Talk:Gen Hoshino

Requested move 7 June 2019

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The result of the move request was: no consensus. Editors are split between using the musician's self-identified name (per WP:JTITLE) and using the musician's common name from reliable English-language sources. (non-admin closure) —  Newslinger  talk   23:14, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Gen Hoshino → Hoshino Gen – English Wikipedia's current policy on Japanese names is to "Use the form personally or professionally used by the person, if available in the English/Latin alphabet".

His name is very consistently officially romanized as "Hoshino Gen". It is written in this order on the front of all of his solo music releases and in all of the images on his website on which his name is written in Roman characters.

There are exceptions: his record label's page for him has one use of "Gen Hoshino" and this also tends to be used to title videos on his YouTube channel. I feel that what is on the covers of the music releases and actually in the videos (which cannot easily be changed retrospectively and is more likely to be personally supervised by him) carries more weight than these two cases (which could easily be changed as they are in the form of text rather than bitmap images and are more likely to be made by label staff without consulting him).

See this discussion explaining the justification for titling Utada Hikaru with the family name first for a similar case. Tempjrds (talk) 07:19, 7 June 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. —  Newslinger  talk   06:12, 24 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Support Rreagan007 (talk) 21:51, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose - That would mean musicians who are also voice actors or actors should be renamed to surname first (e.g. Nakajima Megumi, Mizuki Nana, Kurata Tetsuo, Matsuoka Mitsuru, and the like). 111.68.115.165 (talk) 02:54, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose - the WP:COMMONNAME in English reliable sources seems to be per the status quo. For example: I don't see a good reason to go against the way he's referred to in sources.  &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 13:28, 8 July 2019 (UTC)


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