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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue IV (September 2006)

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Cardcaptor Sakura links

I supose it is for the best, to be honest my audit on the links went under heavy critism. The big problem i see with the CCS\CC set of articles is that thanks to numrous factors, there are many flamers out there would love to bias the article and with Wikipedia in such a state it could repesent critical damage to the community. -Dynamo_ace Talk

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue V - October 2006

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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter: Issue VI - November 2006

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My- cats

Ganryuu, that's a much better name than what I came up with, but a word of advice: when you want to redirect categories, you need to quote the category name or else the redirect will appear in the new category: that is, you should do #REDIRECT[[:Category:My-HiME Project]] (note the colon before Category; if you want to quote images or categories and not transclude them, the leading colon is how you do it). --Gwern (contribs) 16:39 6 December 2006 (GMT)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter: Issue VII - December 2006

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Barnsensu

		WikiProject Japan Barnsensu Award
		I hereby award this Barnsensu to you, Ganryuu, for all the cleanup and expansion work you've been doing to help improve the Japan-related articles here on Wikipedia. You're a great asset to WikiProject Japan, and I want you to know you are appreciated. Thank you for all your efforts!

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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter: Issue VII - December 2006

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Thank you!

Use been editing the Kara no Kyoukai article very much. Thanks for your help it looks really good now. -- Psi edit 11:45, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

re: Romanization of Eiji Nakata's name

Strongly disagree. Sunrise and BONES sites have his romanized name consistently written out as "Eiji Nakada":

• Official Eureka Seven "animation" page (click on "6. STAFF" in lower-left)
• Official CODE GEASS staff page (name also seen on the main page and pizzahut.jp's promotion page)

This wouldn't be an isolated incident; for precedent in Japanese artists deliberately altering romanizations of their name, see also Kunio Okawara, Range Murata and Yasuhiro Nightow.

Oddly, Anime News Network has him listed as both "Nakada" (for Argento Soma) and "Nakata" (for a few other things). So I can certainly see where the confusion began!

(As an aside, I was hoping the guy's site would drive the final nail into this coffin—but it hasn't been updated since early '99 and there's no romanization of his name anywhere. He was known by the alias "DEN," though. Heh.) --E. Megas 20:02, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

No, these aren't just "one or two particular websites;" these are sites owned by entities who employ this particular individual. As Nakada's own site has gone unused since 1999, any form of expression that this person might have is directly through these entities.

Sunrise, as a company (of which BONES is a subsidiary) is particularly picky about specific romanizations—both of their anime characters and of their employees (as of at least the late 1990s). They usually pay extremely close attention to English names; for example, it's the reason you see "Amuro Ray" as that Mobile Suit Gundam character's romanized name and not "Amuro Rei" (literal of katakana アムロ・レイ). So when a specific employee's name is romanized in a specific way, it typically bears paying attention to.

My issue here isn't just concern for proper representation, but taking into account the way the individual chooses to be represented. If the individual himself had no preference but to use his own kanji, then certainly, I'd go with the Hepburn; however, the fact that Sunrise and BONES are both using a romanization that varies from the Hepburn calls the order of priority into question.

The closest I can get to this reasoning is through WP:MOS-JA, section 4.1 item 7: "Names should be romanized according to common usage [...] which includes unconventional romanizations by licensees." (Emphasis mine.) The question here is, can individuals determine "common usage" of their own names? Or are they not to be trusted? Because if they aren't, I'm afraid several controversial move requests are going to have to be made... --E. Megas 00:43, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm...I see. I was confused as to what you were actually referring. Sorry for the excess verbiage!

So, basically, it comes down to proving which way the man chooses to write out his own name in hiragana or romaji. Any other source or entity would not prove sufficient, correct?

Just want to make certain that this is what's being asked for, here. --E. Megas 09:02, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Just to warn you: romanizations in merchandise are typically not controlled by Sunrise. This is something I had to learn the hard way while researching for The King of Braves GaoGaiGar. I've had a few sources separated from Sunrise which conflicted with what was actually coming from Sunrise itself. Heck, some outside sources have contradicted each other—

Please let me confirm: what's needed to resolve this issue is proof positive that the individual writes his own name in hiragana or romaji a certain way, right? Not to be insistent, but I need to make sure we're on the same page here. --E. Megas 15:51, 21 January 2007 (UTC)