Talk:Nobuhiko Jimbo

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:54, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

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Roxas and Jimbo

• ... that Nobuhiko Jimbo saved Manuel Roxas (both pictured) from execution during World War II, and Roxas saved Jimbo from execution after the war?

• Source: Ocampo, Ambeth R. (2018-01-26). "The Japanese officer who saved Manuel Roxas". INQUIRER.net.

• • ALT1: ... that Nobuhiko Jimbo saved Manuel Roxas (both pictured) from execution–only for President Roxas to do the same four years later? Source: Ocampo, Ambeth R. (2018-01-26). "The Japanese officer who saved Manuel Roxas". INQUIRER.net.
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  • Comment: First nomination, not sure if it needs more to clarify that they were wartime enemies or if the context clues are enough

Moved to mainspace by PritongKandule (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

PritongKandule-✉️📝 17:06, 8 October 2025 (UTC).

• New enough (created as a draft six days ago; moved two days afterward), long enough (1,600+ words at this writing), and verifiable enough (Inquirer.net is the official site of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, a national newspaper of record). The two versions of the blurb above are the same (with a couple of contextual differences); leaving it up to the DYK coords to determine which is better.

Earwig reports an 87.6% match from the Inquirer source, but the text in question (Roxas' request for clemency) is blockquoted. I may upgrade my rating to {{DYKyes}} once someone else at DYK clears things up.

As a reminder, this is my first QPQ since the start of my self-exile from WP last year, so bear with me here in case I'm not up to par.

--Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 06:24, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

• I'm having a look since this is a bromance we shouldn't miss out on. PritongKandule, first of all, I suggest you take the first hook and add something--I mean, who are these people? So, "DYK that Japanese officer Jimbo saved future Philippine president Roxas..." or something like that. Second, I'm looking at the article and I'm not totally happy with the short paragraphs/newspaper style of the main text. I think a bit of reordering would be good, but moreover, Roxas just gets dumped in there, in the WWII section, "Manuel Roxas (who had just escaped from Corregidor)"--that needs a note on who Roxas was at the time, etc. That's not a simple copy edit; I can't do that for you. Things that need copyediting are phrases like "instead of resentment" (does not match the grammar of the main clause), "...decision unwilling", "by those that issued"... The executed chief justice and consul general also fall into the narrative out of nowhere: are they important? The long quote, the entire letter--personally I think that's too long, and I would use only a few phrases from it, enough to get the "personal" point across. Let me know what you think. Drmies (talk) 22:06, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

@PritongKandule: Please address the above.--Launchballer 16:36, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer and Drmies: PritongKandule has not edited since November 11 and never responded to this nomination. Normally I would suggest that this be marked for closure, but given that DYK has regulars who are either Filipino or deal with politics-related articles, it may be a good idea to try and ask for their help first before considering closure. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:31, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

User:Narutolovehinata5, this is a great article, it just needs an editorial overhaul. I can do that--but that takes me out as a reviewer of course. Let me know. Drmies (talk) 17:42, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

@Drmies: If you're willing to do that then feel free. Given that this will turn two months old in less than two weeks, I could request for a review at WT:DYK if an expedited review is needed. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 22:22, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

@Drmies: Are you still planning on picking this up? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 01:56, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

User:Narutolovehinata5, check the article history. Drmies (talk) 13:41, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: It was moderately amusing to imagine Jimbo as Jimbo. Article's structure is a bit unusual and I think it plays a little fast-and-loose with wikivoice, but I don't find those to be disqualifying in it running. On the hook, I would recommend this meshing:

ALT1a: ... that Nobuhiko Jimbo saved future-Philippine president Manuel Roxas (pictured together) from execution during World War II—with Roxas doing the same for Jimbo four years later?

I have next to no experience with image copyright, but the image is on commons, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1brianm7 (talk) 06:59, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

• Blatantly editing something that was archived: User:1brianm7]], thanks for picking that up. User:Narutolovehinata5, I feel like you should give me co-credit for this, haha. Drmies (talk) 16:11, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Feedback from New Page Review process

I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Good job on this DYK candidate--and let's hope I get a crack at reviewing it soon enough!

Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 10:46, 9 October 2025 (UTC)