Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Tanaka Giichi

The third paragraph of Tanaka Giichi is riddled with grammatical errors and is generally confusing. There also isn't much information about his significance on the page. Beluga 22:15, 18 December 2005 (UTC)Beluga

• There is a comment (HTML comment) in the text that Baron is a poor translation of the correct Japanese title. What is the correct title?
• In what year did he become a general? (He is referred to as General Tanaka late in the article and I had trouble deciding if this was the same person).
• General grammar and history checking.

RJFJR 23:06, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Added to User:Draeco/Desk RJFJR 23:06, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

:I've done all the copyediting and fact-adding I can. Everything is resolved except (1) the exact birth/death dates which I will check and (2) the translation of "Baron" which is beyond my linguistic knowledge. I'm moving it back out to Unassigned so a Japanese expert can take a crack at his title. Draeco 03:45, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

There was commentary on the talk page that Baron is inaccurate for the Japanese term.

However, online search turned up the following links

• [http://www.bartleby.com/65/ta/Tanaka-G.html Columbia encyclopedia]
• [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9071143 Britannica]

which are reputable encyclopedias and use the term Baron.

• Does anyone know someone who reads Japanese and can check the Japanese Wikipedia for this article?

We may have to follow convention and use Baron, but there is a citation of a book that I will see if my library's inter-library loan can obtain for me and see if it has a better word. RJFJR 16:49, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I left a note at User talk:Neier who has a babel of JA-2 and it looks like checked the ja.wiki of this article. RJFJR 16:55, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

:User:Neier looked into it. See the notes on the article's talk page. Apparently Baron is a good tranlation.

I'm going to close the taskforce entry. A very good job everybody! 68.109.18.226 05:27, 1 February 2006 (UTC)