WikiProject Japan (Talk)

Founded: 18 March 2006
(17 years, 10 months and 14 days ago)
Articles: 90,638 (179 featured)

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Article guidelines • Assessment • Barnsensu • Collaboration • Recognized content • Popular pages • Requested (Japan, government, anime & manga, seiyū) • Reviews (A-Class, Peer) • Translation • Participants (inactive) • ToDo (cleanup)

Project references

Arts and crafts glossary • Film credits glossary • Reference library • Unusual place names • Year conversion

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↔ = joint task force

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Category • Deletions • List • Japan • Meta • MOS (Japan, Anime, municipality guideline) • New articles • Notice board • Portals: Japan, Ancient Japan, Anime, Buddhism, Final Fantasy, Japanese cars, Nintendo, Osaka, PlayStation, Sega, Shinto, Tokyo

Child projects

Anime and manga (Dragon Ball, Yu-Gi-Oh!) • Entertainment (Hello! Project, Tokusatsu) • Games (Digimon, Final Fantasy, Nintendo, PlayStation, Pokémon, Square Enix, Zelda) • Japan (Sumo, Trains/New)

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Categories (Lists, Wikipedians) • Projects (Automobiles, Computer and video games, F1, Martial Arts, Mixed martial arts, MotoGP, Motorcycling, Motorsport, Sports Car Racing, WRC)

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Project parentage

Asia, Countries, East Asia, Geography

V·T·E·Q115724607 on Wikidata

The Sport task force is a task force of WikiProject Japan aimed at increasing the number and improving the quality of Wikipedia articles on sport in Japan, and related articles. This task force also works with the baseball task force and Sumo WikiProject.

Style guidelines[edit]

Please read these guidelines, and discuss any changes or objections on the talk page.

How can I help?[edit]

If you have some knowledge of or interest in sport in Japan, a desire to contribute, and a flair for quality, then by all means help us out.

Tasks[edit]

Requested Articles[edit]

Japanese → English

Footnotes
  1. ^ The Guardian newspaper called this event the 'world's richest cycling race'.[1] Other English language sources: [2][3][4][5]

English → Japanese

Template[edit]

You can add ((WikiProject Japan|sport=yes)) to the top of the Talk page of articles that are related to this project. This will place the following to the top of the page:

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WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Japan, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Japan-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project, participate in relevant discussions, and see lists of open tasks. Current time in Japan: 11:40, February 1, 2024 (JST, Reiwa 6) (Refresh)JapanWikipedia:WikiProject JapanTemplate:WikiProject JapanJapan-related articles
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This article is supported by the Sport task force.
WikiProject Japan to do list:
  • Featured content candidates – 

Articles: None
Pictures: None
Lists: None

Current participants[edit]

Please keep the list alphabetical by username.

  1. BRICK93 (talk · contribs)
  2. Da Drewster (talk · contribs) (6/4/15) Creating articles for Albirex Niigata players.
  3. Fg2 (talk · contribs)
  4. Nihonjoe (talk · contribs)
  5. Oltrepier (talk · contribs) (I'm mostly aiming to improve articles covering Japanese footballers and the J League)
  6. Watashinotabi (talk · contribs)

References[edit]

  1. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/dec/27/worlds-richest-cycling-race-puts-keirin-in-spotlight-before-olympics
  2. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jun/22/why-i-love-keirin-one-of-the-olympics-most-exciting-sports-cycling-japan
  3. ^ https://biketips.com/keirin-racing/
  4. ^ https://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/japanese-keirin-sport-and-culture-beyond-the-velodrome
  5. ^ https://swlondoner.shorthandstories.com/japanese-keirin/
  6. ^ https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/japanese-keirin-races-at-the-heart-of-Japans-gambling-and-gender-politics
  7. ^ https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14817750
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