User talk:Amadus73

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Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you.Peter Rehse (talk) 15:33, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tokugawa Yoshinobu[edit]

Somebody else has already undone your addition, but I would have for the following reason. If you take another look at the paragraph, it says that Yoshinobu's photographs were published by his grandson. That's the connection which makes it worth including. If they were photos taken by the grandson, then I would delete that too. Your tidbit about the great grandson has nothing to do with Yoshinobu.
On another point, you should not include external links to sites if there is a Wikipedia article on it, e.g. the IMAF. As a tip, the external links you are adding everywhere look like advertising and are more likely to be reverted.
It's great that you are trying to add to Japan-related articles. Let me know if you have any questions I can help with. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 21:26, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your insight. I am trying to be helpful by adding note worthy bits on notable people. I have yet to speak Wikipedia and much of the factual information I have placed had been removed. Although some to their credit have placed it on another section of the article. I would really like to a bio on Hataya sensei but it keeps getting deleted. Is there a template I can follow? Please advise Amadus73 (talk) 14:26, 20 November 2015 (UTC)Amadus73.[reply]

I'll chime in - you might notice that the article Hataya Mitsuo Yoshitoki has not been deleted this time. The main reason it was deleted the last few times is that it came across as heavily promotional but in addition significant parts of the text were copy pasted which is a major no no. Wikipedia articles also have a format which in this case I tried to help fit it in and some of the deletion you saw on this surviving version was because of that. It would help if you could look at similar articles and the best way would be to look at some of the other articles in the category Japanese priests. A few further points - before adding categories please check what is actually in them - the category Martial arts for instance has only very general martial arts articles and no people - there are more appropriate sub-categories. Any article must make a good case for notability which at the moment the article does not. What it needs to establish this are some better third party references that are considered reliable. Keeping this in mind - you have a good starting point. I would advise looking at manual of style and making sure that the article talks primarily about him rather than the katana he produces (although it can of course be mentioned. I hope this helps.Peter Rehse (talk) 16:01, 20 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Peter, I think you should give me partial credit for that bronze star you earned on Wiki for all my martial Arts deletions LOL. I will read up but don't leave a fellow budoka behind...

Actually I did not delete any of your articles just tagged one article twice - it was deleted by others. For wiki to work well certain kata have to be performed. Anyway - happy to help if you have any questions.Peter Rehse (talk) 17:07, 20 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Peter,

Can you assist with the Toyama Ryu site. It appears that the wiki duplicate bot believes that the information on the Toyama site was retrieved from the ZNTIR site mentioned...when in fact it was sourced from "Gunto no Soho and Tameshigiri", a leaflet published by Kaiko-sha in November 1940. Written by Tanaka Hisakazu, the Principal of the Toyama Military Academy. This information was not copyrighted. The information on the site and this leaflet are the same.

I could not figure out how to put it in the reference area because the page is actually not visible due to this warning. Please advise Amadus73 (talk) 21:25, 21 November 2015 (UTC)amadus73[reply]

I checked. The page is almost a direct copy paste which by definition is copyright. It does not specifically have to say copyright for it to be so.Peter Rehse (talk) 22:09, 21 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Peter, I re-wrote and fixed a majority of the Toyama Ryu article and you recheck and clarify. Please advise, Amadus73 (talk) 15:43, 22 November 2015 (UTC)amadus73[reply]

There are still entire paragraphs which are if not direct copy, close paraphrased of the same web site mentioned in the copyvio. I also noticed a complete lack of inline references (notes are not the same thing) which really detracts from the information. What usually happens in these cases is the copyvio people may not delete the whole article but cut out the offending bits. I would wait for that to happen and in the mean time work on the temporary article. Please take a look at Battōjutsu for a simple example or Iaido. By the way its best to leave messages on my talk page I don't usually monitor other people's talk pages.Peter Rehse (talk) 16:32, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]