User talk:Kyrinth

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I have a problem with the transcriptions of the Thai king names you added. If I understand right you are using a transcription based on the romanization of Pali script. While that is good for getting the pronunciation much better than the RTGS, this romanization is rather uncommon except in very scientific texts. Even David K. Wyatt in his books always used a plain english transcription, and I think we should do the same here as well. The romanization scheme for Thai names was once discussed at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (Thailand-related articles), and though never formally decided the consensus was to use RTGS in most cases, and only for people names deviate from it when the person is better known in a different spelling. Thus said, those Pali transcription are definitely worth adding to the articles on the king, thus e.g. Songtham might start with

King Songtham (full Thai title: สมเด็จพระเจ้าทรงธรรม; RTGS: Somdet Phra Chao Songtham, Pali Droṇdharm)

but all other places still mention him as Songtham. andy 12:24, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese Music Charts

Hi, I'm just writing to you to request your help and assistance in referencing the Japanese Music Charts. Through out alot of popular english songs I have viewed I have noticed that they have been noted as performing well in Japan and have also read that the Japanese music market it very big. But in saying this every song I have seen has not got a Japanese chart position in the charts box. So if you are into music and willing to try and provide information on the Japanese Music Charts it would be greatly appreciated so then wikipedia users can start adding the Japanese chart positions into the chart boxes for popular songs. TeePee-20.7 (talk) 04:43, 21 April 2008 (UTC)