Not merely are the names an utter mess and unrecognisable to people who are not already knowledgeable about Japanese history (though the Japanese Emperor CALLS HIMSELF Emperor of Japan in his own english language press releases, Taku refuses point blank to allow the designation 'of Japan' to appear in the title, or even allow Japan in brackets to appear to give the unfortunate viewer the slightest clue as to which part of the world the anonymous emperor was from - we already have a long list of undefined Chinese emperors, which means people who don't immediately recognise chinese from japanese will be presented with hundreds of emperors from unspecified locations in the far east!)
But it is now even worse. He created double, treble and on occasion quadruple redirects, screwing up up to a hundred links if not more. But he refuses point blank to fix them. His most recent response to yet another request to repair the mess was to say
I said I won't. -- [[User:TakuyaMurata|Taku]] 02:52 Mar 14, 2003 (UTC).
The problem is he keeps changing his ideas on just what the emperor should be. We used to have 'Emperor 'x' of Japan' which he decided to change to 'Emperor X' or 'X Emperor'. Then he decided to change some of those to 'x emperor'. Having done that, he discovered some of the emperors he so named actually were empresses. So he did yet another 'rename' to 'x empress'. He won't say whether emperor/empress should be with a capital E or a small e. He won't say if he intends to change the long long list of Emperors with capital Es to small es. And he point blank refuses to correct all the links his messing around have screwed up, saying ''I love to clean up messes that someone else made and I expect anyone else to do the same thing.''
He has also changed a page that was listed as Emperors of Japan and which was changed to List of Japanese Emperors BACK to Emperors of Japan. At this stage, the entire set of entries on Japanese emperors is screwed up, with unrecognisable definitions, links that are so loaded with redirects that you get lost in them, capital E emperors, small e emperors, emperors who have become empresses, empresses who may still be emperors. And a determination that the word Japan will never be allowed appear in the title. (To top it all, he tried at one stage to say in one page that Japan is a republic!!!)
Any suggestions? (short of taking a couple of valium!)
JT
The names of Japanese Emperors have become a total mess, thanks to the refusal of Taku to compromise and his desire to name people to disagree with him anti-Japanese.
see http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TakuyaMurata and http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(names_and_t...)
Zoe
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When I suggested he might want to be more cooperative, his response was: "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." Zoe james duffy jtdirl@hotmail.com wrote:Not merely are the names an utter mess and unrecognisable to people who are not already knowledgeable about Japanese history (though the Japanese Emperor CALLS HIMSELF Emperor of Japan in his own english language press releases, Taku refuses point blank to allow the designation 'of Japan' to appear in the title, or even allow Japan in brackets to appear to give the unfortunate viewer the slightest clue as to which part of the world the anonymous emperor was from - we already have a long list of undefined Chinese emperors, which means people who don't immediately recognise chinese from japanese will be presented with hundreds of emperors from unspecified locations in the far east!)
But it is now even worse. He created double, treble and on occasion quadruple redirects, screwing up up to a hundred links if not more. But he refuses point blank to fix them. His most recent response to yet another request to repair the mess was to say
I said I won't. -- [[User:TakuyaMurata|Taku]] 02:52 Mar 14, 2003 (UTC).
The problem is he keeps changing his ideas on just what the emperor should be. We used to have 'Emperor 'x' of Japan' which he decided to change to 'Emperor X' or 'X Emperor'. Then he decided to change some of those to 'x emperor'. Having done that, he discovered some of the emperors he so named actually were empresses. So he did yet another 'rename' to 'x empress'. He won't say whether emperor/empress should be with a capital E or a small e. He won't say if he intends to change the long long list of Emperors with capital Es to small es. And he point blank refuses to correct all the links his messing around have screwed up, saying ''I love to clean up messes that someone else made and I expect anyone else to do the same thing.''
He has also changed a page that was listed as Emperors of Japan and which was changed to List of Japanese Emperors BACK to Emperors of Japan. At this stage, the entire set of entries on Japanese emperors is screwed up, with unrecognisable definitions, links that are so loaded with redirects that you get lost in them, capital E emperors, small e emperors, emperors who have become empresses, empresses who may still be emperors. And a determination that the word Japan will never be allowed appear in the title. (To top it all, he tried at one stage to say in one page that Japan is a republic!!!)
Any suggestions? (short of taking a couple of valium!)
JT
The names of Japanese Emperors have become a total mess, thanks to the refusal of Taku to compromise and his desire to name people to disagree with him anti-Japanese.
see http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TakuyaMurata and http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(names_and_t...)
Zoe
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Is he on the mailing list?
--Jimbo