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I just started a new stub, please feel free to add what you can. It looks like someone was starting a by-decade series then stopped.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 06:18, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Bri and I are trying to source this article about Hiroko Hori, but are running into a language barrier. Is there anyone who is fluent in Japanese who can help out? Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:07, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm kind of shocked that the Japanese version of this article doesn't have sources. I tried searching online and in some databases I have access to, but almost everything I find are blog posts. The only reliable sources I've found are an interview where Mari Igata (a motorcycle instructor) says that the motorcyclist she most admires is Hiroko Hori (https://www.jmpsa.or.jp/joy/interview/igata.html), and a mention and a couple photos of her in this article about the Suzuki GSX400E (http://www.autoby.jp/_ct/17051414). I can try translating the paragraph where she's mentioned later, though I can't guarantee my accuracy since I don't know a whole lot about motorcycles. I'll give searching another go later today. Mcampany (talk) 18:15, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think in the image caption for the autoby.jp item, she is saying something about Paris-Dakar rally but am not sure. The bike is in the Suzuki GSX series but we don't have a separate article on the Suzuki GSX400E yet. ☆ Bri (talk) 02:28, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Right here. There's articles that are dated way back. Ominae (talk) 07:07, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Are you interested in geisha? If you're mumbling "No, not particularly", me neither, and your level-headed monitoring of the article Geisha might be beneficial. It seems that particular (foreign-born) geisha have their Wikipedia-editing partisans, and that some of the latter have been having conniption fits. (See the article's talk page, which might benefit from some judicious deletions.) -- Hoary (talk) 02:18, 21 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a preferred format for what info to place in parentheses after foreign article title, and how to arrange it? Some examples currently in articles:

Tokyo (東京都 Tōkyō-to, literally "Eastern Capital") (/ˈtoʊkioʊ/, Japanese: [toːkʲoː] ^ⓘ)

Osaka (大阪市, Ōsaka-shi) (Japanese pronunciation: [oːsaka]; listen^ⓘ)

Kyoto (京都市, Kyōto-shi, pronounced [kʲoːꜜto] ^ⓘ, pronounced [kʲoːtoꜜɕi] ^ⓘ; UK: /kɪˈoʊtoʊ/, US: /kiˈoʊ-/, or /ˈkjoʊ-/), literally "Capital City"

Hiroshima (広島市, Hiroshima-shi, Japanese: [çiɾoɕima]), literally "Broad Island",

Saitama (さいたま市, Saitama-shi, Japanese: [saꜜitama])

I'd like to go ahead and work on doing this for the small to medium-sized Japanese cities, but don't want to start spreading a format that others don't like. CouplingConstant (talk) 00:30, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm surprised to see the start of Hiroshima, and I am not a fan of adding "literal" translations of proper names. Tokyo and Kyoto seem acceptable since the translations explain something about their histories, but by the time you get to Hiroshima.... What's next, Yasuo Fukuda (福田 康夫, Fukuda Yasuo, literally "Happyfield Healthyman")? Dekimasuよ! 03:15, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have asked for a discussion to look at the possibility of moving the category Category:Governors of Nanyo to Category:Governors of the South Pacific Mandate. Would anyone here be interested in offering their opinion at the move discussion? - Polly Tunnel (talk) 11:24, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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.

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