Astolfo said:
Why does Winry Rockbell have a full name but not Paninya_(fma) and why does Paninya have a qualifier but not Winry? What about Kishin Sagume and Junko (Touhou)? Or Kiana Kaslana and Ai-chan (Honkai Impact)? And what about Misaka Mikoto and Index (Toaru Majutsu No Index)? Or Watahashi Yasumi and Sasaki (Suzumiya Haruhi)? Or Edelgard Von Hresvelg and Azura (Fire Emblem)?
... Why does Kaedehara Kazuha have a full name but not Beidou_(Genshin_Impact) and why does Beidou have a qualifier but not Kazuha? It's the same as it's always been, in virtually every franchise. Some characters have full names, and others don't; and when they don't, they often need qualifiers to be unambiguous. If this is something that has become confusing now, then it's confusing everywhere and not just in Genshin Impact. It would make sense to qualify everything in a franchise like Fate or Azur Lane whose characters are largely (or entirely) based on actual shit that exists and can be reused by other franchises, but a completely original thing like Genshin Impact? What makes it so different than pretty much every other copyright on the site where some characters have full names and some have single names? What makes it any more confusing than the rest, that all its characters NEED to be qualified, even as unambiguous as Kaedehara Kazuha or Kamisato Ayaka?
And unlike Jean/Barbara/Mona/etc, with these characters in particular, you play the game, the full name is in your face; you don't play the game and google "genshin [name]", the full name is in your face. Even googling (or bing'ing, as a matter of fact) JUST "kazuha" or "ayaka" without having Genshin there STILL plasters the full name in your face. This is even less a problem when their names are in JP order, since with aliases if you just type "kazuha" you get the proper tag suggested anyway (which wasn't the case for the Mondstadt characters before due to the workings of the autocomplete system and their name being obsure "what the hell is a Barbara Pegg" etc etc).
EXACTLY. I mean, qualifiers were supposed to be used when a character name conflicts with another or sounds ambiguous, which may cause confusion (like how its explained on howto:character, and also how Wikipedia does). However, this changed with gacha games apparently, in which virtually every characters gets qualifier even when it's not needed.
For gacha games like Kantai Collection, Azur Lane, Umamusume, Kemono Friends and the Fate series, its understanble that almost every character will get a qualifier because their names aren't originals, they are based on existing ships/animals/historical and fantasy figures, etc.. But, other games like Arknights and Genshin Impact inherited this approach of naming character tags and every one of them gets qualified even when their entire cast are 100% original characers, with a good number of them having pretty unique names that doesn't sound ambigous or conflict with other tags at all. For these copyrights, qualifiers gained a new use which is to help users to recognize characters specially by how they are referred in their games, as noted in topic #18638. However they are the exception, not the rule to how Danbooru operates when naming character tags. Its like gacha games have a unique naming convention that is different from the rest of the copyrights in Danbooru.
And just because a character has qualifier, it doesn't mean that the rest of the cast should have as well. This approach was used in topic #18239 for Mega Man tags and it just looks disastrous. Tons of character that in more than a decade never needed qualifiers, never conflicted with other tags and never sounded ambiguous just got unnecessary qualifiers because... yes? Seriously, every case should be carefully analyzed. Like how we are doing it right now in this topic and others.
