Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan/Shinto task force
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Project template box
We need to come up with a Shinto box like the one above. Any ideas? --日本穣 Nihonjoe 06:49, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
- Absolutely! How about this one?
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There's also a new userbox: {{User Shinto}}
Enjoy! --日本穣 Nihonjoe 18:41, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
The current organization there is abit muddled, and needs some discussing how to deal with. A general proposal for cleaning it up is posted at Category talk:Religious leaders#Organization proposal, and more input would be great. It doesn't address the issue of Religious leaders/religious workers/religious figures, but that is another issue that exists. Badbilltucker 22:02, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 18:52, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
The group indicated above was recently revitalized for, among other things, the purpose of working on those articles whose content is such that the article does not fall within the scope of any particular denomination. To most effectively do this, however, we would benefit greatly if there were at least one member from this Project working on those articles. On that basis, I would encourage and welcome any member of this Project willing to work on those articles to join the Religion WikiProject. Thank you. Badbilltucker 14:54, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Japanese Buddhism
It has come to my attention that Japanese Buddhism ties as directly to Shinto as it does to Buddhism in general. Would the members of this project object if the scope were expanded a bit to include articles relating to Japanese Buddhism as well, provided that the articles deal primarily with this specific form of Buddhism? The articles would still fall within the scope of the Buddhism project as well, but would probably benefit from getting the additional support from the Shinto editors, who probably know more about the Japanese elements than most members of the Buddhism project are likely to. I of course welcome any and all responses, positive or negative. Badbilltucker 21:45, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Task force?
I think this project might work better as a task force of WikiProject Japan. Anyone have any thoughts on that? ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 01:50, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Creating a guideline that applies to all religous articles
Please discuss this in a discussion here--Sefringle 03:26, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
New project proposal
There is a new WikiProject task force proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Inter-religious content that is being proposed to deal specifically with articles whose content relates to several religious traditions. Any editors interested in joining such a group would be more than welcome to indicate their interest there. John Carter 15:09, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
shinto
How Do I say this name again????
Missing shinto-related topics
I have a list of missing topics related to religions, including a part that is related to shinto. I wonder if anyone of you could have a look at it. Than you. - Skysmith 09:08, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Renaming of page
Sorry for not having responded earlier, but I do see the moving of the project page to being a subproject of Japan as being potentially problematic, for a few reasons. One, this page's main listing is more or less on the Religion wikiproject page, WP:PROJDIR/PR, and it does make it less likely that people would join the project as a religion project if they see that it is not seen primarily as a religion project, but as a task force of a national project. Seeing that, one might think that the group is not so much about "religion" as about a given country, and that might turn people off from joining. Also, it makes it apparent that the religion itself is not so much seen as religion per se, but rather as an aspect of a specific national culture, which would kinda turn off any individuals interested in the project who are not themselves Japanese or in Japan. Personally, I think it would probably best be listed under its old name, although I wouldn't have any objections whatever to seeing it included in "related project" on the WikiProject Japan sidebar. John Carter 14:22, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
- Well, the Japanese barely view it as a religion (the same goes for Buddhism), and it is a religion in which almost al adherents are Japanese (yes, there are non-Japanese who practice it, but they are very few in number). Shinto is an aspect of the Japanese national culture (a very large aspect), and if someone is turned off only because it's a taskforce instead of a project (semantics, really), then that doesn't really say much for them, does it? It will operate the same as before, but as a taskforce which will hopefully gain more attention than it did as a separate project. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 02:39, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Categories related to kami
- Category:Japanese deities is the parent of three categories:
The category "Japanese deities" includes a few articles that I think should be in one of the subcategories.
Do we have a policy on the inclusion of articles in "Shinto kami"? Hachiman is there but Ebisu isn't, in spite of Nishinomiya Shrine being "the head shrine of Ebisu sect of Shinto, under which it is said that there are about 3500 shrines". Also, Ebisu is now at Ebisu (mythology), but I would be more comfortable with (Shinto) or (deity) or some other such tag. Whogue 10:20, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Hoax
Soku-no-Kumi may be a hoax, or some character in a game or a novel. See Talk:Soku-no-Kumi. Thank you. --miya (talk) 06:26, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
On Japanese Religion
The opinion has been expressed that the sources on the religion section of the overall/general Japan article are not credible enough, not reliable/verifiable enough. If better sources are not found ASAP, drastic changes will be made to that section, removing discussion of the fact that while the vast majority of Japanese are officially counted by Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples both as belonging to those institutions, most Japanese when asked directly will claim to not be religious. This is a crucial aspect of religion in modern Japan.
Can anyone please please please help!? Surely someone out there must be a Religions of Japan scholar, with proper serious professional academic sources? LordAmeth (talk) 13:06, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
I have a question...why is it that when an article is about Christianity, Islam or Judhaism it is religion but if it mentions Buddhist, Shinto, Hindu deities is is called mythology?