<P>When I suggested he might want to be more cooperative, his response was:
<P>"Yeah, I understand. It is partly due to that I don't think this conversation is constructive. I really don't want to partcipate in the debate about conventions and norms here. Anyway, I am not going to fix problems that I don't think big deal. People's expectations vary. While I think misspelling and gramatical errors are not a big deal, some care much about it."
<P>Zoe
<P> <B><I>james duffy <jtdirl@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Not merely are the names an utter mess and unrecognisable to people who are <BR>not already knowledgeable about Japanese history (though the Japanese <BR>Emperor CALLS HIMSELF Emperor of Japan in his own english language press <BR>releases, Taku refuses point blank to allow the designation 'of Japan' to <BR>appear in the title, or even allow Japan in brackets to appear to give the <BR>unfortunate viewer the slightest clue as to which part of the world the <BR>anonymous emperor was from - we already have a long list of undefined <BR>Chinese emperors, which means people who don't immediately recognise chinese <BR>from japanese will be presented with hundreds of emperors from unspecified <BR>locations in the far east!)<BR><BR>But it is now even worse. He created double, treble and on occasion <BR>quadruple redirects, screwing up up to a hundred links if not more. But he <BR>refuses point blank to fix them. His most recent response to yet another <BR>request to repair the mess was to say<BR><BR>I said I won't. -- [[User:TakuyaMurata|Taku]] 02:52 Mar 14, 2003 (UTC).<BR><BR>The problem is he keeps changing his ideas on just what the emperor should <BR>be. We used to have 'Emperor 'x' of Japan' which he decided to change to <BR>'Emperor X' or 'X Emperor'. Then he decided to change some of those to 'x <BR>emperor'. Having done that, he discovered some of the emperors he so named <BR>actually were empresses. So he did yet another 'rename' to 'x empress'. He <BR>won't say whether emperor/empress should be with a capital E or a small e. <BR>He won't say if he intends to change the long long list of Emperors with <BR>capital Es to small es. And he point blank refuses to correct all the links <BR>his messing around have screwed up, saying ''I love to clean up messes that <BR>someone else made and I expect anyone else to do the same thing.''<BR><BR>He has also changed a page that was listed as Emperors of Japan and which <BR>was changed to List of Japanese Emperors BACK to Emperors of Japan. At this <BR>stage, the entire set of entries on Japanese emperors is screwed up, with <BR>unrecognisable definitions, links that are so loaded with redirects that you <BR>get lost in them, capital E emperors, small e emperors, emperors who have <BR>become empresses, empresses who may still be emperors. And a determination <BR>that the word Japan will never be allowed appear in the title. (To top it <BR>all, he tried at one stage to say in one page that Japan is a republic!!!)<BR><BR>Any suggestions? (short of taking a couple of valium!)<BR><BR>JT<BR><BR>>The names of Japanese Emperors have become a total mess, thanks to the <BR>>refusal of Taku to compromise and his desire to name people to disagree <BR>>with him anti-Japanese.<BR>><BR>>see http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito <BR>>http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TakuyaMurata and <BR>>http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(names_and_titles)<BR>><BR>>Zoe<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>---------------------------------<BR>>Do you Yahoo!?<BR>>Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_________________________________________________________________<BR>Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* <BR>http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>WikiEN-l mailing list<BR>WikiEN-l@wikipedia.org<BR>http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l</BLOCKQUOTE><p><br><hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!?<br>
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