Talk:Sendai
Whale meat
Dear 60.46.215.114: I am reverting your edit, which deals about the fact that whale meat can be purchased in Sendai, for the following reasons.
- The fact that whale meat can be purchased in Sendai is not particularly notable, because whale meat can be bought throughout Japan. There are many online websites that sell whale meat, so it is not something particularly restricted to Sendai City. Sendai also is a relatively large city in Japan, so it is not surprising that whale meat can be purchased in the city. Additionally, there are six cities in Japan with whaling bases; however, Sendai is not one of them. Therefore, I believe your edit, which mentions that whale meat can be bought in Sendai, is similar to editing an article about a European city and writing that Hashish can be purchased in the city, when it is widely available in Europe, according to the Hashish article. If you want to write about the fact that whale meat is widely available in Japan, you should edit the Whaling in Japan article.
- I believe your edit is rather biased, and is not written from a neutral point of view. It is official Wikipedia policy to write articles from a neutral point of view. which is "absolute and non-negotiable," according to founder Jimbo Wales [1]. For example, you write "Furthermore, Whale meat eating is no longer part of the culture but has become rather a luxury that nature can no longer afford". I believe this statement is not an established fact, but an opinion.
- Your edit is also factually incorrect. You write that the fact that whale meat is available in Sendai "reveals that Japan is indeed breaching Whaling rules and regulations." However, according to the whaling article, whale meat purchased in Sendai is obtained through scientific whaling, carried out under the rules described within Article VIII of the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling. Therefore, Japan is not breaching any whaling rules or regulations. I request you to make an effort to write factually correct edits in the future.
I sincerely request you to refrain from making questionable edits to this article in the future. Atsi Otani 12:14, 15 August 2005 (UTC)