Splitting mixed artist

I splitted up artist solcha into solcha and hd 1735 since both got mixed up under the same tag. But ideally hd 1735 should be named solcha and solcha should be renamed to meropi (aliased to multiple artists). What would be the correct way to do it?

Are you sure they're separate artists? Looking at the artist history, this artist tag originally belonged to an "hd 1735" and was renamed because of their Pixiv name (forum #219009). If they're truly different artists then another artist hijacked this tag and it should be reversed and separated properly, or they need to be checked again more thoroughly.

For example: post #6245821 comes from solcha's Twitter but is reposted to MEROPI's Pixiv as post #118435092 (and originally on the Twitter as well).

I'm not really sure, but there are some hints:
- Nearly same name: MEROPI (@hd1735), SOLCHA (@hd_1735)
- Same software: Celsys Studio Tool (extracted from PNG Metadata of multiple images from "both")
- post #6245821 (jpg) and post #8499550 (png)

Sadly most of the history is lost (deleted/moved accounts). I would tend that both are the same artist, but i can not prove it.

BUR #52461 has been approved by @WRS.

create alias hd_1735 -> solcha

I'm going to undo your changes through merging these two tags back together. None of those things actually point towards them being different artists, in fact, it gives more credence to them being the same: virtually everything in their history, links, art style and otherwise show that they're the same but only later separated their male-focused content from their female/other content, ergo, they shouldn't have been split.

If either the artist requests that we keep their profiles separate or there's something more sufficient in the future that reveals that they actually are two different artists that are merely uncanny similar in nearly every way but aren't the same person, this can be revisited.

The bulk update request #52461 (forum #409595) has been approved by @WRS.

I guess that was my mistake. I was initially quite sure they were two different artists. But when I looked at the links more closely, I started to have initial doubts (1735). I also think it's best to put it back the way it was. Sorry for the inconvenience.

No worries, just double check that you're sure they should be separated before committing any tag changes or feel free to ask in topic #7713 if you'd like someone else to confirm. There's many people that handle artist tags that would be willing to help out that regularly post in that topic, myself included (although I've taken a break for a month or two after doing a large volume of them in the past).