Wikidata:Requests for comment/"Samurai" vs "Bushi"

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Hi! Not sure if this is how to bring this up or if it's formatted correctly (sorry...), but I've noticed that the English Wikipedia article "Samurai" links to a Japanese article with the same title (Q38142), but these words don't seem to mean the same thing across languages, and the Japanese article corresponding more closely to the English "Samurai" is titled "Bushi" (Q1975935), while "Buke" (Q2927809) is a slightly overlapping topic. The topic covered of the Japanese Q38142 article is covered in brief in the English Q38142, but it is not the main focus, and currently the English entry for Q2927809 redirects to Q38142. Ideally English Wikipedia would not be using the technically incorrect ("slang"?) sense of the word "samurai" but rather would match Japanese usage (I can take or leave having separate pages for buke and bushi, but samurai has a quite different meaning -- I've rarely heard it used in Japan except in translations from English and obvious references to "the European image of Japan"), but this isn't likely to happen any time soon, so for now I kinda think the interwiki links should just be fixed so the "main" article on Japanese Wikipedia (Q1975935) links to the main articles on European language Wikipedias (Q38142). Hijiri88 (talk) 06:14, 10 May 2021 (UTC)