User talk:YellowCakeUranium

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I must ask, what is your rationale behind adding romaji entries instead of entries spelled using kanji, kana, etc.? —suzukaze (t・c) 05:54, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Many romaji entries are missing. --YellowCakeUranium (talk) 05:57, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

I suppose that's true, but the romaji entries are largely secondary to kana/kanji entries. If you type the romaji into the search box, the kana/kanji entry is likely to appear. (My point is that it may be more useful to focus on creating those entries instead of romaji entries.) —suzukaze (t・c) 06:30, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

• We don't create romaji entries using spellings like ou and uu, but instead use the forms with a macron (ō, ū). Please see WT:AJA for more. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 02:54, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
  • Should all romaji entries with "ou" and "uu" use "ō" and "ū" instead? Should not "hyou" redirect to "hyō"? --YellowCakeUranium (talk) 02:58, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

    Yes, please use ō, ū, ī, and tch (instead of cch). Currently, we only use a single system of romanisation and forms in other romanisations should not be created. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 03:02, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

    Those pages should be redirected to the URL with the text characters that are not on the English keyboard. How are people going to find out that aichou is equal to aichō only going by the string "aichou"? The Japanese romanization form of "ou" and "uu" instead of "ō" and "ū" is wide-spread throughout the Internet (examples:[1][2]) and people who don't know much about Japanese will miss out on the meaning of their textual string without these redirects. (The more anal we are about this the less motivated I am to work on adding Japanese romanization pages.) --YellowCakeUranium (talk) 04:18, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

• There was an informal discussion about adding this type of romaji a few months back at Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2017/March#Alternative_romanizations_for_Japanese. (I still think they're worth adding, but at the moment, not yet...) —suzukaze (t・c) 04:29, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

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