geckit and foopdraws are the same artist. What tag should be used?

ichhabs said:
geckit and foopdraws are the same artist. What tag should be used?

geckit for stuff posted under geckit/foopdraws and skellybeanz for stuff posted under skellybeanz/fooplewds. Simple as.

anicebee said:
geckit for stuff posted under geckit/foopdraws and skellybeanz for stuff posted under skellybeanz/fooplewds. Simple as.

Hm, the problem with that is that they only very recently renamed their foopdraws account to skellybeanz. Only one picture was uploaded since that name change. Also, foopdraws is still the name of their tumblr and deviantart accounts.

P.S. I also don't get the point of using different tags depending on which precise account something was uploaded on. It's the same artist! If I wanna see what an artist created, I should only need to search for one tag.

ichhabs said:
Hm, the problem with that is that they only very recently renamed their foopdraws account to skellybeanz. Only one picture was uploaded since that name change. Also, foopdraws is still the name of their tumblr and deviantart accounts.

Then an alias should be in place to help with users still using foopdraws/lewds to refer to him. And he hasn't used either of those two accounts in years, of course they won't be updated.

ichhabs said:
I also don't get the point of using different tags depending on which precise account something was uploaded on. It's the same artist! If I wanna see what an artist created, I should only need to search for one tag.

It's because I don't know if the artist would want their SFW and NSFW art connected, and the name change seems to point towards that they (no longer) want to.

anicebee said:
Then an alias should be in place to help with users still using foopdraws/lewds to refer to him. And he hasn't used either of those two accounts in years, of course they won't be updated.

It's because I don't know if the artist would want their SFW and NSFW art connected, and the name change seems to point towards that they (no longer) want to.

I just have a pet peeve with using separate tags when dealing with the same artist. I have no say in how e621 operates, so whatever.

Aliasing isn't straightforward with how many different usernames they have used. Should we alias foopdraws -> geckit and fooplewds -> skellybeanz? "fooplewds" was never used here to begin with, so I imagine it's harder to get that alias accepted.

Unless you disagree with it, you can go ahead and update all foopdraws posts to use geckit or skellybeanz depending on which type of account (SFW or NSFW) they were uploaded to. (or I can do it if you don't feel like it)

ichhabs said:
I just have a pet peeve with using separate tags when dealing with the same artist. I have no say in how e621 operates, so whatever.

Aliasing isn't straightforward with how many different usernames they have used. Should we alias foopdraws -> geckit and fooplewds -> skellybeanz? "fooplewds" was never used here to begin with, so I imagine it's harder to get that alias accepted.

Unless you disagree with it, you can go ahead and update all foopdraws posts to use geckit or skellybeanz depending on which type of account (SFW or NSFW) they were uploaded to. (or I can do it if you don't feel like it)

I think it's best to move to a forum thread or mention in the Discord before doing that, I might tomorrow, you could too if you want.

anicebee said:
I think it's best to move to a forum thread or mention in the Discord before doing that, I might tomorrow, you could too if you want.

Made a forum thread here:
https://e621.net/forum_topics/54329