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Originally Posted by Cedille
I personally prefer we are ultimately able to classify aliases (variation, alias, birth name or unit) since we often treat differently romanized names, groups, or maiden names as an alias, but perhaps it's just me.
One of my problems is whether an alias warrants a separate page or not isn't so consistent. Some aliases don't have their pages, if they differ greatly from their respective original names, for instance. I know that doesn't totally justify my preferred direction and I'm in guilty of this inconsistency. I agree we should be able to add Kanji to an alias without a separate entries.
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I agree. Well, when the Gigablah add this
option, there were two conditions:
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Originally Posted by Gigablah
IMPORTANT: WHEN SHOULD I DEFINE AN ALIAS ENTRY?
If the following conditions are met: - The alias is significantly different from the original artist name. (No abbreviations/partial names, alternate spellings, nickname insertions, that sort of thing.)
- There is purpose in having a separate discography for the alias (i.e. the alias is credited in a significant number of albums).
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In the case of James Banana, although of course is a completely different name of Kinuyo Yamashita, she was only credited with this alias in just only one game, and this name isn’t available, as far as I know, in Japanese form. Maybe that's why a page to this alias hasn’t been created yet. I'm not saying that should not be created, but I think that it’s not worth much.
In the case of Minakuchi Engineering Staff, that was because the page had been created before we knew it was the way the Kinuyo Yamashita was credited in Mega Man X3.
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Originally Posted by Cedille
I agree and I think we can handle multiple aliases. When one artist is credited under his/her real name and alias, however, I think we can't display the fact the artist's real name is also credited. For instance, Keita Haga uses his real name for lyrics while KATE otherwise, but in his current artist page it shows up like ' Composer, Lyricist (as KATE)' even where both names are credited. I know it's sort of picking, but I personally think something like ' Composer (as KATE), Lyricist (as Keita Haga)' or ' Composer, Lyricist (also as KATE)' is more appropriate.
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Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel
Hey Cedille, I looked at the code briefly, and I should be able to fix that problem (i.e. separate alias in parentheses per role instead of at the end of the line) when I get home tonight.
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Very interesting that you have commented on this, because I totally agree that it would be much better the way you suggested. Like Keita Haga that you mentioned, in several Bemani albums the artists use pseudonyms on specific roles.
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Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel
Perhaps one thing we could do is change the artist links (the ones on the album page) so that they say "Ogeretsu Kun's (alias of Takashi Tateishi)" instead of "Ogeretsu Kun". I'm not 100% sure this is the solution we want though, since some aliases are just name variations. However, we could just do this for the aliases that have their own page. Another issue is that it may clutter up some already full fields.
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Personally, I don't see much trouble as it is now. I think the notes section can solve the problem (if that's a problem). If we add the real name of this
album, for example, I think will not be very good. Imagine then with some Bemani albums, especially from Beatmania series, where almost all the artists are credited with alias.