User talk:Che fox

Hey there. Where did you get the information about Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein? According to this: http://bdb.co.za/shackle/articles/twee_buffels.htm it is only possibly the former name of a farm. MDCore 08:21, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * I was showing Wikipedia to a South African friend of mine (who hasn't lived there in a few years) and wanted to show him how expansive Wikipedia's coverage was.  Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein was of course the first page he demanded I check for, and since it wasn't there I figured I'd add a request for more information about it.  If it doesn't really exist any more (there are a number of Google hits about it) I'd be happy to remove the request. --Che Fox 05:45, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Yeah. I don't think it's really a town, from the research I did. There are google hits, of which that link is one. If your friend has some records or information about it though then tanfastic :) otherwise I think we need to remove it from the list of towns in SA. MDCore 08:38, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Removed from List_of_towns_in_South_Africa. --Che Fox 18:29, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Tokyo
Hi there. You can revise the captions further if you like, I just want them to be as correct as possible. My thoughts:


 * Landsat photo -- my main thought was that the mountains are not "uninhabitable". There are plenty of mountain towns in Japan and trails and lodges and roads all thoughout those mountains (especially those near Hachioji which are what I think are depicted here). So I agree that they are sparsely inhabited but I disagree that they are uninhabitable. Uninhabitable implies a place that's not fit for life. If you put an outdoorsman on the side of Mt. Fuji they would be screwed but if you put one in those mountains in Tokyo, I bet they could easily live off the animal and plant life there.
 * I also thought it was a little vague to talk about Tokyo's boundaries because it's not very clear if you're talking about Tokyo or the Greater Tokyo Area. It seemed like the latter but then that didn't match this article which is about Tokyo.  The visible urban sprawl here includes Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama. (We might want to put that pic in the Great Tokyo Area article.) If you want to revert it but leave out the word "uninhabitable", I guess I'd be okay with that.


 * Shinjuku -- What is your definition of "fluent"? Can you order a pizza?  Can you function at work/home using nothing but Japanese? Can you understand 98% of an NHK newscast?  Can you real-time translate for the United Nations?  I'm not trying to be an ass but I'm just curious. I hesitate to call myself fluent but I think I might be by your definition.  Anyway although "home" is listed as one of the meanings for &#23487; I think it's a stretch.  As a stand-alone character it means yado (inn or lodging) so I would say it does have a specific meaning on its own.  I'm not sure why you don't think it doesn't. Yes, it's a good poetic analogy to associate this with "home" but this isn't a haiku or poem, it's a photo caption. I don't know, I just think it's tortured and not very useful to pick apart names like this especially if it borders on inaccuracy.  It'd be like having a photo of a church and saying something like "Literally, the City of Angels, Los Angeles is home to a number of churches."


 * Tokyo Metro Building -- your caption referred to another shot of the TMG biru in which the antennae were visible. Plus I disagreed with your characterization that skyscrapers are a rarity. Tokyo has more skyscrapers than Chicago or Los Angeles and probably isn't surpassed by many cities.


 * Shibuya -- Shibuya attracts far more than "school-aged girls". Also the crossing in front of Shibuya station is not normally referred as the Hachiko Crossing except by gaijin who don't know any better. Though I guess one could argue that this is the more common name in English.  In Japanese though it's clear which one is more common.  See  and.

Let me know your thoughts. Mdchachi|Talk 16:57, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The Incredibles And Edith Head
Salve, Che fox! Earlier I attempted to send you the message here, but for some reason it apparently didn't take and I only now noticed this. Here it is: "Thanks for responding to my notice on the Talk:Edith Head page.  Your proposal to qualify the statement works for me and I've posted a reply there as well.  My objection was that while Mode does very much resemble Head--to judge from the picture in Entertainment Weekly, as I've not seen the film--with the director denying the connection, it didn't seem right to state it as a fact. Ave!  PedanticallySpeaking 15:31, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)" I looked at your revised graf and that looks fine to me. The Head article largely in place when I came to it; was it you who wrote it? It was nice working with you and do let me know if I can help on articles you're working on. See my user page and here for what fields I've been tilling. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 19:17, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * No problem! Sorry if there was any disconnect.  The comments are well-taken and I'm glad to help make Wikipedia a better place.  I didn't write the Head article, but I am a big fan of Pixar films, and I know a bit about Edith Head, so after seeing the film I was keen on making the connection known to other folks.  Knowing Brad Bird's style, I think he's the type to purposefully stay mysterious about connections in his films to keep the spirit of fun in them, but if you see The Incredibles, you'll definitely agree there's quite a lot of Edith Head in the character.  Anyway, currently I'm thinking about how to best integrate the comments on my image captions on Tokyo; I really liked the character in them before but there was a bit too much emotion in them for a neutral source like Wikipedia.  If you'd like to take a look at Tokyo's image captions (before and after my changes) that would be terrific!  Thanks for the comments! --Che Fox 05:18, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sushi
Hi Che fox,

Thanks for your work on the sushi page. I've been asking various people to look up the Japanese characters for things, without effect. And here you did it without my even asking. :-) (By the way, there's more places in the article&mdash;or at least in the articles it links to&mdash;that need the addition as well.)

May I ask about the spelling? (For full disclosure: I've got no opinion, I just copied letters out of a book.) I've seen spellings done in different ways; is there are preferred way to transliterate?

DanielVonEhren 12:31, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi Daniel! Thanks so much for the kind words.  I'll take a look through the rest of the article and its neighbors, and see what else could use some judicious Japanese written words.
 * In any case, I believe your book may just be incorrect as far as these particular terms go; it's not using any alternate Romanization scheme that I'm aware of.
 * Hosi- or hoshi-maki would mean "star rolls" if it were a word in Japanese, but there are very few Google hits (only 9) for this term; they all appear to be misspellings on menus and restaurant reviews. I lived in Japan for a bit over a year, and while I ate hosomaki (hosoi means "thin") pretty often, I never saw any hoshimaki or star rolls. There are 9 Google hits for "hoshimaki", and 643 for "hosomaki".
 * Similarly, urimaki would mean "sale rolls" or "rolls that I sell", but there are very few hits for this (197) on Google, just a few Japanese usernames on websites and a mispelling here and there. Uramaki, on the other hand, means "outside rolls", and while they're probably still not quite mainstream in Japan, there are 1,430 hits for this word on Google.
 * I'm glad you took the time to check the edits out, and I hope I can be of more help on the article. I'll definitely go through and check the Japanese and add more judiciously. --Che Fox 22:57, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)




 * DanielVonEhren 00:44, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi Che Fox, hajimemashite (初めまして)! I think you were wrong to remove the mention of fukusazushi under makizushi. Certainly here in Seattle both of the major kaiten places (Sushiland, more properly マリンポリス, and Blue C Sushi) have makizushi menu items (in the case of Sushiland, their "House Special Roll"—scroll down to maki) that are wrapped in fukusazushi-style egg. --Haruo 08:47, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

H5N1
Thank you for the help on H5N1. Please help more if at all possible. WAS 4.250 01:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

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haha, I just randomly looked at Recent changes, saw a change to the Sushi page, and clicked on the Che fox user profile. Saw it was you. Howdy! Jawed 05:26, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

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I didn't know (refering to the Colour to Color thing), I'll make sure it dosn't happen again.

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