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Jūichimen Kannon needs help

Jūichimen Kannon needs help from someone familiar with Buddhist mythology. There's a lot of info in the Japanese article that could be translated, and there are likely references out there with information. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 04:08, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Marebito

Can somebody please take a look at this article? It's somewhat incomprehensible in it's current state. I was tempted to AfD it, but I'd rather not if it's a genuine encyclopedic subject. PC78 (talk) 19:52, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Hmm... Seems to be a genuine folkloristic term, coined by Origuchi. The fact that the ja:wiki article has "cargo cult" in the See also section explains some things. I'll look into this tomorrow, if nobody else volunteers - in the least, I can do a little data transfer from ja:wiki and see if I can also dig up something on the series of tubes. TomorrowTime (talk) 22:20, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Phew, I know I promised to look into this, but something big came up, and I have almost no wiki-time right now :( I'll definitely fiddle some with the article in a couple days though. TomorrowTime (talk) 08:11, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Navboxes

So, I think I'm going to join this taskforce and really dive into these mythology articles. But a big question I have is about the 3 navboxes you guys have. I can't seem to figure out when to use which or why certain articles use one type and not the other. Plus a lot of mythology articles do not even have the template. What are the rules of thumb here? I want to make sure and start standardizing articles across the board Torsodog (talk) 04:50, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Which navboxes are you refering to?MightyAtom (talk) 16:08, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

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Shirime

Hello, I've just closed this article's afd as a Keep. I was wondering if you could expand this to DYK standards.--Lenticel ^(talk) 08:11, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Japanese mythology

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