Talk:Ezo

Just link to Hokkaido?

Should we gut most of the content here and just link to "hokkaido", which is more up to date?--Mishac 20:22, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Unless the 1911 source is stated at the top I would say yes, gut it. The article even refers to "Formosa" (i.e. Taiwan) as one of the islands of Japan. --

81.132.41.249 12:48, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

That was true in 1911. It is no longer useful, perhaps, to have Hokkaido called Ezo/Yezo.

Charles Matthews 08:02, 1 May 2004 (UTC)

The only relevance of (Y)ezo is that it is an antiquated term once used to reference the island now known as Hokkaido and the people now known as Ainu, both of which have current and accurate articles. Therefore I have "gutted" all content from (Y)ezo except for the portion explaining the history of the term and linking it to the more modern content.

Ezo the Grafitti Artist

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making art since the age of 6 but 1979-1983 was his primary train painting phase..which was essentially as a bomber of throwups and tags on the letter lines..mainly E's F's GG's N's LL's D's at the same time he was known to do large mural pieces on handball courts and school yards with characters being his specialty. from 1983-1988 he began his professional carrer as a painter and illustrator.in 1988 he began doing pieces again sporadically over the next 2 years then in 1990 he began painting mural/pieces with more of a political and social slant and collaborating with various artists such as Dread Scott in the controversial Civil Wars show at the brooklyn memorial arch in 1994, while still painting freights and the occasional clean train,this uptown phase coincited with the opening of his studio at the bronx river in 1989 and the co founding of the bronx river artist in residency in 1992.in 1996 he resurrected the graffiti hall of fame in harlem which he curated for 5 years.in 2000 He co-founded the Rock Band The Public Animals who were known less for their music than for their unruly, illicit and bohemian behavior which lasted until their demise in 2003 during this time he founded The Gspot Colab Gallery which exhibited the art work of the East Harlem Elite which began as an internet site in 1998. throughout this time he continues to exhibit his paintings where ever he is allowed to including the lyon biennal in 1997 and the cooper hewitt museum in 2002.in 2004 he began the strip "The Public A' that appeared in Mass Appeal Magazine, and is currently working on his new strip "The 10,000 day Man that appears in Animal NewYork.to this day he strives to Paint, Bomb and create on a daily basis.

I removed the graffiti artis mention as non-notable. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 06:08, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

On the other hand somebody who thinks that he is notable is free to create an article about him; the article will be judged on its merits. (Normal orthography would be a plus.) -- Hoary 07:50, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm fine with that as long as notability can be shown. Generally speaking, though, graffiti artists are not generally notable except in their own minds and a tiny geographic area. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 16:18, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

to nihonjoe, i'm wondering what is your personal issue with this artist or graffiti art in general for that matter, that you feel the need to keep taking his name off of the article. is it because he is not japanese or you hate that form of art? if so that smacks of racism and censorship and a subjective view that i dont think is shared by the majority of visitors who come to this site looking to be informed about all aspects of a topic. you say he is not notable but yet someone felt he was notable enough to include his name in this article as well as over 100 separate entries on the internet..your comments above betray your ignorance in the matter..i suggest you go to the search engine of your choice punch in ezo graffiti and see for yourself and give it a rest,i'm sure you can find something more NOTABLE to do with your time. thank you .... added between 04:13 and 04:53, 21 June 2006 by 66.108.197.185

(i) If you believe he is notable, create an article for him. Then link to that. (ii) Before speculating about the motives of other editors, you may wish to consider how your own identity is likely to be perceived: your list of contributions so far shows an interest that's limited to Ezo, with just two exceptions: vandalizing Nihonjoe's user page and vandalizing Nihonjoe's user talk page. (iii) When adding a comment to this or any other talk page, add it under, not within, somebody else's comment, and sign it by hitting the "~" key four times in a row. Thank you. -- Hoary 05:42, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

This has nothing to do with racism (how can anyone be racist against someone when they don't even know their race?). And I have nearly 4,000 "quoted" Google hits on my real name (which isn't all that common), but I'm not notable enough to have an article created about me. As both Hoary and I have indicated, feel free to create an article if you think you can provide the information to show he's notable. If you can, we'll welcome the article, and we'll add a link to the article from this page. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 07:25, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Alright if not racism then ignorance or bias to an artform either way you are still censoring.. i did not put the artists name originally in the article someone else did if you check the history, all i did was add information on this discussion page and a link to his artwork site which is not a commercial site by the way, on the article page next to *the graffiti artist, that was already there, so i guess SOMEONE did at one time deem it notable..as per my identity i am a fan and an art collector who was pleasently surprised to see a hard working artist's name deservedly so by the way in the wikipedia listing. i added the above info to the discussion page for information purposes that is all, i am not an editor nor an article writer, i am just someone that believes that censorship of any kind particularly of the kind being shown here on an informational site based on pure unfounded personal bias betrays the purpose of such a site. as per any percieved vandalism nothing of the kind i was just putting back what i believed was unfairly removed due to some weird baseless bias but since you now obviously seem to have an ax to grind and have appointed yourselves the EZO police i'll have to leave you to your own devices but whatever is unfairly removed will be replaced just as quickly and NOTABLY...thank you "66.108.197.185 06:04, 22 June 2006 (UTC)"

If he's notable, create an article about him. Then by all means link to that. If you don't want to create an article about him, then ask somebody who's interested. Nihonjoe doesn't seem to be interested. I'm not interested. I'm also not interested in squillions of other things (and most people aren't interested in what most of what I'm interested in). If you call my personal refusal to write an article about him "personal bias", fine: it's a personal bias that you seem to share. -- Hoary 07:14, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Hisui Region?

the Hisui Region of Pokémon legends: arceus is an ancient version of sinnoh, which itself is based on modern Hokkaido. Ezo is an ancient version of hokkaido, but i'm not sure if Hisui is entirely based off Ezo or not, as the page for Hisui says it's based on "early colonial japan", which doesn't help. QuantumChaosTheory (talk) 14:46, 17 April 2024 (UTC)