Talk:Yuji Hori

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 * Yuji Horî &rarr; Yuji Horii
 * Yuji Hori &rarr; Yuji Horii
 * Yuzi Horî &rarr; Yuji Horii
 * Yuzi Horii &rarr; Yuji Horii
 * Yuzi Hori &rarr; Yuji Horii
 * Horî Yuzi &rarr; Yuji Horii
 * Horii Yuzi &rarr; Yuji Horii
 * Hori Yuzi &rarr; Yuji Horii
 * Horî Yuji &rarr; Yuji Horii
 * Hori Yuji &rarr; Yuji Horii
 * These are all not used at all and unnecessary. Common practice for a non-special-case Japanese name is to have at most one redirect. Also there are some spelling errors: if used, &icirc; should be used in conjunction with &ucirc; in this case, however Wikipedia's manual of style does not allow diacritical marks for Japanese article titles. —Tokek 02:11, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Not only that, but the circumflex is really not correct anyway; it really should be a macron mark (like Ō and Ū) (you see circumflexes in some older books, because they used the closest diacritical mark the printer had available). But now I'm really confused, because Japanese doesn't (as far as I know) use a long I anyway! Anyway, the reason the style guide says not to use them was, in part, because macrons weren't part of the Latin-1 character set that article titles on the English Wikipedia used to be limited to. (Plus to which only people who know a fair amount about Japanese know about them anyway...) Noel (talk) 06:52, 22 July 2005 (UTC) Oh, now I get it - they're using ī (sort of) instead of ii. That's actually not standard Romanization - the ii is standard. Noel (talk) 06:56, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Usage of a macron, circumflex, or neither does not automatically make a romanization non-standard because there are official romaji standards that does each of them. To use diacritics in this name and not use it over "u" would be incorrect. In either case, these are non-useful redirects with non-common romanizations which don't fit the current manual of style guidelines. —Tokek 07:18, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * There may be standards that use them, but I don't recall having seen a recent book which uses them (I have a large library of books on various Japanese topics); basically everything seems to use the macron now. Certainly all academic publications do. But my comment was not intended to be a statement pro/con keeping any of these, just an observation. Noel (talk) 13:42, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The circumflex is used in a few systems of romaji, and I have seen them used very, very occasionally in books on Japanese topics. It is more common to see them used on pre-unicode webpages as substitutes for macrons. Where you see them used most often in print is with manga translations. If you'll look at redirects, you will probably find a large number of these oddball romanizations because there was an editor who was adding redirects for EVERY form of romaji for a large number of Japanese-related articles. Blank Verse   &empty;  13:18, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I kept two, because they did score a modest number of web hits:
 * about 371 for "Yuji Hori"
 * about 144 for "Hori Yuji"
 * since there's evidence these variants are in use, I'm going to keep these two. Noel (talk) 02:58, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Yuji Hori is a different person
This is a wrong redirect, Yuji Hori is a different person. JoshuSasori (talk) 09:30, 17 August 2012 (UTC)