User talk:Benjamin Pineau

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Contents 1 Please comment 2 Allegations of Chinese apartheid AfD 3 La Marque du tueur 4 Bold text 5 Argument? 6 kurosawa 7 Pre-Meiji Period: Use of Japanese era name in identifying disastrous events 8 kurosawa's film/ PD discussion again

[edit] Please comment

This is a message for all regulars at the “apartheid” AfD series. I believe there may have been a breakthrough. Please share your thoughts here. Thanks. --Targeman 03:02, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Allegations of Chinese apartheid AfD

Following your recent participation in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allegations of French apartheid, you may be interested to know that a related article, Allegations of Chinese apartheid, is currently being discussed on AfD. Comments can be left at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allegations of Chinese apartheid. -- ChrisO 15:59, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] La Marque du tueur

I don't know if you'll remember me from the Seijun Suzuki article. I've been trying to get Branded to Kill up to FA standards but I'm having a hard time tracking down it's influence in Japan--which I know is huge. I've added a bit about Getting Any?, Postman Blues, Lupin III and Golgo 13 but I don't have any what you might call "super reliable" sources. I remember you're expert in reference hunting so I was wondering if you'd come across anything that might work. The special features on the Japanese DVDs have me stumped too but that's secondary. It's no trouble if you don't have anything but I thought I'd try asking around. Thanks, Doctor Sunshine talk 11:49, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for you comment and for taking the time to do that. The MidnightEye link is better than what I'd been hoping for. Even if I can't keep the the four influences above, and I think they probably meet reliability standards, the underground cinema stuff really gets the point across. Good work. Doctor Sunshine talk 00:29, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bold text

Ooper edited your text and put it in bold (See this revision: [1])

WhisperToMe 16:21, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Argument?

I wonder if you might want to take a look at this?

• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles)#Questioning use of -tenno suffix

A different approach to dispute ...? --Ooperhoofd 14:33, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] kurosawa

hello i noticed your edit to Roshomon, please not that every pre-1954 Japanese film is in Public domain[2] --AlexOvShaolin 03:40, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

wow nevermind, its hard to believe such a ruling was made. --AlexOvShaolin 03:43, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pre-Meiji Period: Use of Japanese era name in identifying disastrous events

Would you consider making a contribution to an exchange of views at either of the following:

• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disaster management#Renaming 1703 Genroku earthquake?
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan#Renaming 1703 Genroku earthquake?

As you may know, Wikipedia:WikiProject Disaster management came up with entirely reasonable guidelines for naming articles about earthquakes, fires, typhoons, etc. However, the <<year>><<place> <<event>> format leaves no opportunity for conventional nengō which have been used in Japan since the eighth century (701-1945) -- as in "the Great Fire of Meireki" (1657) or for "the Hōei eruption of Mount Fuji" (1707).

In a purely intellectual sense, I do look forward to discovering how this exchange of views will develop; but I also have an ulterior motive. I hope to learn something about how better to argue in favor of a non-standard exception to conventional, consensus-driven, and ordinarily helpful wiki-standards such as this one. In my view, there does need to be some modest variation in the conventional paradigms for historical terms which have evolved in non-Western cultures -- no less in Wikipedia than elsewhere. I'm persuaded that, at least in the context of Japanese history before the reign of Emperor Meiji (1868-1912), some non-standard variations seem essential; but I'm not sure how best to present my reasoning to those who don't already agree with me. I know these first steps are inevitably awkward; but there you have it.

The newly-created 1703 Genroku earthquake article pushed just the right buttons for me. Obviously, these are questions that I'd been pondering for some time; and this became a convenient opportunity to move forward in a process of building a new kind of evolving consensus. --Ooperhoofd (talk) 18:52, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] kurosawa's film/ PD discussion again

hello, i was thinking more about this matter/ please see Talk:Akira_Kurosawa#Public_domain --AlexOvShaolin 02:04, 23 December 2007 (UTC)