Talk:Japanese honorifics

Merger proposal

I propose that Sensei be merged into Japanese_honorifics#Sensei_and_hakase. These two pages have significant overlap, and Sensei is lacking proper citation. This article is of a reasonable size so the merging the small amount of additional information in Sensei will not cause problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. Stillwaterising (talk) 12:12, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

What should be done instead (IMHO) is to make the entry on this page a summary of the content on Sensei and then move any extra information from here to there. There is certainly more than enough information for Sensei to be a standalone article (and I could also see merging "hakase" into the Sensei article as hakase is simply a more specific type of sensei). ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 05:27, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

I entirely agree. IF "Sensei" is dismissed as being merely an honorific it will be a terrible error. It has such a huge standing and a range of nuanced social and cultural roles in Britain as well as a 1000 times more in its country of origin. I think already it has here more meanings than terms like president and almost as many as gaffer. Is anyone seriously considering putting all the meanings of gaffer under honorifics? Let alone similar terms like boss? Sensei has both casual and formal usage that will only expand with manga-type culture and deserves entries as an English language term as well as Japanese. JamesG89.197.11.202 (talk) 15:26, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Concur

Recommend to proceed with all the above points incorporated. Editor needed to oversee merger. TexasRazor (talk) 12:08, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

-tan

The description of "-tan" is empty. Chiefly I see "-tan" used on the internet in comments on cat pictures, where it has a cute childish tone. The Japanese version of this page has the following definition for たん／タン: "Often used with Moe subjects (chiefly female). Use outside the Internet is rare. Babyish version of "-chan"; in this case, it is very common on the Internet." However there's no citation there. Is it OK to include a translated version of another wikipedia page when the original has no citation? Snogglethorpe (talk) 06:38, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

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