Talk:Gohatto

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BetacommandBot (talk) 18:25, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Suggested move

Taboo (1999 film) → Gohatto – {{{2}}} elvenscout742 (talk) 13:29, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

The film's official title in Japan is Gohatto in roman letters[1][2][3], and this is also the title under which it was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland.[4] And .. China .. apparently.[5] There is also a huge number of GBooks hits[6] for "Gohatto" that do not even mention the "Taboo" as the English title. Corresponding results for "Taboo" are far fewer[7]. (You have to mention the year, since most of the results at [8] seem to be about how Oshima's more famous earlier films violated taboos, or give Gohatto as the primary title and mention "taboo" as a gloss.)

elvenscout742 (talk) 13:29, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Survey

Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *'''Support''' or *'''Oppose''', then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.

• Support, per WP:PRECISION. "Taboo" is ambiguous, so must be qualified, "Gohatto" (a name used in English sources as well) does not require artificial qualification. "If it exists, choose an alternative name that the subject is also commonly called in English, albeit not as commonly as the preferred-but-ambiguous title." So even if Taboo is more commonly used (the possible outcome of the initial discussion below), Gohatto is preferred on Wikipedia. -- JHunterJ (talk) 18:33, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
  • That seems to come from WP:NATURAL not WP:PRECISION. Do you have some other examples of where a film article has been moved from the commonest English title to its foreign language equivalent just to get rid of something like "(1999 film)" from the title? JoshuSasori (talk) 01:52, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
• Weak support - the move is not really necessary, but the arguments for moving it are reasonable. JoshuSasori (talk) 02:41, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Discussion

Any additional comments:

• Comment - can the proposer please explain what evidence there is that the film was not released under the title "Taboo" or that "Taboo" is not a common English name of the film? The same search applied to the title in reverse, "Taboo" Oshima -gohatto, gives us more hits than the above search which the proposer uses as evidence. Also the film posters that the proposer says indicate that the film's official title is "Gohatto" in roman letters all also have the kanji name 御法度 on them. The Japanese wikipedia claims the title is 御法度 too, and it also gives the English title as "Taboo". There is no mention of the title being romanized. And note that sometimes Japanese films are released with a romanized title or English title, e.g. Love Letter, which was released in cinemas in Japan with the title "Love Letter", so there is no reason "gohatto" is not possible. Even more, the link that is supposed to be about China seems to link to an episode of "Friends" (I didn't actually view the video to confirm this, but it says Chandler & Joey play some foosball for some cash but Chandler on purposely trys to lose.). Can the proposer clarify? I feel this is unconvincing, but I will give the proposer a chance to explain what I am misunderstanding before definitely voting here. JoshuSasori (talk) 13:46, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

The film was released as Taboo in the United States, but as Gohatto in the United Kingdom. The Google Books searches indicate that Gohatto is the more prominent title for the film in reliable English sources. The search you cite above, as I have already pointed out in move request, is flawed in that a significant number of the sources are not about this film, but merely use the word "taboo" in relation to one or more of Oshima's more famous films (this is why they also don't use the word "Gohatto". Additionally, Japanese Wikipedia is not a reliable source -- anyone can add any information they like to it, and an ISP account mentioning that a Japanese film is known by such-and-such a name in the United States[9] is equivalent to me adding "Japanese title: 声をかくす人 Koe o kakusu hito" to the article on The Conspirator. The Japanese article in its original form gave the name "Gohatto" in roman letters. It is entirely possible that the anon who added "Taboo" to the Japanese article was under the mistaken belief that "Taboo" was some kind of official English title and "Gohatto" wasn't, and wanted to balance the article. This is why we shouldn't trust Japanese Wikipedia. The video I linked to as a joke entirely separate from the move request. The search for poster images brought up a Chinese poster that seemed like a fun aside, and I thought "The film is also known as Gohatto in .. China .. apparently" which brought a line from Friends to my mind and a smile to my lips. I lucked out that the clip was on YouTube. The link to the actual poster image, like all my other actual sources, is at the end of the sentence. elvenscout742 (talk) 16:05, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

To clarify, only 4 of the first 10 hits for ["Taboo" Oshima -gohatto are about this film and give "Taboo" as the title. 2 (for some reason) give "Gohatto" as the title and merely state that "Gohatto means 'taboo'"; 1 is completely unrelated to the subject, as it is a different Oshima and a different taboo being discussed; and 3 are about the filmmaker Nagisa Oshima and how his earlier much more famous film Realm of the Senses broke "taboos" about portraying sex in cinema. Therefore, while it's easy to assume that any English-language source that uses the words "Gohatto" and "Oshima" together is referring to this film, in order to find sources that specifically call the film "Taboo" rather than "Gohatto" we have to apply the slightly more restrictive parameter of including the year of the film's release. If this seems unfair it can be pointed out that with the same restriction "Gohatto" still comes out on top. elvenscout742 (talk) 16:21, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't think it is related to the use of the word "Taboo" about other films. Changing the search to "Taboo Ryuhei Matsuda Oshima" and "Gohatto Ryuhei Matsuda Oshima" doesn't change the ratio, the "Taboo" version comes out at about the same ratio of hits. Realistically, "Taboo" is the more common name on Google searches. JoshuSasori (talk) 01:55, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

"Taboo Ryuhei Matsuda Oshima" brings up about 80% fewer results than "Gohatto Oshima -Taboo". "Gohatto Ryuhei Matsuda Oshima" still brings up at least as many results. And your search still includes books about Japanese cinema and/or Oshima's work in general that just happen to use the word "taboo" at some point in the text. I am beginning to notice why you never provide links to diffs, etc., since the actual evidence never supports your conclusions. I would also like to see your evidence that Taboo is "the more common name on Google searches" -- Wikipedia doesn't use general Google searches (do you mean GBooks searches?) and it also doesn't use Wikipedia mirrors as sources, so you always need to block Wikipedia from your search. elvenscout742 (talk) 02:34, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Oh my gosh, that's a personal attack, I shall immediately report you on the administrator's noticeboard. JoshuSasori (talk) 02:43, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Wait, what personal attack? I just pointed out, as an admin and several others before me, that your failure to actually cite evidence is kind of frustrating. Of course, it is possible that you are referring to the fact that I reported you on ANI because you made a veiled threat and have been calling me names for a month now. If you are sarcastically referring to that, then rather you are the one relying on ad hominem arguments than objective evidence. elvenscout742 (talk) 02:52, 20 January 2013 (UTC)