Artist alias request thread

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@Nameless_Contributor

I recall that about a year ago, you advised me not to "manually merge artists". At that time, I was actually using a bot to do it, so strictly speaking, it wasn't manual, but rather more like the process used by something like DanbooruBot. Still, I followed your advice and stopped doing it.

However, I’ve noticed that you now seem to prefer manually renaming artists, rather than using the "create rename" in this thread. That approach might not be appropriate either, correct?

NekoAria said:

@Nameless_Contributor, I recall that about a year ago, you advised me not to "manually merge artists". At that time, I was actually using a bot to do it, so strictly speaking, it wasn't manual, but rather more like the process used by something like DanbooruBot.

However, I’ve noticed that you now seem to prefer manually renaming artists, rather than using the "create rename" in this thread. That approach might not be appropriate either, correct?

I only manually rename artists with ambiguous or bad names that were recently created (usually within a day), especially ones that don't have an artist entry yet. Established artist tags that are not ambiguous should be renamed by creating an alias.
When I say "manual" I refer to the act of editing the name of the artist entry and changing the tag on the posts vs creating an alias and have Danbooru handle the renaming that way.

Nameless_Contributor said:

I only manually rename artists with ambiguous or bad names that were recently created (usually within a day), especially ones that don't have an artist entry yet. Established artist tags that are not ambiguous should be renamed by creating an alias.
When I say "manual" I refer to the act of editing the name of the artist entry and changing the tag on the posts vs creating an alias and have Danbooru handle the renaming that way.

However, based on your recent artist rename actions, along with the corresponding post tag modifications, it seems that what you’ve done does not align with the situation you described above:

artist #547770 post #9535296 post #9534901 post #9536079 post #9534834

artist #548171 post #9543061 post #9543079 post #9543046 post #9543054 post #9543049 post #9543035 post #9543008 post #9543039 post #9543025 post #9542996 post #9542990 post #9542983

artist #547946 post #562704 post #562696


The most important thing is that "create rename" perfectly matches the situation of the ambiguous artist name you mentioned above, just like what I did earlier:

rename fujita -> fujita_ichi

Updated by NekoAria