What is "Yomi name"?

I for one make use of the Yomi quite often.  (UI Language: English US).

I know plenty of Japanese people, and when addressing mail and documents, it's nice to actually be able to spell their name. 

I used to use the field backwards:

 First Name: Hiroshi 

 First Name Reading: 宏

Though, now that I'm more comfortable recognising people's names, I have it now the Proper way, but with reading latinized: 

 First Name: 宏

 First Name Reading: Hiroshi

(the "expected" value would be "ひろし")

But then, I also do the the same with Chinese.  Placing their name (in foreign script) in the field, and set the reading in Pinyin, and the name they go by in English under Nickname

 First Name: 李安

 First Name Reading: Lǐ Ān

 Nickname: Leon

People have to remember that many people do have international contacts, and being able to not compromise a hack to enter Contact Information (such as mis-using fields, or just throwing multiple values into "first name") is very very nice.

This is one thing that I wish Google products were able to do more easily, but their world is very English Centric, and other cultures need to wedge into their developer's world; as opposed to Microsoft which used to very heavily take local standards into account, and make them available worldwide, Because if I move to a country, I still would want to use a English Interface and application, but be able to enter all the fields needed to efficiently work in that region (Such as having the Japanese specific fields available in English). 

I've seen the gamut go by.  First, the fields were provided untranslated.  Good that it's exposed, as if you know what it is, you can use it.  But looked bad.    Then, they translated it.    But unfortunately now, they are going back to the "one format for all" which is admittedly easier on a software coding level, but does do away with all the very detailed regional formats that used to be readily accessible (but a stupidly long list), in favor of "It more or less works."   (Ie: Now one needs to use "Middle Name" rather than "Otchestvo" (Patronym) when entering Russian names.

Has anyone considered having options that we can add as we need them?  Much like another MICROSOFT program, MicroSoft Word or Excel...I can add or remove any feature from the ribbon at the top.  Why not utilize something of that nature for fields in any program?  It would be nice, for example to remove the "State" feature and add another field when adding a non-US contact.  Set a default "contact" look and then have the ability to change it if necessary.  

And it was my understanding that Microsoft sought to be user-friendly so as to be able to compete with Apple.  Being user-friendly not only means great customer service, but giving the customer what is needed, and hiding what is not.

Oh for goodness sake!  This yomi business is simply nonsense.  (Even as I write this text in the reply box the word "yomi" has a red squiggly line under it indicating the Microsoft's own spell check doesn't recognize it!)  I too queried the term after bringing up HELP from being in my Contacts, "People " page and it wasn't even recognized.  For all of us, Japanese extraction included, who live in the grand U.S. of A. this term is nothing more than distracting and a waste of programming space.  It needs to be eliminated from the context for users in the U.S.  It's pandering to a teeny weeny minority in the name of foolish diversity.

And changing "Contacts" to "People" is so lacking in descriptive value that it's juvenile.

But, and it is a big but, what about all those who converse regularly with Japanese colleagues?  Are we not worth considering too?

should moderators be polite? 

Of course they should, and I'm full of admiration for those who remain polite and cheerful in the face of some of the abuse thrown at them by frustrated users. I hope you don't think my response to Brian was impolite - forthright, perhaps, but not impolite. I did apologize immediately afterwards for being perhaps less tolerant that I might have been, but the amerigocentricity of Microsoft and many of their customers can become a trifle wearing at times.

Have you experienced impoliteness on the part of moderators here? If so, please give links so we can do whatever's necessary to set matters right.