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Secular Shrine Theory
Secular Shrine Theory is currently listed as having multiple issues including incomprehensibility. Can we do a review of it to see what it's current state is now that I have substantially reworked the article? MaitreyaVaruna (talk) 18:49, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Secular Shrine Theory has many maintenance templates that date back to a much older version of the article. Can we remove them now? MaitreyaVaruna (talk) 10:19, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Help translating an image of mosses labels
I would like some help with File:Moss types at the Ginkakuji garden, Kyoto, Japan (Paul Mannix).jpg, an image with a lot of mosses labelled in Japanese. Just transcribing the labels is fine too.


 * They all appear to be labelled in katakana, so it should be simple to just directly reference a katakana chart if you don't know it and generate the names. Canterbury Tail talk 12:15, 25 March 2022 (UTC)


 * I usually dodge any botany/biology questions. So, I've just quickly typed down the kana names & Hepburned transcriptions as best I can read/extrapolate them (some names have lost their -goke/"-moss" ending to koke/moss), then you can probably easily copy/paste/search-help yourself, since you are presumably not per se afraid of "outlandish" (CJKV) writing systems by a glance at your user page.
 * {|class=wikitable

(either duplicate or one of the two has an invisible appendix) || (can't make sense of this one, and it's cut off) (?) ゴキンシゴケモ..., Gokinshi-goke-mo... || カモジゴケ, Kamoji-goke || チャボスギゴケ, Chabo-sugi-goke || ウマスギゴケ, Uma-sugi-goke || オオスギゴケ, Ōsugi-goke (at least non-botanically, "Birōdo" is veludo if you [want to] know Portuguese, velvet if you don't) || ホウライスギゴケ, Hōrai-sugi-goke || コスギゴケ, Kosugi-goke
 * +Ginkaku-ji no taisetsu na koke
 * (cut off) キャラハラッ..., kyarahara(small tsu/sokuon)... || ヒロハヒノキゴケ, Hiroha-Hinoki-goke || アラハシラガゴケ, Araha-Shiraga-goke
 * (cut off) キャラハラッ..., kyarahara(small tsu/sokuon)... || ヒロハヒノキゴケ, Hiroha-Hinoki-goke || アラハシラガゴケ, Araha-Shiraga-goke
 * (empty) || ヒノキゴケ, Hinoki-goke || (empty) || (unmarked) || ヤマゴケ, Yama-goke || ハマキゴケ, Hamaki-goke || ミヤマスギゴケ, Miyama-sugi-goke || スギゴケ, Sugi-goke
 * (empty) || ホソバシラガゴケ, Hosoba-Shiraga-goke || コックシサワゴケ, Kokkushisawa-goke || (unmarked) || アラハシラガゴケ, Araha-Shiraga-goke || ビロードゴケ, Birōdo-goke
 * (empty) || ホソバシラガゴケ, Hosoba-Shiraga-goke || コックシサワゴケ, Kokkushisawa-goke || (unmarked) || アラハシラガゴケ, Araha-Shiraga-goke || ビロードゴケ, Birōdo-goke
 * (empty) || ホソバシラガゴケ, Hosoba-Shiraga-goke || コックシサワゴケ, Kokkushisawa-goke || (unmarked) || アラハシラガゴケ, Araha-Shiraga-goke || ビロードゴケ, Birōdo-goke
 * }


 * (Semantic hyphenations/capitalizations are mine on the fly from general, but strictly non-botanic experience for readability for "Romans" who are beginning to learn to read "Centralese" or ancient island periphery derivations thereof, but not systematic by any general, Wikipedia, let alone possible biologist transcription conventions which I'm ignorant of.) --Asakura Akira (talk) 13:13, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * thanks a ton!!! I should be able to figure out the rest on my own. Cheers. Artoria2e5 🌉 14:49, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
 * @User:Artoria2e5 Erratum/Addendum on passing by: After a second look (thinking that the ゴ/go is actually a コ/ko with some soil on it) and a quick online search of my own (still botanically ignorant), the middle top one might possibly be コキンシゴケモ[ドキ] Kokinshi-goke-mo[doki] which is given as Ditrichum heteromallum (Hedw.) E.G.Britton by . If that makes any sense for biologically more experienced eyes, you might want to change the description. Leave the question mark to be on the safe side. --Asakura Akira (talk) 16:00, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Renaming Buddhist Painting
Buddhist painting has a name that might be too vauge and refer to a specific Northeast Asian tradition. Can someone look over it and confirm that this is the right title or propose a title change? Immanuelle (talk) 15:21, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
 * The current title is an exact translation. I don't see any need to move it. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:50, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

FAR for USS Missouri
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FAR for Sei whale
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Moving Draft:Sect Shinto to mainspace
I think Draft:Sect Shinto is ready for mainspace, can we move it there? MaitreyaVaruna (changing name to Immanuelle) please tag me (talk) 18:59, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't think it is ready for mainspace. You seem to have machine translated the article from Japanese Wikipedia, and as a result it is incoherent in many places (like your previous work at Secular Shrine Theory). I think such articles need to be rewritten from scratch by someone who can read the original sources, and perhaps incorporate some English-language references too. — Goszei (talk) 19:16, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Unlike Secular Shrine Theory there are actually ample English language references happily, so I will work on revising the article with them MaitreyaVaruna (changing name to Immanuelle) please tag me (talk) 19:46, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Osami Nagano
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Osami Nagano that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 03:16, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Repeated date format changes on recently deceased individuals
Hey all! Recently, I have been noticing that on many articles about recently deceased individuals, some users have changed the date format from mdy to dmy, despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of these articles were created using dates in the mdy format. MOS:DATEFORMAT states that unless there is strong national ties to an English-speaking country, the date format should stay with what the first major contributor (often the page creator) used. As such, I have reverted these changes every time I see them. However, these changes have happened so many times (on Shinji Mizushima, Norihiro Inoue, Toshiya Ueda, Mia Ikumi, Akira Takarada, and most recently Minori Matsushima to name a few) that I wanted to make sure I am justified in reverting these edits each time. Link20XX (talk) 23:43, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
 * You are correct in reverting them. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 18:47, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Template talk:Country data Ryukyu
There is a requested move discussion at Template talk:Country data Ryukyu that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Favonian (talk) 10:53, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

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