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Before we change all ~200 albums of the artist with R·O·N, what's the source for using this particular name?
Everything I can find uses R・O・N. |
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I don't know who changed it to R·O·N on the display name.
But, we need to keep it (with JP ・) except for search purpose? |
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I think it would be better to keep it the way it's officially written everywhere, don't see a reason to change it unless there's a very compelling source I'm missing.
R・O・N http://stereodive.blog54.fc2.com/ R・O・N http://verygoo.jp/artists/ron.php (see the page code) R・O・N https://twitter.com/ron_rh_sdf_kn EDIT: I can see M・A・O was changed with the same but I wasn't really aware that's a thing we do with artist names, and it's not really consistent: https://vgmdb.net/artist/1719 https://vgmdb.net/artist/5229 https://vgmdb.net/artist/14576 https://vgmdb.net/artist/23085 Last edited by Illidan; Feb 25, 2018 at 05:57 AM. |
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I know. As they are Japanese, it's natural to use it.
It seems somebody who doesn't agree to the opinion changed it and now they confuse. How about deciding in this time which should be put on the display name? == edit: and I have been hoping we can see change log for artist entries. Last edited by whatkind; Feb 25, 2018 at 06:12 AM. |
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Personally I'm fine either way, as long as we're consistent. I'd lean more towards keeping the official way of writing it though. |
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Aha, THE LITTLE ARROW on each artist entry!!
HOW HARD to become aware. Quote:
==== edit: Apparently the 'Show History' menu was unavailable till yesterday by a code issue. I reported it and now fixed. Last edited by whatkind; Mar 1, 2018 at 10:02 PM. |
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I just think we should have a conversation about it before editing hundreds of albums, I was waiting for nextday to reply. I didn't see the original edit when it was made or I would have brought it up back then.
I'm not really aware that's something we do with artist names (or album titles for that matter) and it doesn't really seem to be something official sources tend to do, for example for M・A・O Aniplex uses MAO (http://www.aniplexusa.com/zvezda/) and M・A・O (http://www.durarara2usa.com/character/) and I've seen crunchyroll use all kinds of things like M.A.O or M-A-O, or even one in the title and another in the text http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-new...iki-k-adds-mao Since there isn't really an agreement on what character to "convert" them too, I think it's easier to just keep the official one, so we don't have to change it when copying the credits from official/japanese sources. Last edited by Illidan; Feb 25, 2018 at 06:57 AM. |
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I saw that some entries had · already, so I've been using R·O·N/M·A·O in my submissions because it looks nicer. Katakana middle dots in English text looks ugly (imo)
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I changed it mainly for display purposes. Converting Japanese punctuation to it's western equivalent isn't something new. We do it all the time with question marks, exclamation marks, etc.
There's multiple artists in the db with a Japanese period (。) in their name, but we use a western period (.) in the display name. Same with wave dash (~) being converted to tilde (~). It just makes sense to do things this way. |
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I certainly get the argument, although I'm still personally on the fence since the artist is purposefully avoiding JASCII for the letters but using the kana middle dot so that seems more intentional than a japanese name with a japanese dot.
In any case that's fine by me, as long we as also change the other ones as well so it's actually consistent. |
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I rarely ever see JASCII in the wild these days. I doubt he purposefully avoided it.
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