Takashi Ueki

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Hi, Takashi Ueki. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck!  Chzz  ►  20:32, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

ようこそ You don't need to read anything - anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it. Be Bold, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people. Ask for help. Talk to us live, or edit this page, put {{helpme}} and describe what help you need. Someone will reply very quickly - usually within a few minutes. Play in your user area. For example, create User:Takashi Ueki/test. Edit existing articles, before you make your own. Look at some subjects that you know about, and see if you can make them a bit better. For example, Wikipedia:Cleanup#2009. When you're ready, read about Your first article. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references. Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page. There's lots of information below. Once again, welcome to the fantastic world of Wikipedia! --  Chzz  ►  20:32, 3 May 2009 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Grade sources • Cite sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists • Best articles Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Pages needing attention • Peer review The missing manual

May 2009

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Note, this was a false positive, so I undid ClueBot  Chzz  ►  01:16, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Referencing help

See user:chzz/help/refs for my own quick guide to referencing. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  01:21, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

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Re:Shinto

Maybe it is time to put Shinto's status as a "major world religion" to good use. I will protect the article as autoconfirmed because it is a high visibility article. By the way, my wish list for this article-- I hope you give explanations of when different parts of Shinto developed, e.g., what century such-and-such a philosophical term was first used. Shii (tock) 03:40, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Hey, I noticed you aren't giving sources for what you wrote in the article. I just wanted to let you know that if you don't supply references, someone else can come in and delete everything you've written. It's okay to cite Japanese books or videos. (I know the rules are different at Japanese Wikipedia because people don't generally write nonsense there.) Shii (tock) 05:12, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

good luck!

Hey, I noticed you started to work on Yasukuni Shrine. I did extensive work on the article about a year ago but then gave up because it was too big of a project. Good luck on cleaning it up and fleshing it out. If you need any help though, let me know! --Torsodog^Talk 23:12, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Awesome

Hello. I Just wanted to let you know I appreciate all your good work on Shinto and related topics. One thing about your Ise Shrine page move though, currently Wikipedia's MOS on Japan-related articles (here) state that all shrines except "Grand Shrines" (taisha) are to be named XXXXX Shrine. So... that might be kind of a conflict with WP policy. Personally I believe it would be better to have the jingū/jinja/myōjin in the title, but those are the rules as of now. You may want to propose a policy change at the MOS discussion page though. Cheers, ~ AMorozov ^〈talk〉 18:42, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Oh, and also, if you do manage to get consensus there, the page title should be "Ise Jingū", with the macron over the u included. ~ AMorozov ^〈talk〉 18:44, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I am aware of the significance of Ise Jingū, I was just pointing out a possible MOS conflict. But if the MOS allows for such an exception, than no problems. Happy editing! ~ AMorozov ^〈talk〉 19:03, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Well... it's a sticky issue. I think Wikipedia, as a matter of policy, is tailored to appeal to its readers, ie. English speakers for English Wikipedia, Spanish speakers for Spanish Wikipedia, etc. Other editors have spoken about the shrine page naming conventions before, but no one really pressed anything because it's kind of a hazy area between technicality and popular appellation. You could put the thing to a vote, but I'd guess that the result would be to keep things the way they are. ~ AMorozov ^〈talk〉 21:50, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Adding images to the template

Hi. Urashima Taro here. Since I also do work on Shinto, I noticed all the changes you have been making to the Template:Shinto. Sorry for barging in but, after seeing you can edit templates, I was wondering if you could help me modify the Template:Shinto template to include an optional photo. As you can see from the article Onusa, if one uses the template AND a photo, the results are ungainly to say the least. The solution would be to include the photo in the template, but I cannot do it myself. Can/would you you do it? Please feel completely free to say no.Urashima Tarō (talk) 00:08, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the discussion, I have taken over the Shinto direction - I have recruited several experts in the topic including 2 Shinto Priests (guji), one American, On Japanese, a Japanese linguist, and several photographers that I know travel to Japan regularly. I will be heading up the development of Shinto as a topic as to me me it is a very important topic after 10 years of study. I do find that many people want to make changes but should give me the chance to get all this up to speed. re: the infobox - i think that it might be best to edit the photo, move it to a different location, or resize it rather than changing the infobox as it is a universal infobox and they would all change. I can assist with the photo resizing and moving if that would help, but I would like to keep the infobox as universal at possible. Takashi Ueki (talk) 00:33, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Happy to have any constructive help, please let me know if you want to make changes on a topic so that a consensus can be had.

Hi, and thanks for the reply. The photo and its positioning are not all that important, but in any case I think that such a small change wouldn't be damaging other projects because, if you don't add a photo, nothing happens, and other projects may want to add an image too. And I don't really see where or how else the photo could be added. In any case, thanks anyway, take care and, if you need help, let me know. Urashima Tarō (talk) 04:59, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

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Amaterasu in Pop Culture

Thanks for taking some initiative on the section, moving it to a new page, etc. It has been a bit of a pet peeve/project for me but I haven't had much time lately to deal with it. If you could keep an eye on the section it the future, that would be great too. --Ando228 (talk) 16:27, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Categories in a user page

Hi, T.U., U.T. here. I took the liberty of adding the nowiki template to the categories in your test user page. The template just makes the enclosed code inactive, turning it into simple text. I did this so that the page wouldn't appear, as it did, in public category pages, which is where I found it. When you finish the article (to which, if I may, there's a couple of things I would like you to add, but this is a subject for another message, if you are interested), remove the template and you are back in business. Take care. Urashima Tarō (talk) 07:46, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

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