Talk:April Babaran/@comment-38618903-20190327052754/@comment-3467862-20190328035145

The kana spelling does not correlate with how April would actually spell her name. April is not Japanese, so the kana spelling has nothing to do with how her name would be legally spelled in any of her documents, which would be in English given her birthplace is Hawaii. We won't know the reasoning behind why UF decided to write her name as such in kana, but directly transliterating her name from the kana and saying that would be her legal name would not be correct. If you have further evidence in support of "Babaran" besides just the kana spelling, then I think making the change from "Barbaran" to "Babaran" would be justified. Otherwise, almost every other source I've come across uses "Barbaran" so I don't see reason to change it.