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WikiProject Japan (Talk)

Founded
March 18, 2006
(4 years and 22 days ago)

Shortcuts
WP:JA • WP:JP • WP:JPN • WP:WPJ • WP:Japan • WP:JAPAN

Project parentage
Countries, Geography
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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 interested 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 sign up on the participants page and see the to-do list below for ideas of where to start. There's plenty of work to go around!

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 (see the navbox to the right for a full list) 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.

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[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/Recognized content.

[edit] Unreferenced BLPs

Please help as much as you can with our big list of unreferenced biographies of living people. The oldest tagged articles need help first as they are likely to be deleted before any more recently-tagged articles. Whether you can do one article or 100, your help is needed and appreciated. Thanks!

[edit] New articles

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


Archives of this page

[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
2009-12-30 Flag of Japan (Talk) FAC
2009-08-20 Takeo Kimura filmography (Talk) FLC
2009-05-14 Posting system (talk) FAC Promoted May 23, 2009
2009-03-05 Surrender of Japan (talk) FAC Promoted March 22, 2009
2009-01-23 Tallest buildings and structures in Tokyo (Talk) FLC Promoted February 3, 2009
2008-11-04 Ayumi Hamasaki (Talk) FAC Promoted December 6, 2008
2008-09-10 Ayumi Hamasaki (Talk) FAC Not promoted September 24, 2008
2008-08-26 Portal:Japan (Talk) FPO Promoted September 28, 2008
2008-08-03 1995 Japanese Grand Prix (Talk) FAC Promoted August 16, 2008
2008-07-08 Ayumi Hamasaki (Talk) FAC Not promoted July 31, 2008
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 Promoted 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 Promoted July 25, 2007
2007-06-06 Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident (Talk) FAC Promoted July 16, 2007
2007-05-02 Ayumi Hamasaki (Talk) FAC Not promoted May 7, 2006
2007-03-26 Japan (Talk) FAC Promoted April 12, 2007
2007-03-10 Japan (Talk) FAC Restarted March 26, 2007
2007-02-19 Aikido (Talk) FAC Not promoted March 20, 2007
2007-01-17 List of RahXephon media (Talk) FLC Not promoted February 2, 2007
2006-12-27 Serial Experiments Lain (Talk) FAC Promoted December 31, 2006
2006-12-23 Battle of Leyte Gulf (Talk) FAR Not promoted January 25, 2007
2006-12-10 Kitsune (Talk) FAC Promoted December 16, 2006
2006-10-21 Boshin War (Talk) FAC Promoted November 2, 2006


[edit] Peer review requests

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Peer review

[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. Rick Block requests help updating articles due to Gappei. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Gappei.
  2. LordAmeth would like to enlist everyone's help in converting all articles, both in title and in context, to properly macronned form.
  3. Kansai region compared to the Tohoku region, Kansai related articles are systematically sub-standard and have articles of towns and cities missing.
  4. Dozens of pages shown at Special:Allpages/Japan and Special:Allpages/Japanese lack WikiProject Japan tags and assessments.
  5. Category:Rangaku is woefully underpopulated. Many existing articles which belong in this category are not so categorized. Please go to various rangaku-related articles and add the category.
  6. Bamse is trying to improve the coverage of National Treasures of Japan. See User:Bamse/National Treasures of Japan.

[edit] Cleanup tasks

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

Additionally, please review the following for work which may need doing:

  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. Kyoto Imperial Palace is in sad shape. Needs expansion, more cited references.
  4. 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.
  5. Hase-dera is in need of expansion. It's a miniscule stub for a rather major temple.
  6. Shingetsu Institute was deleted as looking a little spammy; it's got lots of external links to articles, but not a single actual footnote, and the notability has been questioned (there's a bit of a COI concern as well).
  7. Uverworld has been tagged as being in serious need of attention since March 2009. This train wreck is nothing more than a sloppily written discography.

You can also work on files listed on the Cleanup listing page as well as articles in Category:Japan articles needing attention. Your help with these is appreciated as the list of things to do is very long.

[edit] Requested moves and merges

The following are from WP:RM:



[edit] Disambiguation

The following may be from toolserver reports at WP:DPL, but any page needing disambiguation work and link correcting can be listed here.

[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 9 June 2009). 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 articles

[edit] Requested photographs in Japan

[edit] Translation requests

[edit] Romanization requests

Hepburn romanization needed:

[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

  • The article on Souzou Gakuen University has the wrong (or outdated) title University of Creation; Art, Music & Social Work:Souzou Gakuen University is the English version of institution's name now as clear as stated on all official sites that I added the links to on article's page. Also the other info is terribly outdated, this university was allover the news yesterday so there's plenty of reliable information out there right now. I would contribute to it but not sure how to change the article name, or is it better to create a completely new article and delete old one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsurugaoka (talk • contribs) 12:26, November 11, 2009


[edit] Article assessment

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

[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) 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  
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  
Yokohama (Talk) Start  


[edit] Recognized content

Featured content and good articles are what Wikipedia editors believe are some of the best work on Wikipedia. Before being listed here, content must pass the appropriate featured or good article candidacy for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style.

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Former featured lists

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Did you know? articles

[edit] Featured portals

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Featured list candidates

[edit] Good article nominees

[edit] Resources

Find more about Japan on Wikipedia's sister projects:

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Search Wikibooks Textbooks from Wikibooks
Search Wikiquote Quotations from Wikiquote
Search Wikisource Source texts from Wikisource
Search Commons Images and media from Commons
Search Wikinews News stories from Wikinews
Search Wikiversity Learning resources from Wikiversity


[edit] Templates

  • To add a page to the project, please add one of the following templates to the top of the talk page of the article: {{WikiProject Japan}} or {{WPJ}}.
  • If an article is in need of kanji or hiragana, add {{Template:Needkanji}} or {{Template:Needhiragana}} to the top of the article.
  • When adding Japanese characters to an article, use
    • {{nihongo}} if an explanation or the pronunciation of the characters is needed. Format: English (Kanji Rōmaji?, extra) extra2
    • {{nihongo2}} if just the Japanese characters are needed. Format: Kanji
    • {{nihongo3}} if the rōmaji are needed first. Format: Rōmaji (Kanji?, English, extra) extra2
    • {{eigo}} if the Japanese characters are needed first. Format: Kanji (Furigana, Rōmaji? English) extra

[edit] Barnsensu

If you think someone has done an outstanding job in improving and/or expanding Japan-related articles here on Wikipedia, you can award them the WikiProject Japan Barnsensu. Please make note of the following:

  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.

Recipients may also add the Barnsensu userbox to their pages.

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