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Old Nov 24, 2007, 03:21 AM
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That's actually a duplicate entry which Teioh added. I've fixed the links and replaced #1745 with a new artist.

Alias linking is not intended to replace one-time aliases -- although that also depends on the nature of the alias. Your example does fulfil the first condition (alias is distinct enough from the original artist name to be confused as a separate person).

Note that aliases which are quite obviously aliases -- stage names, nicknames and so on which are very unlikely to be the name of an actual person -- should best remain unlinked (i.e. using the regular alias text field in artist management)*. KIYO/Ryo Mizutsuki is an exception because both names were credited in the same album.

* but of course, if the artist is only known by a stage name, then the profile should default to that.

You'll have to determine whether the benefits of having a separate profile page (with kanji/hiragana/romanized names and other details) outweighs the brevity of the discography listing. In short, if you think an alias deserves a profile page, you can convert it to an alias-type artist.
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