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Artist alias request thread

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Sessyoin_Kiara said:

It should be an alias and their name is 桐咲(きりさき)まこと, Kirisaki Makoto. You should use the artist page to search for usernames.

I think that we rename this artist as "nrtncp" because when you search in search engines like Google for this artist under that name you get quite a few results for his work so this name is really a bit exclusive besides the fact that it is the name username of your Twitter account. But if I put the name that you are telling me in search engines (Kirisaki Makoto), the only thing I get are images of a character from the manga Kuroko no Basuke, making it really difficult for potential fans to discover this artist. Finally, I uploaded an image of this artist from his Twitter account:
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/7228115
If you look carefully, the same artist puts the alias "nrtncp" on the side of the image, so I assume that he wants us to refer to him under that alias, plus I found that same image on Pixiv, therefore not I think the matter is only on his Twitter account. What do you think?

sidbarrett said:
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I think you aren't aware of the guidelines for artist tags (forum #46810). It shouldn't be a rename because it's an unique tag from 2016, old tags are only renamed if they're ambiguous. People might also know the artist by their old username and users might have saved searches with the current tag. An alias can redirect people to the new tag until it's retired.

We favor the artist's most commonly used current name, fans should know it and whatever the tag ends up being named, it'll still be the first search result for "nrtncp danbooru" on Google. You can alias the Twitter username if you want, but I think it's unnecessary and it sets a bad precedent.