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Artist alias request thread

Posted under General

nth_color said:

Simplifying it, for what purpose? The name that the artist goes by is Sakura, not Sakura Suisaku. You're just making it inaccurate.

Yes the artist goes by Sakura. I saw that was their display name. Their Twitter handle is sakura_suisaku too. That includes sakura already and _suisaku afterwards which acts as a sort of qualifier. Why does Sakura need to be repeated twice in the artist tag? I think it looks unnecessary. sakura_suisaku is a valid name they go by too since Sakura by itself is generic.

When qualifying with a Twitter handle, it should be exactly the Twitter handle, so in this case sakura_(sakura_suisaku) is the artist tag being sakura but qualified with their exact Twitter handle, sakura_suisaku. That's how qualifying by other usernames works, even if words end up repeated. _suisaku isn't a qualifier even by technicality; qualifiers are explicitly text in brackets after a tag name (help:qualifiers).

Changli said:

_suisaku isn't a qualifier even by technicality; qualifiers are explicitly text in brackets after a tag name (help:qualifiers).

I said _suisaku acted as "sort of a qualifier", built-in already. Anyways, if this is how it should be I will not make BURs like this in the future. I am not interested in getting into BUR wars. That's no fun.

Yeah that's what I mean, it doesn't even act as a "sort" of qualifier, it has to be the name and the Twitter handle exactly as is. I don't entirely disagree that it looks unnecessary but we want to make sure we get it accurate more than anything. This is the case for a lot of artists. sasa (sasa ekakiman) is another example that comes to mind.