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Entry: Taikomochi or Houkan, the Male Counterpart to the Geisha... - A2197154
Author: kunoichi - U551001

I hope that this is okay for the Peer Review, despite the foreign words. It's hard to talk about taikomochi without using Japanese words!

I didn't have a problem with the Japanese vocabulary; then again, I watch (subtitled) anime, so mine can't be guaranteed to be a typical reaction. In the first paragraph, though, you don't define 'daimyo'; and given that you give the synonyms taikomochi/houkan and otogishu/hanashishu, it would be interesting to learn just what those words mean, if you can find out what the etymologies are. (I've looked for 'hanashishu' in a couple of online dictionaries, and can't find it; presumably it's too archaic. Neither can I find 'otogishu'.) Not that that's a major concern.

Interesting stuff, at any rate.

I have defined the Japanese words, though I haven't found the etymologies of them all, though. But I believe I have the meanings there, if not the actual translation of the words!

Thanks, RFJS__!

Okay; just as long as we know what they mean. (I don't imagine there'll be that many readers wondering, as I was, whether 'hanashishu' is derivative of 'hanasu', so etymologies aren't much of an issue.)

There are several Edited Entries already that describe feudal Japan, so it is possible to link to one of these articles instead of defining daimyo here. (and perhaps some other words, too, because I haven't read these articles closely, yet).

3 paragraphs, a significant if small portion as currently written, of this article don't seem to be about the subject, but instead a book report on Mr. (Ms?) Dowling.

I was wondering why we should care what she/he thinks? Is this person someone important in Japanese sociological or anthropological circles?

Sadly, the author no longer seems to be around...

The entry is a cut'n'paste job:
http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/taikomochi.html

Yes it is, but the researcher and the writer of that page are one and the same person. That said, the last time they posted as nearly 2 months ago, so they're well on their way to elvising.

They may be the same author, but we do prefer original writing here

It is original: they originally wrote it

Oh

I'm around, though I haven't posted anything much because of a completion of a contract, a period of being unemployed, and the starting up of a new job on top of other things. But I'm still around...

And, yes, it's original as I wrote it. But if H2G2 doesn't like things that are online elsewhere, it can always be removed from H2G2 as I know my personal web site will always be free and searchable on Google, thus easier to find for people who're looking. (Plus a number of my articles have a number of links on other sites, so it would be inconvenient to find each web site owner and get them to change links to here...)

If you wrote it, then it's fine to have it as an entry here on h2g2. However, it's a little different when it comes to the standards for the Edited Guide, which is what Peer Review here is all about.


Mikey

Since the autor hasn't been around since their last posting in this thread, and since this is on their own website and therefore something they hold copyright in, I don't think we should be moving it to the FM... a pity

I aqree.

Are you suggesting a move to the Entry itself?

HELL

I'm not sure about that really. After all, by posting to h2g2 you grant the BBC mutual copyright...

Isn't there a difference in the amount of copyright held by the BBC in an edited entry as opposed to a regular Guide entry? Either way, this material appeared first on the author's website, and they therefore hold copyright in it. To send it off to the FM where someone could use it as a basis for their own entry, probably quoting big chunks of it, wouldn't be right would it? So I propose back to entry.