User talk:Stichero

January 2014
Hello, Stichero. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Globis University Graduate School of Management, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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 * Avoid or exercise great caution when editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with.
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Drm310 (talk) 16:51, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Globis (or even GLOBIS)
In response to this question/offer:

Most importantly, please read "WP:COI". Simply, it says that you and your Australian friend should avoid editing the article, although you're most welcome to make suggestions in its talk page, as well as to correct factual mistakes and of course to revert obviously silly edits by the drunk, silly, and otherwise "challenged". Drm310 has elaborated a little above.

It may well be that your requests on the talk page will go unnoticed. If this happens, post a brief note to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Universities or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan or (probably best) both, inviting people there to take a look at the talk page.

On to your questions.

First, it's OK to cite materials in Japanese. I infer/misremember/imagine that there are many Chinese students; it's perfectly OK to cite materials in Chinese (or Korean, Mongolian, Vietnamese, etc) even though I shall unfortunately be unable to read them. And it's OK to cite material that either isn't on the web or is behind a paywall on the web.

That said, editors' patience can be strained if a lot of big claims are sourced to material that seems surprisingly elusive. Sources in English, on the web or both are much appreciated.

Secondly, on capitalization. I understand that a lot of companies and other institutions consistently FULL-CAPITALIZE their names. An example would be Sanyo (the electronics company that's now been subsumed within Panasonic): this quite consistently referred to itself as "SANYO" but since it was never referred to in conversation as something akin to "ess ay en why oh" it stayed "Sanyo" within Wikipedia. Thank you for drawing my attention to the Ito En article; this was wrongly formatted, and I've now fixed it. Please look here within Wikipedia's own "Manual of style", in which we're told to ignore the preferences of the companies holding the trademarks to what they call "TIME" (magazine) and "ASUS" (computer company), and instead to render these "Time" and "Asus". However, an institution's contrary preference can be pointed out. Thus the opening sentence of the article on Ellegarden: Ellegarden (stylized as ELLEGARDEN) was a Japanese punk rock band formed in December 1998 in Chiba. (Incidentally, I think "stylized" should instead be "styled", but I'll sleep on this minor question.)

If you have follow-up questions, please post them below. -- Hoary (talk) 07:56, 10 January 2014 (UTC)