About first name -> full name aliases

99% of the time, these will get rejected. If you want to change an existing character to use their full proper name, just make a request here and I'll change them in the back end. I'm also happy to approve shortcuts (aliases that begin with /).

Can we change Canal from Lost Universe to her full name, Canal Vorfeed? I would also say it should have the alias Vorpheed, since that's another common spelling.

Done, albert just needs to approve the alias.

Slightly off-topic, but should be relevant to this thread: there's a *tag* alias in place making chocho_police -> takara_shinnosuke, but the latter is not shown as an artist tag for some reason, despite being recognized as an alias for chocho_police in the artist section:

http://miezaru.donmai.us/artist/show/8800

Fixed. There's a bug in the artist aliasing system, which makes it not tag the alias tag as artist:, which I think I've reported, but can't check since all the past bugs went the way of dodo. *sigh*

albert said:
If you want to change an existing character to use their full proper name, just make a request here and I'll change them in the back end.

megu -> kakizaki_megu

It seems all of the current images with the "megu" tag are the Rozen Maiden character.

Fixed. Mass-edited, but no alias made.

(I hope it's okay to bump this thread with similar issues...)

This is by no means a big issue, but I wanted to clear this up so I'd know what to do in the future:

http://miezaru.donmai.us/artist/show/4302

There is no Posts link because sayappa is set as an alias to note_life.

The note_life name, however, has been pretty much discarded so it would make sense to change the artist to sayappa and then maybe let it have an alias note_life.

What would be the best way of doing that?

One way I thought of was this:

1) change all sayappa entries back to note_life
2) delete sayappa alias
3) rename the note_life artist to sayappa

(I would've done this already, but decided against it due to the issues I'm having with the JavaScript red text not changing...)

Or is it also possible to do this:

1) delete both note_life and sayappa; tags remain (right?)
2) retag sayappa as artist:sayappa and it creates an original entry

Or some third way of simply changing the artist alias to artist that I don't know of or isn't available to me.

I'm request for the full name of emelenzia in mamoru-kun ni megami no shukufuku wo emelenzia->emelenzia_beatrix_rudiger

kristallimeri said:
(I hope it's okay to bump this thread with similar issues...)
to artist that I don't know of or isn't available to me.

I don't see any note_life posts, so I would just delete that artist. You can update sayappa and add note_life as an alias if you want.

Oh, so deleting an artist that has an alias doesn't delete the alias. Nice, thanks. Sayappa is fixed now.

hikarino_hikaru -> kouno_hikaru

I am unsure how to handle misromanization of an artist, so I figured I would bring it up here first. His website shows that the reading should be "Kouno Hikaru": http://hometown03.client.jp/first.html

EmperorBrandon said:
hikarino_hikaru -> kouno_hikaru

I am unsure how to handle misromanization of an artist, so I figured I would bring it up here first. His website shows that the reading should be "Kouno Hikaru": http://hometown03.client.jp/first.html

What happened is that he probably didn't spell it out before so we had to guess, and Hikarino is one possible (though not necessary correct) reading.

An alias would probably be best in this case, since people will be used to the old one. I can't imagine there would be conflict but if there is we can fix it. Just suggest the alias for approval, I guess.

kagome -> higurashi_kagome