Board Thread:Editor Board/@comment-6697950-20140507161011

Some names/terms in Japanese have long vowels, which are expressed by repeating the same vowel twice. In romaji, this is expressed either by doubling the vowel as well (e.g. Yuuki), or using a vowel with a diacritic (e.g. Yūki). The question is, which version should we use on articles?

Also, if we choose to use double vowels, should we leave the Nihongo version with the diacritics, seeing as it should be a more formal romanisation?

Notes:


 * For article names, we should use the double vowel in any case to make the page easier to find. Basically, this thread is about non-title romanisation instances.


 * If an official romanisation is given for a name (e.g. Yuuki was written like that in the Latin alphabet in the book), we're going to use the official version either way. 