Talk:Karate gi

Picture problem
Is it just me, or does the guy in the picture look like he's constipated? It just looks silly to me, although it does display the dogi well. --69.138.61.168 03:55, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I must, 5 years after the fact, concur that the photo is very cartoonish and distracting. That's one of the funniest facial expressions I've ever seen.  Something less laugh-inducing would probably be a good idea.  With thousands of dojos around it should be trivially easy for any student/practitioner to take a replacement picture. — SMcCandlish    Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿ ¤ þ  Contrib.  01:12, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I finally replaced it, didn't see the Talk section before changing it but the photo was bugging me as well, haha!
 * I chose the new photo as it has a more professional setting and shows off the full length of the gi. Hope you both like and sorry I'm about 15 years late in replacing it. NottinghamNinja (talk) 10:06, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Spelling
Is it "karate gi", "Karategi", "karategi" or "Karate gi"? The article currently uses the first three. --Mortense (talk) 09:35, 19 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Good point, Mortense! Considering that I've heard gi used by itself in conversation, and karate is a single word, I would assume that the two are separate words. However, I am not studied in oriental languages, so this needs to be sourced, and I know who to ask. Whether I get an answer or not depends upon how busy they are, but I would also like an answer to the letter case question as well. If I had one of my cousin's Black Belt periodicals, I'd have an answer for that question, too.
 * Christopher, Salem, OR (talk) 05:47, 23 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I have asked the question, and requested a book, or web article as a source. Just have to wait for a reply now. When I have the answer, I will fix the article and include the source as a reference.
 * Christopher, Salem, OR (talk) 06:07, 23 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I have a reply, but the answer isn't of much help. I was afraid that it would be an issue of compound in Japanese (空手衣), and separate words in English. I'm told that neither karate, nor gi are proper nouns, and so neither would be capitalized except in the normal fashion (at the beginning of a sentence, etc). The person who supplied the answer says he can cite one of Ed Parker's books as a reference, but he hasn't got the book handy. He also says the school mentioned prefers the word, "uniform," to avoid the whole issue.


 * So, here it is in a nutshell - both spellings are correct, provided it's not capitalized as it's not a proper noun. To resolve the issue, I recommend leaving the article title (Karate gi) exactly as is, change all other instances within the article to "uniform," and open a new, small section within the article on the topic of spelling, since both ways are correct. I may do this myself later on if someone else doesn't first, but I need a citable source before I can apply the changes.
 * Christopher, Salem, OR (talk) 06:54, 23 June 2012 (UTC)