Talk:List of non-Japanese sumo wrestlers

Needs to conform to WP:LISTS. Non-article non-reference entries should be deleted.Peter Rehse (talk) 09:48, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
 * That would defeat the purpose of the article, which is to identifiy ALL foreign born wrestlers in the Japanese-dominated world of professional sumo. Some of them will not meet notability requirements for an individual article.--Pawnkingthree (talk) 12:26, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Well the article says notable not all and right now it is a list of names with no indication that they even exist. This is original research (using research very loosly) at its very worst.Peter Rehse (talk) 12:49, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
 * It's worth noting that this is a decade-old list in user space that was recently moved into article space by another user without any explanation.--Pawnkingthree (talk) 12:58, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
 * It is not original research; every professional sumo wrestler must register their place of birth with the Japan Sumo Association. This information is easily verifiable; there is a comprehensive database at Sumo Reference. The article obviously needs work but its premise is valid.--Pawnkingthree (talk) 13:18, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Forgive, I like to start the indenting over again after several comments, as it starts to look too squished to me. I have checked the User who found and put up this list. He appears to be someone who likes lists and has an interest in Japan (or at least anime). He has been modernising the list very quickly and it would not be hard to maintain once it has been finished. I would rather he had asked us first, but I agree that is a valid premise and that everything can be verified and sourced from sumo reference (which is where I assume much or all of the info originally came from). How far is it from finished? I haven't really verified that. If Miwasatoshi has finished with his updating and the list is still not finished, that might be a different story. I don't know that I would want to put in any more work myself as I have enough updating to keep track of already with sumo on enwiki. FourTildes (talk) 23:22, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
 * It looks largely finished to me now that User:Miwasatoshi has returned to the article and done a sterling job in updating it. It should be relatively easy going forward to maintain the list - every tournament has a list of debutants and retirees so we can just update once the banzuke is released.--Pawnkingthree (talk) 12:22, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Taihō
Since we have a section for Japanese-born rikishi of non-Japanese or mixed ethnicity, would't that be the place for Taihō, given that at the time of his birth Sakhalin was part of Japan? Agricolae (talk) 02:04, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree he would be better placed in that section. Pawnkingthree (talk) 22:38, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Names in bold accessibility issue
Just popping in here to point out - per MOS:ACCESS, names in bold denoting still-active wrestlers won't be picked up on by users with screenreaders. I strongly recommend someone go through this article and add (still active) next to the names of wrestlers in bold, as fundamentally it fails as formatting otherwise. --Ineffablebookkeeper (talk) 15:14, 29 June 2021 (UTC)