Wikipedia talk:WikiProject East Asia/Archive 3

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China

Is the China-topics group dead? I am wanting to help with Chinese history, language, philosophy, literature. I also have good general knowledge of East Asia culture and history. Can someone help me get started? I tried posting on the China stuff but it seems dead D: --Shadowy Sorcerer (talk) 01:27, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

ZHWNB died, it was merged into WP:CHINA a few days ago. 70.24.251.71 (talk) 05:21, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

NC-TW straw poll

A straw poll has been opened on the question of whether WP:NC-TW represents current consensus and so should remain a current guideline. Opine at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese)#NC-TW straw poll. Shrigley (talk) 17:17, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:East Asia will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in East Asia's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:26, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

automated cleanup listing

So... there's a replacement for the broken cleanup listing from when this project was founded. It's User:Svick/WikiProject cleanup listing, and can be requested from the talk page. 70.24.251.71 (talk) 05:23, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

RfC: Use of Simplified Chinese on Chinese characters

There is an ongoing RfC at Talk:Chinese characters#RfC: Simplified Chinese within the infobox image regarding whether or not Simplified Chinese should be removed from the infobox image on that article. It would be helpful if a third opinion can be provided to assist in forming consensus. If you would like to participate in the discussion, please feel free to do so. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 10:01, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Ainu task force

A suggestion came up at WP:JAPAN for an Ainu task force. As this ethnic group is spread across multiple countries, I suggested it also be signed as WP East Asia. See the discussion at WT:JAPAN. 70.24.251.208 (talk) 03:50, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

RfC on the spelling of Vietnamese names

RfC: Should the spelling of Vietnamese names follow the general usage of English-language reliable sources? Examples: Ngo Dinh Diem, Ho Chi Minh, and Saigon, or Ngô Đình Diệm, Hồ Chí Minh, and Sài Gòn. The RfC is here. Kauffner (talk) 18:51, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Reassessment request

Requesting a reassessment for Stroke (CJKV character). A number of significant updates have been made since this was last assessed. Missylou2who (talk) 20:11, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Burma → Myanmar requested-move notification

A requested move survey has been started (by Marcus Qwertyus (talk)) at Talk:Burma, which proposes to move:

• Burma → Myanmar

Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — P.T. Aufrette (talk) 23:12, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Korean influence on Japanese culture?

There's quite a large article, Korean influence on Japanese culture, which might not get a lot of eyes from editors with diverse East Asian interests, because it is simply linked from Korean articles. It seems very close to an article we once had, Korean cultural claims (which apparently documented the well-known Korean claims to be the originator of civilization of all of East Asia), except that it treats the claims in a credulous way. A lot of the supposed "Korean" influence, for example, was really Korean transmission of Chinese knowledge to Japan, which is why our articles on premodern Japan emphasize China as the primary foreign influence, not Korea. Any thoughts on how to go forward - AfD, re-scoping, neutralization? Shrigley (talk) 14:26, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

2012 Asian American infobox representatives open nomination period

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American#Selection nominations. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 23:19, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Boxer Rebellion citations

There is an edit war over "Boxer Rebellion" and its citations. Please comment here. Thanks. Axl ¤ [Talk] 05:43, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Infobox East Asian name

{{Infobox East Asian name}} has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.245.16 (talk) 04:16, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

East Sea

The usage of East Sea is under discussion, see talk:East Sea -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 00:13, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Culture of Asia

Culture of Asia has been requested to be renamed, see talk:Culture of Asia -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 05:25, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Manchukuo discussion

Here's a notice from Benlisquare about a topic which may interest people here:

It's currently being disputed whether Manchukuo was a puppet state or not. At the moment, I'm trying to compile a list of books and academic papers that refer to Manchukuo as a "puppet state". If anyone would like to help with expanding the list, please add a few more sources to the list at Talk:Manchukuo#NPOV "puppet state". Thanks. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 02:35, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Please participate if interested. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 22:44, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Li family and various homophonic family names, and various spellings

See Talk:Lì (chinese surname) for a mess regarding various Lee/Li surnames. -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 04:13, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Further discussions at talk:Li (surname) and talk:Li (surname meaning "profit") -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 06:15, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

See also: Wikipedia talk:Article titles#Inadequacy of current WP:UE guideline with regard to Chinese names -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 06:15, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Geography of Tibet categories

Some Geography of Tibet categories are up for discussion, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_June_23 -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 04:37, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

{{States and territories of East Asia}}

Template:States and territories of East Asia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:18, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

"Draft" rating

I suggest that this wikiproject implement the new "Draft"-class and categorize into Category: Draft-Class WikiProject East Asia articles‎, for pages in the WP:Drafts namespace that was recently initiated. This would allow tracking of articles related to this wikiproject that are in draft form, which members of this wikiproject may wish to improve and move into the mainspace. -- 76.65.128.112 (talk) 23:40, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

I personally don't see the point. We don't categorize userspace drafts, why should draft pages in the new namespace be treated any differently. If it's not ready to be shown to the general public, there's no reason to for a WikiProject to pay attention to it. Sven Manguard Wha? 03:26, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

While userspacedrafts are personal pages, the new draft space is supposed to be a joint collaboration area. The advantage in categorizing them for the project is for people who come here to find topics they might be interested in, that someone else has already started working on, for which they might also have wanted to start an article on. As it isn't ready for public consumption, we can also choose to move unready articles out of mainspace and into drafts until they are more ready. Having a tagged draft also allows us to merge information found in a draft to a different article found in mainspace, should duplication occur, and we'd have an area to check for such duplication, as they've been tagged. -- 76.65.128.112 (talk) 07:05, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Ryūkyū

Hello, last week I started editing and adding Wikipedia articles related to the Ryūkyū Islands, the Ryūkyū Kingdom, and Okinawa Prefecture, and I noticed many red links, stubs, and needed improvement in general. I also noticed this on Japanese Wikipedia. So I started to compile a To Do List and created WikiProject Ryūkyū. Because I was on my own and comepletely inexperienced, it was deleted and turned into a redirect for WikiProject Japan. I started a discussion on their talk page, and they proposed that I should ask for help from WikiProject East Asia. I want to form a WikiProject that covers anything having to do with the Ryūkyū archipelago to better organize and improve related articles. I would really appreciate any help I can get. ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 19:02, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

• I started a WikiProject proposal here. ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 20:55, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Move request to decapitalize all Chinese dynasty articles

There's a move request to decapitalize "dynasty" in the Chinese dynasty articles, as in Han Dynasty → Han dynasty. For more information and to give your input, see [1]. --Cold Season (talk) 18:34, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

東亞

FYI, WP:東亞 and {{東亞}} were recently deleted. These used to point to this project and its banner, respectively. -- 70.24.250.235 (talk) 03:42, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in Asia may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! --Another Believer _(Talk) 21:12, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet for Wikiproject East Asia at Wikimania 2014

Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost

The deadline for submissions is 1st July 2014

For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to:

Project leaflets
Adikhajuria (talk) 09:32, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

• What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
• When? June 2015
• How can you help?

  1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here

  2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)

  3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.

Thanks, and happy editing!

User:Another Believer and User:OR drohowa

Why is RoC different to Kosovo?

I've opened a discussion at Talk: Taiwan about how to describe the Republic of China consistent with how Wikipedia describes other partially recognised states like Kosovo. Participation welcomed. Frenchmalawi (talk) 19:19, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

RFC on Gojoseon about the founding legends

Feel free to discuss it at its talkpage. --Cold Season (talk) 01:52, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

RfC: Flag of Ryukyu

There is an RfC at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan#RfC: Flag of Ryukyu concerning the Ryukyuan national flag. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 00:46, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

RfC at Talk:Joseon

There is currently an RfC at Talk:Joseon#RfC: Joseon Kingdom or Joseon Dynasty?. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 09:26, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

RfC

Hello there! There's an ongoing RfC concerning Paul Singer and WP:NPOV in a broader sense, that you might care to comment on. Thank you, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 01:44, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Guidance for a Draft Article: Gobi Corporation

Hi there! I am a Wikipedia beginner. Visited Mongolia a few times for business and leisure and got excited with the Mongolian culture and way of life. I started thinking how I could contribute to the Mongolian culture on Wikipedia and was reading the Wikipedia article on the Economy of Mongolia [[2]]. I noticed a mention of the Gobi Cashmere Company as being a major subject of the Mongolian Economy but found not such article on the Wikipedia. I decided this is a great way subject to cover and start my Wikipedia contribution. So I created this Draft article. As you will see I was first advised to add more links and citations, which I did, although I might still miss the standards of correct formatting Wikipedia articles. Then after I re-submitted the article draft, it was nominated for Speedy deletion without any discussion and shortly after deleted. So I decided to address the WikiProject East Asia in search of support to this article: Do you believe this is an important subject to cover and link it to the Economy of Mongolia? If you do so, can we collaborate so that I will edit the article (guidance appreciated) and the article will ultimately be published? Yudmik (talk) 11:33, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Notification of RFC for Korean MOS in regard to romanization

Should we use McCune-Reischauer or Revised for topics relating to pre-1945 Korea? Those inclined, please contribute here. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 06:22, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

RfC: Should we change the titles of those election articles from "Republic of China xxx elections" to "Taiwanese xxx elections"?

Related RFC here. Talk:Republic_of_China_general_election,_2016#Should_we_change_the_titles_of_those_election_articles_from_.22Republic_of_China_xxx_elections.22_to_.22Taiwanese_xxx_elections.22.3F --Lemongirl942 (talk) 07:18, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge

Everyone is invited to the WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge. The editathon aims to create or improve 10,000 articles related to Asia. Pratyush (talk) 18:11, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Red bean soup split discussion

Please come participate in the discussion to determine if this article should be split into two or more articles. Thank you. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 06:29, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Name change discussion at Talk:Liancourt Rocks

Please come participate in the name change discussion regarding the future naming of the Liancourt Rocks article. Thank you for participating! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 17:01, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Discussion of significant changes to featured Japan article

Please come participate in the discussion here. Thank you. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 20:34, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

RfC: Proposal to remove CJK from lead in parentheses

There is an RfC at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section‎‎ proposing to remove CJK in parentheses from the lead (as well as IPA pronunciations). Please do come participate in the discussion. Thanks! TheInfernoX (talk) 15:14, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Relisting of move discussion

Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Ainu language#Requested move 16 February 2018, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, SkyWarrior 02:47, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   10:55, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Three Kingdoms for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Three Kingdoms is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Three Kingdoms until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:44, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Discussion of interest at Reliable Sources Noticeboard

The following discussion is of interest to members at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Using of primary genetics sources at Uyghur (and many other Eurasian pages).--Ermenrich (talk) 18:00, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

RFC on whether Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters count as the same name

Please see Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/China_and_Chinese-related_articles#Request_for_comment:_Do_the_traditional_and_simplified_forms_of_Chinese_count_as_the_same_name_or_different_names_in_regards_to_eligibility_of_displaying_characters? WhisperToMe (talk) 07:22, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

RfC on scope of wet market article

Hi, there is a new RfC here on whether the scope of the article wet market should include those outside of Southeast/East Asia. Any participation is welcome! — MarkH₂₁^talk 21:15, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Requesting expansion and update edit support

Hi,

Season's greetings

I am looking for proactive expansion and update support/input help the following (So far neglected but important topic) articles, if possible. Even if you feel your focus area bit different still contribution of few line may help bring in some different perspective and also help Wikipedia goal of neutrality. If you can't spare time but if you know any good references you can note those on talk pages.

• Islamic advice literature

This has been posted to this forum since, one of article review suggested to have more diverse editor participation to have more inclusive, neutral and balanced worldview

I hope and request some editors from this forum too proactively and constructively participate in updating and expanding of article Islamic advice literature

Thanks, warm regards and greetings

Bookku (talk) 07:40, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Torah as source for the Mongol word for law?

Can anyone comment on this discussion: Talk:Torah#Torah in other languages? It's claimed, with a source (supposedly, not online) that the Torah is the source of the Manchu word doro, via Mongol dörö.--Ermenrich (talk) 14:45, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Why inactive?

Why is a WikiProject focused on one of the most important world regions considered "inactive"? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 11:08, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Taiwan has an RFC

Taiwan has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. STSC (talk) 21:26, 24 January 2021 (UTC)