Talk:Oota Haruka/@comment-5116276-20190404161016/@comment-131168-20190405203245

I think this is a bit more than just looking at URLs. A bit of a can of worms, really. There are a lot of Japanese names that have long vowels that when romanized might be shortened. Like, "oo" or "ou" ending up just "o" is pretty common. Tokyo and Hokkaido might more properly be Tokyou or Hokkaidou. Nakazawa Yuko can also be Yukou, though it looks like for URL purposes they use Yuko. Sudo Maasa can be Sudou, and her profile and blog URLs actually do use the "ou" version--but the graphic header at her blog doesn't. Sato Masaki's profile URL uses masaki_satou.

I think we've by standard gone with short versions for names as that is most common in English (again, see Tokyo or Hokkaido). If someone is definitely using the longer version it's probably not a bad idea to match that, but it's kind of hard to tell when it's intentional or just happenstance, like the inconsistency with Sudo's blog.