The bulk update request #689 is active.

mass update vitaly_(artist) -> vitaly4321
create alias coffeecat4321 (11) -> vitaly4321 (322)

It's the same person. The furaffinity page links to accounts on other sites: https://furaffinity.net/user/vitaly/
The artist prefers coffeecat4321, that's their name on telegram, instagram, and twitter.

Due to a rather strange chain of events, their posts ended up in three separate artist tags:

• vitaly_(artist) 24 posts
• coffeecat 48 posts
• coffeecat4321 5 posts

EDIT: The bulk update request #689 (forum #304967) has been approved by @slyroon.

I'm a little unsure if we should be aliasing vitaly_(artist) since it's a common Russian name and may cause conflicts in the future.

faucet said:
I'm a little unsure if we should be aliasing vitaly_(artist) since it's a common Russian name and may cause conflicts in the future.

Surprisingly, there aren't too many vitaly* artists / character on e621 at the moment: https://e621.net/tags?search[name_matches]=vitaly*&search[order]=count
Thing is, this artist's name on FA is just "Vitaly". There is no last name or nickname to make it less ambiguous: https://furaffinity.net/user/vitaly/

Since this tag is not the generic vitaly, but specifically vitaly_(artist), I think that aliasing it should be fine for the time being.

Well, it's been a year, and coffeecat has vanished from their profiles.
The only one that remains is the Telegram, CF_Cat.

Everything seems to be under the vitaly4321 name now.

The bulk update request #689 (forum #304967) has been approved by @slyroon.