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Move article to Dance Drill

My plan is to move this article to Dance Drill. If there are any objections over this move, please voice it here. Otherwise, I'll be moving this article some this week.

The reason for the move is that ダンドリ is actually katakana for "Dance Drill", an English loanword. Most people are probably looking at the graphic on the article page and are thinking that "Dandori~Dance*Drill" is the entire name, when in fact the creator of that graphic applied both the katakana and the English loanword associated with the katakana.

To keep in line with the DramaWiki romanization guidelines, DramaWiki does not romanize katakana, but rather it uses the original loanword when creating article names. Groink 16:40, 31 Jul 2006 (EDT) *bump*

Went ahead with the move. There were enough people who read this and didn't reply. Groink 03:37, 1 Aug 2006 (EDT)

This is a more complicated issue. The intended meaning of the katakana is a shortened word (dandori) created from Dance Drill, which is intended to mean "Dance Drill." Personally, I don't think a native English speaking person (I'm not a native English speaker just FYI) would know that Dandori means Dance Drill. This makes more sense to Japanese people. So the katakana is actually for a word that is not borrowed from the English language, since I don't think English would use Dandori as a shortened form of Dance drill

Anyway, I didn't write this to voice my disapproval but just to point out that if you go with what Groink has said, and if the title of the article is Dance Drill (which is supposed to be the romanized form), shouldn't "Title (romaji):" be Dance Drill as well instead of Dandori? Analoguedragon 05:16, 31 Dec 2006 (CST)