Talk:Sōke

Self Appointed Soke

There are a lot of these guys out there, I think it deserves mention in the article. Clausewitz01

Except for a very few Japanese, they are all self appointed. I know a guy who got his dog a Soke title. The USA is full of Soke wannabes due to the scam ran by the so-called World Head Sokeship Council Head of Family Blah, Blah, Blah, which is ran out of an apartment in the Ghetto of Cleveland, Ohio. bigzilla76.205.74.0 (talk) 06:05, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

"Nonsense" about Soke-Dai?

The title of Soke-Dai is hardly nonsense. I don't know if it's an ancient title or not, but it is most certainly in signficant usage today to mean an assistant to the Soke. A quick Google search shows 598 mentions of the term, almost all referring to this meaning of the term, from a wide variety of sources.

http://www.furyu.com/onlinearticles/Defs2.html (an article on titles and dojo etiquette that discusses Soke-Dai)]

http://www.geocities.com/aiki_kempo/article1.html (Somebody bothered to write an essay on the role of Soke and their Soke-Dai in the US)

http://www.aibudo.com/patchsales/ (it's common enough people sell uniform patches for it)

. . .And about six hundred more pages that make casual mention of the Soke-Dai of their art.

These articles might not be highly authoritative, but they certainly prove the title is in use (even if not in very widespread use), and worth a sentence or two in the "Soke" article in Wikipedia, and not "nonsense". If it's not a traditional title, it's certainly a modern expansion of it in significant use.

Reference needed to other articles with heading Soke

There's no easy way to simply click on something and go to the disambiguation page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soke

So if you don't know that there are multiple instances of usage of this word, and that articles exist for them, you're out of luck. I'd add this

Not to be confused with Soke.

but it doesn't seem correct. Any advice on what to do? Or better, please go ahead and add something2603:6010:4E42:500:F1D9:ECE5:9EE4:7851 (talk) 12:59, 7 May 2021 (UTC)