whats up with blue archive chartags

why are ba chartags formatted as "[first name]_(blue archive)" instead of by their full names? this is probably something thats been brought up a ton of times before but it kinda confuses me. only explanation i can think of is that some characters (like Arona) only have a first name but most characters in other copyrights with full names have them as their tag even if most of the other characters in them don't (think Blue Oak vs Red (Pokemon) for example). what's the deal

See topic #23653 and topic #25567, there has been some talk about reversing those aliases but no one has gotten around to making a BUR about it or anything.

Unbreakable said:

See topic #23653 and topic #25567, there has been some talk about reversing those aliases but no one has gotten around to making a BUR about it or anything.

Probably because no one, myself included, believes they would have any chance of being approved. Evazion and NNT have been pretty adamant about the "first name only" tag names for gacha characters unless the full name is plastered literally everywhere. Just seems like a waste of time to bother.

Also to answer the original question, BA tag names are just general policy for all gacha games. We use the name the game displays front and center, which for most gacha games is just the first name. Some Mihoyo games use full names for some characters because the game actually displays it, instead of being hidden in a character profile "no one will read" as I recall it being put.

Also as mentioned in the threads linked above, BA characters seldom use their full names. For example, there isn't much utility in searching kasumizawa_miyu because few people will remember her family name. It's just easier to type her first name and there's no added benefit to tagging by full name.

I know absolutely nothing about Blue Archive but when it appears in my feed, 80% of the time I see artists write out the characters' full names, even if the source material doesn't always display or refer to them that way. I always thought that this reversal was kind of weird and dumb but that's apparently not a widely shared sentiment.

blindVigil said:

Some Mihoyo games use full names for some characters because the game actually displays it, instead of being hidden in a character profile "no one will read" as I recall it being put.

Basically.

• No tagging upkeep for Benghuai Xueyuan right now but generally follows Honkai Impact 3rd's principle as below.

• Honkai Impact 3rd is sort of a special grandfathered case right now since some characters that don't have a last name remain unambiguous, so the majority of characters are not qualified and use their whole name regardless if it is known (Erdos Helia is not displayed with her last name in-game but that is how her tag is). Though this mostly holds because the majority of characters don't need to be qualified. Usually, if most characters need to be qualified, they all get qualified. The current "policy" for HI3 is to use the character's full name unless they have a codename that is used more (as is the case for Durandal (Honkai Impact)).

• For the last point, see Wuthering Waves qualifying Xiangli Yao (Wuthering Waves) when it previously wasn't.

• Genshin Impact mostly qualifies all the names unless their full name is displayed. Jean (Genshin Impact) is not Jean Gunnhildr, but Kamisato Ayaka remains as so. This is where that idea of displayed name being used became prominent.

• Honkai: Star Rail is in a weird predicament where most names, even unambiguous ones, are qualified while early character tags that aren't ambiguous aren't qualified (see between Jing Yuan and Dan Heng (Honkai: Star Rail)). I don't deal with their tagging anymore so I don't really know what they're up to when they make tags.

• Zenless Zone Zero displays full names at all times. Their policy follows a more consistent format: no qualifier if a last name is provided and it's not ambiguous, qualifier if it's ambiguous or only a single name. Soukaku (Zenless Zone Zero) isn't ambiguous with anything uploaded to Danbooru but is qualified due to a singular name. An attempt to remove the qualifier was rejected.

• Tears of Themis qualified all names.

I will point out, as something that complicates the qualifier discussion, is evazion's opinion of qualifier universalization, which he expressed as far back as the Genshin Impact discourse over qualifiers. That is to say, if the majority of the tags for a given copyright on Danbooru uses qualifiers, then all of them should for consistency purposes, as expressed in forum #180324, forum #185636, forum #188863, and forum #195768. Though he keeps this view nuanced by saying he believes in it in so far as we shouldn't dequalify random characters in gacha games that have like 100+ qualified characters anyway. So you're not going to see him push for Mario and Chen getting qualifiers, and he's questioned qualifying Saber and Archer per forum #179320, because common sense dictates we know what these tags refer to as they aren't ambiguous.