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	For your substantial additions to the article 2020 Kyushu floods. Karaeng Matoaya (talk) 01:36, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Karaeng Matoaya: Thank you for recognizing me and thank you for the welcome. I have been enjoying contributing and hope to continue. Thixotrofic (talk) 01:42, 8 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Waste management in Japan

Good work writing this article. By any chance was any content translated from Japanese Wikipedia, or are you otherwise able to find a corresponding article there? If so we should link the articles together. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 00:55, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I appreciate it. None of the content is from the Japanese Wikipedia page, which is unfortunately quite sparse. In any case, thanks for the reminder. I found the Japanese equivalent article and have set up a link. Actually the article there is titled jp:廃品回収, literally "waste retrieval", not specific to Japan, but the article is written just about Japan and belongs to the category, "Waste collection in Japan". I'm not sure if you err to linking or not linking in this situation but I feel the link is more useful than misleading. Thixotrofic (talk) 01:46, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My first instinct was to say that we shouldn't link to it because that article should be linked to our article on Waste collection in general, but it appears that that article is already linked to ja:ごみ収集. As far as I can tell, it seems like ja:廃品回収 is about recycling whereas ja:ごみ収集 is about general waste...I'm a bit out of my depth trying to figure out whether these articles have overlapping scopes. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 02:12, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. It's a bit messy over there. I think the two article titles are close to synonyms, but the first article, ja:ごみ収集 is definitely written to be about physical collection with a global scope. ja:廃品回収 has content about recycling but in a broader waste collection context, based on the summary on the top, and is about Japan exclusively. This is based on an intermediate Japanese understanding with machine translation to double-check. I'm going to link ja:廃品回収 to waste management, and leave it to Japanese Wikipedia to broaden the scope of the page and create an equivalent for Waste management in Japan. Thanks. Thixotrofic (talk) 03:22, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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