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Welcome to WikiProject Japan, a WikProject set up to better organize and present information in all articles related to Japan. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians to improve all Japan-related articles in order to make Wikipedia an excellent resource for Japan-related information for all who visit. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Japan.
Wikiquote has quotations related to Japan .
Look up Japan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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The Wikibook [[wikibooks:|]] has a page on the topic of: Japan
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Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Japan ".
Meta has related information at: Japan

Scope and goals

This project is designed to help those interested in improving all of the Japan-related articles on Wikipedia to find a particular area in which they are interested in working. As "Japan" is a broad subject, there are many sub-projects and collaborations in which you can participate. We want to:

  1. Allow people to more easily locate groups working on Japan-related WikiProjects
  2. Create a body of articles that accurately depicts the history and culture of Japan and the Japanese
  3. Expand the number of articles regarding Japan and Japanese subjects
  4. Highlight Japan's relationship and contributions to the rest of the world
  5. Properly source all Japan-related articles
  6. Standardize the style and format of articles on Japan or Japanese subjects; and
  7. Standardize the use of Japanese-language terms, names, and translations into English across all related articles, bringing them in line with the WP:MOS-JA.

To-do items

Please "Be Bold!" and help us out. There are plenty of things to do in the lists below, including the creation of brand new articles

Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

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Projects

These are big tasks that require a lot of work from a lot of people helping out in order to improve something. Feel free to jump right in and help with any of them. We always welcome more help!

  1. Fg2 has issued a call for assistance with bringing Japan up to Featured Article status. See more about this project here.

Cleanup tasks

These are anything smaller or more specific than projects and anything that individuals can work on.

  1. First Sino-Japanese War, requires some cleanup to meet Wikipedia standards

Pages marked for deletion

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Japan-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Japan. Please go and express your opinion regarding any articles lited there.

Redirect requests

Stubs

You can find a list of all Japan-related stubs on the Category talk:Japan stubs page. All of the articles on the main Category:Japan stubs page need to be sorted into these more specific categories while they are stubs. Of course, you can also expand the stubs in such a way as to make them no longer stubs. If none of the existing stubs apply, please use {{Japan-stub}}.

If you want to make a new stub for a particular category, please make note of the following: All stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on creating stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will probably be deleted.

Requests

These are articles that need to be created (or pointed to exisiting articles under slightly different names).

Proposed new or updated articles

List any Japan-related articles on which you are working that aren't quite ready for prime time, or proposed replacements or updates for currently existing articles. This will allow an informal peer review of sorts by anyone interested in the particular topic, thereby helping Wikipedia to become better.

Shōnen
Proposed update of Shōnen (Talk:Shōnen). Because the current article talks almost exclusively about anime/manga, I recommend replacing the current article with this one, and moving the current article to Shōnen manga or Shōnen anime and manga. As many current anime and manga articles that cover both have either "(anime)" or "(manga)" in the title, I don't think this would throw people off or confuse them as to the content of the article. Rather, I think it will allow for less confusion. --日本穣 06:16, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Project family

Project subpages

Parentage

Active descendant WikiProjects

The active descendants of this WikiProject are:

Proposed descendant WikiProjects

These are Japan-related projects that various Wikipedians are attempting to start up. If you're interested in any of them, please go show your support.

Inactive descendant WikiProjects

The inactive descendants of this WikiProject are:

NOTE: Feel free to reactivate an inactive project if you think there's enough work to do so.


Resources

Templates

  • To add a page to the project, please add the following template to the top of the talk page of the article: {{WikiProject Japan}}

Similar WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects which can be used for reference and ideas are:

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