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WikiProject Japan (Talk)
Founded March 18, 2006 (3 years, 8 months and 9 days ago)
Shortcuts WP:JA • WP:JP • WP:JPN • WP:WPJ • WP:Japan • WP:JAPAN
Project pages  Article guidelines • Assessment • Barnsensu • Collaboration • Recognized content • Film credits glossary • Popular pages • Requested (Japan, government, anime & manga, seiyū) • Reviews (A-Class, Peer) • Translation • Participants • Reference library • ToDo (cleanup) • Unusual place names
Task forces  Baseball↔ • Biography • Business & economy • Cars • CJKV↔ • Culture • Districts and municipalites↔ • Education • Films↔ • Gaijin tarento • Geography & environment • History • Infrastructure • Law & government • Military history↔ • Music • Mythology • Owarai • Photo • Politics • Prefectures • Religion • Royalty and nobility • Science & technology • Shinto • Sport • Tokyo • Transwiki↔ • Update ↔ = joint task force
Project links  Category • Deletions • List • Japan • Meta • MOS (Japan, Anime) • New articles • Notice board • Portal (Anime, Buddhism, Final Fantasy, Japanese cars, Nintendo, Osaka, PlayStation, Sega, Shinto, Tokyo)
Descendant project links  Anime and manga/Collaboration (Dragon Ball, Yu-Gi-Oh!) • Entertainment (Hello! Project, Tokusatsu) • Games (Digimon, Final Fantasy, Koei Warriors, Nintendo, PlayStation, Pokémon/PAC/Portal, Square Enix, Zelda) • Japan (Bibliography, Sumo, Trains/New)
Other related pages  Categories (Lists, Wikipedians) • Projects (Automobiles, Computer and video games, Fan Fiction, F1, Martial Arts, Mixed martial arts, MotoGP, Motorcycling, Motorsport, Sports Car Racing, WRC)
Project parentage Countries, Geography

Welcome to WikiProject Japan, a WikiProject set up to better organize and present information in all articles related to Japan. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of interested Wikipedians to improve all Japan-related articles in order to make Wikipedia an excellent resource for Japan-related information for all who visit. If you would like to help, please sign up on the participants page and see the to-do list below for ideas of where to start. There's plenty of work to go around!

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

[edit] Scope and goals

This project is designed to help those interested in improving all of the Japan-related articles on Wikipedia to find a particular area in which they are interested in working. As "Japan" is a broad subject, there are many taskforces and collaborations (see the navbox to the right for a full list) in which you can participate. We want to:

1. Allow people to more easily locate groups working on Japan-related WikiProjects
2. Create a body of articles that accurately depicts the history and culture of Japan and the Japanese
3. Expand the number of articles regarding Japan and Japanese subjects
4. Further #3 by expanding all Japan-related article stubs
5. Highlight Japan's relationship and contributions to the rest of the world
6. Properly source all Japan-related articles, preferably using the <ref> element and the {{cite}} series of templates
7. Standardize the style and format of articles on Japan or Japanese subjects; and
8. Standardize the use of Japanese-language terms, names, and translations into English across all related articles, bringing them in line with the WP:MOS-JA.
9. Patrol recent changes to existing Japan-related articles for vandalism and poor-quality edits, and correct them to maintain the articles.

[edit] To-do items

Please "Be Bold!" and help us out. There are plenty of things to do in the lists below, including the creation of brand new articles. Please list all Japan-related Good and Featured articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Recognized content.

[edit] New articles

You can manually list articles you have created or found at Template:Newest Japan-related articles#Manually maintained list.

[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.

[edit] Peer review requests

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Peer review

[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
• 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. Rick Block requests help updating articles due to Gappei. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Gappei.
2. LordAmeth would like to enlist everyone's help in converting all articles, both in title and in context, to properly macronned form.
3. Kansai region compared to the Tohoku region, Kansai related articles are systematically sub-standard and have articles of towns and cities missing.
4. Dozens of pages shown at Special:Allpages/Japan and Special:Allpages/Japanese lack WikiProject Japan tags and assessments.
5. Category:Rangaku is woefully underpopulated. Many existing articles which belong in this category are not so categorized. Please go to various rangaku-related articles and add the category.
6. Bamse is trying to improve the coverage of National Treasures of Japan. See User:Bamse/National Treasures of Japan.

[edit] Cleanup tasks

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

Additionally, please review the following for work which may need doing:

1. Various articles on historic people, especially the new articles
2. Omoiyari Yosan This article is in Engrish, I would clean it up myself if I knew what it supposedly is saying.
3. List of governors of Japan needs to be updated.
4. Kyoto Imperial Palace is in sad shape. Needs expansion, more cited references.
5. expand Girls with guns to be inclusive of Japanese media as well-currently written from a single perspective, while Japan has a long tradition of such.
6. Hase-dera is in need of expansion. It's a miniscule stub for a rather major temple.
7. Shingetsu Institute was deleted as looking a little spammy; it's got lots of external links to articles, but not a single actual footnote, and the notability has been questioned (there's a bit of a COI concern as well).

You can also work on files listed on the Cleanup listing page as well as articles in Category:Japan articles needing attention. Your help with these is appreciated as the list of things to do is very long.

[edit] Requested moves and merges

The following are from WP:RM:

[edit] Disambiguation

The following may be from toolserver reports at WP:DPL, but any page needing disambiguation work and link correcting can be listed here.

• Naga (over 140 links)
• Fatal Fury (over 100 links)
• Shōnen Jump (over 100 links)

[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] 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 9 June 2009). 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.

[edit] Requested articles

• Wikipedia:Requested articles/Japan (including anime and manga, as well as anything else related to Japan)
• Buddhism
• Role-playing games
• Video games

[edit] Requested photographs in Japan

• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Japan

[edit] Translation requests

• Japan-related translation requests

[edit] Romanization requests

Hepburn romanization needed:

• Romanize film titles at: Template:WPFILMS Announcements/Japanese cinema

[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.r

• I would like to propose a rewrite of Jōmon Sugi. According to my research some information in the article is incorrect. Please advise as this is my first entry. Julianathomas (talk) 06:00, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
• Review requested for Nanking Massacre, Battle of Nanking, Nanking Massacre controversy, Alleged fabrication of the Nanking Massacre. - The articles on Nanking Massacre and Battle of Nanking have been expanded and tone has been made somewhat more NPOV. The other two articles are new. --Richard (talk) 17:05, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

• The article on Souzou Gakuen University has the wrong (or outdated) title University of Creation; Art, Music & Social Work:Souzou Gakuen University is the English version of institution's name now as clear as stated on all official sites that I added the links to on article's page. Also the other info is terribly outdated, this university was allover the news yesterday so there's plenty of reliable information out there right now. I would contribute to it but not sure how to change the article name, or is it better to create a completely new article and delete old one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsurugaoka (talk • contribs) 12:26, November 11, 2009

[edit] Article assessment

Any member of WikiProject Japan may assess Japan-related articles by following the guidelines here. If you aren't sure about an article, ask about it on the assessment talk page.

[edit] Top importance articles → FA

Please consider working on the Top importance articles in the chart below in order to bring them to Featured Article quality. The chart shows the current status of these articles (listed alphabetically by how close they are to reaching FA status), and there's plenty to work on.

Please jump right in and help us out by indicating in the chart which ones you want to work on (and then working on them, of course).

Article title	Current status	Completed	Who is working on it?
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Talk)	A
Japanese art (Talk)	A		日本穣
Junichiro Koizumi (Talk)	A
Hirohito (Talk)	B
Anime (Talk)	B
Demographics of Japan (Talk)	B
Economy of Japan (Talk)	B
Education in Japan (Talk)	B
Empire of Japan (Talk)	B
Fukuoka, Fukuoka (Talk)	B
Geisha (Talk)	B		MightyAtom
Geography of Japan (Talk)	B
History of Japan (Talk)	B		Black_Lupin
Hokusai (Talk)	B		Marrio
Japan Self-Defense Forces (Talk)	B
Japanese castle (Talk)	B
Japanese cuisine (Talk)	B
Japanese language (Talk)	B
Japanese literature (Talk)	B
Japanese poetry (Talk)	B
Kabuki (Talk)	B
Karaoke (Talk)	B
Kimono (Talk)	B
Kitakyushu (Talk)	B
Kobe (Talk)	B		Exitmoose
Akira Kurosawa (Talk)	B
Kyoto (Talk)	B
Manga (Talk)	B
Music of Japan (Talk)	B
Osaka (Talk)	B
Religion in Japan (Talk)	B
Samurai (Talk)	B
Sendai (Talk)	B
Shogun (Talk)	B
Sushi (Talk)	B
The Tale of Genji (Talk)	B
Tokyo (Talk)	B
Toyota (Talk)	B
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Talk)	B
Chiba, Chiba (Talk)	Start
Culture of Japan (Talk)	Start
Foreign policy of Japan (Talk)	Start
Government of Japan (Talk)	Start
Hiroshima (Talk)	Start		日本穣,
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Talk)	Start		日本穣,
Japanese people (Talk)	Start		Dekimasu
Kawasaki, Kanagawa (Talk)	Start
Meiji Restoration (Talk)	Start		Monocrat
Ministry of Defense (Japan) (Talk)	Start
Nagoya (Talk)	Start
Noh (Talk)	Start
Politics of Japan (Talk)	Start
Saitama, Saitama (Talk)	Start
Sakai, Osaka (Talk)	Start		Dekimasu
Sapporo (Talk)	Start
Shizuoka, Shizuoka (Talk)	Start
Yokohama (Talk)	Start

[edit] Recognized content

Featured content and good articles are what Wikipedia editors believe are some of the best work on Wikipedia. Before being listed here, content must pass the appropriate featured or good article candidacy for accuracy, neutrality, completeness, and style. Bold names have been featured on the Main Page as "Today's featured article" or the "Picture of the day".

[edit] Resources

Find more about Japan on Wikipedia's sister projects:

Definitions from Wiktionary
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
Images and media from Commons
News stories from Wikinews
Learning resources from Wikiversity

• 郵便番号検索 - 日本郵便 - This Japan Post resource has pronunciations in katakana for place names throughout Japan.
• Place names with unusual readings (for if you just can't figure out the reading)
• Film credits glossary
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles)
• Jim Breen's WWWJDIC - one of the best online J-E/E-J dictionaries
• Jeffrey's Japanese<->English Dictionary - includes French translations as well
• Online Tool for URL Encoding/Decoding

[edit] Templates

• To add a page to the project, please add one of the following templates to the top of the talk page of the article: {{WikiProject Japan}} or {{WPJ}}.
• If an article is in need of kanji or hiragana, add {{Template:Needkanji}} or {{Template:Needhiragana}} to the top of the article.
• When adding Japanese characters to an article, use
  • {{nihongo}} if an explanation or the pronunciation of the characters is needed. Format: English (Kanji, Rōmaji?, extra) extra2
  • {{nihongo2}} if just the Japanese characters are needed. Format: Kanji
  • {{nihongo3}} if the rōmaji are needed first. Format: Rōmaji (Kanji?, English, extra) extra2
  • {{eigo}} if the Japanese characters are needed first. Format: Kanji (Furigana, Rōmaji? English) extra

[edit] Barnsensu

If you think someone has done an outstanding job in improving and/or expanding Japan-related articles here on Wikipedia, you can award them the WikiProject Japan Barnsensu. Please make note of the following:

1. To award this to an editor, place the following on their talk page: {{WPJ-Barnsensu|1=Your message to the recipient. ~~~~}}
2. In general, you shouldn't award this to someone who has awarded it to you (in order to avoid any appearance of quid pro quo).
3. After awarding this to an editor, please make an entry on Barnsensu recipients page.

Recipients may also add the Barnsensu userbox to their pages.

This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process. Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information.