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I wonder if it's possible to disabling the artist tag creator from fetching Artist's Pixiv / Twitter handle as the "default" names? Almost all of the BUR in artist renaming thread is a results of these artist tags being created by someone who just took that handle name as default without even checking if it's actually the name the artist is using or not. Like, who thought that someone used the name "5zwe6suoosagodd" as their pen name?
People are lazy fucks but also sometimes the twitter username is more accurate than you might think. Same with pixiv staccs. Overall I'd say the ratio of nonsense keysmash twitter handles / amount of artists we have named user_abcd1234 isn't worth throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
This won't make people smarter about the name choices, they will just plug it into Google Translate (cough, I've had to downvote several of your artist BURs under this suspicion) or pick out some username that's added when the entry is prepopulated given the source the post comes from (e.g. Twitter username or the stacc).
It's sincerely not as big a deal as you might think. A bad artist name can be fixed by people who care and it's better to have a tag than none at all. There is still some link to the artist this way via a username that they use and that is typically good enough, though the preference is either to have the most common identity across platforms and/or a preferred romanisation if available.
You do have to understand at some point that the majority of Danbooru's userbase does not fervently care for maintaining the archive as much as you do, and even that has layers to how much people care - some for everything, some for just enough, most don't care at all. If Danbooru users won't do something as simple as apply commentary tags, why would you ever expect them to care about using the right artist name?
There's a reason why I'm okay with mass approving artist requests almost daily. Even then, it's tiring to verify - some of them I can't and defer either to other builders or whatever evazion thinks, sometimes people don't put in basic effort to explain connections or follow up when I ask for clarification (really does give you a feel for how it must be like to be an admin approving BURs for other categories of tags).
It's much more convenient to me as a regular artist alias approver/creator if people create the artist tag at all and then get it fixed later than it is to expect a cultural shift in how artist tags are made and risk people just misidentifying, not creating tags at all or even bungling artists together.
