User talk:TakuyaMurata

look also at Franz Oppenheimer and his toughts of liberalism and capitalism (the german version is much more advanced yet) <-> saw you starting Friedrich Ratzel

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Your orphan images

I noticed you have some superb photos in your orphan images page. Perhaps if you add any information to the Image: page we can find an article to host them? =) —John | Talk 04:48, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

Yes, they are nice ones. I have found them over the Internet and I put them to orphan images page because I also didn't know the details of those images. Legality is fine I think. They are put under GFDL or copyright free (there is no such a thing as public domain in Japan by the way). Now that I am in Japan for vacation now, I will shot some my own photos. I will have much knowledge about them then :) -- Taku 09:33, May 14, 2004 (UTC)

Just found out that Image:Nishioka.jpg and Image:Isozaki.jpg are both toriis. My guess is that the first one is from the town of Nishioka (http://www.oroppas.or.jp/town/nishioka/nishioka.jpg) while the second one is probably from the harbor of Isozaki in Kumano or Kumanosi [1] (http://www.isesima.net/isozaki/map-02.html) [2] (http://www.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/04kanku/owase/engankoukusyasin/koukusyasin/kumano/isozaki.jpg) —Joseph | Talk 21:29, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

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Aozora Bunko

Greetings and felicitations. I just wanted to point out that the Aozora Bunko: I article has a date on the end that is not associated with a title or author, and thus needs clarification. DocWatson42 10:16, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

For your information, I've also entered the Aozora Bukno: W redirect for deletion (see Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion), as it is the obvious result of a typographical error. DocWatson42 11:06, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The death date of Tadaaki Matsudaira on the Aozora Bunko: M page needs clarification—does "1999-10" mean "October 1999"? DocWatson42 11:28, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

More issues:

First, I corrected the following names:

Arthur Doyle Conan to Arthur Conan Doyle

Mikhail Artsybashev Petrovich to Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (still no article)

Fyodor Dostojewski Mikhailovich to Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostojewski

For the last one, did you mean Fyodor Dostoevsky?

Second, Aozora Bunko: H consists only of entries beginning with "Ha—". Is this correct?

Third, the following articles have entries that may be duplicates of each other, and those conflicts need to be resolved; I am not competant in Japanese, and so am unable to do it. Please see their individual talk pages for details.

Fourth, Aozora Bunko: S is 31kb—too large for some browsers (including my primary one) to edit in their entirety (see Wikipedia:How to edit an article so long that you can't edit). I have thus posted a notice of this problem on the Wikipedia:Village pump page, with the suggestion that the article be split.

Good luck! DocWatson42 21:48, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Thanks

Just to thank you Taku for 'doing' the stub on Walter Charleton. That's one less highlighted red link in Library of Sir Thomas Browne for me to worry about. As ever the link here in my heavily monothematic studies is that a MSS copy of the weird Musaeum Clausum by Sir T.B. was found dedicated to Charleton amongst his papers when he died. The two men may have met, they definitely corresponded, how ever did they in the 17th. century. The mind boggles at the postal system. How much easier today to say thanks again Taku for taking the trouble. Norwikian 15:54, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Don't mention it. That was really nothing. I am in middle of porting a number of entries in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. I am just doing "copy and paste". He was one of them and it took me literally a second to create the stub. Anyway, I am glad I helped. The use of public domain is quick way to have decent articles. -- Taku 16:05, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)

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Unicode merges

Your proposed merges in the area of Unicode related articles are next to invisible. You didn't put a {{mergefrom}} in Unicode and you didn't list them on Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles.

Also I don't agree with ypit proposal, but not violently enough for active opposition.

Pjacobi 18:03, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Ok, I didn't know about {{mergefrom}}. Should I put that template? It seems to me that people are not using it or maybe I am wrong. About Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles, I don't think we need to maintain two lists which are supposed to be identical. But again, it is a requirement I am not against putting it. I just thought putting {{merge}} is good enough as when editing unicode, you don't have to know about ones needed to be merged to it, but again you may disagree. In short, I do not oppose to listing those merge proposals in Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles and putting {{mergefrom}} in unicode.

Also, I understand that you don't agree with merger proposal so I will put my reason for merger in each unicode-related article which I think should merge to unicode.

I think this is all you want from me. Let me know if I am missing something.

-- Taku 01:32, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)

The requirement of manually adding the entries Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles relates to having a central place to see the merge request. Which other list are you referring to? {{mergefrom}} is a relatively new template, but before its existance you would have to put {{merge}} in Unicode, see the instructions at Wikipedia:Duplicate articles#Mark current duplicates. -- Pjacobi 07:35, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Another list I was talking is [[Category:Articles_to_be_merged]], which I usually use. I used to but nowadays I don't use Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles so I didn't see why I want to put entries there. But anyway you want to see them listed then I can add them. As I said I am not opposing to listing, I just can't see necessity. -- Taku 16:58, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)

IMHO the Category is a bad substitute for the list, as no comments and discussion can be added to the listings. Of course, having both will always give some confusion, so you may want to start a merge proposal for the two merge lists. -- Pjacobi 17:57, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Redirects

You have something against them, do you? -- user:zanimum

Why would I? If you are referring to my proposal for deletion of some redirects, I think those redirects are unused ones and are probably needless in the future. Besides, it takes a second to create a redirect if anyone thought we need one. -- Taku 02:32, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

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Data Management Wiki Committee

Thank you for your contribution to one, or more, articles that are now organized under Data management.

Because of your previous intrest, you are recieving an invitation to become a founding member of the Data Management Wiki Committee.

The members, of course, will form and solidify the purpose, rules, officers, etc. but my idea (to kick things off) is to establish a group of us who will take responsiblity to see that the ideas of Data management are promoted and well represented in Wikipedia articles.

If you are willing to join the committee, please go to Category_talk:Data_management and indicate your acceptance of this invitation by placing your three tilde characters in the list.

KeyStroke 01:06, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

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Text size on maps

Wow, I'd like an Apple cinema display! But for now, I display at 120% on an old Compaq; I think it's 13". The Prefectures page has too narrow a space at the left of the map for any text, so I agree that the map's too wide.

I've been putting maps on Tokyo Metro lines. They're too small to read in the article, but I've been captioning them, "Click on the map to expand" or something similar. Don't know whether I'm doing the right thing. Any opinions are welcome! Fg2 03:46, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

I think the current size of the prefecture map is minimal; numbers are barely readable. And about Tokyo Metro. You are right that names are not quite readable. The use of different fonts may help or may not. I think some note like "click to enlarge" is a good compromise. New York Times is doing that and it seems a common practice in the web nowadays. Also, one thing to note is we shouldn't use colors to indicate lines given that some people cannot recognize colors. But again what is an alternative?

Conincidentaly, the prefecture map is really nice. Many people are lazy to read actual text and the map explains quite a lot.

-- Taku 03:58, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments about text size and also color. Maybe what I'll do is try to find a way to outline the color in black? That way, there's both color and contrast information in the lines. Fg2 04:43, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

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Woodblock artist names

Hello, following Wikipedia policy on article names (which says "What .. would the average user of the Wikipedia put into the search engine?") we have been listing these people under the names they are commonly known by in the West - which means we do not use their complete names (which are rarely used in the West, and for artists of this era change over time anyway). Please leave them where they are. Thank you. Noel 20:18, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I will reply this in the talkpage of Yoshitoshi. -- Taku 20:31, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)

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Thanks

I didn't mean to wipe out Wikipedia:New user log with my revert. - MattTM 22:50, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)

You see actually I didn't try to revert your edit but 198's. Did you have an edit confict with me? I didn't have one, but the edit times indicate we were reverting at the same time. Weird. -- Taku 22:53, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)

Nope, I'm not entirely sure what happened. I was trying to revert the anonymous edit as well, but my edit blanked the page. I was about to hop over to another browser and fix it when I noticed your edit had restored the page. The edit conflict might have been bypassed since the page was blank. - MattTM 23:00, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)

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Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Taku! Best wishes. --Whosyourjudas (talk) 00:16, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ack! It's not Oct 19 yet here. But thanks a lot. How did you find out my birthday? You are the first to tell me happy birthday this year. That was very surprising, well pleasantly surprising. -- Taku

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Possible vandalization?

An IP that also vanalized other pages edited Kobuchisawa, Yamanashi and changed the area.

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Requesting your opinion on an image resource

Hey Taku, I just found this Japanese website, with good illustrations of historical figures (http://www.d-project.jp/museum/free_illust/history_people/main.html). They aren't public domain or GFDL, but they're apparently free for non-commercial use. The license is here (http://www.d-project.jp/museum/free_illust/attention.html) and I think we can use them on Wikipedia, but I'm not sure. What do you think? - Sekicho 01:06, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

The second sentence of the lisence says "even if the use is educational, the commercial use is prohibited." This conflicts with GFDL. We can't help this. -- 15:07, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

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Time project

Hi, I've set up a new template for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Time. I'm leaving a note out of courtesy for the participants of Wikipedia:WikiProject Years since it is a descendant of Time. Any suggestions welcome, I haven't got a plan yet for the project. Thanks --FrankP 12:31, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Translation

始めまして。まだIDを取っていない（これから取る予定の）者です。[[ja:Wikipedia:翻訳依頼|]]の翻訳活動にぜひご参加ください。日本語のページはお持ちでないのでしょうか。--211.128.71.202 06:50, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Picture source ? Image:Underworld.jpg

can you post were you got it from please. Togo 05:54, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No, I don't remember about the source. I said public domain, so I think we can trust me. -- Taku 17:19, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

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Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

Image:Deng.PNG

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 05:53, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Unfortunately to us, I have no recollection about where I got that image. The comment said I converted from a bitmap file to a png but the bitmap file was already lost. -- Taku 17:05, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

As part of the same project I came across Image:Prohibition.jpg. Note that images from the Library of Congress are not automatically public domain. This one from the Chicago Historical Society collection is subject to this statement:[3] (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/copyres.html)

Permission to reproduce these works for purposes beyond those permissible as
fair use or to republish them in any form must be granted in writing by the
Chicago Historical Society. Please address questions to the Rights and
Reproductions Office at

   Chicago Historical Society
   Clark Street at North Avenue
   Chicago, IL 60614-6071

That "republish in any form" sounds like a "gotcha". If you cannot verify that its use on Wikipedia is legit, perhaps you should remove it. If it remains, could you please tag it appropriately? Thanks! Kbh3rd 05:20, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

To me, our use of the image is fair use and thus seems ok according to the page. Am I missing something? -- Taku 05:37, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

Also: Image:Printingpress.PNG and Image:Printingpress.png. - Kbh3rd 06:46, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I will check this (Printingpress) later. -- Taku 05:37, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Taku. What about all the Unicode characters - for instance? Can you recall the source of these, for tagging purposes? Thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

I really wish I were some help :) Only I can say at this moment is that I am working on this--cheking the history, trying to remember things I have almost no thread of memory. As to Unicode characters, I think we can delete them as we are not using them anymore. -- Taku 05:32, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

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image tagging

Hi. I have just started looking at the list of untagged images, and found those unicode characters. I just wanted to let you know that if there are dauntingly too many to attach tags, I am more than happy to help doing that. Well, for a super active wikipedian like you, maybe that is not an issue, but just in case. Cheers, Tomos 08:32, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for offering me help, which I should really need. Lucky for us, it seems someone deleted those character images. As they have not been used currently, I think that was fine. I tend to upload a sizable number of files from the same location, so I am working on compiling some list to tell people where I got them. After that, you should be able to have easy time killing your spare time :) -- Taku 05:41, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

Okay that sounds good. Please let me know when a big list arrives. :-) Tomos 11:20, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Government Department Fun

Hey, thanks for the reply on Wikipedia:Naming conventions (government departments and ministers). Apologies for continuing to rearrange Japanese govt stuff since then; I missed your response and I'll keep my hands off until we reach some kind of consensus.

Of random note is that the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Post, Small Animals and the Kitchen Sink has decided to simplify its English name to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (http://www.soumu.go.jp/english/index.html). -- The Tom 07:37, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

That was no problem, and thanks for Ministry of Internal Affairs. I guess the new name makes wikipedian's lives easier :) -- Taku 05:10, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)

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Districts in Kyoto Prefecture

Hi - Some time back you deleted Komano, Naka, and Takeno districts from the Kyoto Prefecture article. At this point the tables in the prefecture article and in Prefectures of Japan indicate the number of districts is 12 but the list only includes 9. I assume Komano, Naka, and Takeno are (were) the other 3. Were these districts dissolved some time since 2000? There are a few other anomalies like this as well I'm trying to chase down involving districts in Ehime Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture, Hyogo Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Nagasaki Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, and Yamaguchi Prefecture. I think two districts from Gifu Prefecture were dissolved and I've updated the appropriate counts. I've added them back to the list in the Gifu article with a note that they were dissolved (and added articles about them). If you know anything about any of this, please let me know. Thanks. -- Rick Block 02:51, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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template:akita (and others)

Hi -What would you think about adding a small prefectural symbol to template:akita and the other "cities of prefecture" templates you're creating? It seems like adding the districts might be nice as well (in which case, the category line from the template would need to be removed). For example, the Akita one might look like this:

Cities
	Akita Prefecture
Akita (capital) \| Honjo \| Kazuno \| Noshiro \| Oga \| Odate \| Omagari \| Yokote \| Yuzawa

Districts
Hiraka \| Kawabe \| Kazuno \| ...

-- Rick Block 22:06, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I don't think adding districts is a good idea. The problem is akita has only a handful of cities but prefectures like Tokyo and Kanagawa have a quite a bit, the table can be too big. In any case, we probably should put a sample template at Wikipedia:WikiProject Japanese districts and municipalites. -- Taku 23:54, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC) Oops, forgot to mention about the prefectural symbol. I think that is good. -- Taku 00:47, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)

How about adding districts in those cases where it wouldn't be too voluminous? I assume Tokyo's template will be kind of special anyway (wards rather than cities?) and Hokkaido's as well (perhaps subprefectures rather than districts?). In any event, I'll add the symbol. BTW - you haven't responded about the district counts (above item). Is this something you know about or can find out? I've tried to find information in English about dissolved districts but have not had any success. There are some discrepancies in the municipality counts as well (assuming each municipality should be listed as a city or as a town or village within a district). -- Rick Block 01:44, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I've created a few with cities and districts and I don't think the tables are too big - see Template:Fukuoka, Template:Gifu, Template:Hiroshima, Template:Hyogo, Template:Ibaraki (and there was an existing Template:Hokkaido that included only the subprefectures that I've changed to include the cities). Just to see how it looks, I've included the templates in the prefecture articles for Gifu, Hiroshima, Hyogo, and Ibaraki (placed before the {{Japan}} template, note the similarity to US states, e.g. Colorado). Let me know what you think (and perhaps we should move this discussion to the talk page for Wikipedia:WikiProject Japanese prefectures). -- Rick Block 18:20, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I am sorry for not giving a prompt reply. Although I still have my reservation, it cannot be wrong to create them and see how they look. Who knowns this may beget more inputs from others. Also you might want to consider the use of metatemplates so we can change the format later on with ease. (We can give a name like meta-japanese-prefecture or something.) Finally, as for dissolution, I didn't ignore you but just was gathering some information. I have noticed New Year Day's issue of newspaper says there are several dissolutions or mergers that would be in effect from Jan 1, 2005. I couldn't find the details of this is in English yet. (I can't just use Japanese information because I don't know the readings of the names in kanji!) The principle is that we should reflect articles accordingly as new dissolutions and mergers went in effect but not before that. In the end, I have faith in you, so just do what you think is good. It's just I may be available to help you or may not. Looks like my new year begins just with crucking through overdue tasks :) -- Taku 17:47, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)

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Saku, Nagano

Hi - I'm continuing to work through the prefectures, adding navoboxes (as we've discussed) and categorizing the cities, towns, and villages. As part of this, where it hasn't already been done, I'm moving the city articles so the name is "city, prefecture" (I gather this is somewhat controversial, but I think it's the dominant pattern and is what Wikipedia:WikiProject_Japanese_districts_and_municipalites currently says). In any event, there seems to be a town named Saku in Nagano at the article name Saku, Nagano which means I can't move the Saku city article to this name. I guess a couple of questions:

a) Do you think it's reasonable to be moving city articles to "city, prefecture" (per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Japanese_districts_and_municipalites, I gather this is your preference - the question is do you think this is fairly well settled)?

b) In this case, would you agree the article named "Saku, Nagano" should be the city and should include a disambig link to an article for the town named something like "Saku, Nagano (Minamisaku)"? As a non-administrator I can't do this, but I can add it to the requested moves page.

Let me know what you think. Thanks. -- Rick Block 18:49, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

a) I assume that is the standard except for some conversial cases like Hiroshima and Osaka.

b) Personally, I am using Tosa for reference. I believe it's better to have somehow unified disambig page rather than a disamig page for each prefecture. (Like the case for Asahi or Ikeda; there are tons of them in Japan). If you see a problem in this approach, let me know.

To me, Wikipedia has been extremely slow, so I really can't do much. I should be able to help you in a couple of days. Or it's more like you are just finishing my unfinished jobs :) -- Taku 20:18, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, Wikipedia has been extremely slow (there's a mention of it in the latest issue of PC World magazine - which likely doesn't help much :). I've avoided creating disambig pages except when absolutely necessary (Chino seemed necessary). I've added some disambig links at the beginning of articles that are the target of ambiguous redirects, like the link to Iiyama Corporation from the Iiyama, Nagano article that is the target of the redirect at Iiyama. I think if there's a 80% or better chance a user obviously wants to see one of the potential articles I'd rather the ambiguous name be a redirect to that article rather than a disambig page. If there is more than one possible alternative, linking from the "main" article to an article named "name (disamguation)" seems like a reasonable approach. In any event, I'd imagine "Saku" should redirect to "Saku, Nagano" which should be the city. And the city should have a disambig link to the town. I've noticed the town names are quite commonly reused in different prefectures (and sometimes in different districts within the same prefecture). In these cases (like Asahi) I guess it makes sense to have a disambig page listing all of them (sigh). In what I've done so far I haven't tried to keep track of cases like this. At this point I'm mainly trying to categorize all the towns and villages (and cities if they haven't been categorized already) - and I'm only doing this so that "helpful" folks who go to random pages and "fix" things don't end up screwing it up and creating orphans for Beland's scans which he posts at Category:Orphaned categories (I haven't yet, but I'll likely list a couple "towns in xxx district" categories for deletion). While I'm there, I'm fixing any of the &sup2 with missing trailing ";" I run into, capitalizing "prefecture" if it should be capitalized, adding a {{Japan-geo-stub}}, and updating the prefecture article to use the prefecture template (which includes finding out who the governor is) and also arrange the districts in columns and include the "cities/districts in xxx template". I've seen a few town or village articles with more content than you originally added, and have sometimes wikified or otherwise improved what I've found in these cases. I'm also adding navoboxes (with cities and districts :) for all the cities where you haven't done this. I still think including districts makes sense (and no one else has commented on this yet ??). I've stopping adding the template to the districts, so if we ultimately decide the templates shouldn't include the districts we won't have to re-edit the districts and remove it. I'm keeping track of prefectures where the listed municipality count doesn't match the list of cities and towns/villages. I assume most of these are due to recently formed cities. I've successfully tracked one of these down, for Kagawa, and updated the prefecture article and the table in the Prefectures of Japan article. In any event, I'm distinctly only building on what you've started. Turning at least the city articles into non-stubs seems like a reasonable next goal (and since I don't read Japanese, I'm not sure if I can actually help much). -- Rick Block 03:59, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Izu and Omaezaki, Shizuoka

Hi - I've added stubs for the new cities in Shizuoka: Izu, Shizuoka and Omaezaki, Shizuoka. If you can add anything to these (Japanese names, population, density, area, towns/villages that combined to form the new cities, etc.) please do. Thanks. -- Rick Block 05:19, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Nanto, Toyama

Hi Taku, I added a stub for Nanto which is a fairly new city in Toyama. Can you add the Kanji for the name? I've found lots of references to the city, including its own website, so I know what the characters look like but I haven't been able to figure out how to get the unicode numbers (other than "shi"). Thanks. -- Rick Block 16:46, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Done. Keep up good work. At the meantime, we should really organize this; like what has been done and what needs to be done more, especially as cities and towns are born and disappear whether we would like or not :). -- Taku

Thanks. BTW - I've recently been adding town/village websites as well, from [4] (http://www.watanabegumi.co.jp/linkse/links_e.html) (which strikes me as an unlikely source but has been invaluable). I like their clickable map of Japan (very clever). They seem to be up on city/town/village merge activity also. -- Rick Block 03:23, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Prefecture navoboxes

Hi - There's been a deafening lack of response on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japanese prefectures#Prefecture navoboxes about cities only vs. cities and districts in the prefecture navoboxes. I've done about 30 with both and although the largest one (perhaps fittingly so) is Template:Tokyo most are about the size of Template:Tochigi. I've been including the template in both the city articles and the prefecture article (placed before the Template:Japan in the prefecture articles). Given that we can't force anyone else to voice an opinion on this, are you OK with me adding districts to the ones you've created, e.g., Template:Akita? If you'd like to look at all of the ones I've created there's a list on my user page. Thanks. -- Rick Block 05:04, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Adminship 2

Hey, I recently noticed that you're not an admin, despite the fact that I've seen you around for years. I know you didn't accept before, but it would enable you to get around inconveniences like protection on pages you want to fix and moving to a page that already has a redirect, as well as let you participate in deletion processes and speedy deleting vandalism and help out in other ways like that. I assure you, it's not all about the glory. :-) Please consider accepting a new nomination for adminship. Deco 07:53, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Printed newsletter

Hi Tak!

Re: an old question of yours : The first few printed newsletters will cost around $2 US for printing and shipping. Once we start printing them en masse, costs will drop to $0.50 or so.

+sj + 18:40, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

See the page history to retrieve old talks.

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Open Source and Capitalism

I will give my thoughs later, so I can say exactly when.

look also at Franz Oppenheimer and his toughts of liberalism and capitalism (the german version is much more advanced yet) <-> saw you starting Friedrich Ratzel

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Your orphan images

Just found out that Image:Nishioka.jpg and Image:Isozaki.jpg are both toriis. My guess is that the first one is from the town of Nishioka (http://www.oroppas.or.jp/town/nishioka/nishioka.jpg) while the second one is probably from the harbor of Isozaki in Kumano or Kumanosi [5] (http://www.isesima.net/isozaki/map-02.html) [6] (http://www.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/04kanku/owase/engankoukusyasin/koukusyasin/kumano/isozaki.jpg) —Joseph | Talk 21:29, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

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Aozora Bunko

The death date of Tadaaki Matsudaira on the Aozora Bunko: M page needs clarification—does "1999-10" mean "October 1999"? DocWatson42 11:28, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

More issues:

First, I corrected the following names:

Arthur Doyle Conan to Arthur Conan Doyle

Mikhail Artsybashev Petrovich to Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (still no article)

Fyodor Dostojewski Mikhailovich to Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostojewski

For the last one, did you mean Fyodor Dostoevsky?

Second, Aozora Bunko: H consists only of entries beginning with "Ha—". Is this correct?

Third, the following articles have entries that may be duplicates of each other, and those conflicts need to be resolved; I am not competant in Japanese, and so am unable to do it. Please see their individual talk pages for details.

Fourth, Aozora Bunko: S is 31kb—too large for some browsers (including my primary one) to edit in their entirety (see Wikipedia:How to edit an article so long that you can't edit). I have thus posted a notice of this problem on the Wikipedia:Village pump page, with the suggestion that the article be split.

Good luck! DocWatson42 21:48, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Thanks

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Unicode merges

Your proposed merges in the area of Unicode related articles are next to invisible. You didn't put a {{mergefrom}} in Unicode and you didn't list them on Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles.

Also I don't agree with ypit proposal, but not violently enough for active opposition.

Pjacobi 18:03, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Also, I understand that you don't agree with merger proposal so I will put my reason for merger in each unicode-related article which I think should merge to unicode.

I think this is all you want from me. Let me know if I am missing something.

-- Taku 01:32, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)

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Redirects

You have something against them, do you? -- user:zanimum

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KeyStroke 01:06, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

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Text size on maps

Conincidentaly, the prefecture map is really nice. Many people are lazy to read actual text and the map explains quite a lot.

-- Taku 03:58, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)

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Woodblock artist names

I will reply this in the talkpage of Yoshitoshi. -- Taku 20:31, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)

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Thanks

I didn't mean to wipe out Wikipedia:New user log with my revert. - MattTM 22:50, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)

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Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, Taku! Best wishes. --Whosyourjudas (talk) 00:16, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ack! It's not Oct 19 yet here. But thanks a lot. How did you find out my birthday? You are the first to tell me happy birthday this year. That was very surprising, well pleasantly surprising. -- Taku

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Possible vandalization?

An IP that also vanalized other pages edited Kobuchisawa, Yamanashi and changed the area.

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Requesting your opinion on an image resource

The second sentence of the lisence says "even if the use is educational, the commercial use is prohibited." This conflicts with GFDL. We can't help this. -- 15:07, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

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Time project

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Translation

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Picture source ? Image:Underworld.jpg

can you post were you got it from please. Togo 05:54, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No, I don't remember about the source. I said public domain, so I think we can trust me. -- Taku 17:19, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)

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Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

Image:Deng.PNG

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

As part of the same project I came across Image:Prohibition.jpg. Note that images from the Library of Congress are not automatically public domain. This one from the Chicago Historical Society collection is subject to this statement:[7] (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/copyres.html)

Permission to reproduce these works for purposes beyond those permissible as
fair use or to republish them in any form must be granted in writing by the
Chicago Historical Society. Please address questions to the Rights and
Reproductions Office at

   Chicago Historical Society
   Clark Street at North Avenue
   Chicago, IL 60614-6071

To me, our use of the image is fair use and thus seems ok according to the page. Am I missing something? -- Taku 05:37, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

Also: Image:Printingpress.PNG and Image:Printingpress.png. - Kbh3rd 06:46, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I will check this (Printingpress) later. -- Taku 05:37, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Taku. What about all the Unicode characters - for instance? Can you recall the source of these, for tagging purposes? Thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

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image tagging

Okay that sounds good. Please let me know when a big list arrives. :-) Tomos 11:20, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Government Department Fun

That was no problem, and thanks for Ministry of Internal Affairs. I guess the new name makes wikipedian's lives easier :) -- Taku 05:10, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)

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Districts in Kyoto Prefecture

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template:akita (and others)

Cities
	Akita Prefecture
Akita (capital) \| Honjo \| Kazuno \| Noshiro \| Oga \| Odate \| Omagari \| Yokote \| Yuzawa

Districts
Hiraka \| Kawabe \| Kazuno \| ...

-- Rick Block 22:06, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Saku, Nagano

Let me know what you think. Thanks. -- Rick Block 18:49, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

a) I assume that is the standard except for some conversial cases like Hiroshima and Osaka.

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Izu and Omaezaki, Shizuoka

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Nanto, Toyama

Thanks. BTW - I've recently been adding town/village websites as well, from [8] (http://www.watanabegumi.co.jp/linkse/links_e.html) (which strikes me as an unlikely source but has been invaluable). I like their clickable map of Japan (very clever). They seem to be up on city/town/village merge activity also. -- Rick Block 03:23, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Prefecture navoboxes

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Adminship 2

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Printed newsletter

Hi Tak!

Re: an old question of yours : The first few printed newsletters will cost around $2 US for printing and shipping. Once we start printing them en masse, costs will drop to $0.50 or so.

+sj + 18:40, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Category:Dissolved municipalities of Japan

Hi Taku - I notice you created this category a while ago. I haven't been adding to it (I've just been leaving dissolved towns and villages in their "towns in prefecture" or "villages in prefecture" categories). What would you think about deleting this category. I suspect it will get huge if we actually put every dissolved municipality into it. An alternative might be to create a category like this one for each prefecture. Let me know what you think. -- Rick Block 02:05, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I don't like to have a category for each prefecture. After all, each prefecture article has a list of dissolved municipalities in its prefecture. I agree that the category would get huge, but I don't think that is a problem. At least, as a marker, I believe this kind of category is useful in whatever way it is put. -- Taku 02:26, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)

I just counted the dissolved municipalities already listed in the 10 prefectures, Aichi to Gunma, and it's a little more than 100. I think I heard somewhere that there were going to be perhaps one or two thousand mergers in the next year or two. To me, this seems like too big of a category. I suppose we could add as we go and subdivide later, but if we can easily foresee a need now why not subdivide now? -- Rick Block 03:12, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

A thousand? LOL. According to prefectures of Japan, each prefecture has roughly, I say, 60 municipalities. Since there are 47 prefectures, we can estimate there are about 3000 municipalities exist in Japan. And you heard that there is going to be a thousand or two mergers. Then I guess we really don't have a choice but follow your scheme. The bottom line is, as said above, we should use a category as a marker. Anyhow, I now seriously wonder what politicians in Japan are thinking. -- Taku 05:35, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)

I don't think a thousand is actually too far off (100 from 10 out of 47 prefectures means there should be about 500 that we should already list). In any event, how about sorting them by prefecture name in the one category? This might