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Japanese cruiser Niitaka

Nicely done! --Durin 14:34, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Siege of Port Arthur

I feel that your major rewrite of Siege of Port Arthur in August 2006 too heavily borrows from battlefieldanomalies.com. I have blanked the latest version and restored the version from 25 July 2006 with some edits. I have temporarily moved the your version to User:MChew/Siege of Port Arthur -- Petri Krohn 23:48, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I think it now passes the originality test, feel free to move the material to Siege of Port Arthur. I made a small change to your version; I moved Graham J. Morrises text to "References". -- Petri Krohn 14:42, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the excellent article :-) -- Petri Krohn 22:44, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Re Police services of the Empire of Japan

Not machine translation. I can tell you a fuller story if you require. Also, minor edit is not suitable for large cuts. Charles Matthews 16:47, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Did you know?

Updated DYK query On 5 December, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 19:24, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Category:Japanese people from X Prefecture

That's a good point, regarding the province/domain and present-day prefecture. Since there are many provinces which span multiple prefectures (and vice versa), maybe it makes sense to make a new split at Category:Japanese people, and create Category:Japanese people by historical province or something like that. Then, people could be sorted by their historical province (Satsuma) and their present-day prefecture (Kagoshima), and we wouldn't have any conflict with the categorization guidelines. What do you think about that? Is there any reason why Category:People from Satsuma Domain needs to be a subcategory of Category:People from Kagoshima Prefecture?

As for wading through cities to find someone, I couldn't agree more. My proposal here is a bandaid; but, if there was a suggestion to eliminate the local city/town categories, I would support it in a heartbeat. (not just people, but structures, stations, etc). I don't think it stands much of a chance, which is why I haven't proposed it myself. But, if it reached consensus, then fixing things would not take long for a bot. Neier 23:23, 5 December 2006 (UTC)


I initiated a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan#categories and people (mostly) if you would like to make any comments. Neier 09:41, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Prince Arisugawa Taruhito

Brilliant new article well done. I suggest you clean it a little and propose it for a did you know. It should make top. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 12:28, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

I added a header, asssuming that this is the article that he's talking about. I used to work near that park. :-) Neier 09:41, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Prince Arisugawa Taruhito

Updated DYK query On 10 December, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Prince Arisugawa Taruhito, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
Updated DYK query On December 12, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks again McChew for your period Japanese history pieces. Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:51, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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The DYK medal is awarded to MChew for his work in Meiji period Japanese history. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:03, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 19:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On December 15, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Antonio Fontanesi, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Hello MChew and thankyou for creating this interesting article. GeeJo kindly nominated your article for inclusion. Feel free to self-nom in future. Keep up the great work on Japan...Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:28, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On December 18, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Vincenzo Ragusa, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Keep up the great work on the Italian-Japanese art connection! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:14, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On December 20, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Guido Verbeck, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Many thanks again, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 04:03, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Toranomon Incident

Hi, you must have known me.

As of Toranomon Incident, you had better describe about the father of Namba Daisuke after the incident. That is the way of Japanese aristocracy at that time.--Panpulha 10:47, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

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Updated DYK query On 26 December, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Franz von Eckert, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

-- Always good to see solid articles where once there was only a kinda pitiful stub. Nice work :) GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 16:53, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, James Murdoch (Scottish journalist), was selected for DYK!

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