User talk:Pitan

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Clockwork Soul 15:29, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Geo-stubs[edit]

Hi Pitan - welcome to en:wiki! I notice you've been making a couple of small articles about places in japan (Kurobe River, Shimanto River). There is a special stub category for places in Japan, {{Japan-geo-stub}}, which you can use rather than the general geo-stub. Keep u0p the good work! Grutness|^hello? 02:38, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

OK. Thank you for your advice. --Pitan 16:52, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Nikoli Puzzle Japanese Names[edit]

Thanks a bunch for entering the Nikoli Japanese names that I didn't know. I don't know if you're into their puzzles, but any help is appreciated--while I have confirmation on most of the rules, a lot of what I've figured out comes from staring at the example puzzles and trying to figure out what's going on in them. :) Phil Bordelon 21:19, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome. I think I can help you to some extent, for I'm a reader of Nikoli over a decade. It would be better if I knew English as well as those puzzles. --Pitan 19:57, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Gotō-rettō[edit]

re: Thank you for your creation of Gotō-rettō, but we already have Goto-Retto (We don't use macrons in the title.

Yeah, I noticed the duplicate when I went to add to the list of Japan Topics. Do you want to merge them, or shall I

(No question mark on this laptop keyboard-- it's dead, Jim!)

IIRC, Naming Conventions shouldn't have a capital letter on the second word either! I'd have much rather not created that one on the fly, as it was the fourth or fifth edit window I had going at the time! :(

re: See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles)). Hirado-jima is a single island near Kyushu, and is not a part of Goto-Retto. See also Goto, Nagasaki, Shinkamigoto, Nagasaki and Hirado, Nagasaki. --Pitan 03:14, 19 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I'll take a look, I'm just kinda cleaning up where I was mediating now that the edit war seems to have flamed out in Tsushima Island. Whew! 'Bout time! Please, Do Keep the alternate spelling as a redirect... I'm rather insistant when an authorative print publication (in this case, an Atlas) is using a naming convention that Wiki should match it, at least through redirects (My prime focus is history articles, hence it can drive me nuts when terms are missing!). Why does that second word have a Cap anyway
The search engine doesn't seem to care about macrons (e.g. Lüshun gets the same place as Lushun, and Goto-retto DIES fine too. Hmmmmm.)
Time to get to bed, got to get up for work in 6 hours... Let me know who is fixing it! I have no problem with merging it if you want to mingle and merge.

Fra nkB 04:27, 19 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I replied on your talk page. --Pitan 06:22, 19 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Riken listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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