Editor Log: February 2003 (idea)

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• if() by lordsibn. Incoherent and poorly named; Noung's if explains the idea much better.
• Jesus Saves by kingtiger_paul. Atrocious spelling and formatting (or lack thereof).
• shojo by -brazil-, Starrynight. Superseded.
• WCW by Rimrod, Grum. Duplicates of content in World Championship Wrestling; nodeshell firmlinked.
• People throw writing utensils at me. by kerisu. Nukes, too.
• Codex of Ultimate Wisdom by Dystopian Autocrat. Nnnope.
• The Kallikak Family (2) by discofever. Verbatim content: "kill me thx".
• Hokusai by fatboyrafe. Superseded by the better named Katsushika Hokusai.
• Crystal Palace by Zarmvenius. Superseded.

• Major fixes to the Chinese bits of Using Unicode on E2 by tres equis
• Nodes under Japanese confectionery and Unusual Japanese foods by yours truly now include kanji, and long vowels fixed too (see below)
• Hong Kong, Macau, Shanghai by DMan now include hanzi
• papads, papadum, papadom, poppadam softlinked to poppadom, henceforth the One True E2 Spelling of this word
• sushi train by simonc. Fixed link to kaitenzushi.

• t.A.T.u.

Since e2bakufu policy says that long vowels in Japanese should be omitted in node titles, the following nodes have been renamed and are having their content whipped into shape as we speak:

• shounen -> shonen (currently a nodeshell)
• shounen manga -> shonen manga
• shoujo -> shojo (exists, consolidate)
• mahou shoujo -> maho shojo
• Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (nodeshell) -> Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon

The most important thing about node titles is that they are easy to search. Long vowels in Japanese are a hairy issue, and it is simply not reasonable to expect that the average E2 user be able to spell them 'correctly', especially when kana, kunrei and Hepburn romanization are at odds about whether the 'correct' spelling of the capital of Japan is Toukyou, Tookyoo or Tōkyō. The answer is, of course, none of these: the real spelling is 東京, but how is a user supposed to enter that!?

The only rational solution is to ignore long vowels.

For writeup content, however, I am very much in favor of indicating long vowels. I think that macrons (ō) or circumflexes (ô) are the best way of doing this, for reasons outlined in long vowels in Japanese, but this is another cup of tea.