Talk:May'n

Could we move to "May'n"?
Dear contributors,

I'm wondering if we could move "May Nakabayashi" to "May'n". (Of course, "May Nakabayashi" would become a redirection to "May'n" in that case.) My reasons are the following:


 * May'n is mostly known as "May'n" at least in Japan nowadays.
 * She is credited as "May'n" or "Sheryl Nome starring May'n" on CDs and DVDs. No "May Nakabayashi" is mentioned at all these days.
 * She calls herself "May'n" these days. For example, she often says "I'm May'n! (May'n desu!)" on stage.  She almost never mentions "May Nakabayashi".

Therefore, I think it's beneficial to most people to title the main page as "May'n" (pun intended :-).

Is it Okay for me to move the page? What do you think?

(In the following, I try to sign by using four tildes. But, I'm not sure how that's converted to my name.  So, just in case, my username is Ryofurue.)

Cheers, Ryo Ryofurue (talk) 01:03, 16 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose for now. I have two concerns. One, reliable sources should indicate that May'n is the prevailing name. Two, that the change will not necessitate disambiguation. – Allen4names 19:21, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

 Could you elaborate on "necessitate disambiguation"? Presently, there is no entry titled "May'n". Therefore, there won't be any disambiguation, whether the main entry is "May'n" or "May Nakabayashi". . . . Or am I missing something? I'm quite new to Wikipedia and so please be gentle on me :-) I'm not quite sure, actually, what is wrong with disambiguation . . . After all, the Beatles has to be disambiguated.  What kind of sources do you think we need to indicate that that "May'n" is the prevailing name?  For example, CDs and DVDs released after May'n's involvement in Macross Frontier (2008) mention "May'n" but absolutely no "May Nakabayashi"; her theme songs for games and movies credit "May'n" not "May Nakabayashi"; her official website (managed by her agency) talks exclusively about "May'n" and her official blog (managed by herself), too; when concerts include her performances, "May'n" is invariably announced in official publicity these three years; in interviews and news articles, "May'n" is prevalent; sample blog postings by fans and you'll find 80--90% of them (my very inaccurate estimate) include only "May'n" or "Bucho" but not "May Nakabayashi";. . . . or what other information? In fact, evidence is overwhelming (i) that "May'n" is the prevalent name and (ii) that May'n and her agency want fans to know her by that name. Since this is an encyclopedia, we may not need to heed point (ii), but we should also honor their policy if doing so doesn't do harm. But you say we need sources. What kind of information counts as source?  
 * Thank you for your response! I was really wondering whether anybody is reading this discussion.
 * By the way, thank you for your help in Wikipedia formatting and other stuff! I greatly appreciate it; I'm trying to learn from your edits.
 * Regards, Ryofurue (talk) 10:44, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I found two sources (see above) that support the move but I am still concerned about inadequate precision leading to the need to disambiguate. That said I no longer oppose the move. P.S. You may want to read Help:Wiki markup. – Allen4names 17:03, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

I noticed that the picture of May'n and Nakajima Megumi are wrong, or should I say the other way around so I've changed them around, but I can't change the file names, so it's just a little switch between the 2 links — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.255.1.171 (talk) 08:41, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

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