Talk:Hōsei Tsukitei

Unreferenceable Facts
The main Gaki no Tsukai Wikipedia page is filled with facts that are derived from simply watching the show, I don't see how that differs from this article. For example, the point about his unique nicknames is quite obvious and occurs often on the show. Pages on television shows can't be referenced in the normal fashion. The pronunciation of his name was taken from the Japanese Wikipedia article about him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soursimon (talk • contribs) 12:23, 31 March 2010 (UTC)


 * If you read WP:BLP you'll see that facts that cannot be verified or referenced should not be included in articles about living people. Japanese Wikipedia articles are not reliable sources for verifying details like this. And if the Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! also contains unsourced details about living persons, then they should probably be removed too. --DAJF (talk) 13:31, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: article not moved Armbrust, B.Ed. WrestleMania XXVIII The Undertaker 20–0  05:44, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Hōsei Yamasaki → Hōsei Yamazaki – It was established during the airport batsu game that his name is spelled ヤマザキ in katakana, which translates to YAMAZAKI in rōmaji. The evidence can be found on the "dying message" left by the cabin attendant that was shot "dead" by the lead terrorist. 87.56.190.49 (talk) 13:01, 27 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Oppose. His official Yoshimoto profile indicates that it is Yamasaki, as does the Yahoo talent profile. We'll need a lot more convincing evidence than one gag in a TV show if a page move is to be proposed. --DAJF (talk) 15:18, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Both of those are in Japanese. While the kanji are usually read "yama" and "saki", it is not unusual for s to change to z in compound words and names, along with a change in pronunciation. 87.56.190.49 (talk) 18:11, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The issue here is not about the kanji, but about how the name is read for this particular person. Both the official Yoshimoto profile and Yahoo talent profile above clearly show that the name is read "Yamasaki" and not as "Yamazaki". --DAJF (talk) 22:55, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose: His surname is currently read as "Yamasaki". It does not matter if someone misspelled his name in Japanese as part of a gag. While it is true that "山碕" is usually pronounced as "Yamazaki", there is no reason to suggest that we change his name just because of that more prevalent reading when the man himself uses "Yamasaki".— Ryulong ( 竜龙 ) 23:13, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose: We could only possibly accept a gag on a comedy show as a source if it is backed up by official profiles or databases. But those give another reading. Can you show the gag itself did not involve the misreading of his name? Michitaro (talk) 23:39, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
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Yamasaki/Yamazaki
Just to give some clarification...it's common in the language for "s" sounds to blend/blur into "z" sounds, whether in specific instances or as part of casual speech (the same way that the "n" sound blurs into the "m" sound, which misleads some of us to spell "shinbun" as "shimbun." "Yamazaki" is definitely an accepted way to say his name, but his name is 100% "Yamasaki." 24.207.209.196 (talk) 13:35, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

There is no mention of his name change in the article or a section for it and why he did it. I have this http://www.tokyohive.com/article/2012/12/comedian-yamasaki-hosei-to-change-his-name-starting-in-2013/

but not sure how to place it, if somebody could extract the information and place it in, that'd be great 184.167.132.106 (talk) 15:54, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Badly formatted references
This page has a number of references with broken citation parameters. Some of these links are Japanese. I've forgotten nearly all of the Japanese I once studied, so I'd rather not tamper with them — could someone who knows Japanese please attend to that? Thanks. David Cannon (talk) 14:15, 8 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello, that might be my fault as this was my first time contributing to Wikipedia and so there's a lot of formatting rules I'm unfamiliar with, sorry. I feel your knowledge on Wikipedia formatting would serve better here and as I don't know Japanese either please feel free to fix it up regardless. Let me know if you have a question about a link I contributed. I hope I'm using this reply thing right. Moonpin 14:53, 28 December 2015 (GMT)

Requested move 27 May 2022

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The result of the move request was: no consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 03:26, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Hōsei Tsukitei → Tsukitei Hōsei – Rakugo's kōza names and other similar Japanese pseudonyms (sumo's shikona, and sumo/kabuki myoseki) are generally anglicized with family name first. See for example Rakugo, Xie1995 (talk) 14:15, 27 May 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. >>> Extorc . talk  08:11, 3 June 2022 (UTC) 06:22, 14 March 2013 DAJF talk contribs block 29 bytes +29  DAJF moved page Tsukitei Hōsei to Hōsei Tsukitei: Conventional name order for Japanese persons born post-Meiji (after 1868) The contributor in question has not been active here or on commons since 2018, so there is no point in pinging them, and they have no email link. But the comment on dates seems relevant. The subject is certainly post 1868, while many other notable rakugoka were not, see Rakugo. Andrewa (talk) 08:51, 10 June 2022 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Oppose: But perhaps relist again? I note that this would reverse