User talk:Asimko

Welcome!
Hello, Asimko, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:29, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Kabuki edits
Hello – I noticed by your edits that you're a student editor, focusing on Japanese literature, medieval to modern.

I do appreciate your edits on the kabuki article, but I'd like to ask that you incorporate Wikipedia's language templates – lang, transliteration, nihongo and nihongo3 – into your edits.

English Wikipedia has a policy that all foreign-language content (except for that inside ref tags) should be placed in language templates. This is part of Wikipedia's accessibility policy, as it means that visitors who use screenreaders will have text in different languages read out to them correctly.

I spend a lot of time adding these templates to Wikipedia; I specialise in Japanese culture as an area, but I don't edit these articles to the exclusion of all else. I've covered most of the high-importance articles on my watchlist, such as geisha and kimono, but a lot of my time is spent actually re-adding these templates in, as passing editors mostly add content thinking to use these templates. Wikipedia is actually full of unchecked non-English content, and it's an uphill battle to make it a more accessible website.

I know it takes longer to conduct edits when adding these in, but it isn't much of a time sink – and it really does help and save time in the future. Other than that, happy editing!--Ineffablebookkeeper (talk) (&#123;&#123;ping&#125;&#125; me!) 15:51, 26 April 2022 (UTC)