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RENAME!!!!

Please rename me!!! I changed the name request and have not had any response for several days —Preceding unsigned comment added by BrainiacMatt (talk • contribs) 02:05, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Done. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:49, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

THANKS, you rock Captain Cookie 17:19, 4 December 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by CaptainCookie (talk • contribs)

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WP:CHU/SUL

Hope you'll forgive me for editing your comment but I thought it best not to cause confusion. WP:CHU/SUL is the board we use for requests relating to SUL for convenience, but it is not possible to rename all accounts with a given name across Wikimedia projects. Were such a "global rename" function to become available, it would no doubt be allocated to stewards, with requests being made on meta. Currently the correct advice to someone changing their name with accounts on many wikis is that they would have to make rename requests on all those wikis if they want to keep the accounts as part of their global account. WJBscribe (talk) 10:36, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Ah, thanks. Perhaps something to that effect should be placed at the top of that page. I read through it and was still a little confused about the whole thing. :) ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:47, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

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Junko Sakurada

Thanks for the note. I generally agree that AfD should not be used to improve articles. However in this case the article was in violation of WP's policies on living people since it had no sources. I thought AfD was better than just blanking it out. It still could use a bit of improvement. Northwestgnome (talk) 18:19, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

That's what the various notifications are for. Alternately, you could also work to improve the article yourself instead of just doing a drive by tagging or AfD nomination. That's always much more useful, and in this case there were obviously plenty of sources to be had an used. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:39, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Daiko Group

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is Daiko Group. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Wikipedia:Notability and "What Wikipedia is not").

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Please undelete Hate to Love You image

I've restored the article Hate to Love You, as since it was merged, new reviews have been found which prove it meets WP:BK#1. :) Could you please undelete the image that goes with that page? --Malkinann (talk) 23:35, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Done. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 06:10, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Cheers. :) I don't need to do anything with the notice on Talk:Makoto Tateno, do I? --Malkinann (talk) 07:15, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

It should probably be removed since it is now incorrect. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:23, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice - I just wasn't sure if it should be kept as a record of the action, like an old AFD template. --Malkinann (talk) 08:00, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Archiving talk pages

How dare you archive the talk page of Dan Willis - you must be trying to hide something! :)

(I keed, I keed...)

Well, hopefully this time it will be far less dramatic than in the past. *crosses fingers*

Heh... :) BOZ (talk) 01:24, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, I did only archive discussions which had ended over a year ago (as per the agreement with Gavin.collins). I also set up the archivebot to only archive after 365 days. Hopefully that will work. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 01:30, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw that, I was just playing around. It shouldn't be a problem, I would like to think. :) BOZ (talk) 01:34, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

We can only hope, given the past reactions. Hopefully, he'll stick to the agreement. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 01:36, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Notification: Proposed 'Motion to Close' at Wikipedia:Community de-adminship/Draft RfC

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User:Marksteiner

Hi, you blocked this user as a sock of User:WHDT. I'm not certain that this was right however considering WHDT was told when blocked "Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username". I admit that their few edits were disruptive but blocking them immediately seems a bit over the top in my opinion. If they are unblocked then I'd be happy to give them some advice as to how to edit in conformance with WP:COI. Smartse (talk) 12:10, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

He wasn't blocked only as a sock. In fact, the full block edit summary states, "Disruptive editing: sock of User:WHDT who was blocked for username violations, came back and continued edit warring". The block notice on his talk page states, "You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for for continued disruptive editing under multiple usernames on the WHDT article." Being a sock was only a minor part of it. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 20:57, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Ok, but WHDT wasn't ever warned about edit warring either, so again blocking them for this seems a little unreasonable to me. Also from a little research it seems as though the edits they were making may have been correcting inaccuracies in the article which seems fair enough in my opinion (see Talk:WHDT#Sources_suggesting_it_is_online). If the edits were made in good faith and were correcting an error in our article then it seems like they'll be quite annoyed for being blocked as a result. As I said I'd be willing to help them conform to guidelines if they are unblocked. Smartse (talk) 20:22, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

If they request to be unblocked, all the circumstances surrounding things will be considered. The fact remains that they were edit warring and blocked under one username and immediately came back under another and began edit warring again. This is completely unacceptable, and the reason for the edit warring is irrelevant. However, as I stated, if they want to request to be unblocked, they can pick an account they want to use, and then request to be unblocked. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 23:59, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Happy holidays

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Reference requests

Hello! I have a request according to your entry at WikiProject Anime and manga Reference Library. I'm currenty trying to write "futanari" section in hentai article at ru.wikipedia, but I got BIG problem with sources. Google Books mentiones almost nothing about the futanari phenomenon. However I think that Manga: the complete guide page 452 [1] contains some information. Unfortunately, I don't have an access to the book here in Russia, so would you be so kind to help me with getting some information? It's be absolutely great, if you could copy some thesess on the futanari history, or at least refer me to futanari anime/manga examples. Thank you in advance for any help. -- deerstop. 23:07, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

The section reads as follows:

Futanari (hermaphrodites, "she-males")—Futanari were to the 1990s what lolicon was to the 1980s: a seemingly minority-taste kink that quickly became a pervasive part of the industry, cross-polinating every genre from seinen to redicomi. Toshiki Yui (Hot Tails) is the best-known exponent in the West.

Hope that helps. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 15:53, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much! That surely helped, although I'm surpised to see that it's just one sentence in the whole book. V_V -- deerstop. 16:15, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

How could I recover passwords from my other accounts?

I have written several wikipages especially Bio type under different names. How could I put them together under one account (Maybe this account)? If you help me get my passcodes, I will put them together. Thanks. One of them is Localsales. --DoNotTellDoNotAsk (talk) 00:39, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

There is no way to combine multiple usernames into one username. What I would recommend is just selecting the one account you want to use and just sticking with that one. You can also mention on your userpage the other usernames you've used. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 00:45, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

How about wiki helping to recover the passcode for an old account e.g. localsales. I would do the rest. Thanks. --DoNotTellDoNotAsk (talk) 00:57, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Unless you registered an email address on the account, there is no way to recover it. You can see more help at Help:Logging in. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 01:24, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

UAA Report

[2] This user last edited less than two weeks ago. How is that stale? 98.233.249.17 (talk) 19:05, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Plus it's clearly a group account, which I thought was explicitly prohibited on WP. Or are group accounts allowed, as long as they don't edit frequently? 98.233.249.17 (talk) 19:13, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

The account was blocked by Beeblebrox hours ago. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 00:16, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Ownership in article Brazil

Hello. The article Brazil has several issues, the main one is the fact that it's simply huge and overly detailed. In accordance with Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries and taking as model other Featured class articles such as Canada, India and Peru as I explained in here. As I made the changes, I explained carefully why and where I made them such as in here.

However, editor Rahlgd reverted all with no explanation at all as it can be seen in here. He is the only one who can edit the article without being reverted. Just see the history log in it. Also, this is not the first time he reverts an edit.

His behavior is clearly ownership. Please, help us. --Lecen (talk) 01:30, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Have you tried any of the remedies listed at dispute resolution? ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 02:37, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Daiko Group

Hi Nihonjoe. I think it's nothing short of a crime against the project that more and more AfDs seem to end up this way. "Consensus" to keep, good reasoning from solid, experienced editors, closed as "Delete". We all know the sourcing is out there. One just has to be in the right place with access to the sources. What's wrong with having a sourced stub on the subject? And what is gained by the deletion? It's outside my area of knowledge & experience, but I'll keep my eye open for potential sourcing and let you know if I find any. Happy holidays to you and yours. Dekkappai (talk) 03:47, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, let's just source it so well they can't delete it again (though I think the sources that were in it met the criteria for WP:CORP without any problem). I'm not going to waste my time arguing with people about it, though. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:50, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I've found that's the best policy too-- Just put together a decent, well-sourced article... no matter how long that may take :-) Good luck! Dekkappai (talk) 04:05, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

RFCN

Hi there! Just so you know why I archived that RFC, it was because the user had not edited since being notified; they weren't given much of a chance to respond one-on-one before the issue was brought to attention of the wider community. If it is a blatant username violation (as a shared account), there's no discussion needed. -kotra (talk) 04:15, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

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Bureaucrat discussion for Juliancolton RfB

A bureaucrat discussion has been opened in order to determine the consensus in this request for adminship. Please come participate. Just being thorough... ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 01:58, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure why you bothered. The opposition is legitimate and the support falls significantly below the least-supported successful RFB. Andrevan@ 05:41, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

If you have comments to make, please make them in the crat chat. Thanks. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 06:39, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

When in doubt, there's a choice between opening a crat chat, and standing by until someone else closes. I've done the later many, many times. -- Pakaran 05:50, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes, but having a chat doesn't hurt when the support falls (from my perspective) just above the lower threshold for bureaucrat discretion. I don't think having all the crats waiting around for someone else to do something is a productive or effective. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 06:39, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

PLEASE re-open my RFA

Please re-open my RFA request. I do not understand why you closed it and it is not fair. Please re-open it.Wiki Greek Basketball (talk) 07:01, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

I ask you again, PLEASE kindly re-open my request. You should not be allowed to decide that I can not have my RFA run its course. I have followed every single proper course and site rule. I don't want to have to ask for mediation on this.Wiki Greek Basketball (talk) 07:04, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Uh, that's not gonna happen bub... You epically failed, and if you keep at it, you probably won't get supported at an RfA for years... The Thing _{Happy New Year!} 07:05, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Actually Nihonjoe is perfectly allowed to close your RFA early, he's a crat. --Coffee // have a cup // ark // 07:07, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

I have reopened it. See my comments on your talk page (going there now to post them). ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:12, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much Nihonjoe.Wiki Greek Basketball (talk) 07:14, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for re-opening it. Can you explain to me why I am getting so strongly opposed here? Why people including admin are being so rude to me? Why there are so many hateful comments to me? Also could you explain to me why I am being considered "disruptive" just for applying? I really do not understand why I should be punished for simply applying? Are you saying that if I fail and apply again I will be punished? Can you please show me the site rule that says that you can be punished for applying. And when I say site rule i do not mean someone's personal interpretation of a rule. I mean where it actually says that applying is against etiquette and is punishable. I have looked throughout the site and cannot find this rule. So I would really appreciate it if you could show it to me, since I am being threatened with the discipline of this rule, i would like to be able to see it and read it myself. Thank you for all your help and I'm really not trying to be annoying or bothersome. I just need to see the rule.Wiki Greek Basketball (talk) 07:21, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

If you can't see why you are being so strongly opposed, there's likely nothing I can do to explain it to you. I've already linked to the applicable pages on your talk page. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:23, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

You're not serious, are you?

[3]. Or is this an attempt to let it sink in so that he doesn't cause more problems? The Thing _{Happy New Year!} 07:11, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Please see my comments above. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:13, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi Nihonjoe. I hope you don't mind terribly, but I've re-closed the RfA. It makes no sense to waste a week of the community's (and the candidate's) time in allowing this RfA to run its full course. There are few cases where it's well advised to override the candidate's wishes; I think this is one of them. Regards, —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 07:28, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw that. I was basically doing it so he could go down in flames as that's likely the only thing that would speak to him. He just doesn't seem to understand, can't wrap his brain around why people are opposing him. I would have preferred you leave it open (or at least asked me about it before you closed it), but I'm not going to edit war about it. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:39, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Please can you have him re-open it for me. I just want what I deserve. I deserve the full week, I have earned this. I have been at the site longer and made more contributions than all of the recent editors that were approved to be admins. So it is really unfair to not even allow me the process. I am not trying to be difficult or to bother you, but I already asked him at his take page and he is just ignoring me and he won't answer any of my questions or respond.Wiki Greek Basketball (talk) 08:02, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Several users are attempting to get me banned over this

Can you please stop this? This is definitely harassment against me and should not be tolerated Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Wiki Greek BasketballWiki Greek Basketball (talk) 09:35, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Juliancolton's Crat Chat

I wanted to offer an opinion. It was very thoughtful of you to open a 'crat chat when you were unsure of the outcome, and I like how you have so much respect for the opinions of others. That's a very positive trait to have, especially in a 'crat. Master&Expert (Talk) 01:37, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the compliment. I think it's important to show respect for the opinions of others even if you disagree with them (not saying that was the case here, though). ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:59, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Jc's RfB

Hey Joe, you should provide a link to the crat chat related to JC's RFB.---Balloonman ^{NO! I'm Spartacus!} 07:54, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Provide a link where? ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:15, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Anime misinformation vandal going too far.

Sorry to disturb you, but remember the vandal from the 118.137.0.0/16 range? The guy has constantly returned to reapply his brand of vandalism under a multitude of IP addresses outside the range, going as far as using a Mexican IP and two Singaporean IPs to do so. Here is the list of IP address he has used for the past few months.

• 114.59.177.219 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 114.59.191.27 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 125.161.137.37 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 125.161.135.192 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 202.70.50.23 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 202.70.50.88 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 202.70.50.181 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 125.161.151.186 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 125.166.74.138 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 125.165.82.37 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 202.70.50.169 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 202.70.50.180 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 202.70.54.190 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 202.70.54.32 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 202.70.54.174 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 114.58.40.11 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 125.160.186.3 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 189.140.198.67 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 61.8.254.2 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)
• 61.8.223.226 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log)

Hope to hear your say ASAP because when he strikes again is now unpredictable. The only certain thing is the longest quiet period between his periods of vandalism is an estimated 20 days. - 上村七美 (Nanami-chan) | talkback | contribs 10:49, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

For these, due to the wide range of IPs, there's not much I (or anyone else can do) other than revert the vandalism when it appears. I wish there was something more that could be done. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:14, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

FYI

When you closed JC's RfB, you forgot to remove it from WP:RFB and then list it at Wikipedia:Unsuccessful bureaucratship candidacies and Wikipedia:Unsuccessful bureaucratship candidacies/Chronological (though WP:CRAT doesn't list the latter; but that's not my problem). Just as a note you may wish to remember in the future. ÷seresin 20:59, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the reminder. Also, regarding WP:RFB, it wasn't that I forgot to remove it, but rather someone else got to it before I got to that point. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 21:01, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

HBC AIV Helperbot

Hello. In response to this request I have finally gotten around to making this simple code change that teaches the bot to do this instead of this. I am sorry it took so long but all of my programming skills are being used up at work these days.

I understand you wanted to add functionality to remove headings when there is one below an empty one, however I really don't have time or desire to work on that. This bot is open source and also open to collaborative editing so you are welcome submit any code changes to the bot operators and we are likely to adopt it if it is an improvement. I suggest that if you do implement such a feature that it be opt-in only(ie does nothing if you don't turn it on) so that the existing behavior of the bot is not unintentionally effected on the other pages it serves. Chillum ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 01:58, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your work. :) ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 02:32, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Question

As the creator of the Japanese MOS I want to ask you a question. Is "W-B-X ~W-Boiled Extreme~" exempt from the MOS because it is written as such in English? Ryulong (talk · contribs) seems to believe since that is the way it is written in English then it is acceptable and does not have to follow the Japanese MOS. You can comment here if you want. MS (Talk|Contributions) 04:25, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Commented. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:15, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:MOS-JA#Song.2Falbum_titles_written_entirely_in_English_with_tildes.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 00:51, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Question about Antarctica (band) page deletion

I was looking for a page about the New York band called Antarctica and didn't find one. I was going to create one, then saw that there had been a page called Antarctica_(band) and you deleted it. May I ask why? Would it be possible for you to send me the deleted text so that I could perhaps use it as a starting point for a new page? Thanks! --Jerrymcrash (talk) 00:59, 6 January 2010 (UTC)Jerrymcrash

It was deleted (over three years ago!) because it "met Wikipedia’s criteria for speedy deletion as an article about a band, singer, musician, or musical ensemble that does not credibly indicate the importance or significance of the subject. See CSD A7." I have userfied it at User:Jerrymcrash/Antarctica (band). Feel free to work on it there until it meets WP:MUSIC, at which point you are welcome to move it back to Antarctica_(band). ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 04:53, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

NPOV concerns

Thanks for checking the article for Kaba Group. Worked on the NPOV concerns and added a reference I found. Can you please check? EichenStaiger (talk) 15:44, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

All of the references in the article are either from the company itself (two of them) or just giving statistics. You need to add reliable third-party sources, meaning sources which have no direct connection to the company. Newspapers, magazines, etc., are good places to start. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:58, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Just added some references out of third-party sources. Could you please check again. Thanks EichenStaiger (talk) 17:11, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

They need to be third party news sources. Please read the links I provided as simple statistics pages are not useful for providing notability. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 01:47, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Just added some news source ... it was not easy to find relevant english sources;-) Sorry, but could you please check again. Thanks EichenStaiger (talk) 13:34, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Please stop moving this section around. I can reply to you regardless of where on the page it is. The sources don't have to be in English. I'll look at them later today and reply here. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 15:56, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

User:Productionlogistics

Hi there, just letting you know that I've unblocked this editor per his request. I've warned him to change his username before making more edits, and that he is to no longer promote himself or his company, and I'll be keeping an eye on him here in the short term to see that he honors that. I just thought I'd let you know, since you had username/spam blocked him. Doomo! -- Atama頭 08:57, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

No problem. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 16:13, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Indefinite protection

Hi, I just lowered the protection of Japanese people because it had been protected for several months and hopefully the edit war will not continue. Generally, I don't think it's necessary to indefinitely fully protect articles, except in extreme cases. They can be forgotten and then will miss out on any contributions and development. Regards, — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:27, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Works for me. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 18:54, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

UY

Fair enough. Do you have any feedback/info for the main article? Dandy Sephy (talk) 00:54, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

The movie and OVA sections are very heavy. I think they need to be expanded a bit and split into more paragraphs. As it is, they are difficult to read. I'm going to go through the film page and remove all the main cast members and leave pointers to the list of characters page. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 00:56, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Request for moving article to main space

Hello, Nihonjoe, if you're active at this time, could you move back Diapason (magazine) under my user page to the main space, Diapason (magazine)? I'm gonna delete the user page since the page is not needed any longer, so if possible, could you also delete the logs not to show my subpage from the edit history? Thanks.--Caspian blue 01:26, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Hey CB - I was stalking Nihonjoe and saw this request so I've done as you requested - hopefully that's okay for you! Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 01:30, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, though stop stalking me. :) ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 15:24, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Haha, thanks, both of you. --Caspian blue 01:48, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

User:4znhatred

Pardon my butting in, but "Aznhatred" happens to be a racist name. "Azn" is slang for an Americanized Asian (see AZN), and the username is obviously an attack on this particular demographic. The Thing _{Vandalize me} 02:47, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm well aware of this meaning for it, but I don't see this as a blatant violation. I recommend discussing the issue with the editor on their talk page first, and then taking it to WP:RFCN if you don't get anywhere there. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 03:00, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Requesting unprotection on Adrian Hilton

Hi there. Last March, you semi-protected this article indefinitely, as it was the subject of an edit war and BLP-violating edits; however, the dispute appears to have been settled, and the article is no longer attracting much attention (7 edits in the past 6 months). I believe that protection should be used as sparingly as possible, and only for as long as is necessary; it seems to me that it is not here, and it is probably safe to unprotect the article. Thanks in advance. Robofish (talk) 00:20, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Done. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 01:28, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Please have a look

Hi Nihonjoe, I may introduce myself to you as a new user who translated an English article Jayen Varma to the Indian language Malayalam. Immediately after submitting the article, the same along with the original English article was tagged for deletion. I do not question the sincerity of the user. But the same article was deleted on an earlier occasion and was restored after a long discussion. It seems you had a very vital role in finalising it. The article was translated by me to Malayalam only because it was a clean article and has a page in Italian language also. I hope you will be knowing the importance of the subject matter and the rules far better than me. So please have a look in to it to save it from deletion. Thanks.--Musicindia1 (talk) 05:55, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but unless you can find some reliable third-party sources to back up the article, there isn't much I can do. Do you know of any newspapers or magazines that have written articles about him? If you know of at least two or three that would be considered reliable sources, then the article will likely be kept. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 13:10, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Appeal

Hi Nihonjoe, please could I request your help for a moment, there is a certain editor User:Dbachmann being very uncivil toward me and harrassing me. I'm very concerned with his behaviour toward me, as you can see on my talk page and his, and the article History of Iraq. I noticed you are an eguor admin and appeal to you in confidence. Izzedine 14:11, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise

You have become one of the bones of contention at Talk:Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise#Sources. Comment how you will, or not at all, but I thought you should know. --Gwern (contribs) 15:23 14 January 2010 (GMT)

Thank you

For updating my name so quickly!  :) --Neon Sky (talk) 08:03, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

No problem. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 16:00, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Macrons, etc.

Hi, Nihonjoe. I noticed another editor moving Japanese biographies from macroned to non-macroned titles. "Shūji" to "Shuji" for example. I suppose this is something that has been discussed to death at MOS-JA, and "consensus" has, I suppose, chosen wrong. I know there is no one "right" way to transliterate from Japanese, but there are definitely wrong ways. "しゅうじ" can be transliterated "Shuuji", "Shūji", "Shûji", or any other conceivable way which lets us know it's a long "u" rather than a short one. "Shuji" is unacceptable in anything purporting to cover Japanese subjects in anything near a "reliable" way. The excuse I was given for making our page names incorrect was that the subject's "Official site" spelled it this way. This would not be an acceptable excuse even if it were true. But it turned out the subject apparently has no official site. When that seemed to sink in to the wrong-page mover, "most common spelling" was cited. That reasoning is even shabbier. Anyway, I know I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but I'm going on the "Drama-out" and don't want to stir up a fruitless discussion at MOS-JA. Dekkappai (talk) 17:44, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Community de-Adminship - finalization poll for the CDA proposal

After tolling up the votes in the revision proposals, it emerged that 5.4 had the most support, but elements of that support remained unclear, and various comments throughout the polls needed consideration.

A finalisation poll (intended, if possible, to be one last poll before finalising the CDA proposal) has been run to;

• gather opinion on the 'consensus margin' (what percentages, if any, have the most support) and

• ascertain whether there is support for a 'two-phase' poll at the eventual RfC (not far off now), where CDA will finally be put to the community. Matt Lewis (talk) 02:02, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Note

User talk:Mortetviolachaud has requested a change to a non-offensive name. Triplestop x3 03:45, 18 January 2010 (UTC)