User talk:Nihonjoe/Archive 62

Your opinion
For the past well 4 months that Kamen Rider Wizard has been broadcast, we've referred to a character known as "白い魔法使い" in Japan as "White Wizard" in English. In the past 24 hours, this character has become featured on the show's official website (therefore a reliable source) under the name "Shiroi Mahoutsukai", rather than any attempt at translating into English. I've gained a reputation for being a hardass when it comes to name translations, but that was only when the names were in katakana. What should be done here? Because I absolutely abhor using "Shiroi Mahoutsukai" when its barely a proper noun.— Ryulong ( 琉竜 ) 15:05, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Shiroi Mahoutsukai is absolutely a proper noun, so your comment that it isn't doesn't make any sense. If that is the official name for the character, than that is what should be used. Of course, you can include a note about the literal translation of the title, too. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:44, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I guess it would be the official name of the character, even if it's just a direct transliteration of the Japanese name 白い魔法使い. However, my issue now is that I have an editor hellbent on creating an independent article now that he's getting his own set of toys and shit, and he has a section on the official site dedicated to him. I have been asking for proper reliable sources but he's throwing "HE HAS TOYS NOW" at me (as well as some cellphone photographs of a magazine issue which may or may not be out [I don't know where to buy Terebikun or Terebimagazine here]).— Ryulong ( 琉竜 ) 04:43, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
 * You seem to be doing fine right now. As far as I can tell, there's no evidence of independent notability for the character. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 08:28, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Help interviewing a Japanese WikiProject
Since you've been involved in two previous WikiProject Reports, including one featuring WikiProject Japan, I hope you don't mind me asking if you'd be willing to help interview a Japanese WikiProject for the Signpost. I've been trying to highlight WikiProjects from other languages of Wikipedia and we had three successful interviews with Czech, French, and German projects last year. I'd really like to feature a Japanese project next but I don't know how to speak or write Japanese. Would you be interested in working on this story with me? You'll be included in the article's byline, get to help decide which project we interview, and help craft the questions for the interview. I've been looking at the Japanese Wikipedia's WikiProject Baseball and WikiProject Biography as possibilities, but we could interview any other active projects you know. –Mabeenot (talk) 01:35, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I'd be the best for it, but I'm willing to help. I think Oda Mari might be good at helping to translate the questions into Japanese. I don't have any preference on which project is interviewed. If you could post a list of questions here (or a link to them), that would be great. Also, if you could post an introduction in English so we could translate it and then post it on that project's talk page, that would be great, too. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 05:07, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi! I was reading this thread when Nihonjoe replied. There is a page for people like you at WP:ja, Mabeenot. ja:Wikipedia:Help for Non-Japanese Speakers. Or I suggest you to e-mail these users. User:Miya and User:山田晴通. They are English speaking adimin at WP:ja. And there are a lot of English speaking users at there. See ja:Category:User en. Of course, I'd be willing to help you. Don't hesitate to ask. Oda Mari (talk) 05:37, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I have drafted some questions for the interview. Feel free to change any of them and translate if needed. As you noted, some Japanese editors know English and will not need translating, so I'll let you decide the best way to proceed. My usual invitation to participate in interviews is available in my userspace, although we will probably want to explain a little better what the Signpost is and why we're interested in hearing about the unique experiences of Japanese Wikipedians. Usually, I'll post the invitation to the project's talk page (so everyone's invited) and then individually invite some users by using the contributors tool on the project's page and talkpage to find editors who have a long history with the project and/or have commented most frequently. If the person who first created the project's page is still active, I'll usually invite them too. When I tried interviewing the German project last year, I sought out English-speaking editors over there to help with translating and ended up creating unnecessary confusion, so I'd prefer it if one of you is willing to be the go-to person communicating with the folks at the Japanese project. Thanks for helping make this WikiProject Report a reality! –Mabeenot (talk) 07:11, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Hey, still busy?
Hi Nihonjoe! About a month ago, I asked you if you could do copy-editing for Clannad (visual novel) and Angel Beats!, but you said you were busy in real life. Now, do you have time, or are you still busy? Thank you. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 09:01, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I am still in the middle of a few things, so it may be good to have someone else look at them if you are in a hurry. If not, then I will get to them when I have some extra time. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 09:03, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Do you have time for a translation?
Hey Nihonjoe, I found Russian classical music and the Japanese version appears to be much better and is a good article on their wikipedia. Is there any chance you'd be able to improve this version with information from the Japanese one? Ryan Vesey 19:46, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I have time for a project of that size right now. I have too many RL things which are taking my time. You might ask Oda Mari or some of the other native Japanese in the project. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 18:14, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Archive search box at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles seems broken
At Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles, clicking on the number of an archive shows a URL with /misc but there seems to be a redirect from /Archive. Archive search seems to be broken. I mention this because I see you've archived JET talk and so probably have more experience with archiving than I do. LittleBen (talk) 05:29, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * That's because the title of the page has changed a few times, but the search box info wasn't updated. I think I've fixed it now. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 07:45, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Yes I noticed the title change. The MOS people suggesting that their opinion aces local knowledge, apparently ;-) LittleBen (talk) 08:29, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
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MOS-JA
What did this mean because its existence was causing Elvenscout to violate WP:POINT in an RM I started (that he/she has since become the only other participant just to make said point).— Ryulong ( 琉竜 ) 14:21, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * It means exactly what it states. I'm not sure how it could be made more clear. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 21:58, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Archiving of previous RMs prior to launching new ones
I just reverted a similar one (logged in) prior to another RM. It's a pattern. An IP cluster did that prior to a dozen of Kauffner's RMs last year, if you search SPI and ANI you'll find it somewhere. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:43, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * IIO and that Canadian IP show up at various RMs and other forums to hound me about this, that, and the other. This has been going for almost a year. Maybe it was actually about something at one time. I don't know. Now they are just obsessed. There are literally hundreds of kilobytes of IIO complaining about me, and he has researched my edit history going back a year or two. I figure I'm the most thoroughly investigated editor in the history of Wikipedia. Kauffner (talk) 07:14, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

AnmaFinotera
Sad to see that she seems to have quit Wikipedia "due to stalking" before you awarded her a Barnsensu for her contributions. LittleBen (talk) 06:42, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I awarded it the day before she retired, so she was aware of it. I think she might have even told me she saw it. It's been a while though, so I don't remember too clearly now. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 07:34, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

request to add video to anime article
hello,

i'm a student at Alverno College and am currently enrolled in a class in which we need to make a video for a wikipedia article. i have created a video that gives an example of proper chibi proportion, and i believe that it would add to the anime article. i was thinking that it could be placed in the Visual Characteristics section, under the Proportions sub-heading.

here is a link to the video: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AProper_Chibi_Proportions.webm

thank you for your time, and please let me know either way.

Jackssnowflake (talk) 20:32, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know that the Anime article is the best place for that. However, I did add it to the Chibi (term) article, where it fits in perfectly. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 21:28, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Hello
Thank you for the name change. NintendoFan (talk) 10:15, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * No problem. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 15:28, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

CHUS request
I'm always uncomfortable with foreign characters and I thought you might be the best equipped crat to handle this request... Changing_username/Simple. Then again, I may be eloquently displaying my ignorance of East Asian character sets by asking. I'll take that hit if it comes. I know nothing. --Dweller (talk) 16:50, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Translation of RS
Hi. As you're listed at Translators_available, could you have a look at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine. I'd like to know if the sources for Aoki_Mariko_phenomenon are legit.Smallman12q (talk) 01:14, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Power
Exactly what recourse would someone have if you blocked/banned (and keep in mind the distinction is purely semantic, in either case you'd be wielding authority to "win" a debate) them for daring to disagree with you, or for having qualms about casual threats of cutting off privileges? It's not exactly comforting to a newer editor to see an admin making comments on talk pages that boil down to "if you continue to disagree with me, you lose access". Seanette (talk) 09:02, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't really care if people disagree with me, and they can do it all day and I won't do anything about it. You're reading way too much into things. The only threat being made is that Ujongbakuto needs to stop editing things to how he wants them against common practice. If s/he wants to change that common practice, then there needs to be a discussion without constant edit warring. I don't have a dog in this fight other than to stop the pointless edit warring. If people decide that—across the board—we should use "Empire of Japan" for references to the country which existed from 1868 to 1945, I'm perfectly fine with that. Current practice, however, disagree with that and uses "Japan" across the board regardless of where/when the person was born in Japan.
 * Also, please keep the discussion in one place. There's no need to be spreading it across multiple pages here. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 09:30, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Task force Science fiction for wiki project novels
Excuse me, my name is Liberalufp and I will be the new coordinator of the task force. With me as coordinator things will be very different, for one the task force at the moment is run down and only has 10 members. In effort to make this task force a major success and living up to its goals, I will be taking the reins and will be requesting for each one of you to do your assignment I will be assigning you and message me on my talk page when it is done. If you wish not to do the assignment let me know. I am sorry if this is harsh and tyrannical but we have over 4,000 articles that need taking care of. Everything is optional and do not feel pressured. If you have any objections or Questions please message me on my talk page.--Liberalufp (talk) 01:57, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I have my own priorities, so unless what you "assign" is what I plan on doing, I won't be doing anything from the "assignment". This isn't high school. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 06:11, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Vanished Hugo
Hello. I'm one of the editors who had interaction with Spinelli. FYI, he had (has) some subpages with various mathematical formulas posted. I had suggested to him that he template the pages with, but he resisted. (So I left the pages alone.) Now that he has vanished, are the subpages an issue? E.g., should they be deleted, templated, or what? BTW, thank you for accommodating his request. It looks like he got smart and decided to stop beating the dead horse. I hope he is happier in his other pursuits. – S. Rich (talk) 14:52, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The pages can be found if you know how to look. I'm not comfortable doing anything else with them. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 23:07, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I know how to find them. But shouldn't they be templated with __NOINDEX__ to avoid FAKEARTICLE problems? As my interactions with the former editor have not always been cordial, I'm reluctant to do it myself.  But if you will give me your go-ahead, I shall do so. (It is not a compelling need on my part by any means. Just a bit of unfinished business.) – S. Rich (talk) 23:35, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Sure, feel free to template them if you wish. I don't have any more authority regarding that than the next person, though. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 23:54, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Let me try this. The VANISH guidance says "The user account is renamed; user pages are blanked or deleted; and pages related to the user's conduct may be deleted, blanked, or moved." Seems that the user pages -- including the subpages -- should have been blanked or deleted. You were (and are) the one best positioned to accomplish that step. (It looks like they were simply automatically renamed during the process.)  It would save trouble to do so now rather than going though a AfD process. Hugo wanted everything gone. He blanked his user page. His user page and user talk page were blanked and renamed in the vanish process. So why not delete the subpages now as well? – S. Rich (talk) 14:17, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Why are you so concerned about it? Hugo doesn't seem to care, and the only pages that are generally deleted and blanked (respectively) are the user page and the user talk page. Any subpages are generally just renamed along with the account. Pages containing mathematical formulas are hardly related to his conduct. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 22:35, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Sorry!
Yes, indeed I was trying to speedy delete that other page, but somehow thought I was on that page when I tagged it. Quite embarrassing! Thanks for the understanding. Michitaro (talk) 15:15, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * No problem. Happens to all of us at one point or another. ··· 日本穣 ? ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 23:06, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Can you block (with expiry time of indefinite) and delete User:Dan56, please?
Hi, sorry for interrupt, and I suggest you block (with expiry time of indefinite) and delete User:Dan56, please? Because of his some contributions that undid revision on it, especially unsourced music genres. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lordofpyrus (talk • contribs) 08:11, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * No. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 14:40, 25 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I've blocked Lordofpyrus for trolling.  Acroterion   (talk)   08:20, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 14:40, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
Liberalufp (talk) 21:55, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Looking for an Unblock over Heavy Opposition, Nihonjoe
Chanced across the "Eguor Admin" grouping. Chose you and Addshore at random after rejecting a couple with no recent activity. "Eguor administrators promise to offer a fair hearing to editors who present a well-documented case that they've been mishandled in some way. Burden of evidence rests squarely on the shoulders of the person who makes the assertion."

I was indef. blocked for sockpuppeting last May, but I didn't do it. The block was by way of Timotheus Canens who provided no warning, diff, or discussion. He was an admin at the time, now he's an arb. I see at Eguor I'm supposed to prove my case, but I can't prove a negative. I can say there's no proof I socked and no-one's ever furnished any circumstantial argument either. I've edited for several years, and did a WP:CLEANSTART after a WP:OUTING. You can see this in the first edit of my account.

It's accurate that I had a rough few early edits in the then-new account. I had only been a content editor, for years, but then got hauled into WP:ANI for trying to defend a WP:BLP. I encountered this whole new group of Wikipedia members that dwell almost entirely on the administrative side, no content. Not having any experience I didn't know how to respond. I was railroaded after the indef. I decided that I wasn't going to be bullied, and they weren't going to turn me into a sock which would be giving truth to the lie, so I started editing via IP and signing with my user ID. That is not a sock. Nobody ever listened and I didn't know what to do.

What else? I appealed to ArbCom, who rejected without explanation and demanded I divulge my previous account. I appealed to ArbCom again, by this time Timotheus Canens my blocker was an arb, and did not recuse himself. ArbCom however (this is important) did not block me, it only declined to lift my block. Any admin as far as I know can lift my block under policy, and an arb told me this. Why am I writing two Equor admins? Because if you decide to unblock me, you better be prepared for blowback, and I figure each of you could help the other. Anyhow, this is four paragraphs already, I better wrap it up. If you help me I promise I'll be straight with you, and try to fly high if I ever get back. This is Colton Cosmic.

User:Colton Cosmic
You do realize of course that this user had appealed to WP:BASC and been denied, and had used dozens of IP addresses to evade his block over a the last six months? Even a cursory glance at his talk page would have made it clear that by unblocking him you are overriding not only the arbitration committee but the community as well. Are you sure that is what you meant to do? Beeblebrox (talk) 16:18, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, and I put my reasoning on his talk page. Any discussion should be there. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:21, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.   Thank you. - David Biddulph (talk) 16:32, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually, your behaviour is being called into question, so this page is the correct venue, not Colton Cosmic's. As I assume you are willing to abide by WP:ADMINACCT, I'd be grateful if you would kindly explain how you feel you complied with community expectations of the policy at WP:ILLEGIT:
 * "Circumventing policies or sanctions: ... in the case of sanctions, bans, or blocks, evasion typically causes the timer to restart. See also WP:EVASION."
 * Specifically, the user evaded his block multiple times - as recently as last month, and the initial block was for reasons of sock-puppetry. Is there some overriding reason why the normal course of action described in our policy should not have applied in this case? Personally, I'm glad to see any prodigal user return, but I feel it unfair that some users are exempted from our policies while others are not. I have this page bookmarked, so please feel free to reply here. --RexxS (talk) 18:38, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi Nihonjoe. If you could email ArbCom with details of Colton Cosmic's previous account we can confirm that your unblock was appropriate.  SilkTork  ✔Tea time  18:10, 11 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Allow me to politely butt in. In my view this may be answered by WP:CLEANSTART, which is policy. "If you are not under Arbitration Committee sanctions, you are not required to notify anyone of your clean start." And may I throw a WP:AGF in there. Colton Cosmic (talk) 19:07, 11 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Nihonjoe. I do have a couple of questions. Under our blocking policy, we have the sentence Except in cases of unambiguous error, administrators should avoid unblocking users without first attempting to contact the blocking administrator to discuss the matter. Given that this was reviewed by BASC and declined, could you explain your reasons for not contacting either BASC or T.Canens about this unblock? Do you have a reason to believe there was an unambiguous error? Worm TT( talk ) 20:06, 11 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I think his reply to my first post at the top of the thread made it clear that he deliberately overrode both consensus and BASC and substituted his own judgement for that of all those others. As you (and many others) mentioned at my RFB, bold, cowboy-esque use of admin tools is not what is not what we expect from crats, so I think i am not the only one who would really like to know why it seemed so justified in this particular case, and what avenue of appeal caused Joe to decide to intervene here at all. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:43, 11 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I emailed him at random from a list of "Eguor Admins" Beebs, and did not realize I was getting a bureaucrat until later. I told him noting other than my case. Colton Cosmic (talk) 20:50, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
 * See, right there is the problem. Colton emailed me some time ago asking me to consider unblocking. Evidence indicates he has emailed many other admins as well, he's used IPs to campaign for himself many times, and every single time has been declined. Colton clearly just kept emailing everyone he could find hoping that one admin would be willing to ignore the the decisions of a large group of their peers.
 * This is what I find troubling about this. I'm not the least bit surprised Colton was still complaining to anyone he could about his block, although at some point email access probably should have been yanked, but rather that when he did find someone who thought he should be unblocked, they just cowboyed up and did it instead of discussing it with anyone. I've not know Joe to act so rashly before and I certainly hope he can now see what a poorly considered course of action this was even if he was right about it. Beeblebrox (talk) 21:06, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
 * CC has emailed me as well, more than once. Polite enough, but I elected to not unblock nor seek getting him unblocked.  Not personal, seems nice enough in his own way, but I would bet he has emailed many others.  I would have been glad to participate in a discussion with others, and would have been open minded as well, had a larger discussion been started prior to unblocking.  Dennis Brown - 2¢  © Join WER 01:21, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
 * First, thank you Nihonjoe, for your clarifications at ANI. I am content that my request above has been answered. Now that CC has been reblocked, I would hope that Dennis and other rational admins will be prepared to participate in that discussion that is suggested above. Nihonjoe's action has at least had the effect of exposing the very issues surrounding the original block and may, if calmly and patiently explored, lead to an acceptable unblock in the near future. I hope so. --RexxS (talk) 16:44, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Barnstar

 * Thanks, though I'm unsure what it's for. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 06:58, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I'd assume it's for the unblock of CC, which you did with good intentions. m.o.p  14:57, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
 * True, despite everything that lynch mob at ANI wanted. I'm truly disgusted with that lynch mob mentality they've shown in this case. There is still no evidence to support any sort of block. Any minor infractions CC may have done during his block is more than covered by the lengthy and unwarranted block he's already had. He should get off for time served, and also be apologized to for being blocked without any evidence to support the block. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 15:44, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Cosmic Colton
Hi Nihonjoe. It's not clear to me, from reading your lengthy statement at ANI, whether you were told what Cosmic Colton's previous account was. I hope you don't mind clarifying what you knew when you unblocked. Did CC tell you the name of his old account, or did you evaluate the accusation of sock puppetry without knowing his account history? An answer here is fine with me if it's fine with you. AGK [•] 08:40, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
 * CC never provided that information to me. Given how acerbic many people have been toward him, I'm not surprised he doesn't want to trust anyone with that information. I still stand by WP:AGF in this case, and don't fault him for not wanting to share that information. He has indicated multiple times that the previous account has not ever been blocked and is not currently banned, and I see no reason under any of the "evidence" I've seen so far that makes me think he is being deceptive. He's been entirely forthcoming any time he used an IP, and someone who was wanting to "get around the system" wouldn't be doing that. I strongly disagree with the reblocking of CC in this case as there is still no evidence. I find it unbelievable that so many admins in this case were gladly screaming for a lynching without any evidence at all to support any of the allegations made about sockpuppetry (which is the basic reason for the original block). If we are going to begin blocking people for no valid reason, that is truly sad. If we can't even abide by our own policies in situations like this, what leg do we have to stand on in defending anything we do as admins? ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 15:42, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't think anyone in that thread was calling for a "lynching", Joe. The upshot of the thread was that your unblock was so startlingly out of process that it needed to be reversed (with no particular prejudice for or against CC), and that if you or Colton Cosmic want to pursue his unblock you're welcome to, but you must discuss the issues and make a case for why the original block was erroneous - not a case in your own head, or in his, but an actual case, explaining and debating things on-wiki. Speaking personally, I'd welcome an opportunity to see the cases laid out for and against the original block here, and I'd be perfectly willing to participate in a discussion evaluating whether the original block should be upheld; I'm just not ok with an unblock this obviously contentious being done by one admin who avoided discussing it or seeking information about it beforehand. If you feel strongly about Colton's block, I encourage you to go ahead and start an AN thread appealing it, which is the way we generally go about lifting sanctions on long-term indeffed, contentious users. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 18:00, 12 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I have to agree, I for one am not looking for you to be lynched, just hoping you see what a poorly considered action this was and how in the end it did not help at all, more the opposite. Pursuant to comments at ANI I am leaving you some fish, and as far as I am concerned that is the end of it.


 * Beeblebrox (talk) 18:09, 12 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I'm not saying anyone wants me lynched (though I'm sure there are a few of those out there, too). I'm saying that the whole issue surrounding CC reminds me of a lynch mob (or perhaps the "witch" burning in Monty Python and the Holy Grail). The logic used to block CC has no actual logic in it. It was not based on any evidence, and the blocking admins have not volunteered anything which even comes close to anything solid. Therefore, the mentality is that of a lynch mob: just a big pile-on just because everyone else is piling on, without regard to any evidence (or lack thereof). Thank you for the trout, though. One of my favorite fish to eat, actually. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 03:06, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

!Barnstar
Hey Joe, I wasn't sure a "barnstar" was exactly what I wanted to convey, if for no other reason than the CC incident didn't exactly fly under the radar as a low-profile action. I did however very much appreciate your AGF and desire to bring another editor back into the fold. I personally haven't investigated anything, but on general principle I believe I agree with you on principle. My only niggle would be the lack of a discussion with the blocking admin. prior to the unblock. Now all that said, I did think that I wanted to note the situation in some manner, so I offer you this:

— Ched : ?  18:22, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

AN
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. The thread is Unblocking Colton Cosmic. Yunshui 雲 ‍ 水  18:29, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Kauffner MfD

 * I think that's a very good close. Those of us voting delete have essentially got what they wanted, whilst Kauffner has still got a userpage that shows what his interests are. Luke no 94  (tell Luke off here) 10:32, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I tried to consider both sides in the discussion, and I agree it was a good way to close it. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:11, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Move of Kaze Tachinu
Hi Nihonjoe. You probably didn't see the RM of Kaze Tachinu when you moved it to The Wind Is Rising, but as there is ongoing discussion over the title, you should participate there instead of moving the article on your own (cf.). I've reverted the move for now. Thanks, BDD (talk) 20:13, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I was just reverting an invalid move. Your move now caused the same problem. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:19, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Asian film Infoboxes Merging
As you participated in the discussion to keep/merge the various Asian film Infobox templates, I'd like you to look over and hopefully contribute to how they will be merged. Thank you for your input. ₪Rick n Asia₪ 16:23, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Second opinion B class
Could you check Talk:List of Phantom Blood episodes and Talk:List of Battle Tendency episodes per Ryulong's request on my talk page? Thanks. DragonZero ( Talk  ·  Contribs ) 18:42, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, looks like sources were added. DragonZero  ( Talk  ·  Contribs ) 19:19, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

User talk:68.107.137.178
Sorry to be back so soon to criticize another of your admin action, but I was reviewing unblock requests and came across this one. I'm just letting you know I have unblocked this user for the following reasons:


 * I don't see any edit warring
 * You gave no indication of where you thought this edit warring was taking place
 * The user was not warned to stop or notified of the block
 * Putting it on hold for a 24 hour block could easily turn into them having to sit out the block anyway while we discuss it, and since I looked at every single one of their edits and did not see any violation of WP:EW I consider this as falling in the "unambiguous error" category of blocks.

'Beeblebrox (talk) 17:45, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
 * It has to do with the IP edits here. It's one person using multiple IPs to keep putting the same or similar information on WP:BN after being told to knock it off. It wasn't done in error. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 05:08, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

In need of Translating
If you can help me, i need some help with translating this video for the Ghost in the Shell (video game) article (to give it a development section). I'm attempting to get the article to B-class at least. You can send me the translations to my email if you do agree to translate it for me. If not, thanks for your time anyways.Lucia Black (talk) 11:40, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
 * It will take a while to do that. I'll see what I can do. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 15:34, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm patient. Thank you for your help, i really appreciate this.Lucia Black (talk) 20:09, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Re: Ghibli movies
If I've been or end up being rude about any of this, I apologize. I will always claim that it's because I'm sick of seeing people deny the facts and/or tell me lies and pure opinions are superior.

A translation is supposed to be as divorced from its original language as possible, so any translation (no matter the content) of a product name is very wrong unless that translation is being applied to the product by the product creator (and "friends", e.g. a publisher for other territories). Therefore, there is no difference between a so-called "exact translation" and "making stuff up". Furthermore, all later names are alternatives to an original, and that original is always the thing's "true name". This much is undeniable.

This could be used to argue that romaji (and, eventually, things like furigana) is similarly unusable, and it is at least true that they are alternative names. However, romaji is meant to be closely related to any of its appropriate languages because it's more or less a pronuncation guide, like furigana.

What bothers me are things like products with clearly printed, obviously English titles made by and for a Japanese market, which would include Japanese transcriptions; which one is the "true name"? And what about the even more vague case of solely Japanese transcriptions of obviously English words with no clearly printed title in sight; do I transcribe those into their appropriate English words, or pure romaji? Despatche (talk) 09:14, 25 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I guess we'll just have to disagree. I see your stance as basically a "scorched earth" policy, and we simply can't accomplish much by being that extreme in our approaches here. If the original creator uses a weird English title, it is likely to be the one used by everyone outside of that original language until a licensee comes along and uses a different title (if they even change it, which isn't always the case). An example is Ocean Waves, the official English title of 海がきこえる, and clearly not a translation of the title. I get irritated every time I hear that as it's not descriptive of the show in the least. I prefer the fan-created I Can Hear the Sea as a much more elegant title and also more evocative of the feelings in the film as it implies a nostalgia for when the main character lived close to the sea that seems to be lost on Ocean Waves. However, I expect you won't go on a spree of rename requests for this film and others like it because the English titles, no matter how bizarre to English-speakers, are clearly established as the official titles. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 15:13, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

File Deletions
Hi. Three years ago, I created an account(ebmastr) which was blocked (I am totally ok with it, no problem). I created an article (Cemil Uylukcu) which was blocked as well! I am also ok with that, no problem again!

My problem is I would like to COMPLETELY GET DELETED (especially files in Wiki Commons) what I uploaded/created. How can I get it? I will be very very happy if you help me!

Thanks in advance!

Links to what I am talking about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=cemil%20uylukcu&fulltext=Search&profile=images&redirs=1

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cemil_Uyluk%C3%A7u — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omererdogan (talk • contribs) 10:57, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * It is unlikely you will be able to get deleted the works you uploaded. You can see how to request it by going here. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 15:17, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Renaming information request
You have been identified as someone who does a large number of renames. If you could visit meta:Rename practices and explain your renaming practices and policy, we would appreciate the effort. We are making this request to help us better understand local renaming practices as we work towards SUL finalization. Thank you for your time and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.  MBisanz  talk 22:54, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Anime discussions
Hi. Can you please take a look at WT:MOS-AM, Talk:Ghost in the Shell, and Talk:Dragon Ball and provide your opinions on these? Thanks, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 02:03, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

I was about to ask your opinion on this as well. I have no real opinion on the Dragon Ball Z page, but the state of the Ghost in the Shell articles was awful prior to the merge and semi-unmerge.— Ryulong ( 琉竜 ) 09:21, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I support this and will not call it canvassing. I think openness about this entire mess is probably for the best, so please, your input is welcome. As I seem to have bit off quite a bit and stirred the hornet's nest. I just wish I was able to quote and cite policy eloquently for better arguments. I really wanted your input before, but I was afraid of being called out for WP:CANVAS. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 00:53, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

A smaller favor (again)
I been trying to manually translate this but having difficulty finding the japanese characters. Could you translate the japanese text in the purple section for me? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QN2l0o158nQ/ULi1tDD5EvI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/MoHT5p6Yx10/s1600/SSL27433.JPG. I know I've already asked enough from you but this is a very small one. I don't think this would take much time.Lucia Black (talk) 04:12, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't have the time to work on that right now. I recommend seeing if Oda Mari can assist you in is. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 06:13, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks.Lucia Black (talk) 06:16, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Forced user renames coming soon for SUL
Hi, sorry for writing in English. I'm writing to ask you, as a bureaucrat of this wiki, to [//meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Single+User+Login+finalisation+announcement%2FPersonal+announcement&filter=&action=page translate and review the notification] that will be sent to all users, also on this wiki, who will be forced to change their user name on May 27 and will probably need your help with renames. You may also want to help with the pages Rename practices and Global rename policy. Thank you, Nemo 13:06, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Notifications box replacement prototypes released
Hey Nihonjoe; Kaldari has finished scripting a set of potential replacements available to test and give feedback on. Please go to this thread for more detail on how to enable them. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 14:55, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

History of hentai
Per WP:COMMONSENSE do you think it is a good idea to protect this article as is done with Hentai? - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 03:22, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Not sure. Perhaps discussing it on WT:ANIME would be good. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 15:59, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Institutional memory
Please take a look at Articles for deletion/Tomono clan. There are two issues with likely consequences in other articles. The perspective of institutional memory might help sharpen our understanding of the issues. --Ansei (talk) 18:45, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Marc Sinden page
Hi, I have been exercising a degree of 'stewardship' on this article since about mid-2011 and have, in my opinion, cleaned it up, provided proper sources and generally tided it up in line with Wiki BLP policy. I was wondering if you would have any objection to removing the BLP sources template I believe you may have added in January 2010? I hope that I have now supplied sufficient correctly sourced references to make the citation unnecessary and in line with other biographical articles. In reading back through the editing history, I can absolutely see why this template and the protection level you put on it was necessary(!) but I hope that the problem has gone away - the rogue editor has been "quiet" since 12 March 2010 - and I hope that you will agree that the article and its sources are much improved since that time. I look forward to your thoughts. Manxwoman (talk) 03:49, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I've removed it, and also rearranged some of the content to make it less resumé-like. I also removed the picture of him with royalty because it didn't seem to have anything to do with anything on the page other than just as decoration. The lead needs to be expanded to summarize the content of the article. See Manual of Style/Lead section. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 06:14, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you, but with great respect, there are a number of points that your edit has now removed and has completely altered the correct chronology. The picture of Sinden and the Prince of Monaco is at the ceremony where he was awarded High Patronage by the Prince, as clearly detailed in the section, hence the inclusion of the picture, not as decoration! Also, his career seems to cover very different aspects within the same profession, thus the sub-sections to make this clear. There is a huge difference between Director and/or Producer, in Theatre and/or Film, which I was trying to make clear, as there is very little cross-over, but your edit has amalgamated the two. "Video" hardly exists here in the UK now, hardly ever referred to and virtually unobtainable, except from specialist stores, as it is all now DVD and the series that he is directing goes to great length in all the sources that I have read to say that it is only a DVD release. I am sure you will understand if I restore the previous edit, take your points and deal with them and will work to expand the lead to summarize the content of the article better as you have rightly suggested. Manxwoman (talk) 19:06, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Please don't talk down to me. "Video" doesn't refer to a specific format such as VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, etc., but rather to non-film moving picture files or presentations. It encompasses all of those. Regardless, do whatever you want as I don't care about that article and it's a royal mess. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 05:57, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Please accept my apologies. I didn't intend in any way to "talk down to you" and unreservedly apologise to you if you thought that or it came across that way. It is not my style to be rude or condescending and I am sorry if I upset you. I take your points and will have another look at the article. Manxwoman (talk) 11:23, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Too funny
My user page is once again the center of controversy, as you can see here. Kauffner (talk) 14:53, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Now its gone to ANI. Kauffner (talk) 09:51, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry, wikt:TL;DR. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 06:03, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

De728621
Thanks for blocking that account. It's obviously a sock of, see also the thread at ANI. De728631 (talk) 15:11, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Blocking which account? And which thread at ANI? Link please. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 06:00, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Tenmei
Please give some thought to the reasoning here. If you have anything to say about it, please contact me off-wiki. --Ansei (talk) 13:45, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar for creating the new barnstar
And thank you for the barnstar! Happy editing!  Sophus Bie  (talk) 05:42, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to take a short survey about communication and efficiency of WikiProjects for my research
Hi Nihonjoe, I'm working on a project to study the running of WikiProject and possible performance measures for it. I learn from WikiProject Japan talk page that you are an active member of the project. I would like to invite you to take a short survey for my study. If you are available to take our survey, could you please reply an email to me? I'm new to Wikipedia, I can't send too many emails to other editors due to anti-spam measure. Thank you very much for your time. Xiangju (talk) 16:26, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Japan geography taskforce
Hello Nihonjoe. I was looking for a geography related project for Japan and found WikiProject Japan/Geography and environment task force started by you. I see that you redirected its talk page to the main Japan project page. Can you add a section in the geography project page for Requested articles? I wanted to request an article on Mount Arafune, and I don't know where to add it. Jay (talk) 10:02, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
 * You can see the list of Japan geography-related requested articles here: Requested articles/Japan. Please add any additional requests there. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 07:07, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Jay (talk) 17:13, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Jiroemon Kimura of the 19th-Century
Nihonjoe,

I noticed the recent press releases and updates to Jiroemon Kimura's Wikipedia article, declaring him the last living man of the 19th-Century. I would like to dispute this claim on the basis of the Wikipedia entry of Mr. Jozef Kowalski, born 2 February, 1900, acknowledged as the world's oldest living military veteran, possibly Europe's oldest living man. I think it would be a credit both to Mr. Kimura and Mr. Kowalski if a correction could be made to the former's biography. Thank you for your consideration in this matter.

Jlich001 (talk) 00:39, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I'm not sure why you don't just fix it yourself. I don't have time to go edit the article right now. I have no idea what you are talking about as far as press releases, either, as I haven't done any and I've barely even edited that article. If you don't want to edit the article yourself, you can raise your concerns on that article's talk page.  ··· 日本穣 ? ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 05:41, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Tenmei → Enkyo
If you have time, please notice the reasons for a username change here. --Tenmei (talk) 17:58, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Someone else already took care of it, which is good since I would have declined to act in this case. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:25, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
 * A simple name change was done here --User:Enkyo2 (talk) 13:49, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, someone else took care of it. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:33, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Strange things going on at MOS-JA
This looks suspicious. How could a Japanese IP user fluent in English suddenly appear and "amend" the MOS based on a 5 month old discussion that never adequately concluded what to do?— Ryulong ( 琉竜 ) 17:40, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
also, YGM... Yunshui 雲 ‍ 水  07:28, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Senkaku Islands
See a thread Arbitration/Requests/Clarification and Amendment. My guess is that this thread will be closed in favor of some other forum, but in the mean time it appears that a few useful suggestions for problem-solving have been made. You're an admin who has previously dealt with Senkaku disputes. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 15:43, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't see any use in making a comment there. Those two articles are a royal hairy mess. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 06:50, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox disputed islands
Template:Infobox disputed islands has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:12, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Hello! Can you explain
to me the following: You renamed User:ChaudhryAzan to User:Vanished user indfoijwe3ty here, then you probably deleted User:ChaudhryAzan and its talk page. Now User:ChaudhryAzan is again editing from his account (see here). What I request clarification is whether there are 2 separate accounts now for the same user? Shouldn't one a/c be blocked from further editing? I am sorry, if I am mistaken or if I am missing something. I would be grateful if you could explain. Thanks! :) Anir1uph &#124; talk &#124; contrib 06:35, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for sorting that out! Anir1uph &#124; talk &#124; contrib 08:21, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

DYK Question
Hello, I'm hoping you can help with this question (seems everyone at DYK is offline). Would the WBSC (AM) article be eligible for DYK in it's current state? I have updated the article with a TON of information, but not sure if it is 5x or not. Thanks in advance. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 08:04, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Question was taken care of by User:Alex Bakharev. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 08:25, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I think it would be, though you'll have to wait for the AfD to be closed (it appears it will be a "keep" decision). ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:31, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Regulus Occultation ticket
Hi,

In case you're not following the discussion at WT:WikiProject Astronomy, would you mind replying to the reader whose ticket you posted and point them to the discussion? —Alex (ASHill &#124; talk &#124; contribs) 21:10, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

DYK RfC

 * As a listed DYK participant, you are invited to contribute to a formal Request for Comment on the question of whether Good Articles should appear in the Did You Know? slot in future. Please see the proposal on its subpage here, or on the main DYK talk page. To add the discussion to your watchlist, click this link. Thank you in advance. Gilderien Chat&#124;Contributions 00:23, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hi Nihonjoe..! I appreciate all your kind help is welcome..! I am grateful..! Trinity Abbey (talk) 11:33, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Sure, no problem. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 03:32, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Quickie
How do you think should メェークル be parsed in Hepburn? Also things like ビィ?— Ryulong ( 琉竜 ) 04:40, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Context, please. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 05:18, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
 * The first is a proper noun of one of the new Pokémon (it's a goat or something) and the second is part of a previously released one's name of which the pattern is found in other Japanese language names of the Pokémon (Bi-little i, Pi-little i, etc.).— Ryulong ( 琉竜 ) 10:19, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Spirited Away#Character page?
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Spirited Away. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 03:17, 12 August 2013 (UTC)