here. Article has been tagged for cleanup since 2010 and is also orphaned

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 03:23, 20 April 2022 (UTC)