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Jpatokal (
talk) 23:04, 14 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Words spelled with the Japanese full stop (。) should not be spelled with the English period (.) in running text or titles. Does this apply to infobox titles as well? Lunar-akauntoï¼
talk 17:22, 11 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Typographic symbols in rÅmaji
Do we retain typographic symbols like『ã€when transliterating?
For example, for TVアニメ『SPY×FAMILYã€Terebi Anime『SPY×FAMILYã€or Terebi Anime SPY×FAMILY? Or do we just convert them like Terebi Anime "SPY×FAMILY"? Either way, this is something that should be clarified in the template. Lunar-akauntoï¼
talk 15:47, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Certainly the kagi-kakko should be avoided. If they are considered decorative, they should be excluded completely per
MOS:TITLE#Typographic effects and
WP:MOS-JP#Article titles. Quotation marks might be acceptable but I don't think they are doing anything here. The implication is that this phrase means "the TV anime called Spy×Family", not that scare quotes are being applied to part of the title.
Dekimasuよ! 16:58, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply
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Dekimasu: I think you misunderstood. I'm not talking about when they're in lead; we'll definitely omit them if an English title is not available and the rÅmaji is in lead, but what about when an English title is available and the rÅmaji is in parenthesis?
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Imaginatorium: whaa– are you asking why to romanise the soundtrack name? Well, because the original title was in Japanese, we're using the english title in the lead but it doesn't hurt to mention the original with rÅmaji. More importantly, spy family was just an example here. Let me rephrase: say we have æŒã€œæŒã€œ, surely we will alter the symbols when writing in English as "Song (Song)" or "Song: Song" but what about rÅmaji? what do we prefer: Song: Song (æŒã€œæŒã€œ, Uta〜Uta〜) or Song: Song (æŒã€œæŒã€œ, Uta (Uta))? Lunar-akauntoï¼
talk 07:49, 15 June 2024 (UTC)reply
One more thing. Unrelated to this, but a while ago i added this lit. translation to the article
Frieren. I'm still not very fluent and would be roughly near N3. If possible, would you be able to check it for any errors? Lunar-akauntoï¼
talk 07:53, 15 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Oh, and about the change to the template, i have added it as a separate point, as you mentioned in the edit summary. If it's still not very legible, could you maybe try to reword or place it where appropriate rather than revert it? This is my first time editing a template, but I'm sure that it's not a trivial addition to the template and would be helpful. Lunar-akauntoï¼
talk 05:26, 14 June 2024 (UTC)reply