Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan

[edit] FAC and FAR requests

Editors of Japan-related articles are encouraged to involve the community by listing Featured article candidates and Featured article review requests here. Please list the newest at the top.

Listed	Article	FAC/FAR	Result	Completed
2007-03-26	Japan (Talk)	FAC
2007-03-10	Japan (Talk)	FAC	Restarted	2007-03-26
2007-02-19	Aikido (Talk)	FAC	Not promoted	2007-03-20
2007-01-17	List of RahXephon media (Talk)	FLC		2007-02-02
2006-12-27	Serial Experiments Lain (Talk)	FAC		2006-12-31
2006-12-23	Battle of Leyte Gulf (Talk)	FAR		25 January 2007
2006-12-10	Kitsune (Talk)	FAC		2006-12-16
2006-10-21	Boshin War (Talk)	FAC		2006-11-02

[edit] Peer review requests

Editors of Japan-related articles are encouraged to involve the community by listing Peer review requests here. Please list the newest at the top.

[edit] Former FAC

These are mostly well written articles that need a little improvement in order to become FA quality.

• Koan was a Featured Article Candidate.
• Sumo is a former featured-article candidate.
• Chashitsu, see discussion
• Cowboy Bebop, see discussion
• Forty-seven Ronin, see discussion here and here
• InuYasha, see discussion
• Japan, see discussion
• Japanese grammar, see discussion
• Japanese name, see discussion
• Japanese tea ceremony, see discussion
• Mega Man (series), see discussion
• Pac-Man, see discussion
• Spira (Final Fantasy X), see discussion
• Stroke order, see discussion.

[edit] Projects

These are big tasks that require a lot of work from a lot of people helping out in order to improve something. Feel free to jump right in and help with any of them. We always welcome more help!

1. Education in Japan needs some major reworking to make it a better article overall. (in particular recent reforms in laws)
2. Gaijin was recently cleaned up and is now a big mess again.
3. Rick Block requests help updating articles due to Gappei. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Gappei.
4. LordAmeth would like to enlist everyone's help in converting all articles, both in title and in context, to properly macronned form.
5. Japanese people is horribly substandard for a top-importance article and garnered 22 votes at ARCAID. Please help fix this oft-linked page. Most importantly, it needs to be synched with Demographics of Japan and to contain an explanation of burakumin.
6. Kansai region compared to the Tohoku region, Kansai related articles are systematically sub-standard and have articles of towns and cities missing.
7. Dozens of pages shown at Special:Allpages/Japan and Special:Allpages/Japanese lack WikiProject Japan tags and assessments.
8. Shinzo Abe's Cabinet Members needs more info added in regards to biography and previous positions. One place to start would be Hakuo Yanagisawa

[edit] Cleanup tasks

These are anything smaller or more specific than projects and anything that individuals can work on.

1. The Tale of the Heike is in need of expansion.
2. Sesshū Tōyō also needs expansion.
3. Risa_Kudo article is currently a machine translation of the Japanese Wiki page. Human translation is needed.
4. Many disambiguation pages for Japanese names (e.g. Takeda) have incoming links which need to be aimed at the correct articles.

You can also work on files listed on Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Japan.

[edit] Requested moves

The following are from WP:RM:

• The Rose of Versailles (manga) → Berusaiyu no Bara (manga) —(Discuss)— The correct title of the manga is Berusaiyu no Bara (japanese name). — 22:54, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
• Sci-Fi Harry → Sci-Fi HARRY —(Discuss)— Proper capitalization of series name. (obstructed move) —Deriksmith 22:02, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pages marked for deletion

Japan-related articles for deletion are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Japan. Please go and express your opinion regarding any articles listed there.

[edit] Redirect requests

• /Redirect requests (articles needing various redirects created for them)

[edit] Stubs

You can find a list of all Japan-related stub categories on the Category talk:Japan stubs page. All of the articles on the main Category:Japan stubs page need to be sorted into these more specific categories while they are stubs (last performed on July 29th, 2006). Of course, you can also expand the stubs in such a way as to make them no longer stubs. If none of the existing stubs apply, please use {{Japan-stub}}.

If you want to make a new stub for a particular category, please note that all stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will probably be deleted. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on creating stub templates and categories.

[edit] Requests

The articles on these pages need to be created (or pointed to existing articles under slightly different names). You can also add requests to one of these pages. If you aren't sure which page to add your request to, please ask on the talk page.

• Wikipedia:Requested articles/Japan (including anime and manga, as well as anything else related to Japan)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Japan-related translation requests
• Buddhism
• Role-playing games
• Video games
• /Dead-end Japan-related pages (a list of pages that need wikifying (links that point to other pages, wiki markup, etc.); find them by browsing here.)
• /Orphaned Japan-related pages (a list of pages that do not have any links pointing to them; find them by browsing here.)

[edit] Requested photographs in Japan

• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Japan

[edit] Proposed new or updated articles

List any Japan-related articles on which you are working that aren't quite ready for prime time, or proposed replacements or updates for currently existing articles. This will allow an informal peer review of sorts by anyone interested in the particular topic, thereby helping Wikipedia to become better.

• Proposed update of Posting system (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs): the article was a mess and I tried to Wikify it, I think it would be great if someone who's more knowledgeable about baseball could make it more complete, since the posting system is a big story in Japanese baseball.

• Not totally sure if this is the place for listing any new articles but ive started a stubby on Shigeo Hirose which could do with some attention from anyone with some knowledge/experience of his work/robotics technology and industry in general. siarach 01:16, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

• 1955 System and San Francisco System - terms coined by John Dower to describe the two overarching systems of forces which govern Japanese post-war history.

For the former, see ja:55年体制 (widely used term in Japanese) Fg2 21:15, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

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