Confused on how to handle duplicate artist entries/banned artists

Posted under General

Look at the artist IDs & look at the edit history for the artist entries. If entry A has a smaller ID than entry B, entry A is older. If entry B has more edits in its artist history (that aren't just danboorubot or other mass URL normalization updates) while entry A has like one edit total, entry B should be used as the main even though it's technically younger.

I'll agree that this is a little confusing and I don't love the language used on the wiki. If you're not sure which direction the alias should go, just submit both into the artist alias request thread and allow someone else with more experience to approve the appropriate one, and then you can self-reject the other.

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