User talk: TakuyaMurata
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Open Source and Capitalism
I read your sub-article User:TakuyaMurata/Capitalist_view_of_Open_Source and have posted a response User_talk:Chevan/Open_Source_and_Capitalism. Would be curious to hear your thoughts. Chevan 15:26, Apr 8, 2004 (UTC)
- I will give my thoughs later, so I can say exactly when.
Your orphan images
I noticed you have some superb photos in your orphan images page. Perhaps if you add any information to the Image: page we can find an article to host them? =) —John | Talk 04:48, 14 May 2004 (UTC)
- Yes, they are nice ones. I have found them over the Internet and I put them to orphan images page because I also didn't know the details of those images. Legality is fine I think. They are put under GFDL or copyright free (there is no such a thing as public domain in Japan by the way). Now that I am in Japan for vacation now, I will shot some my own photos. I will have much knowledge about them then :) -- Taku 09:33, May 14, 2004 (UTC)
Just found out that Image:Nishioka.jpg and Image:Isozaki.jpg are both toriis. My guess is that the first one is from the town of Nishioka while the second one is probably from the harbor of Isozaki in Kumano or Kumanosi [1] [2] —Joseph | Talk 21:29, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
Aozora Bunko
Greetings and felicitations. I just wanted to point out that the Aozora Bunko: I article has a date on the end that is not associated with a title or author, and thus needs clarification. DocWatson42 10:16, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- For your information, I've also entered the Aozora Bukno: W redirect for deletion (see Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion), as it is the obvious result of a typographical error. DocWatson42 11:06, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- The death date of Tadaaki Matsudaira on the Aozora Bunko: M page needs clarification—does "1999-10" mean "October 1999"? DocWatson42 11:28, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
More issues:
- First, I corrected the following names:
- Arthur Doyle Conan to Arthur Conan Doyle
- Mikhail Artsybashev Petrovich to Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (still no article)
- Fyodor Dostojewski Mikhailovich to Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostojewski
For the last one, did you mean Fyodor Dostoevsky?
- Second, Aozora Bunko: H consists only of entries beginning with "Ha—". Is this correct?
- Third, the following articles have entries that may be duplicates of each other, and those conflicts need to be resolved; I am not competant in Japanese, and so am unable to do it. Please see their individual talk pages for details.
- Fourth, Aozora Bunko: S is 31kb—too large for some browsers (including my primary one) to edit in their entirety (see Wikipedia:How to edit an article so long that you can't edit). I have thus posted a notice of this problem on the Wikipedia:Village pump page, with the suggestion that the article be split.
Good luck! DocWatson42 21:48, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Thanks
Just to thank you Taku for 'doing' the stub on Walter Charleton. That's one less highlighted red link in Library of Sir Thomas Browne for me to worry about. As ever the link here in my heavily monothematic studies is that a MSS copy of the weird Musaeum Clausum by Sir T.B. was found dedicated to Charleton amongst his papers when he died. The two men may have met, they definitely corresponded, how ever did they in the 17th. century. The mind boggles at the postal system. How much easier today to say thanks again Taku for taking the trouble. Norwikian 15:54, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Don't mention it. That was really nothing. I am in middle of porting a number of entries in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. I am just doing "copy and paste". He was one of them and it took me literally a second to create the stub. Anyway, I am glad I helped. The use of public domain is quick way to have decent articles. -- Taku 16:05, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)
Unicode merges
Your proposed merges in the area of Unicode related articles are next to invisible. You didn't put a {{mergefrom}} in Unicode and you didn't list them on Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles.
Also I don't agree with ypit proposal, but not violently enough for active opposition.
Pjacobi 18:03, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Ok, I didn't know about {{mergefrom}}. Should I put that template? It seems to me that people are not using it or maybe I am wrong. About Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles, I don't think we need to maintain two lists which are supposed to be identical. But again, it is a requirement I am not against putting it. I just thought putting {{merge}} is good enough as when editing unicode, you don't have to know about ones needed to be merged to it, but again you may disagree. In short, I do not oppose to listing those merge proposals in Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles and putting {{mergefrom}} in unicode.
- Also, I understand that you don't agree with merger proposal so I will put my reason for merger in each unicode-related article which I think should merge to unicode.
- I think this is all you want from me. Let me know if I am missing something.
- -- Taku 01:32, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
- The requirement of manually adding the entries Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles relates to having a central place to see the merge request. Which other list are you referring to? {{mergefrom}} is a relatively new template, but before its existance you would have to put {{merge}} in Unicode, see the instructions at Wikipedia:Duplicate articles#Mark current duplicates. -- Pjacobi 07:35, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Another list I was talking is [[Category:Articles_to_be_merged]], which I usually use. I used to but nowadays I don't use Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles so I didn't see why I want to put entries there. But anyway you want to see them listed then I can add them. As I said I am not opposing to listing, I just can't see necessity. -- Taku 16:58, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
- IMHO the Category is a bad substitute for the list, as no comments and discussion can be added to the listings. Of course, having both will always give some confusion, so you may want to start a merge proposal for the two merge lists. -- Pjacobi 17:57, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Redirects
You have something against them, do you? -- user:zanimum
- Why would I? If you are referring to my proposal for deletion of some redirects, I think those redirects are unused ones and are probably needless in the future. Besides, it takes a second to create a redirect if anyone thought we need one. -- Taku 02:32, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
Data Management Wiki Committee
Thank you for your contribution to one, or more, articles that are now organized under Data management.
Because of your previous intrest, you are recieving an invitation to become a founding member of the Data Management Wiki Committee.
The members, of course, will form and solidify the purpose, rules, officers, etc. but my idea (to kick things off) is to establish a group of us who will take responsiblity to see that the ideas of Data management are promoted and well represented in Wikipedia articles.
If you are willing to join the committee, please go to Category_talk:Data_management and indicate your acceptance of this invitation by placing your three tilde characters in the list.
KeyStroke 01:06, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)
Text size on maps
Wow, I'd like an Apple cinema display! But for now, I display at 120% on an old Compaq; I think it's 13". The Prefectures page has too narrow a space at the left of the map for any text, so I agree that the map's too wide.
I've been putting maps on Tokyo Metro lines. They're too small to read in the article, but I've been captioning them, "Click on the map to expand" or something similar. Don't know whether I'm doing the right thing. Any opinions are welcome! Fg2 03:46, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
- I think the current size of the prefecture map is minimal; numbers are barely readable. And about Tokyo Metro. You are right that names are not quite readable. The use of different fonts may help or may not. I think some note like "click to enlarge" is a good compromise. New York Times is doing that and it seems a common practice in the web nowadays. Also, one thing to note is we shouldn't use colors to indicate lines given that some people cannot recognize colors. But again what is an alternative?
- Conincidentaly, the prefecture map is really nice. Many people are lazy to read actual text and the map explains quite a lot.
-- Taku 03:58, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for the comments about text size and also color. Maybe what I'll do is try to find a way to outline the color in black? That way, there's both color and contrast information in the lines. Fg2 04:43, Sep 25, 2004 (UTC)
Woodblock artist names
Hello, following Wikipedia policy on article names (which says "What .. would the average user of the Wikipedia put into the search engine?") we have been listing these people under the names they are commonly known by in the West - which means we do not use their complete names (which are rarely used in the West, and for artists of this era change over time anyway). Please leave them where they are. Thank you. Noel 20:18, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I will reply this in the talkpage of Yoshitoshi. -- Taku 20:31, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks
I didn't mean to wipe out Wikipedia:New user log with my revert. - MattTM 22:50, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
- You see actually I didn't try to revert your edit but 198's. Did you have an edit confict with me? I didn't have one, but the edit times indicate we were reverting at the same time. Weird. -- Taku 22:53, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
- Nope, I'm not entirely sure what happened. I was trying to revert the anonymous edit as well, but my edit blanked the page. I was about to hop over to another browser and fix it when I noticed your edit had restored the page. The edit conflict might have been bypassed since the page was blank. - MattTM 23:00, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, Taku! Best wishes. --Whosyourjudas (talk) 00:16, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Ack! It's not Oct 19 yet here. But thanks a lot. How did you find out my birthday? You are the first to tell me happy birthday this year. That was very surprising, well pleasantly surprising. -- Taku
Possible vandalization?
An IP that also vanalized other pages edited Kobuchisawa, Yamanashi and changed the area.
Requesting your opinion on an image resource
Hey Taku, I just found this Japanese website, with good illustrations of historical figures. They aren't public domain or GFDL, but they're apparently free for non-commercial use. The license is here and I think we can use them on Wikipedia, but I'm not sure. What do you think? - Sekicho 01:06, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
- The second sentence of the lisence says "even if the use is educational, the commercial use is prohibited." This conflicts with GFDL. We can't help this. -- 15:07, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
Come join the AIW
You are currently listed as an honorary member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians. We encourage you to become a full-fledged member, by listing yourself as such on the AIW page. Posiduck 04:39, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Sorry, I accidentally added the invite to your user page, it was an accident, so I deleted it immediately. Posiduck 04:40, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Adminship
I have nominated you for adminship. Please accept. uc 14:34, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Time project
Hi, I've set up a new template for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Time. I'm leaving a note out of courtesy for the participants of Wikipedia:WikiProject Years since it is a descendant of Time. Any suggestions welcome, I haven't got a plan yet for the project. Thanks --FrankP 12:31, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Translation
始めまして。まだIDを取っていない（これから取る予定の）者です。[[:ja:Wikipedia:翻訳依頼|]]の翻訳活動にぜひご参加ください。 日本語のページはお持ちでないのでしょうか。--211.128.71.202 06:50, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Picture source ? Image:Underworld.jpg
can you post were you got it from please. Togo 05:54, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- No, I don't remember about the source. I said public domain, so I think we can trust me. -- Taku 17:19, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
Requests
- Hello, a Chinese user here. I see, I ask you, can ou try to add on Japanese Kanji names on a few Japanese Americans (See List of Japanese Americans? ) Thanks. User:Chan Han Xiang
- I can say, I will do it if I find some spare time. -- Taku 17:16, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
A Different Request
Was it you who started the john waters article? Is he known in Japan? User:sean3000
- According to the history, yes, I must be the one who started the article. But I have no recollection of writing about him and have no idea who he is really. I am guessing I was responding to a request for that article. -- Taku 17:12, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
It's really hard to read your page!
The yellow and blue on brown text in the top of your page is really hard to read. Unless you want people to be irritated by it(possible, I suppose. :-) ), I suggest that you use a different color scheme. Thanks for your work in Wikipedia! JesseW 05:54, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Thank for the comment. I guess I just have to adopt the standard wiki colors. -- Taku 17:02, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
