User talk:Abcboy/Archive 3: Difference between revisions
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By the way, much of the relevant text in Bulbapedia's MOS (related to romanizing Japanese words, Japanese naming order, etc.) appears to have been directly copy-pasted from an old version of English Wikipedia's MOS, which was drafted by a random selection of Wikipedia editors and sees frequent changes by the same editors (including myself, under my Wikipedia username). [[User:Satorukun0530|Satorukun0530]] ([[User talk:Satorukun0530|talk]]) 11:52, 30 December 2016 (UTC) | By the way, much of the relevant text in Bulbapedia's MOS (related to romanizing Japanese words, Japanese naming order, etc.) appears to have been directly copy-pasted from an old version of English Wikipedia's MOS, which was drafted by a random selection of Wikipedia editors and sees frequent changes by the same editors (including myself, under my Wikipedia username). [[User:Satorukun0530|Satorukun0530]] ([[User talk:Satorukun0530|talk]]) 11:52, 30 December 2016 (UTC) | ||
I should also specify that the reason I came across the page in the first place was because I was trying to figure out why Bulbapedia uses non-systematic romanization in some cases (names of Pokemon), in some cases uses standard Hepburn (most other instances where Japanese text is present), and in some places uses (Wikipedia-based) formatting for Japanese text followed by what should be a romanization but is actually a translation (see, for instance, the page on [[みねうち]]). I find it somewhat odd that our MOS ''doesn't'' clarify whether this last category is just an error to be rectified; it probably should, but I already knew it probably wasn't my place to add that to the MOS page directly without some form of discussion first. [[User:Satorukun0530|Satorukun0530]] ([[User talk:Satorukun0530|talk]]) 12:11, 30 December 2016 (UTC) | |||
