The tag alias #63420 maturixp -> timaturi has been approved.

Reason: same artist. I selected timaturi as the "to" because between the two it's the one that has an artist page already, but I don't know what the best practice/SOP here is for what name to use for artists who use a lot of variations on one name.

EDIT: The tag alias maturixp -> timaturi (forum #370584) has been approved by @slyroon.

reclusive_yin said:
I don't know what the best practice/SOP here is for what name to use for artists who use a lot of variations on one name.

I don't know if there's a "hard and fast" rule, but it seems to be some combination of...

1. If they put a signature, URL, or account name right on the image, which one do they use the most, on their most recent artwork?

2. If they're on multiple sites (FA, Twitter, SoFurry, etc), which one gets the most updates recently?
Exception: It is nearly impossible to change your name on FA, so it's possible to find artists that keep updating under their "old"/non-preferred name on FA, while all other sites have updates under their "new"/preferred name.

3. Is there a statement on any of their site profiles/bios/journals/tweets that says something like "I used to post under CoolArtist, but now I post as NiftyArtist"?

4. If there is a clear SFW/NSFW split - like CoolArtist for SFW and SpicyArtist for NSFW - has the artist publicly mentioned that they're the same? Like, "Hi, I'm CoolArtist. See the hot stuff on SpicyArtist" and "Hi, this is SpicyArtist, the NSFW account of CoolArtist." on the profiles involved.
Alternatively, if CoolArtist's profile doesn't mention SpicyArtist at all, and SpicyArtist's profile says something like "Alt account. If you figure who it is, keep quiet.", then it's probably not a good idea to alias the two names together.

The tag alias maturixp -> timaturi (forum #370584) has been approved by @slyroon.