Talk:Mie Prefecture

Mie Guide article ratings and recommendations

In importing every single one of these I've ended up reading pretty much all of them and now have a good idea of the strong points and weak points of each individual article. I'll list them all here and note what I feel could be added to each article

Asahi

Good

For a town so small, this article has an impressive amount of info (added recently apparently). I'm guessing detailed directions aren't so critical in Asahi as it's so small it'd be hard to get lost but a few things could use a map or better directions (primarily the local restaurants). But other than that, other than additional listings or details, this article is looking pretty good and every section is filled out.

Iga

Decent

Has one of the more unique tones of the guidebook articles and, other than services, covers all the bases.

The Attractions section is good and is very thorough (except Tenjin Matsuri). Services are next-to-nonexistant. A few more listings in food could be helpful, as the Aoyama subsection has more local restaurants listed than the main Ueno section - I know there has to be more places in Ueno.

Inabe

Very good

An impressive amount of content for a town with only one JET. This one was harder to import as it was just a giant block of prose that had to sectioned off and so as a result the tone radically changes throughout the article. Covers all the bases though, and pretty well it seems. The directions mostly seem to originate from the person's apartment and that could stand a change but other than that this article is in good condition.

Ise

King of the guidebook

At a whopping 42,000 characters of text, the Ise article dwarfs all others, it is 150% the length of the second-longest article (Tsu) and way more than double the length of number 3 (Yokkaichi). I take some pride in this as I personally wrote about half of it (back in 2007...) and the other half was already in place and was written around the time the website first showed up in 2004 or 2005. It also appears Ashely has done some editing as well last year.

However, with such a long article, there is more to look after. Most of the stuff comprised the original guidebook entry (circa 2004-2005) makes Ise sound interesting but is very poor at offering actual information. Most of these articles read: "It's the best in town. All the Ise JETs go here all the time (and you should to). It's a five-minute walk from your apartment". In other words, it's full of entries with terrible directions and outdated claims. In 2007 I'd not heard of many of the places in the article and so added a ton myself. The stuf I knew didn't exist anymore I removed but left most of the the stuff I hadn't heard of figuring somebody else must know of it - however now 3 years have passed and it seems there are some places that really could stand to be removed from the Ise guide.

It is in bad need of good directions...or better yet, just a bunch of google maps for the many minor stores/eateries listed with a few of the major places like LaLa Park warranting its own article.

Apologies for the extra long "rating", I have much more invested in this article than the others and so know it better (and what it needs).