Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan/Archive/October 2017

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In less than three weeks from now Masaru Wakasa (ja:若狭勝) is probably going to be the leader of the main opposition party in the Diet. So someone may want to create an article about him. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 11:47, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
 * That's interesting, I think I will take the challenge. Alex ShihTalk 13:57, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I started a draft at Masaru Wakasa, probably will expand more later if anyone's interested. Alex ShihTalk 18:37, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

NEWS (band) good article reassessment
NEWS (band), an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ℯ xplicit  06:27, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest
Hi. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on Japanese women during this month please sign up in the participants section. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles for your project please add them to the appropriate sub list Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld  10:03, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

"branch names" (Nijō, Kujō, etc.) of medieval Fujiwaras in article titles?
Hey, I was just drafting an article on the private waka anthology of Kujō Motoie off-wiki, and the two best sources I'm working with both refer to him as 九条内大臣藤原基家 (Kujō Naidaijin Fujiwara no Motoie). Obviously, both "Kujō Motoie" and "Fujiwara no Motoie" are acceptable, but I was wondering if anyone knew why we picked the one we did? Are we just mirroring ja.wiki?

If so, that seems like a bad idea, since not only is ja.wiki not a reliable source in general, but they frequently get stuff wrong specifically on the problem of "common name" vs. "official name" with reference to classical poets (see ja:ノート:満誓 -- an article under the obscure title "笠麻呂" existed for years, without even a redirect from the more famous name). ja.wiki is also meant for a Japanese audience, and they might be assuming their readership (Japanese people who are choosing to read about classical poets on Wikipedia) are already aware that "九条" is just a branch of "藤原" and that medieval people called by one name can generally be called by the other; this is not an assumption we should be making, but at the moment the above-linked article and an uncertain but probably very large number of others make no reference inline (not including cats) to the Fujiwara-ness of their subjects.

Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 06:06, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Japanese unisex given names
I created and populated this category a few years ago, but I didn't think about it properly at the time. For example, Tomomi is currently called a "unisex" name, but male name-holders have names like 智充 and 具視, while female name-holders have names like 智美 and 知美. So is it unisex? Or should it be in both Category:Japanese feminine given names and Category:Japanese masculine given names instead, leaving Category:Japanese unisex given names for genuinely unisex names, assuming there are any? &mdash;Xezbeth (talk) 10:05, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Nunobiki falls
Until a few minutes ago, the article Nunobiki Falls was inconsistent in naming the four waterfalls that constitute this tourist attraction. It also named one of them in a way that's utterly unlike the name in any other description I looked at. I'm pretty confident that I improved the article, but still uncertain about the result. Please see the article's talk page and contribute your educated comments there. -- Hoary (talk) 01:00, 29 October 2017 (UTC)