Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-917693-20130227135343/@comment-3497690-20130316070302

Seeing the majority opinions of everyone else, I think my final verdict is Eastern order for page titles unless the utaite specifically states otherwise in an official document like an album cover, or in a way that can be sourced (for example takaaki natsushiro, whose name is apparently supposed to be romanized that way). Pages for professional singers who are also utaite, like Yumi Matsuzawa and Rekka Katakiri should also have their names romanized in Eastern order, unless again, otherwise stated.

In those cases, I think it would be best to still include their names in Eastern order in the page content to minimize confusion, perhaps in the way I suggested earlier; ie. takaaki natsushiro (夏代孝明, Natsushiro Takaaki). I don't think we need to include Western order on pages with titles or content listing names in Eastern order (like the status quo, for example Swi being "Mizukawa Taichi" can stay the way it is because his YT channel also romanizes his name in Eastern order). As for stuff in the infoboxes, those should also be left in Eastern order, imo.

And if needed, for pages for utaite who romanize their names in Western order we can add a reference (or a note, if the wiki has that function) explaining why it's romanized that way with a source, ie. takaaki natsushiro (夏代孝明, Natsushiro Takaaki). Please forgive me in advance if I break the forums.

If not, (since I'm rereading what I wrote and realizing that I'm making zero percent sense) straight up Eastern order for everything would be fine if just to avoid unnecessary confusion. I'm just really torn between consistency and following utaite's wishes. ;;