User talk:Nihonjoe/Archive 73

Help
Please, can you help me to create these pages from Japanese: Ise Yoshimori, Kataoka Tsuneharu, Kamei Shigekiyo, Suruga Jirō, Washio Yoshihisa, Bizen Heishirō, Karasumaru family. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.35.64.177 (talk) 11:40, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but I don't have the spare time to take translation requests right now. Perhaps ask for assistance at WT:JA, and include your reasons why you want them translated. If you have good sources for each of them, that will help, too. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 18:42, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Yoshitsune (TV series)
Please, can you help me to find if Inoue Hachiro (井家八郎) from Ataka checkpoint in episode 47 was a real-life or fictional character? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.15.236.230 (talk) 11:38, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but I don't have the time to do that kind of research right now. You can try asking over on WT:JA and someone there may be able to help you. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:58, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Help with Japanese film credit "進行主任"
Thank you for your helpful edits on WikiProject Japan/Film credits glossary! I keep encountering the term "進行主任" when subtitling Toei films from the 1960s. I could only find this term here at https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/制作進行, which links to the English-language article for "production assistant". Should this term really just be translated as "Production Assistant" in movie credits or is there a better way to translate this? It seems like the job must be far more important than what a "production assistant" is in English because there is only one listed and it includes the term "主任" ("chief"). The Japanese article seems to give some sort of explanation: "実写映画では、進行主任などとも呼ばれるが、プロダクション·マネージャーではなく、アシスタントの一種である. " I interpreted this to mean "In live-action films it is called a progress manager, though it is a kind of assistant, not a production manager." What do you think? Do you think that the term "進行主任" should be translated simply as "Production Assistant" or more grandiosely as "Progress Manager" or something else? This seems like an important term that should be added to the film credits glossary because it has appeared in every film I've watched lately but it doesn't appear in any dictionaries. I'm looking for the translation within the context of live-action films, by the way. Nicholas0 (talk) 02:41, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Perhaps "assistant production manager"? ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:18, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Name Change
Thank you very much for helping change my username! Much appreciated. MarxKan3 (talk) 20:17, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Sure thing. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 20:36, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Kamome Shirahama
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:03, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Live discussion of translation issues EN:JP
If you're free, there happens to be a discussion with User:Sethemhat about the difficulties of translating articles in the Hackathon social room just now, and Japan is being mentioned: https://pheedloop.com/wikimania2022/virtual/?page=sessions&section=SES67ZNP2UC5MZMBA KarenJoyce (talk) 14:30, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

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Recreating a page similar to the previously deleted page
Hello!

I have recently had my username change approved and I'd like to rewrite a previous article that got deleted. I believe I haven't abided to the Wikipedia guidelines, and so I would like to retract the fact and do the right thing this time. Is that ok for me to do so, since the name of the article would be the same?

Thank you,

Leticia at Gramophone MD (talk) 19:07, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I've restored the article to User:Leticia at Gramophone MD/Gramophone Ltd.. You can work on it there until it's ready to be moved to mainspace. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 19:11, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Barley tea
Hello! Thank you for your comments in my talk page. I replied your comments. So I’m glad if you read it and discuss about it. 愛を下さい (talk) 03:56, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
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Question
Hello Nihonjoe, I have a question about changing usernames. Will my edit counts, number of edits on particular articles, and other edit stats be transferred to my newly renamed account, meaning does " https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/WikiLinuz " mirror " https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/NEW_USER_NAME " if I change my username? Apologies for posting the question here; I couldn't find this exact info at WP:CHU, so I decided to ask here since you seem like an active admin on username changes. Thanks, -- WikiLinuz { talk } 🍁  00:18, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
 * All of that will transfer to your new username. You will have to use your new username when using the edit count tool, though, as the old username will no longer exist. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 05:48, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Disable TPA
COuld you disable the TPA of "SpeedWeedy69"? All they're using their talk page for is personal attacks. ― Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#6545 17:48, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ for User:SpeedWeed69. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:51, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

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ScottishFinnishRadish's bureaucrat chat
Hi Nihonjoe, I have started a bureaucrat discussion for ScottishFinnishRadish's RfA. It can be found at Requests for adminship/ScottishFinnishRadish/Bureaucrat chat. Thanks in advance. Acalamari 01:41, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Nihonjoe, just needed to give you a hard time for messing up the beautiful alphabetical order in which bureaucrats had found a consensus in the 'crat chat. You should've gotten there between Lee Vilenski and Primefac.  Tsk tsk.  Useight (talk) 20:24, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
 * That's me, the wrench-thrower. ··· 日本穣  ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 20:26, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

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Questions about username change
Hi! I had some questions about username change, and these are coming from my company - for the pages that represent businesses, companies, who creates them? Who else would know the corporate info besides someone who works there? Is there a different process to create a business Wiki page? What happens to the page if the person who created it can no longer maintain it? What if 2 people worked on the page together?

Thanks so much for your help! Diandra utomo (talk) 22:22, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a place to advertise or promote a company. Pages on Wikipedia are written by editors interested in the subject. All article subjects must meet one or more of the notability requirements in order to have an article written about them. This means that all information included in the article must be verifiable using third-party reliable sources. In general, multiple (sometimes hundreds or thousands) editors create and maintain any given article.


 * I also recommend reading this page. It should answer most or all of your questions. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 22:30, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Mixed script username requests
There's a request on the global queue that shows the mixed script issue if you're quick and get there before it's rejected. Regards, Cabayi (talk) 19:10, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
 * That's odd. You'd think with the switch to UTF8 that this wouldn't be an issue. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:54, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Maybe it's more a case of how will other users be able to communicate with them? Neither community will have keyboards set up to type the whole name... except for . Cabayi (talk) 20:21, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * True, though the same applies to one side with usernames that use all of one script someone else doesn't use. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 22:07, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Russia reasessment
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UAA report
Just wondering, did you see the user page?, don't think this user cares that we might not like their name. - FlightTime  ( open channel ) 19:34, 12 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Deleted the page, but my concerns remain. -  FlightTime  ( open channel ) 19:37, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, and I deleted before Fastily did. Being interested in serial killers isn't grounds for blocking, and having a username that expresses that interest isn't either. However, they've recreated the deleted page (which Fastily deleted), and then tried to recreate it twice more, but were blocked by the edit filters. It seems they are not here to build the encyclopedia, so they've now been blocked for that. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 20:06, 12 October 2022 (UTC)


 * A user Being interested in serial killers was never any concern. Thank you for what you do! Cheers, -  FlightTime  ( open channel ) 20:39, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Ankitprakasharyabhattacollege
Hi, Nihonjoe, I hope you are well! I saw your soft block of User:Ankitprakasharyabhattacollege – I'd opened his/her contribs page and decided not to block, but was then called away. Just for clarification, isn't this exactly the kind of username ("Mike at WidgetsUSA", personal name + institution) that we specifically permit? Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:13, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Possibly, if their name is Ankitprakash. It is difficult to tell if that's the case, though. If it is, I see no problem with them being unblocked. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 22:14, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Translation request for Japanese Wikipedia: WiTricity
Hello! On behalf of WiTricity and as part of my work at Beutler Ink, I've shared a draft entry for Japanese Wikipedia, which is a translated version of the English Wikipedia article. I'm searching for an editor who is willing to review this draft and update the entry appropriately. Might you be willing to take a look? Thanks for your consideration. Inkian Jason (talk) 15:57, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but I don't have time right now to help with this request. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:36, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * No problem, and thanks for letting me know. Inkian Jason (talk) 16:21, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Marvin Gaye?
I've never heard of him referred to as "Marvin Gaylord". I figured that the editor who created that account was trying to test the boundaries of what is and isnt acceptable in terms of usernames, which is why I reported them to UAA. BlueNoise ( Désorienté? Deja vu? ) 22:29, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * That's always possible. I still don't see the username as being against policy. You're welcome to keep an eye on their edits, though, in case they decide to be less than helpful on the wiki. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 23:44, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, it's your call. I'll keep an eye on them. BlueNoise  ( Désorienté? Deja vu? ) 00:07, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Japanese translation
Please, can you help me with the traduction of this from Detective Conan anime series? Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.207.205.158 (talk • contribs) 08:56, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I don't have time to do that right now. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:52, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Creating Sandboxes for Students New to Wikipedia
This semester I am having students in two of my university classes translate Japanese Wikipedia articles into English in groups. Many of them are new to computers and to Wikipedia.

I have created sandboxes for them, but am getting a nag message from the "CentralAuth" that my username differs from the sandboxes created. What should I do in this case? Thanks in advance for your advice. TNewfields (talk) 03:40, 4 November 2022 (UTC)TNewfields (Tim Newfields, Nihon University)
 * I'd very strongly recommend taking advantage of the tools and resources of the Education program. It's specifically set up to help instructors and students work together as part of school work. The program is a very useful tool used by thousands of instructors and students worldwide.


 * The reason you're getting those messages is because you're creating pages within another user's userspace, which you generally shouldn't be doing. Also, one of your students indicated that they were told they needed to change their username at your instruction. This is not generally acceptable per policy here. Editors need to choose their own username, and then they can let you know what it is so you can monitor them. Some of the sandboxes you created were for users that do not exist (I suspect because you were telling them to change their usernames to what you wanted instead of letting them select their own). ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:41, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Kamakura (snow dome)
Hi Nihonjoe. I'm coming here because of Kamakura (snow dome) and because you seem to already be helping out with something else above. TNewfields created this article earlier this year; it's probably OK, but it has never really been assessed (most likely because WikiProject banners were never added to its talk page). I think it might be somewhat of a translation of ja:かまくら given the similarities in layout. If it is, then it's going needs to be properly attributed as such per WP:TRANSLATE. Since TNewfields is a university teacher and seems to be using Wikipedia as part of their classes, perhaps there are other Japanese Wikipedia articles which have been translated either to create new or expand already existing English Wikipedia articles. Are you aware of a way to go about checking on this (perhaps by a bot)? -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:23, 5 November 2022 (UTC)


 * RESPONSE: This is the 2nd year that I have been working with some university students in the creation of some English Wikipedia content. My original goal was translation from Japanese, but gradually I have learned that Japanese and English Wikipedia content structure is so markedly different that "rough interpretation" is perhaps a better description than "translation." Should I still use the WP:TRANSLATE attribution when the content is actually so different?  -- TNewfields
 * Yes, you should follow the instructions at Help:Translation if any of the content is translated from the Japanese wiki. I believe the templates that are used can indicate that only a part of the article was translated. The appropriate project banner(s) should be added tot he talk page of the article, as well. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 18:12, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi . A template that you and your students can use for this type of thing is Template:Translated page. There are instructions on how to use it given on its documentation page. Basically, you add this to the article talk page of English Wikipedia article that contains includes translated content. As for "rough interpretation", if you're able to read the sources cited in the non-English Wikipedia article and then summarize those sources in your own words, you probably don't need to be too concerned about this type of thing; on the other hand, if you're simply reading the non-English Wikipedia article and then summarizing (i.e. "translating") that content, then you probably should provide attribution for Wikipedia licensing purposes. FWIW, it's not the end of the world if you don't provide attribution in a case like this, but it's better to do so since the copyright holders of Wikipedia article content are technically the users who contribute to articles and not the Wikimedia Foundation. You don't really need to attribute individual users per se for Wikipedia licensing purposes, but rather only the version of the source article that was translated. As for WikiProject banners, adding relevant WikiProject banners to article talk pages helps to tie everything together and many WikiProjects are set up to receive notifications whenever new articles which fall within their scope are created or otherwise tagged for maintenance or review purposes. This helps interested users keep track of articles and can alert them to articles in need of some king of attention. It's not an exact science though and multiple WikiProjects might cover the same subject matter; so, when you're not sure, you can often get ideas from looking at how similar articles have been assigned WikiProjects. You don't need to be a member of a WikiProject in order to add its banner, but you and your students can pretty much join any WikiProjects about subjects that interest them. They are very informal and often just a way to discuss Wikipedia things with others who have similar interests. Some WikiProjects are quite active with lots of members and an established structure, and, thus, they can be good places to ask for assistance regarding certain types of articles or certain things related to Wikipedia editing. Since you and your students seem to be interested in Japan, you might want to take a look at WP:JAPAN. I believe that Nihonjoe is actually the person (or at least one of the people) who started WP:JAPAN, which makes him a really good person to ask about Wikipedia articles related to Japan. Good luck to you and your students. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:27, 8 November 2022 (UTC)


 * RESPONSE: Just a quick follow up. I will have students focus on the linguistic aspects of the translation and editing the content down so that it is more coherent. With existing time constraints, it is unrealistic to expect students to do any coding. I will try to get to that on my own during the spring and summer vacations when school is not in session. (When school is in session, too busy to focus on this. Thanks for the links, however. TNewfields (talk) 04:46, 14 November 2022 (UTC)TNewfields
 * No one should have to do any coding. That's what the developers do. Wikipedia editors don't have access to the backend of the site. Wiki markup is quite easy to learn and just about anyone can learn the basics in only a few minutes. Anyone editing Wikipedia should spend those few minutes to learn how to use it. It makes their editing much easier, and makes it so others don't have to go back through and clean up their edits. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 19:49, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

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Template:Hidden begin
Hello, I boldly renamed two of the parameters used in Template:Hidden begin (along with other changes). However, you are one of three people who have the template placed on a fully protected page. The parameters changed were bg1 and bg2. This means that your use of the template now has no color. To fix this simply replace any instance of "bg1=" with "titlebgcolor=" and "bg2=" with "contentbgcolor=". You can see which pages you use this template on at Category:Hidden begin with depreciated parameters, sorry for any inconvenience. Terasail [✉️] 22:44, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Nesting the parameters would have avoides all of this:  and  . That would make it so it would work no matter which were used. ··· 日本穣  ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 18:04, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I was just trying to make the template simpler overall, and also added bgcolor for the entire template, which would have been bg0 which isn't a great name. So I thought just to rename them all. Not thinking about protected userspace pages. I see that it was just a bad decision and will avoid it in the future.  Terasail [✉️] 18:33, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Rename question
Hi, you renamed Jattlife121 to on December 14 at 18:05. I thought that this kind of rename assumes that the user will not continue to edit. Am I wrong? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:12, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * That's the way vanishing works. If they are continuing to edit, we can move them back since they obviously aren't vanishing. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 21:49, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I've moved them back to their previous username. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 22:20, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:26, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 00:35, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Vera Files
Hi. Kindly see if the Vera Files article is now in an acceptable form with the additional citations and content.

Regards, -Object404 (talk) 06:26, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I've responded over at Talk:Vera Files. Please keep the discussion there. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 22:14, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Mention at AN/I
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 * Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 18:14, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

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 * Thanks! I hope yours is happy as well. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:58, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

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TPA
Hi Nihonjoe. You blocked recently, and I blanked their talk page to remove their editorial rant. Now they've reverted it back, with an expletive-laden edit summary. Could you please revoke talk page access and undo their edit? Thanks. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 13:28, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Let them have their rant. I've seen worse on various other talk pages. No one is likely to see their user talk page anyway, as that's the only thing they've edited. I will remove their editing ability on the talk page, though. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:24, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

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Giant Baba and Rikidozan
I'm very sorry to ask you this, but can you translate from Japanese to English the six pages on this site about Giant Baba. They're about his early life and I've search much to find them. You can write all in my talk page. Moreover, there are also more information about Rikidozan's family and early life that nobody had translate yet: 1, 2, 3. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.12.11.245 (talk) 15:20, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I don't have time to do that. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 15:24, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Osaka Castle
There is the story about gold steal from this castle by Kajisuke (梶助) in 1740. Please, can you write the complete story from a translation of these Japanese sites: 1, 2, 3. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.8.31.27 (talk) 10:52, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
 * No. As I mentioned above, I don't have time to do stuff like that right now. Please stop asking. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:41, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

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Boshin War
Who was the Imperial commander of the siege at Aizu-Wakamatsu Castle, and the one who meet Matsudaira Teru when she surrended? And the one from Ogaki domain's army who killed Nakano Takeko sometime before? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.244.2.87 (talk) 14:57, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
 * No idea. I'd have to go research that. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:41, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

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Edit request
One last edit request to clear the last Tidy Font errors from your pages. Would you adjust on User:Nihonjoe/DYK the following:

Five cases of: 日本穣 ? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe

to

日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe

Additionally if you are willing, these other two signatures (one appears twice, the other once) have obsolete font tags. Correcting these will clear the page of all remaining WP:Lint issues.

Two cases of: Hassocks 5489 (tickets please!)

to

Hassocks 5489 (tickets please!)

And one case of: rʨ anaɢ talk/contribs

to r ʨ anaɢ talk/contribs

Thank you for your assistance. Zinnober9 (talk) 22:45, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Should be all fixed. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 18:45, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I see though that on both of Hassock's signatures, there is a hanging " ickets please!) ]] " at the end of each that shouldn't have remained in the replacement. In other words,

Hassocks 5489 (tickets please!)  ickets please!) ]]

to

Hassocks 5489 (tickets please!) Otherwise all is good and I thank you for your assistance. Zinnober9 (talk) 20:33, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Mayoreo
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Katrina Mathers
Can we please discuss this page? Yossal2 (talk) 09:43, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * This page? I've never edited it or done anything to it. You haven't either, at least not under this username. Looks like it was deleted back in 2016 as spam. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 15:57, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah, looks like you probably mean Draft:Katrina Mathers. Again, I've never edited that. Have you talked to ? They're the ones who deleted the draft, and for the same reasons as the one deleted back in 2016: it was spam. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:00, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Thank you
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 * You're welcome. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 18:01, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

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 * Sorry, I won't be able to come that day. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 20:29, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

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Sankebetsu brown bear incident
Please, can you help me with these Japanese translations? Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.207.144.213 (talk) 22:08, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but I have too many other things I'm working on right now. I suggest asking at WT:JA if you haven't already done so. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:07, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I've already done so, but WT:JA never answer me. Please, can you find some time to do it? Thank you and sorry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.207.161.220 (talk) 22:26, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but as I stated, I don't have time to work on that right now, either doing the translation or looking for someone to do it. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 22:30, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Typo?
Hi Nihonjoe. Please check if " 9 " at Son of the Black Sword here wasn't meant to be " Nominated ". Regards, Rui &#39;&#39;Gabriel&#39;&#39; Correia (talk) 15:50, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
 * It's correct. Look at the reference for that entry (which links to here), and you'll see it as #9 under "Best Fantasy Novel". The Locus Awards rank their nominees, with #1 being the winner. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 02:19, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

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CHU query

 * Changing_username/Simple#Thisbugisonfire - I'm a newbie renamer, but the conflicting account is 14 years old with 6 edits, wouldn't unsurp work? -  FlightTime  ( open channel ) 19:11, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
 * It might, but they generally don't let you usurp accounts with edits. Additionally, the requested username isn't exactly the same as either of those two existing accounts with edits, so usurping doesn't really apply. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 19:13, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanx for your reply. -  FlightTime  ( open channel ) 20:15, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

User renaming instructions
Hi Nihonjoe. I'm a bureaucrat on the Minecraft wiki - newly forked to https://minecraft.wiki using the Wikimedia wiki software - and I need to rename a user. I don't believe I or any other bureaucrat there has done this; the activity as all been just changing certain rights. I'm hunting around on the English Wikipedia for directions and not finding any. Is there some user interface feature I'm just not seeing, or something I should see when I visit a user page? Is there a tutorial around somewhere? ~Anachronist (talk) 03:47, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah. Disregard. I found Special:GlobalRenameUser and Special:RenameUser, neither of which I have rights to view here. Global rename doesn't apply to the Minecraft Wiki, and unfortunately Special:RenameUser needs to be fixed - the right is restricted to Fandom sysadmins, and since the wiki migrated from Fandom to minecraft.wiki, we need to get that changed back to bureaucrats. ~Anachronist (talk) 03:52, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
 * You will need to adjust those permissions in the LocalSettings.php file. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:26, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Specifically, you need to add  to that file (this is usually down near the bottom), and then remove any usergroups related to the Fandom site (hopefully they are obvious user groups). ··· 日本穣  ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 18:07, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

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 * I've moved it to my userspace as I don't have time this moment to work on it. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 00:05, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

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Takao Yaguchi
Many of his manga series are only in Japanese Wikipedia: ja:おらが村, ja:新・おらが村, ja:マタギ (漫画), ja:かつみ, ja:ニッポン博物誌, ja:ふるさと (漫画), ja:激濤 Magnitude 7.7. Can you translate them in English, and maybe also expand his own page and Fisherman Sanpei? Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.2.62.220 (talk • contribs) 09:56, 25 November 2023‎ (UTC)
 * Sorry, I don't have time to do that right now. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 23:57, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Ok, but when you'll have time don't forget it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.21.33.91 (talk) 09:52, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * No, feel free to do it yourself. I may never get around to doing it. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:47, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately I don't have time to it myself, and I'm not very good with Japanese to English. Then, when you'll have time, can you help me? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.207.119.123 (talk) 15:02, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Then put the information on Requested articles in the appropriate places. That's what that section of the site is for: requesting that an article be made here. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 01:37, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Translations
Please, can you help me with these translations from Japanese to English: Hokkaido Otaru Fisheries High School (ja:北海道小樽水産高等学校), Forestry Agency (ja:林野庁), Kotanbetsu (ja:古丹別駅), Onishika (ja:鬼鹿村), Brown Bear Storm (ja:羆嵐), Japan Hunting Friends Association (ja:大日本猟友会), Hokkaido Government Police Department (ja:北海道庁警察部), Haboro Police Station (ja:羽幌警察署), 28th Infantry Regiment (Japan) (ja:歩兵第28連隊), Japan Action Enterprise (ja:ジャパンアクションエンタープライズ), Kaoru Takagi (ja:高木薫), Hokkaido Wine (ja:北海道ワイン), Karasumaru family (ja:烏丸家), Taisha Station (ja:大社駅), Motoko Baba (ja:馬場元子), Maiasa Shinbun (毎朝新聞), Champion Futoshi (ja:チャンピオン太)? Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.207.113.11 (talk) 22:29, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I don't have time to do that right now. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 23:58, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Ok, but when you'll have time don't forget it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.21.33.91 (talk) 09:53, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * No, feel free to do it yourself. I may never get around to doing it. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:48, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately I don't have time to it myself, and I'm not very good with Japanese to English. Then, when you'll have time, can you help me? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.207.119.123 (talk) 14:58, 29 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Then put the information on Requested articles in the appropriate places. That's what that section of the site is for: requesting that an article be made here. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 01:38, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

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Please stop trying to humiliate me
I am being painfully polite but I really don't like your tone towards me. I am sticking to our standard SOP on usernames and you just seem to be keen to belittle me on a promo users user page. Why? Secretlondon (talk) 21:25, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to belittle or humiliate you. I apoligize if that's how it seemed. That wasn't my intent.
 * Usernames of "Name at XTZ Company" are perfectly acceptable, and we shouldn't be requiring or requesting someone change their username if it's along those lines. You seemed to be insisting they change their username even though it was already acceptable under the policy. Dealing with a COI is separate from that. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 02:03, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Gackt's new revision on Japanese Wikipedia
Hi, please can you help me with the new revision of the article Gackt at Japanese Wikipedia? Two editors who don't have basic clue about Wikipedia editing policy are making disruptive and vandalic reverts - going even to the point of deletion request - while the new revision only needs fixing the grammar, while the old revision is of a very poor quality with many editorial problems. Miki Filigranski (talk) 08:37, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Anyway, unfortunately the deletion request will pass because I didn't provide URL link although mentioned several times it is from English Wikipedia (on talk page and edit summary). In other words, I need someone to do WP:TRANSLATEUS of the article on English Wikipedia in the form which can be found at User:Miki Filigranski/sandbox.--Miki Filigranski (talk) 14:48, 15 December 2023 (UTC)


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Request for "userfication" of certain templates and images
Good evening! I hope this message finds you well. :)

I noticed that you were on the list of administrators willing to let editors view deleted articles and files.

Given this, I would like to request the userfication of a few NHL playoff bracket templates that I once contributed to significantly, but have since been deleted. In addition, I am wondering if you could do the same for a handful of now-deleted SVG files formerly on Wikimedia.

I made numerous edits to the templates in question, and I feel I made significant progress in not only improving upon their quality at the time, but towards creating ones that could potentially be used on different pages or projects in the future.

As a result, I would like the opportunity to continue building each of them into a more refined product, by relocating these deleted templates into my user space instead. It would be quite important for me to be able to access each such page's revision history, as a bunch of edits (in addition to older versions that could nonetheless prove quite useful) have been "lost" or hidden somewhere down in its history.

Without any further ado, here are the pages in question:
 * Template:2022_Stanley_Cup_playoffs
 * Template:Template:FutureHypothetical-NHL_Divisional
 * Template:Template:16TeamBracket-NHL_Divisional

I believe the final template in this list is the one I was mainly working on, but I am not completely certain, as those edits occurred quite some time ago.

Finally, these are the Wikimedia files I would like to have moved into my user space:
 * File:Map of the swing states.svg
 * File:CPVI post-2020.svg

Of course, these images are located over at Wikimedia, but I felt it was unnecessary to make two separate requests on each of your talk pages.

Thank you very much for any help you might be able to provide, and take care!

A Red Cherry 06:12, 8 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I've userfied the three template for you:
 * User:A Red Cherry/2022 Stanley Cup playoffs
 * User:A Red Cherry/FutureHypothetical-NHL Divisional
 * User:A Red Cherry/16TeamBracket-NHL Divisional
 * The images are located on Commons, so there's no need to userfy them. Simply use them from Commons the same way you use any images. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:30, 8 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for all the help!


 * As it relates to the two images, I cannot access either file, as they do not exist (at least not publicly) anymore. The reason they aren't showing as red links is because they now redirect to two files that used to be similar to the versions of the deleted images at the time. I mostly requested their userfication because there were useful edits to their descriptions and legends lodged deep in their respective version histories, which I would like to use at some point in the future.


 * Would it still be possible to userfy these two deleted images anyway, or is that not an option for Commons?


 * Once again, I really appreciate all your assistance!


 * A Red Cherry (talk) 19:55, 8 January 2024 (UTC)


 * The exist and are publicly available:
 * commons:File:Swing state map.svg
 * commons:File:CookPVIwithin2points.svg
 * They are both on Commons and are not deleted. It's possible they were updated, though. You can look at the file history on Commons (scroll down to the File history section and find the version you want, then click on it to view it). Regarding userfying the images, images should not be in userspace. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 20:05, 8 January 2024 (UTC)


 * They were visually very similar, though not fully identical, to the files they were replaced with at the time. However, the underlying XML code structure of each SVG was significantly different, and that was mainly what I wanted to recuperate through userfication. In addition, a number of useful edits have become buried somewhere in each file's revision history, which is no longer publicly available to me now.


 * Furthermore, both files, as seen in [1 ] and [2 ], have indeed been deleted, and I cannot access old revisions to either one, as in [3 ] and [4 ]. In addition, the logs for each action can be found at [5 ] and [6 ], respectively.


 * I understand if the userfication of Commons files isn't possible. In that case, would there be any preferable methods for recovering the edit history of each image (and presumably their past versions along with them)?


 * Once again, thank you very much for your help! I appreciate your diligent assistance with my earlier renaming requests as well. :)


 * A Red Cherry (talk) 21:47, 8 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I'm not an admin on Commons, so I can't undelete anything there. You will have to ask over at their admin noticeboard. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 22:57, 8 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Got it! And, that's alright, no worries. Thanks a ton for all the help you've given me anyways :)


 * A Red Cherry (talk) 23:24, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

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Welcome to the drive!
Welcome, welcome, welcome Nihonjoe! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles. CactiStaccingCrane (talk)18:53, 1 February 2024 UTC //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Nihonjoe&action=purge refresh via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

Help with Japanese language source/names
Hello, I saw you're available as a proof-reader. Could you confirm if I correctly am using the Japanese name of the local Japan IBM union affiliate mentioned in ? Thank you! ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 21:14, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Aquaveo
If you are editing this article, and let's say theoretically speaking, you had a close connection to the company, you would need to disclose this as a conflict of interest, would you not? Sagflaps (talk) 04:55, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I've never been paid to edit the article, if that's what you're implying. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:47, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
 * What I mean is the standard criteria on Conflict_of_interest, "An editor has a financial conflict of interest when they write about a topic with which they have a close financial relationship. This includes being an owner, employee, contractor, investor or other stakeholder." Sagflaps (talk) 18:28, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * As I said, I have never been paid, directly or indirectly, to edit the Aquaveo article. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 18:38, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of Aquaveo for deletion
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Nomination of WMS (hydrology software) for deletion
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Allegations and your silence
Hi Nihonjoe, I certainly don't want this old story to overshadow your 18+ years of contributions, including 120,000+ constructive edits, a few FAs, and tens of thousands of hours in unpaid time. You deserve a lot of respect for that! Having significantly less experience, I'd nonethelss like to suggest you to consider addressing the growing COI allegations. In my observation, it's usually better this way – the community hates it when privileged editors appear to apply double standard, and then try to avoid scrutiny, dodge questions, and refuse to address doubts. I don't think this case will die. Opposite: in the absence of an honest attempt to come clean, the community will, very likely, sooner or later come down on you like a ton of bricks:

I'm far from judging you – usually there are many sides to a story, and I've seen worse – but you might also like to review your voluntary position as a bureaucrat.

Wishing you well. — kashmīrī  <sup style="color:#80f;font-family:'Candara';">TALK  01:15, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
 * What silence? I have a life outside of Wikipedia, and I can't spend every waking moment here. And refusing to share personal information is not dodging questions or trying to avoid scrutiny. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 18:12, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Notice of noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kashmiri (talk • contribs) 12:21, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Conflict of interest declarations
Hi Nihonjoe. I saw the discussion on the administrators noticeboard about your conflict of interest with Aquaveo. That probably wasn't a fun experience and I'm sorry that it happened to you. More than one person in the discussion suggested that you should have declared that conflict sooner to avoid all that aggravation. It's too late for that now but I think it might be helpful if you followed the directions here and added "connected contributor" templates to any Aquaveo related articles that you have edited. If you have any other conflicts of interest, this would probably be a good time to declare those before people decide to start deletion discussions about those, too. Counterfeit Purses (talk) 21:04, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your comments. I think we'll wait for the dust to settle before doing that. It would poimtless to do it on an article that might be deleted within just a few days. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 06:05, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

A beer for you!

 * Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:58, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

CONduit (convention)
Hello Nihonjoe. Do you have a conflict of interest with respect to this article? Mother of Jabbas (talk) 16:47, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I've attended and volunteered for them way back in the day (over 10 years ago). They haven't existed for almost 10 years now, though. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 18:10, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

D. J. Butler
Hello again Nihonjoe. Do you have a conflict of interest with respect to this article also? Mother of Jabbas (talk) 16:47, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * No, I do not. I enjoy reading his books, and I've met him multiple times, but that's it. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:57, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Have you ever promoted their works on a personal website or had your work included alongside theirs in commercial product? Mother of Jabbas (talk) 17:08, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't think so, but maybe? I've told people I like his writing. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:21, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Conflict of interest management
You are involved in a recently filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Arbitration/Requests/Case and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. As threaded discussion is not permitted on most arbitration pages, please ensure that you make all comments in your own section only. Additionally, the guide to arbitration and the Arbitration Committee's procedures may be of use.

Thanks, <b style="color:#7F007F">Ritchie333</b> <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  09:46, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

I also need to emphasise that this isn't personal - I don't think I've ever directly interacted with you - and I've explicitly said I am not looking for any sanctions towards anyone. <b style="color:#7F007F">Ritchie333</b> <sup style="color:#7F007F">(talk) <sup style="color:#7F007F">(cont)  10:15, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Conflict of interest management: Case opened
Hello ,

You were recently listed as a party to a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conflict of interest management. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conflict of interest management/Evidence. Please add your evidence by March 20, 2024, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Arbitration/Requests/Case/Conflict of interest management/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration.

For the Arbitration Committee, &#126; ToBeFree (talk) 19:32, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Asahara Glass
Please, can you help me to translate from Japanese to English this newspaper? You can do it in my talk page. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.4.157.103 (talk) 10:17, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I don't have time to do that right now. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:49, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Ok, but don't forget it when you'll have time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.180.136.117 (talk • contribs) 18:38, 8 March 2024‎ (UTC)
 * No guarantees. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 19:07, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

 * Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 19:08, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Association of Mormon Letters
Hi Nihonjoe, do you have a conflict of interest with this and related articles? Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 03:52, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I do at the moment (for the last few months). I haven't edited that page or the AML Awards page for many years. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:44, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

GLAM/Harold B. Lee Library admin
Dear Nihonjoe,

At this page: GLAM/Harold_B._Lee_Library/Participants you are listed as an admin to contact in case participants get into any problems. Were you ever contacted by participants in that program for help with any admin actions? How did you come into this role? Full disclosure: I started a discussion at the Village Pump about whether this particular collaboration is consistent with the goals and principles of our community. jps (talk) 01:42, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. I don't do much (if anything) with that group. I think I added my name there because I helped Rachel Helps with an edit-a-thon once several years ago (I helped teach the students about the importance of solid sourcing). ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 17:20, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I suspected as much, but thought I would make sure just in case. jps (talk) 18:59, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Proposed Decision
Hi Nihonjoe, in the open Conflict of interest management arbitration case, a remedy or finding of fact has been proposed which relates to you. Please review this decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Amortias (T)(C) 19:13, 4 April 2024 (UTC)