LyricWiki:Japan

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Contents 1 Group Purpose 2 General Group Rules 3 Projects 3.1 Pages to Update 3.2 Where To Help Out 3.3 Artists to Target 4 Useful Templates 5 Group Members 6 Resources 6.1 Lyrics 6.2 Dictionaries

[edit] Group Purpose

• Provide a place to coordinate the romanization and translation of Japanese lyrics and provide a way to have peer reviews of both.
• Provide a way to pool resources such as CD booklet scans, websites, etc. to help with translations and romanizations.
• Provide a place for discussing Japan, the Japanese language and culture as it relates to lyrics and music.

[edit] General Group Rules

• If you are trying to refer to a Japanese word, please use the kanji and provide a reading for it like this or something similar: 胸 (mune). Please don't use only romaji if it can be helped, it doesn't accurately describe the Japanese language.

[edit] Projects

Organized efforts by the group will be coordinated from here.

[edit] Pages to Update

• Help:Romanization - Currently a stub. Update to match results of discussions on talk page.
• Help:Contents/Editing/Formatting/Artists/Japanese is a stub. Is only linked from our talk page, needs to be incorporated into the help section.
• Help:Contents/Editing/Formatting/Songs/Japanese is a stub. Is only linked from our talk page, needs to be incorporated into the help section.
• Help:Contents/Editing/Formatting/Albums/Japanese. Needs to be written.

[edit] Where To Help Out

• Requests For Romanization/Japanese (497 pages)
• Requests For Translation/Japanese (1,922 pages) Even a simple or partial translation will do
• Request Anime Page (130 pages)
• Hometown/Japan (808 pages)
• Anime Songbox (61 pages)

[edit] Artists to Target

Use the talk page to discuss who should be targeted by the group.

[edit] Useful Templates

• {{Translation}} to line up Romanized Japanese next to a translation.
• {{TransTitle}} for songs with titles in Japanese.
• {{RequestTranslation}} to get translators' attention.
• {{RequestKanaKanji}} to get kana and kanji providers' attention.
• {{AnimeFeature}} for songs featured in anime series

[edit] Group Members

See members list. Add your name there to join.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Lyrics

• "Anime Songu no Kashi nara Koko ni O-makase?"
• goo Music Lyrics Search
• Utamap Lyrics Search
• Uta-Net Lyrics Search

[edit] Dictionaries

• dictionary.goo.ne.jp - Japanese Only Dictionary
• lwjiten - Japanese/English Dictionary
• Rikaichan - In-browser Japanese-English Dictionary (Firefox)
• Nihongoresources - an online Japanese dictionary
• Excite (Automatic Translator) - similar to Babelfish
• Denshi Jisho - Excellent "Kanji by Radicals" search.