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Requested move 3 May 2015

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: No consensus to move. Cúchullain t/c 19:22, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]



Asako TokiToki Asako – Most common Latin-script name is "Toki Asako", printed on all of her albums and singles and on official website. Closeapple (talk) 20:25, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This article was renamed from Toki Asako to Asako Toki by Hatto0467 (talk · contribs) on 2009-04-29; this was probably to follow Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles#Names of modern figures: given name first, family name second. However, the singer's official website http://www.tokiasako.com/ always uses "Toki Asako", and every album and music single also uses the name "Toki Asako". "Toki" appears to be a family name and "Asako" appears to be a given name. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles#Determining common usage says that the most common version in English should be used (primarily related to romanization); and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles#Pseudonyms says that the commonly-used name should be used even if it is in family-name-first order. Also, Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles#Article titles says that the policy WP:UE applies. A Google search for "Toki Asako" has about 114,000 results; "Asako Toki" has 55,800 results, many of which are actually titled "Toki Asako" instead. I assume that, per WP:UE, when one English name is most common and also the one used by the person themselves, that the Wikipedia title should match that version. --Closeapple (talk) 20:25, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]


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