I'd suggest jiang_shi to match Wikipedia.
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Whatever happened to this? Is the alias broken?
Jiang_shi was actually being used as a character tag apparently, but I'm not sure why. I couldn't find any characters associated with it when I cleaned up the few images that were using it (mostly Miyako Yoshika), not even in jiang_shi+status:deleted.
jxh2154 said:
Don't think it was ever done.Do we have a Chinese romanization policy? I didn't see anything in the Romanization help file. If there's a choice between Cantonese and Mandarin do we favor one?
I'm all for favoring Mandarin Chinese, since Cantonese is considered informal by most people (I am a native Mandarin speaker who grew up in a Cantonese-speaking area). Unless a term originated from and is mostly exclusively used in Cantonese-speaking regions, it should be romanized according to Mandarin conventions.
As for the actual tag, "Jiangshi" is one phrase and is usually spoken without any pause, so aliasing to this tag is a better idea than "jiang_shi", since it's equivalent to the difference between the English "house wife" and "housewife".