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No, just no.
There are multiple Neon Genesis Evangelion characters using long vowel spellings. There's the Gendou pose tag using long vowel spelling. There are multiple wiki articles spelling it as "Gendou". A majority of translations here use "Gendou" (and long vowel spellings for other characters).
If we want to change Gendou, then we have to change everything, and then doublecheck all the wikis to make sure everything in order, all just to adhere to so-called "official" spelling. Otherwise just changing Gendou makes it stick out like a sore thumb and introduces inconsistency for people writing wikis and translations.
(This isn't like a single place or organization name, like Gensokyo, which is also often spelled without the long vowels by dedicated fans and translators. Gendo without the 'u' combined with Kouzou with the u's just feels wrong.)
Meanwhile, the spellings used by the fanbase for Neon Genesis Evangelion are over the place, with multiple spellings like Soryu And Sohryu And Sohryuu and Souryuu (we use "Souryuu"). Easiest way is to just stick to Modified Hepburn (our default romanization) with fewest headaches. It also keeps consistency with other Souryuus (same name from other copyrights and real life), making the namesake more apparent.
The change in naming policy is supposed to allow for more 'intuitive' tag names that are more likely to be used by fans, and not for combing-through-every-single-character-name-from-ancient-copyrights just to make sure they stick to whatever "official" spelling (which also have a tendency to change from time to time, like the old Siro for Fate's Shirou).
Generally speaking, sticking to Hepburn also has the advantages for retaining more information (the long vowels), as well being a more intuitive and consistent system for people working from the Japanese source (i.e. translators and people creating new tags/pools/other names). Our Modified Hepburn system should still be the default, and any deviations should only be done for good reason (i.e. nobody else spells it with the long vowels.)
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NNescio said:
No, just no.
There are multiple Neon Genesis Evangelion characters using long vowel spellings. There's the Gendou pose tag using long vowel spelling. There are multiple wiki articles spelling it as "Gendou". A majority of translations here use "Gendou" (and long vowel spellings for other characters).
If we want to change Gendou, then we have to change everything, and then doublecheck all the wikis to make sure everything in order, all just to adhere to so-called "official" spelling. Otherwise just changing Gendou makes it stick out like a sore thumb and introduces inconsistency for people writing wikis and translations.
(This isn't like a single place or organization name, like Gensokyo, which is also often spelled without the long vowels by dedicated fans and translators. Gendo without the 'u' combined with Kouzou with the u's just feels wrong.)
Meanwhile, the spellings used by the fanbase for Neon Genesis Evangelion are over the place, with multiple spellings like Soryu And Sohryu And Sohryuu and Souryuu (we use "Souryuu"). Easiest way is to just stick to Modified Hepburn (our default romanization) with fewest headaches. It also keeps consistency with other Souryuus (same name from other copyrights and real life), making the namesake more apparent.
The change in naming policy is supposed to allow for more 'intuitive' tag names that are more likely to be used by fans, and not for combing-through-every-single-character-name-from-ancient-copyrights just to make sure they stick to whatever "official" spelling (which also have a tendency to change from time to time, like the old Siro for Fate's Shirou).
Generally speaking, sticking to Hepburn also has the advantages for retaining more information (the long vowels), as well being a more intuitive and consistent system for people working from the Japanese source (i.e. translators and people creating new tags/pools/other names). Our Modified Hepburn system should still be the default, and any deviations should only be done for good reason (i.e. nobody else spells it with the long vowels.)
Completely agree with this
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