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Japanese place names and Unnessesary Disambiguation

I only notice it now that places like Sakaide in Kagawa, Yurihama in Tottori and some other towns and cities in Japan have unnessesary disambiguator that goes like "(city/town name), (prefecture)", In the case of Yurihama, there is no other pages to disambiguate and all of the non disambiguate terms (i.e. Sakaide and Yurihama) redirects back to the town/cities itself.

I understand places like Marugame, as there are other pages like Marugame Seimen and Marugame Domain, but the others is just the town/city name and the station in that city/town.

I want to ask for help finding and moving this pages (if you can). Thanks Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 09:43, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

@Miminity: I believe this thing has been discussed several times before here at WT:JAPAN and there are records of these discussions buried somewhere in this talk page's archives; so, I don't recommend WP:BOLDly making any page moves but rather suggest a more WP:CAUTIOUS approach here. Perhaps Nihonjoe, who I believe started this WikiProject, remembers where. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:42, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

That's why before I move the articles that I know have this. I'd like to ask WP:JAPAN's opinion about this. I move some of it in the past but I only notice it was widespread. I think we should discuss it more clearly here. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 12:38, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

MOS:JPPLACE applies here. The article should be at the simplest title possible. Therefore, if there are no other articles that use a term or name, or if there is one subject or topic that is overwhelmingly the most common meaning for that term, then the article should generally be at that undisambiguated name. For Sakaide, the article should remain at Sakaide, Kagawa as there are other possible meanings. For Yurihama, Tottori, it should likely be moved to Yurihama as I can find no other possible meanings of the word (at least that have articles here). ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 17:19, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Germany–Japan relations

Germany–Japan relations has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 20:31, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Fortress castle#Requested move 11 February 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Fortress castle#Requested move 11 February 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 10:04, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Osaka State Guest House#Requested move 22 February 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Osaka State Guest House#Requested move 22 February 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 12:41, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Caritas Junior College

The article Caritas Junior College has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Conducted a search. Not obviously notable. Has had no sources for almost 10 years.

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Wikidata proposal - Archaeological Site Reports (Japan) site ID

Hello, if interested, please see Wikidata:Property proposal/Archaeological site (Japan) ID, a Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties initiative, proposed in support of the activity here and over at jawiki/Commons; thank you, Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 02:39, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Should we create a Reliable Source list?

I think WP:JAPAN needs a localized RS list where we can discuss and compile reliable Japanese sources. Though, WP:A&M/RS and WP:GAMESOURCES exist, we should have something for generalized topics. I created and compiled this list, which is an incomplete list of sources I often use. Any thoughts? Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 14:36, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Looks very good; though I need to make some grammar fixes. Let's move this to the project namespace. ミラP@Miraclepine 15:38, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

@Miraclepine: I've moved it, Here's the link. I think we should add unreliable sources here and tagged them as such Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 16:55, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Names

For explaining the names, do we point out the family name (like Yoshihiko Noda or the order of the name (like Shigeru Ishiba)? If we do choose to point out the name order, I think it's redundant to include the romanization in the lead paranthesis (like Yoshihide Suga)?, since it's already mentioned on the hatnote. Also, many Japanese BLP don't even explained which name is which as well as the order, which I think should be necessary to explain 183.171.114.164 (talk) 16:07, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Additionally, article like Momo Hirai opt for explaining both 183.171.114.164 (talk) 16:11, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello there IP, Based on WP:JTITLE, it depends, if known english sources uses Family first, we follow it, if Given name first, we follow it, But in case of no english source talks about a person, If none of the above is available, default to the modified Hepburn romanisation (with macrons) and Japanese name order. Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 16:59, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

FAR notice

I have nominated Surrender of Japan for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:11, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Authority control - Japan-related items

Hello, a discussion has been started here about the possibility of a new authority control parameter that would facilitate the addition of Japan-specific wikidata properties to be results; this would then return, eg, a link to Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System in authority control. Here are (some/all of) the Japan-related properties at the moment, so that we can formulate a list of those to be added if and when this is approved/implemented; thanks, Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 09:32, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Mashin Sentai Kiramager

There's an ongoing discussion regarding the inclusion of the executive producers on the Mashin Sentai Kiramager article. It can be found at Talk:Mashin Sentai Kiramager#Executive producers. Feedback from project members would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 00:55, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Fires on the Plain (novel)#Requested move 24 March 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Fires on the Plain (novel)#Requested move 24 March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 07:44, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Kōhaku maku

This supposed mid-important stub has been unsourced for 15 years. Please add reliable sources. Bearian (talk) 03:04, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Statue of Unicorn Gundam

Statue of Unicorn Gundam is at AfD, if any project members are interested in weighing in or improving the article. Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 13:42, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Ibaraki Airport § Splitting proposal

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Ibaraki Airport § Splitting proposal, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. Aviationwikiflight (talk) 15:20, 30 March 2025 (UTC)