Template talk:Female Prisoner Scorpion

Why the move?

The name of the template is not user-visible so there wasn't any point in moving this. JoshuSasori (talk) 02:48, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Was there any particular point in moving it back? In what sense was the move "extremely silly"? (I quote your summary.) -- Hoary (talk) 01:10, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hoary, it is extremely silly because it means using the template requires typing in a character which is not on anyone's keyboard (it is not even on a Japanese keyboard), and the reader of Wikipedia cannot even see the macron anyway, so it serves no purpose except to make it harder to include the template in pages. JoshuSasori (talk) 01:16, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, all right: true, the reader of WP can't see it, so it might as well be titled "Joshuu Sasori" or "Zyosyuu Sasori" or for that matter "You ought to rent these, they're great" or whatever. But do try to avoid calling people's moves or other edits "extremely silly": being accused of extreme silliness makes me chuckle, but there are an alarming number of solemn and pompous types who'd have a major conniption fit if so charged. -- Hoary (talk) 10:06, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It would be great if you would reply to the original query above six months ago. JoshuSasori (talk) 10:45, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What, now? (I didn't do so earlier, as I didn't notice it. Perhaps I have too many pages on my watchlist.) The term is ジョシュウ サソリ. In modified Hepburn, which I happen not to like but which is used in this website, this is rendered as "Joshū Sasori". Anyway, this is the title of the article. It's normal for templates to be named with the same spelling as that used in the article: see for example the pair J. M. G. Le Clézio and Template:Works by J. M. G. Le Clézio. If named Template:Joshū Sasori, this template can more be simply found by any bot or similar asked to find a template whose name includes the string that makes up the title of the article; as for the additional irritation of having to type in "ū" as opposed to "u", this seemed/seems trivial to me. -- Hoary (talk) 12:10, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]