User talk:TakuyaMurata

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[edit] Flag of Japan

I saw your comments at the Good Article Review about this article. Work with me and I am willing to solve the issues discussed by you and others. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 21:21, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Truth in numbers

Hi. The article about the upcoming wikipedia documentary has been permanently publeshed just recently. I and a nother user who contributes to both the english wikipedia as well as our native version have translated the information into our own languages (and started stubs about the film). I was wondering if you could do the same. Tnx U5K0 (talk) 11:49, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kangxi Dictionary

I noticed that you moved Kangxi Dictionary to Kangxi dictionary in May 2005. This is a book. Its title should be capitalized. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization). I have requested to move it back to Kangxi Dictionary at Wikipedia:Requested moves. If you like, you may participate in the discussion at Talk:Kangxi dictionary. --Neo-Jay (talk) 05:07, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question

While I know you do not mean malice, but could you clarify the comment "You don't waste your time do you?" when talking to me about the Kimi ga Yo article? User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 08:45, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I just meant you work very fast. I thought I wish I were able to keep up. -- Taku (talk) 08:54, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Well, national symbols are my specialty. So, after working on the article on the Hinomaru (and giving a class speech on it), I decided to work on Kimi ga Yo not only to make it ready for GA but to just make it look decent. I can tell you it was a hard choice to get the audio for the article (and making the midi file of Fenton's score for it). User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 08:57, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
I can definitely tell you you are into this kind of stuff. It amazes me because I edit Wikipedia in a more reactionary manner. (For example, I spent quite a bit of time on Knol today. That's because I was reading about it and naturally I was led to edit the article.) I don't work in a proactive way. Or rather, I used to contribute a lot more. Maybe that's what is called youth. Maybe I'm too busy right now. -- Taku (talk) 09:08, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
I heard about Knol last night, but I generally let the folks who focus more into the Web 2.0 (or 3.0) deal with that subject. However, I might say it could be youth (and I am done with finals, so I have a lot of free time). It is just the problem I have with both articles is that I needed Japanese language help, so that is why I asked you and others. If there is someone I can ask who might be able to help me more, please point him or her out to me. Thanks. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 09:16, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Clearly, I am one of those folks :) I must say it's very important that some others pay attention to actual encyclopedic topics like ones of your choice. As to Japanese, in wikipedia we certainly have shortage of Japanese native speakers. There are many (), but many of them contribute to specific topics or are inactive currently. So, generally speaking, it makes sense to first let the Japanese Wikipedia work on articles, then we (users in English Wikipedia) translate them to here. But the ja wiki doesn't have as stringent a requirement as we have here. That's a problem, and which brings us to the conflict I was referring to the other day: is developing an article more important than maintaining its quality. The answer is probably not simple. People have different contribution habits or incompatible philosophy about this kind. That's inevitable for a project like this one. And this explains my interest in stuff like knol. -- Taku (talk) 09:36, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
I do have an account on ja.wikipedia, but I mostly do image changes or suggest audio recordings I uploaded. I also try to send images there on occasion. I think the problem that I have is that I work differently than most users. I deal with a lot of people off-Wikipedia (IRC, that sort) that always complain about the quality of Wikipedia. While I do not share their view on "non-core" subjects, I share their view on having articles that have many citations. Granted, both the Hinomaru and Kimi ga Yo articles had a lot of information that is easily sparely or rarely sourced when I got to it. While, early on, that was fine; but given how much urgency we get from the top-down people in IRC, we had to create all of the citation tags you see today and how we must cite everything. Partially, I am also working on these articles for Veropedia, since the people that run it demand a lot of articles about hymns and flags. And, over there, almost everything needs to have a citation. That is just my goal; to make everything I write or contribute to something that a kid, either in Japan or the United States, can look at and see where we got it from. I don't expect everyone to work like me, but that is my idea on writing articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zscout370 (talk • contribs) 18:21, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Veropedia screenshot.png

Hi, you uploaded this image, but I don't think you have the rights to considering it contains a logo and content which isn't under the GFDL (notice how Veropedia only says "All other text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License". Perhaps the licensing should be changed to fair use? -Halo (talk) 07:04, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage

Yes, this is vandalism. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 22:34, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I was a bit being sarcastic :) But this poses a serious question in counting the "exact" number of vandalism in my user page. -- Taku (talk) 22:35, 21 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Miyagi Gakuin Women's Junior College

Sorry about that, I run a semi-automated program that cleans up broken redirects. Wikipedia's been so slow tonight that the article it was redirecting to was still reporting as non-existent after you created it. east.718 at 07:45, December 22, 2007

No apology is necessary, since nothing significant was lost. I was rather struck by quickness. -- Taku (talk) 07:46, 22 December 2007 (UTC)



[edit] Steve's Ice Cream

Hi, I understand your reasoning for claiming notability on this article, but you ignored the citation that was included. The citation clearly showed that the company fully meets the standards of WP:Note. I have removed your tag as such, additionally the article has been expanded and has several other citations that further bolster the articles notability.

- Jeremy (Jerem43 (talk) 20:06, 22 December 2007 (UTC))

I'm ok with what you have done. I raised a concern and that has been addressed. -- Taku (talk) 08:26, 12 January 2008 (UTC)


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[edit] Please do not post copyright violations

Your posting to Mie University (see here) is a copyright violation from Citizendium. Please see my edit summary for why. For material from Citizendium that you can legally copy, please see this post. Also see http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Sharing_Content_with_Wikipedia. Best, Stephen Ewen (talk) 08:53, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 夏帆の項目について

英語で書いても良かったんですが、en-2だったので、日本語のほうが理解しやすいかと思い、日本語で書きます。夏帆の項目を参照しました。11月末以来、スタブになっていますが、もっと情報を追加する予定はありますか？写真など加えたり、映画以外の出演情報など、一緒にいろいろと追加をしようと思っているんですが、どうでしょうか？日本語版ウィキペディアを参照して、足されていない情報を追加するのも可能です。--Staka 20:34, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

特別な予定はありません。確かに、ja wikipediaを参考に追加することもできるのですが、reliable sourcesが特にliving peopleの場合には、Wikipedia:Biographies of living personsの関係で大事なので、そうはしませんでした。-- Taku (talk) 08:15, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Emperor's name

Hi,

In the past you took part in a discussion about the name of the emperors of Japan. This discussion has just opened again (once again!). You are free to express your opinion here. ThanksŠvitrigaila (talk) 16:25, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Hiroyuki Nishimura

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[edit] Possible interpretations of a text containing the word mokusatsu

Hello there, My general interest here in restoring knowledge lost due to mistranslations and misinterpretation. I noticed that you contributed, or possibly even started, the article on Surrender_of_Japan, and that you speak Japanese fluently. Therefore I hope that you might help me by shedding some light over something that needs some knowledge in Japanese.

My problem: I have read are several sources that the text containing "mokusatsu" in the article "Surrender_of_Japan" may have been misinterpreted.

The most reliable of the sources that I have seen is probably:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8684(195011)19%3A4%3C409%3AMJRTTP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C

(The significance of this might, if taken to an extreme, might be that the ultimatum was not rejected.)

Could you tell me anything that might help me understand more? I ask you, since I feel that only someone who knows Japanese could help me understand what the original text really might have meant.

I would have asked on the "talk page" of the corresponding Japanese-language article of the "Surrender_of_Japan", but I did not find any such article. DanielDemaret (talk) 01:02, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm afraid I might not be able to give you more than what "mokusatsu" article already provides. The original meaning of the word is basically to ignore, opt to give no answer, as I understand. I don't know if it has or might have connotation of contempt. In fact, according to [1], the Japanese dictionary Daijirin defines mokusatsu "to ignore, pay no attention to requests." For example, you might "mokusatsu" spam mails because responding to them might get you into more trouble. On the other hand, in this particular case, it is quite possible that "mokusatsu" meant contempt in Japanese government's part. But the interpretation requires very deep understanding in the diplomatic situation at that time and I really can't say anything for certain. -- Taku (talk) 08:10, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Brave GNU World

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[edit] AfD nomination of Brave GNU World

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[edit] Sawai

Great job with the Sawai articles. I didn't know they had a son. Can you add the romaji (I think, for example, that the surname should be Sawaī). Badagnani (talk) 00:44, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually romaji is the same as Sawai. (not Sawaī Sawaih or anything), though I added them since if you wonder about this, there is probably another who had the same idea. -- Taku (talk) 01:12, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, is the "Hikaru" in Hikaru Sawai the same as the "Hikaru" (ヒカル) in Utada Hikaru (who is female)? Badagnani (talk) 01:34, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually no. His "Hikaru" in kanji is probably very uncommon as far as I know. Though "Hikaru" in katakana is probably rare too. There are many ways of writing Hikaru, and the article Hikaru should answer this. (Again, if you have this question, there are many with the same question.) -- Taku (talk) 01:44, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of JANJAN

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[edit] Daijō-kan and Kugyō

In the context of your constructive edits to Kugyō last July and August, it seems possible that you might be interested in User talk:Amake#Daijō-kan and Kugyō. As you can discover for yourself, the issues flow from User:Bueller 007's critical observations concerning:

In addition, these threads would seem to have relevance in the following contexts:

You understand that most articles evolve independently; but, in my view, these would seem to be inextricably inter-related. --Ooperhoofd (talk) 01:12, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GNU Simpler Free Documentation License

Hi, TakuyaMurata, i removed the merge proposel on GNU Simpler Free Documentation License, as there was no second template, merge from on the target article, and i couldn't find any discussion about it on both articles,(no motivation) Cheers. Mion (talk) 21:11, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FAR for Korean name

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[edit] Flag of Japan mourning

I understand that was the original intent of the order, but I have been told that flags dressed like this for deaths other than the emperor. This is a photo during the funeral of Miyazawa-shushou in 2007. Notice near the flower arrangement is the Japanese flag dressed with the black tape. I was told this also occurred during the Kobe earthquake incident in 1995, but the both of us will be too young to remember the full details. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 07:30, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Clearly you are right. I was mistaken. I'm going to revise the article. -- Taku (talk) 07:42, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
I know there are other photos around, but I have lost track of them. I wish I had something more definite to cite other than an image, but I will keep looking. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 07:58, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Maybe not today, but I can probably do more research in the future. It would be nice to mention the case of Kobe earthquake. Like I said before, adding the mention of this kind of actual practices rather than some abstraction adds more depth to the article. -- Taku (talk) 08:03, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Japan National Roads

I saw your recent contributions to the Japan National Roads. They are a great start!

(For the images, sorry for moving the Japanese shields; they must be moved in order for the infobox to work properly. :P)

Anyways, what source did you find the names for the roads, such as (国道165号 Kokudō hyaku rokujū go-gō?) in Japan National Route 165? (I've been pondering about this...)

Well, it was nice to meet another Japanese roadie like you. I edit those roads too, as you saw from many other articles about these highways. And you live in Japan too? For me, I live in the USA.

Say, do you think you could even start a Wikiproject for Japanese National Roads? I'd definitely join and become a member of it.

Anyways, talk to you later. Bye! ^_^ AL2TB ^_^ 21:56, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi, there. I created those roads basically to create a place where I can put an image :) I'm Japanese and when I created them I used corresponding articles in Japanese Wikipedia. I think it is probably a better idea to form a task force in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan for, well, every road in Japan that is notable enough to be worth inclusion. -- Taku (talk) 22:54, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tokugawa Chikauji

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[edit] Thanks!

Thank you for creating an article of THE SUMS! OAS talk to me 16:25, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

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For your help in assisting me with Flag of Japan. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 23:01, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Oh, I'm not done yet, far from it. But thanks. -- Taku (talk) 23:15, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Shigeto Hozumi

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[edit] Emperor Taishō

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[edit] Code momentum

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[edit] Japanese author articles

Hi. I think I've traced you correctly as the original author of a few stubs. One editor has recently suggested that 8 articles be deleted:

A few have been untagged already, but if you have any interest/time, I just wanted to point out the articles that were prod'd: Aki Hayami, Ryosen Tsunashima, On Watanabe, Shizu Shiraki, Tsuyoshi Makino, Sosen Mishima, Shusei Tokuda, Usui Kojima. The first 2 are still tagged, but the others might be proposed for AfD if the nominator is still unhappy with them (?).

I've left a few comments for the editor who prod'd them, at User talk:Reywas92#Mass speedy-deleting Japanese authors.

That's all, thanks. :) -- Quiddity (talk) 19:46, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Little context in Masahiko Katsuya

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[edit] Sada Yacco

thanks very much for your help with this article! i had created a redirect page for Kawakami Sadayakko, but had failed to add her full name to the article itself. J. Van Meter (talk) 00:03, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, this one was very confusing. First I was under the impression Sada is her family name, because Yacco sounds more like a given name. -- Taku (talk) 01:22, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Citation needed" is correct...

...according to this, you started editing in July '02. Basketball110 pick away... 03:09, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Also, great job creating those stubs on schools! Basketball110 pick away... 03:09, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
But wikipedia is considered "unreliable", and my words cannot be trusted, either :) Anyway, thanks! -- Taku (talk) 03:11, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] schools aren't geographic entities

Hi. The stubs that you are creating for Japanese schools are great. However, its incorrect to include them in geographic stub categories. Best, --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 03:12, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Okay. I noticed some people added "geo-stub" tags to those school stubs. That's why I included them. I don't have much preference in this matter. Anyway, I will follow your suggestion for now, and we will see how it will go. -- Taku (talk) 03:16, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
It would really help if you included some information about why these schools are notable when you make the entry. A sentence about the date of founding and the number of students would do. Some context is needed. DGG (talk) 00:03, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Well, I don't think the "notability" is an issue here. I would argue that every university and college (at least in Japan) is automatically notable, and I don't think there would be a disagreement. Of course, more information those stubs have, the better. I usually include one very short sentence that summarizes the history of a university because this kind of information is easy to find. Sometimes there is not much to add on this, though. A university may be founded just a couple of years ago, for example. The number of students; it requires some further research, and so I usually omit that information. -- Taku (talk) 07:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Tom Hanks (seismologist)

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Marko Ahtisaari

A tag has been placed on Marko Ahtisaari requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. Beeblbrox (talk) 00:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] regarding this change

Where can I verify what you said about the inherent notability of universities?--Rockfang (talk) 08:43, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

What do you mean by "verify"? Some organizations are inherently notable. Universities are no doubt among them. How do you "verify", for instance, the notability of FBI? -- Taku (talk) 09:02, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Well, sometimes there are policies or guidelines that state somethings are inherently notable. Sometimes it's just consensus on a talk page. I personally don't think that all unversities are inherently notable. But if there were something like a policy, guideline, or consensus stating otherwise, then I'd follow it.--Rockfang (talk) 09:45, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm not aware of any explicit policies. But, to keep using the above example, I don't think there is any guideline that states explicitly that FBI is notable. In other words, that's just common sense. Put in another way, suppose Hannan University is no-notable. Then that would create a lot of headache for me, who creates lots of university stubs. How do you determine which school is notable and which is not. By the number of students? By the year of establishment? Assuming every university is inherently notable makes this process a lot simpler. This choice might appear arbitrary at first, but the notation of notability is due to the wikipedia community. We the community decides which is notable and which is not. I don't know why we don't want to adopt the simpler system. -- Taku (talk) 10:28, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
With regards to your example, I believe the FBI is notable because it has a lot of coverage from uninvolved (not itself) sources. I think notability (ultimately whether or not a university should have an article) can be judged from how much coverage it's gotten. For example: news reports, magazine articles, books written about it, etc. From reading your statement, it seems you believe that every university anywhere on the planet should (eventually) have an article on Wikipedia. This I disagree with. I would like to reinstate the notability tag. This doesn't mean the article will be deleted right away or ever. It just lets people know that it might at some time in the future be merged, changed to a redirect, or put up for deletion. I'll wait for your reply before I put the tag back up.--Rockfang (talk) 11:35, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Well, I guess this is more like a philosophical difference, and I'm not sure if that's reconcilable. Yes, I am (or was?) under the hypothesis that we the community has consensus that every university should have its article, just like every city or every member of national legislature. I don't know if this hypothesis is true or not. In any case, to me, making an exception only for universities seems arbitrary and inconsistent. I also disagree that "how much news coverage" should be the only indicator of the notability. We already have, for example, many geo-articles on small villages for which there is often no news coverage whatsoever. The blanket rule like "every univ should have an article" is better in this particular case, for the reasons stated above. Umm, or maybe I could argue that it is probably safe to assume that there should exist "reliable sources" for any universities, if one look for them. Therefore, we can assume that they are notable. -- Taku (talk) 11:55, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Anyway, please restore the tag if you think that's a good editorial move. (if you are worried, I would not be offended or anything at all.) But, if we are to be consistent, we need to put tags on dozens of Japanese university stub, because (as far as I know) Hannan University is no more non-notable than many other universities in Japan. I guess my problem is that I just can't see how putting the notability tag helps in this case, because it's more to do with the aforementioned hypothesis. -- Taku (talk) 12:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:592.3dmix.png

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[edit] Kaitaro Tsuno

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[edit] 2006 Wikipedia CD

I took the notability flag off because usually by the time an article has gone through and AfD (see Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/2006_Wikipedia_CD_Selection where notability is discussed you wouldn't reflag it. In my view the flags exist for articles whose existence hasn't been discussed. If you disagree feel free to explain. --BozMo talk 06:03, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok. I was unaware of the AfD. I had a concern, and if that was already addressed. I'm fine with that. -- Taku (talk) 06:05, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] الجودر

Hi. :) I just wanted to let you know that I have, for the moment, removed the speedy deletion tag from this article and instead listed it for translation at Wikipedia:Pages needing translation into English. Though I find Arabic text quite frustrating to work with onwiki, I did try copying both the title and chunks of the text into a google browser, but I could not locate another wiki version of the article. Since I'm by no means skillful at this, I've alerted the translators at that project to be on the lookout for another language original. If you should happen to edit further before they have had opportunity to address it or it is deleted by this or another criterion, please feel free to restore the speedy tag with the source. I've never used this template myself, but it seems to be {{db-a2|source=SourceProject:SourcePageName}}, where the "sourceproject" is the project or language code. (This, of course, set out at Template:Db-a2.) That way, the next reviewing editor will be able to verify that it fits the deletion criteria. Thanks. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:47, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

No, I'm sorry I didn't use the tag right. I just wanted to put a tag that says the page is in an non-english language. I thought {{db-notenglish}} for that purpose. I think I confused it with something else. Thanks for catching this. -- Taku (talk) 02:00, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Ah. :) The tag that you're thinking of is very similar, so it's understandable. Its just {{notenglish}}. The "db" tag is Wikipedia shorthand for speedy deletions. (I've never thought about it, but I have no idea why.) I've poked around a bit, and I think it's probably redundant with an article we already have here. I suspect the translators will work it out. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:05, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Yeah! Exactly that tag was what I had in mind. So confusing... -- Taku (talk) 02:13, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
In any event, your tag got it listed where it needs to be, so it's all good. :D --Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:14, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TUSC token 6835293a114b4a412d8f98714bee04aa

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[edit] Support

Please show your support. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Japanese_Supercar —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spell123 (talk • contribs) 08:39, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Light from the sun, a star in the middle of our solar system ...

Wrt [2]: I could produce ten more examples right off the top of my head why this is ridiculous and insulting the intelligence of our readers, but have your way. dorftrottel (talk) 07:28, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Not sure if you are expecting a reply, but anyway. This isn't about the "level of the intelligence" of the readers. It is just a good style to define an undefined term first time it is used. Wikipedia is no different from other popular brands like Apple, Google, etc. -- Taku (talk) 09:01, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
It's gratuitous to include such an explanation in a hypertext document. I don't like redundancy. Would you likewise argue that in every article that mentions e.g. Google, there should be an explanation along the lines of 'a popular internet search engine'? Consider e.g. the first sentence in Gmail: Gmail, officially Google Mail in Germany and the United Kingdom, is a free Web-based email (webmail), POP3 and IMAP e-mail service provided by Google. I suppose you're going to add that explanation of what Google is into that article now? dorftrottel (talk) 07:27, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

It depends on the context in which an undefined term appears. In the case Gmail, it is probably unnecessary to define Google because of the way the opening sentence is written readers can infer that Google is some, probably Internet-related, company. It is not necessary to note that Google is a search engine provider. In the case Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia, the matter is clearly different. The opening paragraph needs to establish the context of the article, and defining Wikipedia is helpful in this. -- Taku (talk) 08:57, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Ok, whatever. No, but whatever. dorftrottel (talk) 09:57, 10 June 2008 (UTC)