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DYK for Heya (sumo)

On 12 October 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Heya (sumo), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that professional sumo fighting stables are often housed in Shinto shrines when they travel outside of Tokyo? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Heya (sumo). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Heya (sumo)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Possible help

Hi @OtharLuin, do you speak Japanese? If so, I would really appreciate if you could help me spot check and evaluate the reliability of some Japanese sources in a GA review I am doing. IAWW (talk) 14:45, 16 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi IAWW, unfortunately no, I don't speak Japanese. That's one of the problems with what I'm doing here. To compensate, I rely heavily on Deepl or on Japanese speakers on the various Discord servers I frequent. However, you can send me the link to the GA review you're doing, and I can try to help. - OtharLuin (talk) 10:17, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for responding. The review is Talk:Yūichirō Miura/GA1. I haven't finished the prose review yet, but if you have any comments on the sources feel absolutely free to weigh in. IAWW (talk) 10:49, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

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Rōga Tokiyoshi

In North American English, "as of" can refer to: 1) a specific past date for the last known state ("as of yesterday"); 2) the current period ("as of now"); 3) the future ("as of tomorrow, we will be"). It does not mean "began on the specified date and hasn't ended yet." If you want to refer to September 2018 as the date when Roga became the only Russian in professional sumo, then state "In September 2018, he became the only Russian competing in professional sumo"; as it is now, it looks like the paragraph hasn't been updated in nearly eight years. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 20:02, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

It hasn't been updated because *as of* 2018 he's the only russian in pro sumo. The sentence is both grammatically correct and true. Changing for June 2026 will only add to the confusion surrounding the meaning of the sentence - OtharLuin (talk) 20:08, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

I checked the JSA site before updating the page, and he's currently the only Russian in professional Japanese sumo. Both the examples you cited support my comment, neither supports yours - one if for events that will begin in future, the other is about the past and in the past tense. How changing it will "add to the confusion surrounding the meaning of the sentence" eludes me as a native English speaker. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 20:55, 14 June 2026 (UTC)