Wiktionary talk:Requested entries (Japanese)

Sorting improperly
This category is sorting improperly at Category:Requested entries by language. Can this be fixed? 24.29.228.33 19:50, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Can this be fixed? 24.29.228.33 12:19, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * It can and it has. Jonathan Webley 13:02, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

RFC discussion: September 2014
The page is full of rōmaji, which is a romanisation for Japanese, not the native Japanese script, which can be kanji, hiragana and katakana only. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 05:58, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * So create the kanji/kana entries referred to by the romaji. Most people who use request pages don't speak the languages they're adding requests for, so it's unrealistic to expect them to only use scripts they don't know in order to make a request. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:25, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, you're right. It still needs cleaning up. Lots of names of parks or mountains, mixed with kanji/kana as original requests and there is a similar page Wiktionary:Requested entries:Japanese/Non-romaji for kanji/kana terms. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 07:38, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

RFM discussion: September 2014–August 2016
Both pages do the same thing - request new Japanese entries Requested entries (Japanese) and Wiktionary:Requested entries:Japanese/Non-romaji. The latter should be removed, IMO but the former has a lot of rubbish - rōmaji entries or English entries derived from Japanese. I suggest to disallow rōmaji entry requests. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 05:49, 30 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Note that the former is the parent page, and that it transcludes the Wiktionary:Requested entries:Japanese/Romaji and Wiktionary:Requested entries:Japanese/Non-romaji sub-pages. Removing the sub-pages would mean copying all of the associated content onto the parent page.  This doesn't seem terribly useful.  Moreover, the page has had this parent + transcluded children structure since at least 2007.  I'm not sure why it's an issue now?
 * The romaji on the Requested entries (Japanese) page is there by design and intent -- users who cannot read or write Japanese might still have a valid reason for wanting to request entry creation, and romaji (i.e. the Latin alphabet) is the only script that we can safely assume that our users can read and write. As such, I must disagree with your request to disallow romaji requests.
 * I also noticed that you added an RFC to the Requested entries (Japanese) page, apparently as an objection to the presence of romaji. I could certainly support a general call to clean up the request page in general, but the presence of romaji alone is not sufficient reason for an RFC.  &#8209;&#8209; Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 00:55, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Ergo, not moved. - -sche (discuss) 23:25, 16 August 2016 (UTC)