Commons:Deletion requests/File:Sea of Japan Map en.png
Dear webmaster, Hello. This is Seong Woo who studies oceanography in South Korea. I have a project and research about marine environment and ecosystem, using your website. I really thank you for your website which provides useful contents for my research. However, I have found some minor different information in your website from other sources during the research. In the map of your website, the name of the sea between Korea and Japan is described as "Sea of Japan". It seems unreasonable to use the name "Sea of Japan" which is decided in the period of imperialism because its original name is "East Sea" which has been used throughout history. Therefore, I believe that the body of water between Korea and Japan should be described as the “East Sea” or at least with the simultaneous use of both names; “East Sea/Sea of Japan.” I would like to attach some references to help your understanding of this matter. I hope that errors in your website will be corrected. If you do not mind, could you let me know an e-mail address of the person in charge or another possible way to correction, please? Thank you again for your help. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours sincerely, Seong Woo. 58.226.218.81 14:24, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Keep It is quite possible that there be some imperialism in this name but as long as there is an article named Sea of Japan in the English wikipedia I fail to see what could be done about the map. Shouldn't a student of oceanography know about such things?
Interesting idea that WC should have a (one) “webmaster” who could decide such things. And how could we notify a person that leaves nothing but an IP address? -- Aisano (talk) 18:55, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
Keep and Speedy close This request is a spam mail from a Korean nationalist organization. The template of this request can be found here.―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 09:18, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
Kept: The map is widely used. It is therefore against Commons rules to delete it. . Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 11:25, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Dear Wikimedia Commons,
With my deepest respect and gratitude, I take it as an honor to write to your website. I am Ye-Won Jung, and I am proud to introduce myself to be one of the people of the Republic of Korea and a student of Hana Academy Seoul.
I also work as an active member of the Dokdo Cyber Press, a non-governmental and voluntary organization with the mandate to provide correct information about Korea to the international community, including text book publishers.
I am writing to you as I have important suggestions to make in regards to your articles titled the “Sea of Japan Map".
To my great surprise, I found out that an article of yours have wrongly named the “East Sea” as the “Sea of Japan”. The name of the sea between the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese archipelago, currently named as the “Sea of Japan” in your article, should be corrected to the “East sea”. At present, as many international organizations including U.N. agencies have corrected “Sea of Japan” to “East sea”, I’d truly appreciate if your website could join this trend.
I humbly ask for your website to seriously consider the issue of changing the “Sea of Japan” to “East sea”. Or, at least, name it both “Sea of Japan” and “East Sea”. I would like to once again appreciate your time or reviewing my letter and will be more than honored to get reply from your university via my e-mail (yewonj0809@gmail.com). Yours sincerely, Ye-Won, Jung 58.29.17.135 03:16, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
Keep and Speedy close This request is a spam mail from a Korean nationalist organization. The template of this request can be found here.―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 04:06, 26 December 2016 (UTC)
Speedy kept: Nominated twice by the same person, may be considered as vandalism. --Amitie 10g (talk) 11:44, 26 December 2016 (UTC) (Non-admin closure)
