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It's been four years; maybe it's time to come back. I miss having chances to learn and to make articles better.


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RFC at Liancourt Rocks

I have begun a Request for comments discussion at Talk: Liancourt Rocks on whether or not the current infobox under discussion there is neutral in its presentation of basic article information. Since you have previously participated in this discussion, I encourage you to come and offer your opinion. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 18:57, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wang Dan

If your report on WP:ANI is correct (I haven't checked anything) so most helpful idea is to go to WP:RFPP and ask for semi-protection to stop IPs editing temporarily. Exxolon (talk) 13:48, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help! Joren (talk) 13:48, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wang Dan

OK, a new experience for me. Am about to save a big RE on the material on the Talk: there. -DePiep (talk) 14:07, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mediawiki.org Usurpation for SUL

This is to confirm that I'm requesting usurpation of the MediaWiki username "Joren" for use of my existing SUL "Joren".Joren (talk) 04:32, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RE: 'Carrum Downs Secondary College' article

Hi Joren,

I would like to express my concern over the 'Carrum Downs Secondary College' Wikipedia article.

I believe that this article should inform people of the school's innovative curriculum and facilities.

Thanks,

CarrumDownsSC

(PS.In future, if you are to make edits on this article, please correctly format it, as it looks rather silly without the proper formatting.)

Electronic Ballast

Hi Joren, Yes, it's external, more sophisticated and includes an onboard starter motor if you look carefully. Quite different to the intergrated units. Thanks. Black Stripe (talk) 19:15, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. Yes, as you ay the internal ballast is located horizontally in the CFL base. The external ballast I took a picture of (now removed) was of permanant ballast in the lamp fitting. This allows tubular CFLs to have a narrow base with multi-pin connectors.

FLs require a starter to operate. In the UK they are called "Motors" although this is inaccurate as they aren't motors in the regular meaning of the word. In external ballast the starter in in the exteranl ballast structure. While in intergared CFLs there'll be a little, cheaper starter in the base of the lamp itself. That expliains why the base of intergrated CFLs are wider, while the non intergrated CFLs are more narrow. Black Stripe (talk) 12:15, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You are quite right

Thank you for taking an interest in Keisuke Kuwata! You are right. The translation is not mine, sadly, my languages do not extend to Korean either. It is the translation of either the article you mentioned, or the guest who dropped in just to write it up. I'd love to find maybe an Admin who speaks Japanese on at least a "level 3" here. I'll look later today- there are a few who are also beaurocrats who kept their Admin. status on Wikimedia Commons, if not the Wikipedia itself. Please do edit it in Notes at the bottom in a separate section of the article. If you can help clean it up, it would be greatly appreciated. I can't even find a better photo of Kuwata than the one we have-- can you find one? Mostly all the references I find on Kuwata are lacking photos and are commercial in nature. BTW, there are multitudes of articles on Wikipedia that need attention regarding articles about Japan. Is your Japanese good enough to help the discography too? It sorely needs work, and I'd also like to see a stub begun about Hirokazu Ogura! That "Further listening" section at the bottom of the article was intended to show his guitar talent-- have a listen! Technically, it's not WP policy to leave it there, but since nobody else was focusing on the article, I left it, hoping someone might come along and begin a Stub on him. Please, feel free! I have a lot of experience (mostly on en.wiki), and have uploaded several hundred photos for musician's biography articles, aside from editing, but never had enough time or Japanese for that article, really. Thanks for any help you can afford. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 10:29, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Photos and more

My area of focus is the biographies of musicians, within that, mainly members of bands or individuals that impact culture and people as a whole, as with the British invasion bands, and a focus on guitarists & bass guitarists, in particularly; as well as session musicians who get overlooked, and slide guitarists as a specialization. That's what I edit; but find so many articles unsourced, lacking infoboxes and photos, I get sidetracked. I began finding photos in Flickr. I look for the musicians' photos we need, and often, the photographers are pros. They'll be giving up their copyright status, for a CC-BY-SA license, which is their income source. It's their labor they're giving up. It's Wikipedia policy not to place their name on the article page with the photo caption, but I do. I ask other editors not to remove their names until the article reaches "C" status. It gives them exposure to new possible customers, (and some give up book deals for us instead)! Often, they'll open up their whole photostreams and place Creative Commons on all their photos for us! For details how to approach them, just ask! Info is in my talkpage archives; Musician pics alone number over 300 I've uploaded (had help from others initially) and placed over 300 photos.. began keeping a list of pages with photos I uploaded on my user page too. 50% of my time involves acquiring them uploading to Wikimedia Commons, adding infoboxes, [[copyedit]ing, rewording, wikifying, etc. once I find new photos, mostly for en.Wikipedia. YOU know computer stuff. I don't. We can help each other! I can't even crop pictures! If you can help with some Japanese & computer stuff, I'll show you about the photo thing, review your projects. I edit about a half dozen articles on en.Wiki. The photo thing, and a 2 editors who keep removing the photographers' names from captions on Stubs & completely unsourced articles drives me crazy.
What work here interests you? Is there a way to add an extra sandbox/storage area for my userpage? Are you interested in helping how to plan a discography page just begun for the Rory Gallagher article, or maybe create some new album pages needed? I've added some refs next to the album names on the old discography there. The new album pages would impact other artists too, from Muddy Waters, and more! I also put refs on the talk page. Want to help with this, I hope? It gets more hits than the Keisuke Kuwata page. I've begun referencing and expanding the text there, too. Say Yes! ;) I've rambled too long here twice. I'll keep it short or email you in the future. Will you help me?--Leahtwosaints (talk) 20:15, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Redirection of Local churches

Hi, Joren!

I noticed you recently redirected Local churches to Local church (disambiguation) instead of Local churches (affiliation). While I agree with your doing this, it would be much appreciated if you could correct all of the links that no longer point to the right place because of your edit. You can find them here.

Thanks! KhalfaniKhaldun 17:51, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Khalfani Khaldun, thanks for bringing this to my attention. I repaired the links from the Articles and Portals namespaces (mostly to the affiliation, but some meant for local church as well). Am I correct in believing it isn't necessary to update talk pages, logs, etc? Thanks for the help! -- Joren (talk) 18:43, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
No problem! I assume that talk pages and logs will fix themselves, if necessary. The only real concern is in main article space, since that's where your average user will need correct links. Also, thanks for doing that; I would have done some of them myself, but I'm a bit tied up IRL right now. ;) KhalfaniKhaldun 09:36, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

'Common sense'

See Talk:Compact fluorescent lamp#What's a ton? as an example of why it's rarely a sensible idea to use the 'common sense' approach advocated by the OP. Specifically, if you don't recall it lead you to make this change [1] which lead to [2] both of which were misleading until I fixed it. This may not be the most important error since as I acknowledged, ultimately the unit doesn't matter to the main point however if you aren't going to check the source yourself, or did but it didn't provide any clarification, it's better to let someone else do the work or wait additional clarification rather then be convinced into making a potentially inaccurate change because someone is saying you should 'use common sense'.Nil Einne (talk) 22:36, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Um... while I'm impressed that you dug up months-old-edits to tell me this, my edit was actually not in response to Wtshymanski's post about common sense at all. Read his point again... his point seemed to be that it was unnecessary to specify which tons since the source was made in America and therefore could safely be assumed to be US tons and didn't need to have it spelled out at all. Therefore that would not be the inspiration behind my edit that did in fact spell it out :) Actually, if you look at WT's diff you so diligently linked to, here: [3] you'll notice on the left side that somebody added a vague-which tons? edit flag to it. The vague tag is what my edit was about. WT thought the vague tag was stupid, I thought the tag had a point so we should just go ahead and specify and forget about it Anyway, I don't think the source said metric originally, but could be wrong. Let me know if you find anything else of interest in my edit history! -- Joren (talk) 00:03, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wang Dan social networking pages.

I responded on my talk page to your concerns. Found a reference for Wang Dan's email address and Facebook page, which links to the Twitter page.--Larrybob (talk) 14:27, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed up the social networking references - please review it. Also linked to the archive.org of his old website. The Wikileaks board membership needs verification - if you read the Wikileaks article, Mother Jones magazine says that Wikileaks listed some people on their board without permission. Nothing specific about Wang Dan. The link from Wikileaks to the page with their board info didn't work for me.--Larrybob (talk) 15:40, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

User:Joren/Help:Japanese

I hope that you do not mind, but I have removed some esoteric (and generally unused) templates from this subpage of yours. I do not know the proper method by which one should use {{transl}}, but it parses the romaji in a really ugly and unnecessary method. It parses the text as it would Japanese text, which makes it unnecessarily blocky and whatnot.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 19:33, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem at all, in fact I was hoping people would edit it. Perhaps I should have clarified, but those templates, and the original writing, aren't even mine - they were cut and pasted from Help:Japanese, as this page is a proposed modification thereof. I'm fine with anyone modifying it - it was mainly intended as an (extremely basic) sketch and discussion tool for how we could change the Help:Japanese page to possibly make it the landing for the template question mark.
-- Joren (talk) 03:09, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pay attention: Saint

Please read the article after it is edited. I did not remove anyhting. Actually you duplicate text.

The Catholic Church teaches that it does not, in fact, make anyone a saint. Rather, it recognizes a saint.[11] In the Church, the title of Saint refers to a person who has been formally canonized (officially recognized) by the Catholic Church, and is therefore to be in Heaven.

--Opus88888 (talk) 23:12, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I did read the article, but apparently not carefully enough. I was checking diffs and the highlighting made it look like it had been removed. Sorry about that, and thank you for letting me know.
-- Joren (talk) 00:04, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2010 Japan foot-and-mouth outbreak

はじめまして。日本語で失礼します。

件名のWikiは、ご指摘の通り日本語のWikipediaをそのまま翻訳したものになります。 現在一人のネイティブスピーカーに英語の校正をお願いしていますが、まだまだ完成には 程遠い状態です。　データが多すぎるとのご指摘がありましたが、宮崎での口蹄疫発生直後から 約１ヶ月もの間、日本のマスコミが情報を封鎖していたこと、その後も宮崎で起きている状況が すべて報道されたとは言えないことから、実際に起きた事実を細かく網羅している日本語の Wikipediaを元に作成することにしました。

翻訳についておかしな点がありましたら、ご指摘いただけると幸いです。今後も日本語の Wikiに沿って、データを追加していく予定です。よろしくお願いします。 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nakasendo (talk • contribs) 08:26, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

お返事が遅れてすみません。変な日本語で失礼になればすみません。実は私が出来れば校正したいのですが、最近あまり時間がありません。それで、タグをお付けいたしました。Cleanupタグの意味は英語のWikipediaガイドラインになるように編集するべきことです。何時かに私は出来るになるかもしれませんので校正出来る誰かも編集させるようにタグです。情報封鎖のことや日本語のWikipediaの状況を教えてありがとうございました。よろしくお願いします。
-- Joren (talk) 17:10, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]


Jorenさん、ありがとうございます。謙遜されていらっしゃいますが、ここまで日本語を文章にできるのはすごいと思います。　 I am one of translators and have just started checking the whole translation. One of my Japanese friends edits the page when she has time. I would appreciate if you could fix wording and help us edit. お忙しい中申し訳ありませんが、こちらこそよろしくお願いします。 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nakasendo (talk • contribs) 19:15, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Local church controversies

Please show me where any of this is "already" in the article:

04:28, 3 August 2010 Joren (talk | contribs) (16,901 bytes) (Reverted to revision 376795832 by Joren; This is WP:PLAGIARISM - this was copied from another website, without attribution. Also, this rebuttal is *already in the article*. (TW)) (undo)

Also, it's not plagiarism if the source is cited.Ryoung122 04:46, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I will reply on your talk page.
-- Joren (talk) 04:57, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re:The anonymous user's edits

Hi Joren,

That anonymous IP's edits here could hardly be seen as a good faith edit. It is the type of content that belongs in Unencyclopedia. In fact, that very same user has created an account named "Paul Wei" and reverted my previous edits and also modified content such as this. I will let you deal with him this time. --Phillip J (talk) 02:36, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're right about that one - I was not aware of that edit. Definitely vandalism. I'll do what I can.

-- Joren (talk) 02:45, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Given the storybook-like nature of the TJC-related articles, how is one to ascertain the validity of the statements in the articles? Many of the statements may certainly be true, but much of the lore is disputed within the church. Many of the current stories and historical statements are wholly unsubstantiated. The article on Mormon, for example, is a religious group that has actually sourced claims, and does not rely on a story-like narrative. PaulWei (talk) 09:03, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

replied on user's talk page. -- Joren (talk)

Thanks!

--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 01:57, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The sky is blue, except when it is green or some other color.

Hi, Joren, I just saw your discussion on the talk page of a Wikipedian who visited a page that I watch, in which you explained how to source a controversial statement and how to source a change in a statement that needs editing. Good job. I wanted to say thank you for that example of keeping calm and scholarly while talking about an issue (slavery) that stirs up a lot of passion, deservedly. Keep up the good work. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 04:03, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note/encouragement. I wish in this case it had worked out better. I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out how I ended up reading the wrong Britannica source and not realizing that it did mention the pre-existing slavery after all. (Of course, he'd added other stuff to other statements too, which needed the explanation anyway, but none of that seems to matter when the person explaining makes a mistake). So anyway :-) You seem like you have a well-read background and lots of interests (based on your user page) - thanks for your presence here on Wikipedia. Hopefully we'll run into each other again. Thanks again for stopping by,
-- Joren (talk) 05:13, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey guys, you never know - maybe the way that we each read/can't read Britannica has got something to do with our genes! WeijiBaikeBianji should know as it's in the context of their expertise on 'Race and Intelligence' that this particular little episode of mutual back-scratching has arisen. Well it's good to know that you both share an interest in the history of slavery as well as the history of scientific racism. Ackees (talk) 09:12, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Ackees, you may have seen on the Race and intelligence article talk page mention of the current Arbitration Committee case on that article and related articles. The case has distracted a lot of good editors from making much-needed improvements (like a renaming, for instance) of that article and of the many (too many, in my opinion) related articles. As I wrote last night on one of the pages of the Arbitration Committee case file, it will take cooperative effort by many gardeners to pull up all the weeds that have grown in those articles and to tend the articles back into informative, verifiable, neutral point of view condition (or to delete them entirely, as should happen to some of those articles). That will take looking up lots of sources. I encourage you and other interested editors to take a look at the source lists I am compiling and to suggest sources that I should add to them. Race and intelligence got into the mess it is now in because many of the editors who first wrote the article missed out on the opportunity to pursue curiosity and learn about the subject before editing. I would delight in the opportunity to learn from you and from other editors about what facts are usually neglected in discussions of those issues. See you on the article talk pages as clean-up begins after the Arbitration Committee case is decided (which should be pretty soon). -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 14:46, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re: AutoEd glitch?

Thanks, that's weird. Could you report it to WP:AUTOED? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 15:13, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitration notice

You are involved in a recently-filed request for arbitration. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests#MOS:JP – Romanization for words of English origin and, if you wish to do so, enter your statement and any other material you wish to submit to the Arbitration Committee. Additionally, the following resources may be of use—

Thanks, Prime Blue (talk) 22:18, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note; looks like I've got some reading to do. Never been part of one of these before.
-- Joren (talk) 22:24, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Request for mediation of Video games developed in Japan

A request for formal mediation of the dispute relating to Video games developed in Japan was recently filed. As an editor concerned in this dispute, you are invited to participate in the mediation. The process of mediation is entirely voluntary and focuses exclusively on the content issues over which there is disagreement. Please review the request page and the guide to mediation requests and then indicate in the "party agreement" section whether you would agree to participate. Discussion relating to the mediation request welcome at the case talk page.

Thank you, AGK 22:57, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, hey, another thing I've never done before. Sure, why not :) Might be a bit busy though, if that's ok. I added my name to the signature list.
-- Joren (talk) 06:36, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Scatman

Hey - I think I got that quote off a Wayback Machine mirror of the old scatmanjohn.com website. I know the woman who used to maintain that site, she was a personal friend of Scatman's. I just sent her a message about it, I'll let you know if I find out any more. Artrush (talk) 23:04, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese biography needing help

Hi --don't know if you remember us meeting and discussing the Keisuke Kuwata article, and now I have another article that might be up your alley: Nobukazu Takemura. I just bumped into it adding infoboxes to articles missing them, and this was one. I know nothing about the man other than what's in the article. Just thought maybe you could help it. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 06:26, 28 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Leah! Sorry I forgot about my talk page! I'll see what I can do.
-- Joren (talk) 20:48, 13 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Request for mediation of Video games developed in Japan, second notice

The mediation request has stalled because some of the lesser-involved parties did not answer to the note they received on their talk page. I have notified users jgp and Ost316 again, who both are the most likely to be interested in participating, though mediation cannot commence until all parties agree.

If you have no objections to going into mediation even without the users that have not signed up so far, please leave a short indication of your agreement in this section at the request page. Thank you. Prime Blue (talk) 11:48, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]


Request for mediation accepted

The request for mediation concerning Video games developed in Japan, to which you were are a party, has been accepted. Please watchlist the case page (which is where the mediation will take place). For guidance on accepted cases, refer to this resource. A mediator should be assigned to this dispute within two weeks. If you have any queries, please contact a Committee member or the mediation mailing list.

For the Mediation Committee, AGK 21:35, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Pure Blood

Just a heads-up, Joren, I've added to the Pure Blood discussion. Thanks for your input.--S. Rich (talk) 21:51, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

James the Just

There is a lot of material in that article that is definitely substandard, sourced or not. I wish I was able to devote time to it right now, but I am trying to set up a few example topical bibliographies which might be useful for a variety of topics, and they have proven to take longer than I had expected. If there is a college or university near you, one option would be to just consult some of the encyclopediae they might have and rewrite the article based on that material. Granted, the encyclopediae themselves are not the best of sources, but the material can get better referencing later. And maybe starting a new draft in userspace, based on those works, might work best, with an RfA on whether the material in the main article should be adjusted to fit the draft as the way of perhaps addressing the weak material and getting a form of approval to remove it, if the consensus of the RfA supports it. John Carter (talk) 18:07, 25 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On balls of crystal and other questionable content at Korean nationalism

Sorry, wasn't logged in. That article is rife with idle conjecture...I wish I had time to clean it up. By the time I finished with it tho, there likely wouldn't be much left of what's currently there. Makes an interesting subject for discussion and speculation, but not much material for a dispassionate and informative encyclopedia article, I'm afraid... Cheers, Tomertalk 19:42, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks

Many thanks for tidying up the external link section in the article on Kosuke Koyama; the clean-up tag has headed this article for a long time now. I think you did the right thing removing what appears to be a link to a directory. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 00:09, 16 November 2010 (UTC)Have just had another look - as it seems that most of the authors in this directory are other authors, it is best to remove it. Sorry - I cannot recall why I initially added that link! ACEOREVIVED (talk) 19:51, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, and you're most welcome! I'll just leave it off then. Thanks for the note,
-- Joren (talk) 20:09, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AFD: Korean maritime border incidents

Can you please provide your input on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Korean maritime border incidents. regards Mztourist (talk) 03:09, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know and inviting my feedback. I have replied there.
-- Joren (talk) 03:29, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Father Christmas

You paragraph seems fine. I slightly edited it to put a fullstop instead of a comma after Santa as with a comma it isn't clear which is best known as and what is also used. It has been constantly changed to put Father Christmas first by the other editor, so I'd keep an eye on it.60.224.3.243 (talk) 06:09, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Northern Limit Line

Hey, it's been over a year since that particular edit so I can't remember how I managed to access the source but I never add references without checking them first. I did find the source online at the time as I was looking to verify that sentence myself. I tried a search a few moments ago but couldn't find the source but I'm sure it's still there. Sorry I couldn't be of much use! Oh and I'm pretty sure the source was in English. Midway (talk) 20:04, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'll see what I can dig up...
-- Joren (talk) 22:18, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tree shia -islam

Dear Joren, could you please help me develop file: File:Tree shia -islam .pdf in similar format as you made tree for prominent prophets. This will help getting direct link from figure itself. Please try to make different groups as I presented it in different colors. Thanks,--Md iet (talk) 08:12, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Md iet, I may not have time to do that but if I do, I'll let you know.
-- Joren (talk) 12:54, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Need your help?

Hi, we (sort of) met editing the Keisuke Kuwata biography. You were really helpful, and I was hoping you might find time sometime to translate a couple of sentences at least in Japanese. I upload photos and edit biographies of musicians, although English and then Portugese and Spanish Wikipedias have also received a very small amount of input from me. I'd like to help adding photographs on the ja.wikipedia but am unsure not knowing anything whatsoever about the language. I can slap a few photos up there though. Would you please translate for me the following in Japanese?:

  • How do I say in the edit summary that I just added a photo?
  • How do I say on my userpage in Japanese that I'm an editor who primarily works on the en.Wikipedia as a biographer of musicians, but I add photos of those musicians to Wikipedias in other languages, including ja.Wikipedia?
  • How do I say on my talk page that I may be unable to translate messages that are not written in English?

Are there Babel boxes on the ja.wikipedia that are the equivalent of the most basic ones I have on my English Wikipedia Userpage? Can you find a couple that would help communicate somewhat as well?

I think that's it for the Japanese questions. Last one-- since you know about computers and I do not. If I click on my own user contribs and end up at the "Soxred"'s pie-shaped distribution of my work, etc. how do I add (combine) the edits from the other-language Wikipedias to the total number of edits in all the languages I contribute to? Leahtwosaints is my unique name in them all, including Wikimedia Commons. Also, how do I see by the month the distribution of my work? Do you know, or can you find out? Thanks if you can help me in any of these ways! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 14:46, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Sorry it took me a bit to reply...not sure how much help I'll be, but:
  • You might want to try ja:Wikipedia:Help for Non-Japanese Speakers. Although I study Japanese, my translations would likely sound awkward. I could probably come up with something, but I bet the folks there are more competent than I. You might also ask WP:JAPAN.
  • There is a Babel template; ja:Template:Babel. It looks like you can just copy and paste the Babel code you already have and it should work.
  • As to the last question... I don't think there's a way to do that automatically. However, at the bottom of the Soxred toolserver page, in rather small print, you will see "Select a language" followed by a list of language links. Click the language for the wiki you want a count for, and it will give you an edit count for that wiki. It would be nice if there were a way to automatically combine them, maybe you could ask/suggest it to the author of the tool?
-- Joren (talk) 02:46, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, ok. I took a look at your profile and saw you were using the user template. Turns out {{User en-5}} doesn't work on Japanese Wikipedia, so you can choose between {{User en-4}} and {{User en-N}}. Here is some suggested code (this works on English Wikipedia too):
{{User en-4}}
{{User pt-3}}
{{User es-2}}
{{User ja-0}}
-- Joren (talk) 03:01, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Christmas Eve article

Lucky thing I read edit summaries and found a constructive one! Thank you for helping a Noob. This lousy t-shirt (talk) 06:01, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This lousy t-shirt (talk) wishes you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! May this be a time of peace, joy and goodwill towards men.

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:Wikipedia:CONTRIB/Holidays/Christmas1}} to your friends' talk pages.

Hello, Joren. You have new messages at [[Talk:Disposable e-mail address #Removed "See Also" link to TrashMail#6birc (talk) 18:07, 27 December 2010 (UTC)|Talk:Disposable e-mail address #Removed "See Also" link to TrashMail]].[reply]
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