Talk:Yuu (disambiguation)

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I don't know what to do here. We already have one of Yuu's dubbed as Yu, which explicitly means we have to use Hepburn for him, however we usually wāpuro redirects for characters with macrons in their names, like "Shin'ichirou Jousaki" redirects to "Shin'ichirou Jōsaki", but "Yuu" is not used by any official source, rendering this page useless or pointless with this name. So I've thought of two options: The first option would be "harder to check" according to KrytenKoro, but I don't see how, as we have Weblio with their list of romanizations, which I don't know if will have much use, because every word with "ou" that I tried gave me "ō", which makes me question how does this "case by case" work or how many cases are there. I only know about the cases where the "u" is not the same kanji as the "o". Plus, it's not like wāpuro was ever intended for romanization.
 * 1) Changing our policy to Hepburn rōmaji.
 * 2) Using the same romanization for characters with same name.
 * The second option, however, would work even if we keep wāpuro, because, the characters have the same name, thus they would obviously be romanized the same. I mean, it's not like the franchise is full "s", so we won't have to worry about untraditional romanizations. The only problem would be for situations such as the difference between "Alice" and "Arisu", which are different names but are pronounced the same in Japanese, but as long as they don't use "アリス" for a half-Japanese, half-Western-country-that-uses-Alice-as-a-name, we'll probably not have any problem with that.
 * Also, about the wāpuro redirects, should we change them for the unmacroned forms, like, using "Josaki" instead of "Jousaki" in them? I mean, the existence of the extra "u" is not obvious for those who don't know Japanese. 19:19, October 29, 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't like moving from wapuro.


 * I don't see what the problem is with this page. Yuu is still a valid romanization of ユウ, so having a disambiguation isn't exactly a hardship or incorrect. Lanate (talk) 19:33, October 29, 2012 (UTC)
 * The problem is that Yū Inui's dub name, Yu, explicitly puts his name in Hepburn, so the extra u is not obvious for casual readers with no knowledge of Japanese, so using "Yuu" for him would puzzle most people. That's the hardship I'm referring to. 19:41, October 29, 2012 (UTC)
 * A few things:


 * It's harder to check in that weblio doesn't list every word, and it's still an additional step above just typing it out. Still, it's doable.
 * ユウ to "Yu" is actually not normal Hepburn either; it's an Anglicized, informal form of Hepburn, as with "Tokyo" instead of "Tookyoo" or "Tohkyoh" or even "Toukyou". This method is basically impossible to check online, since it's completely based on tradition and cultural interplay, not dictionaries.
 * The whole point of disambiguations and redirects is to help readers searching for one term to clarify their results. We can't expect the readers to be familiar with an exact romanization revealed in episode 76-ish on a statue...a good portion of them will just type in the wapuro, or even whatever other people spell the name as on the internet. If it's not a ridiculous potential search term (something like "Jerkeru" for T.K.), then it's totally acceptable and in fact effective to have diambigs for multiple romanization methods.
 * As for character names and page titles, my personal preference is to use wapuro unless otherwise specified (like Kouji to Koji, etc.). 23:56, October 29, 2012 (UTC)
 * The whole point of disambiguations and redirects is to help readers searching for one term to clarify their results. We can't expect the readers to be familiar with an exact romanization revealed in episode 76-ish on a statue...a good portion of them will just type in the wapuro, or even whatever other people spell the name as on the internet. If it's not a ridiculous potential search term (something like "Jerkeru" for T.K.), then it's totally acceptable and in fact effective to have diambigs for multiple romanization methods.
 * As for character names and page titles, my personal preference is to use wapuro unless otherwise specified (like Kouji to Koji, etc.). 23:56, October 29, 2012 (UTC)