User talk:DAJF

XTRIPx

I see that you tagged XTRIPx for speedy deletion. I have declined the speedy deletion, but taken it to AfD. You may like to contribute to the discussion, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/XTRIPx (2nd nomination). JamesBWatson (talk) 21:12, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Kaneyoshi Muto

Ja-3とのことなので日本語で書く。武藤金義について書かれた文献で「きんすけ」などと書かれた書物は見たことが無い。あなたも日本語ができるなら、金義を「きんすけ」とは読めない事、日本人の名前にミドルネームが無い事は理解できるだろう。--Soica2001 (talk) 11:49, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi. Note that this is English Wikipedia, so editors are required to use English for all communications, as per WP:SPEAKENGLISH. Regarding Kaneyoshi Muto, the reference source quoted reads as follows... (his given name could also be pronounced Kinsuke, which he preferred). In the absence of reliable sources saying otherwise, we should stick with this. Incidentally it is not a "middle name" but a nickname or preferred name. --DAJF (talk) 12:00, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

I have realized that this was the source of Henry sakaida. His book is often adapted. I do not trust. Japanese translation "日本海軍航空隊のエース" ISBN 978-4499227124, and "Kinsuke," Writing has been removed. But In my childish English, I can not point out that their discussion. I will end this discussion.Thank you.--Soica2001 (talk) 12:40, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

200 Series Shinkansen

Hey, Starfleet Academy here. Just thought I'd ask you why the 200 has 50Hz and the rest have 60Hz electrical systems? I'm researching these for a Wikia wiki right know so that's why I ask. As for making the change; I'm sorry I didn't have the time to add a talk page message to the 200 series' page. I apologise, I could have done that today and the page wouldn't have been wrong. But then again you did what I thought would happen if I made the change. Starfleet Academy "Live long and prosper." 01:56, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi. As with most (all?) lines in eastern Japan, the Tohoku and Joetsu Shinkansen lines on which the 200 series sets operate are electrified at 25 kV / 50 Hz. The Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines to the west of Japan use 60 Hz. I'll update the respective articles to indicate this, but the background behind the two different systems is explained in the article Electricity sector in Japan if you are interested.

Also, if you are an administrator on the Locomotive Wiki, could you please ensure that images used are properly licensed and attributed? A quick browse through the shinkansen pages shows several images from Wikipedia Commons which have been uploaded with no attribution, which contravenes the original license with which they were published. Thanks. --DAJF (talk) 05:08, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi again. Yeah I'm interested, so I will have a look at that page thanks. Oh and about the images on Locomotive Wiki; tell me about it. I'm running up against Wikia's upload system. It doesn't have all the attributions in it!! If I could edit that I'd do it tomorrow! Though the site is non-commercial and could get away with a lot, I've been trying to add the "stupid starter-pack template" {{From wikimedia}} to all the images I get from Commons to tell people I didn't just steal it from some one. Wikia is released under share-alike. Many other wikis don't bother with this, but I try to source free-use/public-domain images. So I don't have to bother attributing them technically, since it has be okay or else the Wikia staff will get onto me! I have found that Commons is the best source because I can just easily add the template I mentioned above. Oh and for the public domain images I just add {{PD}}, which is self-explanatory. So as you can see I'm on top of the situation. Except for getting other users to be as careful with the images as I am obviously.

So Thanks again for the info on the Hz and I won't edit in a hurry in the future LOL :) Starfleet Academy "Live long and prosper." 09:27, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Update: Oh the joy; I've found a {{cc-by-sa-3.0}} template! I've never looked before (never had the time), this'll make it that little bit clearer. Now I've just got some 400 images to look through at some point LOL. Starfleet Academy "Live long and prosper." 03:05, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Update 2: Hi again, you know how I said that "If I could edit that [the MediaWiki page or upload system] I'd do it tomorrow!" in my first post, well guess what I have found the page. I have edited it and it now means I don't have to go back to the image details page after uploading! Thanks for reminding me about looking up all this stuff, this is going to save me alot of time and effort! :) Starfleet Academy "Live long and prosper." 07:05, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Good to see that you are making progress. The next step will be to add details indicating the source of the images you uploaded (i.e. a link to where you found them) and also who the authors/owners are (i.e. who actually took the photos). Keep up the good work. --DAJF (talk) 00:12, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Yeah maybe (@sourcing links), since I have renamed a few images. I will try (no promises) to add original authors etc. info on the pages. That is a good idea, I hadn't thought about that cheers! Oh and about the indents; I guess I do them differently, like I would stay at the against the margin you would stay one indent in throughout the convo. I do this because I dislike the posts moving to far from the margin. But I have been in trouble on other wikis for stuffing up indents LOL Starfleet Academy "Live long and prosper." 05:43, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Japanese railway stations

Hello, DAJF. I can see that you don't like to use the macron in English renderings of Japanese place names. I tend to agree with you. However, the {{Infobox Japan station}} template automatically categorizes railway stations based on the "prefecture" value, and the category names use macrons, such as Category:Railway stations in Hokkaidō Prefecture. Removing the macron from the prefecture name in this template results in mis-categorization. If you would like to propose renaming all the prefectural railway station categories, be my guest. Until that happens, however, please don't change the spelling of the prefectures in this particular infobox. Thanks. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:45, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for the heads-up. It was actually a misunderstanding on my part, as I was mistakenly under the impression that the prefecture category was also spelled without the macron. I'll take more care in future. --DAJF (talk) 11:23, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Aya Sameshima

Just to let you know the rationale for reverting your last change to Aya Sameshima - that was the only link to Japan on the page, so I don't think it's overlinking! Cheers, Number 57 14:03, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Except that if you look at the relevant guidelines I provided a link to (WP:OVERLINK), you'll see that links to major geographical names or locations (such as countries) are discouraged and considered distracting. That's why I delinked "Japan". --DAJF (talk) 14:09, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Fair enough, although I have to say I was surprised and disappointed that such a guideline exists (as, judging by the talk page, do many others). Personally I use those kind of links quite frequently. Number 57 14:20, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Hacked website yusaku-matsuda.com

Yusaku Matsuda (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Thanks for your checking of the link for www.yusaku-matsuda.com. After reading your edit, I double-checked using a different browser, and I was able to reach this site yesterday. However, it appears the site is hacked again today and is redirecting to sturtup-geografyc.in/tandir/index.php. I'm not sure how the hack works but I was only able to view the original site using Lynx. JoshuSasori (talk) 01:20, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

You're right, it does appear to have been hijacked. I think the best course of action is to leave the link as it is for now, and, if the site is still not working properly within a few days or so, replace it with an archived link using the {{Wayback}} template. --DAJF (talk) 02:28, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

It has been in that state since I created this Wikipedia account on 1 February 2012. JoshuSasori (talk) 02:32, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

It is not working today, so I have removed the link and added a note to the talk page. I will try to check it again later on. JoshuSasori (talk) 05:33, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

As mentioned above, there was no need to actually remove it. I have replaced it with an archived link. --DAJF (talk) 10:15, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Central Tokyo

I'd totally agree that "Central Tokyo" is generally understood by English speakers to be the centre of the wards area; but as I and others have pointed out before on the Talk:Tokyo page, English speakers (or speakers of any other language including Japanese) also do not usually think of Iwo Jima or Okutama when they say "Tokyo", but only of the (as administrative unit: former) city. But, the English Wikipedia has decided to define Tokyo as the prefecture (Tōkyō-to); therefore, linking Central [[Tokyo]] is not ideal. So, maybe you could reconsider the use of "Central Tokyo" and come up with a better solution because – at least to me – it seems misleading as long as Tokyo is defined here as it is. --Asakura Akira (talk) 14:34, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure where the confusion is coming from. I am well aware that "Tokyo" includes rural areas such as Okutama and even remoter islands, but I don't see how that affects the fact that most people will understand that "Central Tokyo" means the "main" (Yamanote Line) area rather than some theoretical geometrical centre that may well lie in Fuchu if you draw it on a map. --DAJF (talk) 00:15, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

The confusion stems from the inconsistency in what is referred to as "Tokyo". As I said, I would agree on the definition of "Central Tokyo". Where I disagree is whether the "Tokyo" referred to in "Central Tokyo" includes the Tama area and the islands: the prefecture (or "Metropolis" if you insist on official Engrish usage) does; but what most people refer to as "Tokyo" outside en.wikipedia, i.e. the city without the rest of the prefecture, does not. Osaka refers to the city first and to Osaka Prefecture second. And, the same is true for "Tokyo" even though it has lost its independent administration in the war – but then, the same is bound to happen to Ōsaka city after Hashimoto and his party have won all local elections in the prefecture and in both designated cities: Should then "Ōsaka and Sakai" also be defined in the English Wikipedia as "one of the 47 prefectures of Japan" only because the cities are dissolved as administrative units? Just as Tokyo has (in the non-en-Wikipedian definition, i.e. the area of the 23 wards), Ōsaka and Sakai will retain their cultural identities as cities as well as other, e.g. economic and geographical characteristics of a city).
But, if you truly fail to see my point I won't continue bothering you here. After all, I'm not a native speaker of English; and others have (and I'm sure: will again) brought up the issue far more eloquently on talk pages of Tokyo-related articles. Thanks for the reply, Asakura Akira (talk) 07:15, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Hashimoto

Ryutaro Hashimoto (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Hi, now I understand why we have such a horrible mess with the Japanese transcription. We are obliged to use proper transcription and follow the rules. There is no "common" or "not common" usage. There are not "common" or "not common" politicians. Please, correct your mistakes. --Seibun (talk) 18:11, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi. I think you actually mean "transliteration". While I am sure that your efforts to add diacritics (macrons) to everything and anything on the English Wikipedia are well intentioned, you might need to re-read the Manual of Style guidelines regarding romanization of Japanese at WP:MOS-JA, as "common usage" does indeed determine how articles are named here. If you have any specific examples of erroneous changes I have made, I will be glad to check them. --DAJF (talk) 01:18, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi. This is our wiki-mess. Transliteration is a little bit different than transcription (Hepburn) that we are obliged to use.

• Ryutaro Hashimoto (1937 - 2006), Japanese politician (his father Ryōgo) Who of them is "common"?
• Ryutaro Morimoto (born 1995), Japanese singer as member of Hey! Say! JUMP
• Ryutaro Nakahara (born 1979), stage name Ryu☆, Japanese musician and DJ
• Ryūtarō Nakamura (born 1955), Japanese director and animator
• Ryūtarō Ōtomo (1912 – 1985), Japanese film actor
• Ryutaro Matsumoto (born 1986), Japanese wrestler from
• Ryūtarō Ono (1885 – 1965), Japanese photographer

--Seibun (talk) 12:23, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Why do you call it a "wiki-mess"? Because they are not all written identically as "Ryūtarō"? If you read the MOS guidelines that I linked to above, you will see that each article title is considered individually, and there is no blanket obligation to use Hepburn transliteration throughout. Until you appreciate that, I think you may continue to have problems on Wikipedia. --DAJF (talk) 13:05, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Shigeru Nakanishi

こんにちは。 私は日本のWikipedia編集初心者です。 1月にShigeru Nakanishiの記事を削除されましたが、どうしてよいか分からす、ずっと悩んでいました。 今日、このページを見つけ、ここに入れてよいのか迷いましたが、入れさせて頂きました。 どのようにしたら、再投稿できますか。 よろしくお願い致します。--Hiroko Yamamoto (talk) 06:56, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi. As this is English Wikipedia, please remember to use English for all communications here. According to the AfD discussion, the Shigeru Nakanishi article was deleted because it was unsourced and did not demonstrate how it met the Wikipedia:Notability criteria. If you can provide reliable sourcing to establish notability, it may be possible to recreate the article, but if you are not confident at writing in English, you might find it easier to work on an article at the Japanese Wikipedia project instead. I've no idea whether an article already exists over there. --DAJF (talk) 08:09, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry. Because it was your Japanese upper grade, I asked you a question in Japanese.

He appears in Nitten (Japanese art exhibition) which is a maximum general art exhibition every year in Japan.

Nitten is 日展(日本美術展覧会). http://www.nitten.or.jp/about/rekishi.html

There is his name when I search 中西繁 in a site of Nitten. This is objective evidence.

There is the Wikipedia Japanese edition of Nitten, but there is not the English version.

--Hiroko Yamamoto (talk) 13:44, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

The problem is that you will need more than just finding his name mentioned in passing on a website to justify creating a biographical article on Wikipedia. Wasn't that why the article was deleted in the past? If you are not proficient at writing in English and Japanese is your native language, I would suggest concentrating on fixing the Japanese Wikipedia article first, as that appears woefully lacking in reliable reference sources too. --DAJF (talk) 06:22, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your advice many times. I studied in Japanese and English Wikipedia guidelines and used deletion review. Because I am not proficient at writing in English, please help me.--Hiroko Yamamoto (talk) 15:37, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure how much more I can help, but I am curious as to why you are so keen to have an article written about this person on English Wikipedia. I note that you have also written articles on Japanese and French Wikipedia. What is your connection with Shigeru Nakanishi? Either way, as I mentioned in a previous comment, if you are not proficient at writing in English, why not concentrate on finding reliable sourcing and improving the Japanese article first? If you can provide solid sourcing for that article, it would make it easier for other editors (myself included) to start a corresponding English article. --DAJF (talk) 23:07, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind advice. I am one of the fans of Shigeru Nakanishi. I am impressed by his picture and respect him who appeals peace and social justice with his pictures. Therefore I want to write him on Wikipedia. I seemed to have a wrong thought aboutWikipedia:Notability.　I wrote References and showed Notability in Japanese Wikipedia. Please look it.--Hiroko Yamamoto (talk) 10:53, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Hello DAJF. Thank you many times. Today I noticed Delete of User:Alpha Quadrant in the AfD discussion and the article was deleted. I added the source to the English Wikipedia at 07:54, 18 March,but he looked at 19:42, 17 March. Surely he will not look all. Is the article deleted in one opinion? I think that you who understand Japanese can judge it. Please tell me and help me.--Hiroko Yamamoto (talk) 12:47, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

The article was deleted today, 22 March, not 17 March. If the subject becomes notable enough at some time in the future, I'm sure someone else will come along to create an article about him on English Wikipedia, but I would say concentrate on the Japanese article, since that appears to be your native language. --DAJF (talk) 13:07, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

I was able to study Wikipedia this time. Thank you very much.--Hiroko Yamamoto (talk) 13:45, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Takayuki Ōhira

Should this page be moved back to its original page name without the accent? We have should use the same spelling in the the page title and body text, either with or without an accent. Thanks! --Morn (talk) 12:25, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Yes, I have put in a request at Wikipedia:Requested moves, so hopefully it will be moved very soon. --DAJF (talk) 12:33, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Since you seem to live in Japan, perhaps you could visit one of the Megastar-based planetaria and take a photo of the projector for our article? :-) --Morn (talk) 13:16, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

The article has now been moved to Takayuki Ohira. It's certainly not a high priority right now, but I am always keen to take photos for articles if I get a chance. --DAJF (talk) 23:09, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Tokyo changes

There is an alliance between the cities of Paris and Rome. States that they are twin cities, one of the other and they can not sign a twinning with other city. Therefore, both seals cooperation agreements with other cities. This well known and not too much to prove. (French) Seule Paris est digne de Rome; seule Rome est digne de Paris. (Italian) Solo Parigi è degna di Roma; solo Roma è degna di Parigi. "Only Paris is worthy of Rome; only Rome is worthy of Paris — Preceding unsigned comment added by Friends147 (talk • contribs) 13:27, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand what you are trying to say. The article in question here is Tokyo. The information regarding twin cities and partnership cities is currently supported by the official Tokyo page. If you have a reliable reference source that says otherwise, please provide it rather than simply changing the details without explanation. --DAJF (talk) 13:34, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Re: March 2012

Hello,

Then I understand. I tried as hard as I could to maintain the capitals because I thought it was best since, by exemple, all of this singer's singles are in capitals.

By the way, why did you delete the only online website on this artist? Because it isn't official? If you do so, nobody can have news on him. Why go on a website which last news are "Wait for them" when the last news is: "They won't return". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seikyo(Seven) (talk • contribs) 10:01, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi. I deleted the website link because we don't normally allow links to fansites or unofficial sites in Wikipedia articles. (See WP:FANSITE.) --DAJF (talk) 11:32, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Shigeru Nakanishi

Hello DAJF. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Shigeru Nakanishi, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article is not substantially the same as the deleted version. A new deletion discussion is required. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 01:13, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Er, thanks, but actually it looks identical to the deleted article, so I can only assume that unfortunately you didn't compare it against the latest version deleted following the AfD. --DAJF (talk) 11:18, 25 March 2012 (UTC)