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Old Feb 25, 2018, 05:39 AM
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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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Old Feb 25, 2018, 05:44 AM
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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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Old Feb 25, 2018, 05:48 AM
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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
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Old Feb 25, 2018, 06:03 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?

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and I have been hoping we can see change log for artist entries.

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Old Feb 25, 2018, 06:12 AM
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and I have been hoping we can see change log for artist entries.
You can see it just like with albums, Edit -> Show History or click the little arrow at the left of "Edited by".

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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Old Feb 25, 2018, 06:31 AM
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Aha, THE LITTLE ARROW on each artist entry!!
HOW HARD to become aware.

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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.
Then, isn't there no problem with my changes following nextday?

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Apparently the 'Show History' menu was unavailable till yesterday by a code issue.
I reported it and now fixed.

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Old Feb 25, 2018, 06:38 AM
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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.
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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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Old Feb 25, 2018, 07:50 AM
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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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Old Feb 25, 2018, 08:32 AM
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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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Old Feb 25, 2018, 09:16 AM
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I rarely ever see JASCII in the wild these days. I doubt he purposefully avoided it.
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