Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Japanese toilet

Japanese toilet

Absolutely fascinating article mostly by User:Chris 73. A great example of the sort of thing that Wikipedia collaboration comes up with. Yelyos 02:36, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the positive comments! Guess I must have found a good topic ... but then with me being in Japan you could say that I am sitting at the source. I was planning to polish the article a bit more and then nominate it myself, but Yelyos beat me (and others) to it. Will add a reference section soon. Also, hopefully I can visit the Toilet museum by Inax in Tokyo this weekend, and get some more info. -- Chris 73 Talk 05:36, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

Why do Japan and scatology always seem to go hand in hand? Zh 03:04, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• Support, with reservations. I almost nominated this myself a couple of days ago. But I want to see the spelling and all cleaned up. Shorne 03:06, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Run through spellchecker. [1] Yelyos 03:26, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Now, if there are no non-Japanese interested in such topic as scatology and Japanese don't keep a good record of everything and keep inventing great products, surely one wouldn't see such articles. What you see is a reflection of what you wants to see. Revth 05:02, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Support. I meant to nominate it myself, but was lazy. --Golbez 05:20, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
• Support. (Contributor) -- Chris 73 Talk 05:36, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
• Object barely. There is no explicit references section. There are several external links mentioned, but is it unclear if they are references. In addition, please use the style at Wikipedia:Cite sources. I would also prefer to see written works added, or to a "further reading" section if none were used. Consider this as my support when changes made. Jeronimo 06:42, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• Comming soon, as mentioned above. -- Chris 73 Talk 07:00, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

• Added a reference section with about 6 references. Yet, there is little literature about the japanese toilet, and some of the documents are company advertising. I will keep on looking, but I hope for now this is enough for Jeronimo's support -- Chris 73 Talk 12:30, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

• I think we should also have a "further reading while on the toilet". - Ta bu shi da yu 22:41, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• Support -- Sundar 04:53, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Another brilliant example of why Wikipedia is such unique treasure. Zerbey 00:37, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Support. I don't think I've voted here before, but this article makes me want to move to Japan. Dori | Talk 23:42, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)
• Support. My friend had told me about all this but I'd only half-believed it and never seen photos! eterata 04:37, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• yes! kickass! i am glad someone else shares the same fascination as i. woohoo! Natelipkowitz 04:39, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Tiny objection - the line: "Currently, over 50% of the Japanese households have high-tech shower toilets worldwide, and Japanese companies currently produce some of the most advanced high tech toilets worldwide." (in the intro) doesn't read quite right to me. Grinner 13:47, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)