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News and Announcements Archives - March, 2006

March 1, 2006 – March 4, 2006

To-do list item finished: Merge Kangsi into Hopping corpse? I only did a cut-and-paste merger, with minimal clean-up, so Hopping corpse could use some attention. Also, should we leave the Kangsi redirect page in the Japanese mythology category that it is currently in? MikeDockery 08:23, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- No, I don't think redirects are supposed to have categories. I've added the cat to Hopping corpse instead, as it's in both Chinese and Japanese myths apparently. — Amcaja 16:03, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
To-do list item finished: Ugayafukiaezu needs to be copy-edited. Pretty good translation by a non-native English speaker, but some awkward phrases. MikeDockery 05:01, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Copyediting done.--み使い Mitsukai 05:24, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Added {{Jmyth}} to the talk pages of all articles from the Category:Japanese gods subcategory of Category:Japanese deities. Other subpages still need to be done. MikeDockery 14:18, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Burikutonu has been nominated for deletion. It appears to be a hoax, but maybe someone here knows something about it. — Amcaja 13:54, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Added instructions on image uploading. There's so much out there; illustrating articles should be another major goal for our project! — Amcaja 18:20, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Added another "kitsune" version of the stub template to User:Amcaja/Draft. (Hey, I like foxes...) MikeDockery 15:40, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Added {{Jmyth}} to the talk pages of all articles from Category:Japanese deities and the subcategory Category:Japanese goddesses. The other subpages still need to be done. MikeDockery 14:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Added {{Jmyth}} to the talk pages of all articles from Category:Japanese mythology. Subpages still need to be done. MikeDockery 10:37, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Added "demon mask" version of the stub template to User:Amcaja/Draft. See the project talk. MikeDockery 05:41, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Added magatama version of the stub template to User:Amcaja/Draft.--み使い Mitsukai 04:48, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Added Inari (fox) version of the stub template to User:Amcaja/Draft. MikeDockery 03:03, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Moved all free Japanese mythology images to Wikimedia Commons. Most are visible at the Japanese mythology category over there. Recommend that any future uploads of free images go to Commons. — Amcaja 23:50, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
In preparation for the creation of {{Japan-myth-stub}}, stub design has begun at User:Amcaja/Draft. Have a look at what's there and tweak to your heart's content. — Amcaja 19:04, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Went through Brian's list of stragglers and put the appropriate articles into Category:Shinto kami. MikeDockery 09:19, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Stubbed Umibouzu and Ittan-momen. MikeDockery 09:08, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
New News and Announcements archive for the project page. Also, news and announcements now list from newest to oldest. Seems to be easier to read that way. MikeDockery 06:16, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

March 5, 2006 – March 12, 2006

AfD debate on Soukou has finished. The result of the debate was Delete. MikeDockery 04:04, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
All entries in Category:Japanese mythology converted to the new stub as needed. Articles in its subcategories still need to be converted. MikeDockery 06:27, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Added a new secondary source, Yokai World. Be aware its primary function is to entertain (and showcase the creator's art) than to inform, so take a grain of salt with it. Also, it's in Japanese, so if need be, you may have to babelfish it - and watch out for bad mechanical translations.--み使い Mitsukai 01:38, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Split Nekomusume off from Catgirl so we can talk about the mythological aspects of the creature. There's a listing for a {{citation needed}} there; I put that there myself so I can dig up the info when I get home (I'm at work atm). If someone wants to cover that aspect before I do, by all means, feel free and do so.--み使い Mitsukai 19:33, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
All entries on List of legendary creatures in Japanese mythology converted to the new stub as needed.--み使い Mitsukai 19:05, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
{{Japan-myth-stub}} is live! I went ahead and used the oni netsuke image, as it had the least amount of opposition (there was never much consensus on any one image). This is easily changed, however, so don't shy from voting for it to be replaced. — Amcaja 17:26, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Hidatori has been marked as a possible hoax, and the article has been edited to reflect that opinion. The article text is basically useless in its current form ("Some people think..., but that's not true"). Needs to be either cleaned up or deleted. MikeDockery 06:30, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
I've finally finished delving through the Japan category at Commons tagging everything related to folklore or mythology. Editors might be interested in browsing the folklore and mythology categories to find images worth adding to relevant articles. — Amcaja 04:03, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Doubts have been raised about the validity of the information on this website: Youkaimura (see Talk:Kamaitachi). The accuracy of the information on this site should be verified before using it as a source. Also, any articles which use only this site as a source need to be rewritten using multiple sources. MikeDockery 13:25, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Soukou has been listed on AfD. See Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Soukou. MikeDockery 11:09, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Added {{jmyth}} to all the articles in Category:Japanese_deities. Other subcategories of Category:Japanese_mythology still need to be done. MikeDockery 08:11, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
There is a possible copyright violation (plus possibly bogus information) in the article Kamaitachi. See the talk page for the possible violations. MikeDockery 07:51, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
- Copyright concerns have been addressed. Doubts have been raised about a source. (See above) MikeDockery 13:25, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Suguri F, a Japanese user, has questioned the validity of Soukou. He/she suspects it's from anime or games but not from real mythology. Anyone able to do a Google.jp search on this? — Amcaja 15:46, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- I asked some of my fellow teachers about this - the best they could come up with was Hō-ō (鳳凰), which is a creature somewhat similar to the discription given in the Soukou article. It's connection to Mt. Fuji is tenuous; It can appear suddenly in sacred places, so an appearance on Mt. Fuji (which is sacred) wouldn't be unexpected (in mythology, of course), but it isn't said to "live" there. They checked the web and dictionaries and couldn't come up with anything regarding "Soukou". Likely something from a game (per Mitsukai's explaination on the talk page), but most likely not from Japanese mythology. MikeDockery 01:55, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Removed from to-do list: "Move Yebisu to Ebisu? Or to Ebisu (god)?" Submitted for your disambiguating enjoyment: Ebisu, Ebisu (god), Ebisu, Tokyo, and Yebisu. — Amcaja 03:41, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
- Fixed the links that changed from the change of Yebisu and Ebisu (mythology). MikeDockery 08:47, 5 March 2006 (UTC)