Thread:Saruhikofushimis/@comment-5785681-20200707001610/@comment-27869316-20200709083937

Could you maybe clarify what you meant with your last message then?? Cause for all intents and purposes it sounded like you were agreeing with what I said but your newest message would suggest otherwise

And I wouldn't say this is mixing usage though? Overall our policies for both media titles and character names is that we go with the officially given romanizations wherever possible, which usually involves dropping the additional o's and u's and then using the longer forms if no official alternative is given.

This is admittedly an uncommon case since most Japanese words don't have an "official" romanized spelling by the government per se hence most words require the extra vowels in their spellings unless its a name or a place; but extremely commonly used words (ie. romaji/konnichiwa/arigato) are exceptions to that. If we were to ignore this and spell it as "Roomaji" by the same virtue we'd have to change the spellings for places such as Tokyo for which the kana actually spells it out as "Toukyou"

-Fox 08:39, July 9, 2020 (UTC)