Category talk:Parliamentary districts of the Diet of Japan

possessive s

Can we come up with a better naming system for these articles? --Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 15:00, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

I don't check my (en)-watchlist on a regular basis, so I'm sorry for continuing to create district articles based on the original first electoral articles without noticing this and DAJF's article moves. As for the naming of articles, I have no preference whatsoever and am more concerned about content as Wikipedia sometimes gets even basic facts on Japanese politics wrong. I'm obviously not a native speaker though I grew up in a non-native English-speaking household, so I'm happy to follow reasonable suggestions. Could you come up with a somewhat consistent scheme for all types of electoral districts for the Diet in all time periods? If you can please edit the proposal below to make the naming more "natural".
So far, it seems I'm the only user expanding this category. For now, I'll just continue to create a set of articles containing the most basic facts: Who was elected where and when. But, as I previously wrote on the Japan-project pages (when response was a bit underwhelming), I'm also thankful for any feedback on everything else beyond naming: content, formatting etc. --Asakura Akira (talk) 13:32, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Proposed naming system:

• House of Representatives
  • Present-day and previous numbered districts: [Prefecture] 1st/2nd/... district
  • At-large districts: [Prefecture] At-large district (see House of Councillors below)
  • Early 20th century daisenkyo-ku
    • shi-districts: [Prefecture] [City] city district
    • gunbu-districts: I have tentatively used [Prefecture] counties district in the templates as I couldn't find an established English name and using the prevalent translation of gun as district would result in an ugly "districts district".
• House of Councillors
  • [Prefecture] At-large district. Even though electoral districts for the Sangiin are usually simply called [Prefecture] electoral district/senkyo-ku both in English and Japanese I named them at-large district because, after all, that's what they are and they need to be disambiguated anyway from the SNTV-era at-large districts/zenken-ku in the HR that were often called the same.
• (House of Peers)
  • Definitely not an urgent thing for the time being; but eventually, one could think of creating articles about the wealthy taxpayer elections also done by prefecture, the academic peerage elections and the mutual peerage elections for the three lower hereditary peerage ranks. --Asakura Akira (talk) 13:32, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

That looks OK to me. I think the main problem that Chris and I had was with the unnatural-sounding "Tokyo's 1st district" style. If future articles can leave out the possessive "s", there will probable be no problem. --DAJF (talk) 01:27, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. I'll do that and try to move existing articles by prefecture whenever I create new ones as I'll then have to update the navigational templates anyway. --Asakura Akira (talk) 13:09, 29 October 2010 (UTC)