User talk:LordAmeth

I'm kind of amazed that there are so many basic topics that are not covered extensively. I do *not* mean that as a criticism, it's just surprising. I am more than happy to get started on some of these "big scope" articles, and hope that others will join in. It's actually kind of nice, for though there are niches on Wikipedia that are almost entirely untouched (the vast majority of work on ukiyoe, kabuki, and certain other Japanese topics are, I think, almost entirely done by me), I never got to do work on the real big topics. Here goes. LordAmeth 04:30, 16 June 2007 (PDT)

Categories

I've temporarily removed some of the categories you created until there are enough articles to give me an idea how best to categorize them. Since there are still a lot of potential categories without necessarily any articles to really fit into them, I'm sort of trying to stay methodical. Also, is the "royalty" category best described as "foreign"? If so, we should probably note that in the description to give it a clear differentiation from "emperors", "imperial family", etc. - but I guess that during the Kofun era in Japan there are some people who could be considered "royalty" too - I'll ask User:Nagaeyari when he gets back, he is the resident expert scholar on ancient Japan. --Kitsuno 20:19, 16 June 2007 (PDT)

Also, as an aside, since there are on average between 0-30 edits done to the wiki a day (unlike wikipedia), it is pretty useful to check Special:Recentchanges each time you log in to see what things are being worked on. Basically, if you keep an eye on any format correction I make to your articles, you should pick up the "accepted formatting" pretty quick. --Kitsuno 22:52, 16 June 2007 (PDT)

Emperor Go-Hanazono

Is the birth date for Emperor Go-Hanazono the lunar date or the western date? --Kitsuno 17:56, 17 June 2007 (PDT)

That was copied off of Wikipedia. I gather it's likely a Western date. I am still looking into finding calendar converters that do dates as well as years, and into a good denshi-jiten, but for now no luck yet. LordAmeth 18:06, 20 June 2007 (PDT)

Here is the best converter: Nengo Calc

--Kitsuno 19:19, 20 June 2007 (PDT)

Sengoku period category

It isn't apparent (at all), but the sengoku period category is sort of a special case - since there is no solid start or end time, and there is a lot of overlap, the general method for using the sengoku period category is to use only the sengoku period category when the major events/contributions of a person's life falls between roughly 1495-1615, even if they live beyond, or were born before it. We just consider them a "sengoku period figure". There are very few that had events/contributions that really spanned from pre to post-1495 or 1615. It's a little subjective and arbitrary, but the best way to keep the sengoku period useful, and also to not overpopulate the edo and muromachi periods. --Kitsuno 10:36, 21 June 2007 (PDT)

That's fine; I get your logic. I just haven't seen before a source that considers Azuchi-Momoyama on the same par as Muromachi and Edo as the period which comes between them; I've always thought of it as sort of a sub-section of Sengoku, which itself would be on the par of the other periods in the chronology of Nara-Heian-Kamakura-Muromachi-Sengoku-Edo-Meiji ... No big deal. :) LordAmeth 11:30, 21 June 2007 (PDT)

updated formatting

I just realized there was some stuff that had been incorrect on the help page for bios - The reading for names when they follow Kanji should be done like this ''(Takemoto Gidayuu)'' (Ironically enough the Takeda Shingen article used as an example was formatted incorrectly - i.e. (''Takemoto Gidayuu'').) Also, another thing I forgot to add in is that there should be two spaces between the data heading and the body of the article. I fixed them both in the help section now that I noticed they were incorrect. Now that I have an intuitive grasp of the formatting for this wiki, I need to go through and add to the help pages. --Kitsuno 02:32, 2 July 2007 (PDT)