Help talk:Romanization

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"Rules for that language" is very vague. Many languages, like Russian, don't have one accepted standard. Might I suggest?

• For Russian, a good romanisation scheme would be BGN/PCGN. It doesn't require special characters.
• With Mandarin, Hanyu Pinyin is the accepted standard, of course.
• For Cantonese, I think that Jyutping would make a good standard romanisation. It's outmoding Yale on the internet. It also does not require accent marks.

I can go on, really, but I think that other languages besides Japanese should have some sort of "accepted" romanisation scheme here, for consistency's sake. 70.190.49.222 04:48, 25 July 2007 (EDT)

I agree. The only reason that these standards do not exist here is that nobody has suggested a standard yet.

- teknomunk (talk,E,歌) 06:40, 25 July 2007 (EDT)

I reformatted the page, adding a little more text and including the rules for Japanese from a subpage (for which a talk page already existed anyway). This makes it easier to add more languages, and creates a separate discussion page for each language. --Mischko <img src="/images/3/31/Talkicon.png" alt="Talk to me" /> <img src="/images/1/1e/EsperanzaIcon.png" alt="Esperanza Member" /> 09:29, 25 July 2007 (EDT)

[edit] Stubs and Policy

Policy pages should not be stubs at all. I suggest making this a guideline until it's no longer a stub. Thunderhead 01:15, 10 August 2007 (EDT)

I marked it stub because there is only one language yet. But the rules for that language (Japanese) seem quite complete, and since there is currently a big ongoing project to romanize Japanese lyrics, I see no objection to make them policy yet. The stub tag is more to encourage people to suggest rules for their own language. --Mischko <img src="/images/3/31/Talkicon.png" alt="Talk to me" /> <img src="/images/1/1e/EsperanzaIcon.png" alt="Esperanza Member" /> 03:34, 10 August 2007 (EDT)