Talk:Comfort women

Latest comment: 20 days ago by Metokpema in topic Apply quotation marks to euphemisms
Former good article nomineeComfort women was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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Semi-protected edit request on 30 September 2023

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I request for the Category:Crimes against humanity to be added to the External Links. 95.147.63.116 (talk) 12:36, 30 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Already in 'see also', which is the correct place for such links. AndyTheGrump (talk) 12:40, 30 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 1 December 2023

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Change "World war 2" to "World War II". Change "World War 2" to "World War II". Shuntaro Kawasaki (talk) 00:26, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

  Done Thank you, - FlightTime (open channel) 00:40, 1 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Misquotation of source

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Only doing this because I do not have an account valid to edit semi-protected pages. The 95th source is misreferenced, in quotes it says "public restrooms", yet the cited source says "public toilets". KillYourLandlord (talk) 07:28, 20 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

done Meters (talk) 07:40, 20 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 20 June 2024

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"Only in the 1990s did the Japanese government begin to officially apologize and offer compensation. However, apologies from Japanese officials have been criticized as insincere."

This quote is highly dishonest and written from a Pro-Korean and Anti-Japanese view point.

Japan has paid reparations for comfort woman multiple times under various treaties. However, if that is not direct enough due the treaties never stating comfort woman, then look at the fact that Japan offered to pay comfort woman's directly but were rejected by the Korean government.

The Korean government asked Japan to give the payments to the Korean government directly and they'll redistribute the funds. Japan agreed to this. However, Korea took the money to fund their businesses and roads and then continued to claim Japan never paid. TheHistorian8 (talk) 23:59, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Aoidh (talk) 00:32, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
  Partly done: Unsourced statement removed. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 00:35, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 23 July 2024

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I request in the See Also section where it says "Rape of Nanking" to be changed to "Rape of Nanjing". 81.137.207.239 (talk) 13:23, 23 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Done Charliehdb (talk) 14:02, 23 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Apply quotation marks to euphemisms

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"Comfort women" is a euphemism for sexual slavery, according to sources here and at Statue of Peace. As such, the euphemism needs to be written in quotation marks, at minimum.

To repeatedly use the euphemism without quotation marks normalizes the euphemism, and in this case normalizes a redefinition of sexual slavery that was promoted originally by Japan in defence of the Japanese Army, who imprisoned and enslaved the Koreans "in brothels" (according to sources).

After the lede, the words 'sexual slaves' should be used instead of "comfort women". Another possibility in the lede is to use 'so-called "comfort women" '. Metokpema (talk) 16:57, 14 November 2024 (UTC)Reply