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Old Jul 31, 2016, 03:02 AM
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Chances of this being the same person as Hiroaki Nomura, the trombonist who's credited for a few of Sawano's Blue Exorcist albums?

http://vgmdb.net/album/25549
http://vgmdb.net/album/38860
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Old Jul 31, 2016, 03:21 AM
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Quite possibly a typo in the booklet, 裕章 can be read as Hiroaki and looks quite similar to 裕幸. I think it's pretty safe to link him since he worked on other Sawano soundtracks.
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Old Jul 31, 2016, 06:08 AM
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The two other unlinked artists on the album were also typos. Only on the Blue Exorcist albums. I linked those up too.

By the way, Jimby, we don't remove the typos. We leave them as is and add them as variations on the artist's page.
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Old Jul 31, 2016, 06:15 AM
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Great - thanks for fixing that up nextday.
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Old Jul 31, 2016, 06:29 AM
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By the way, Jimby, we don't remove the typos. We leave them as is and add them as variations on the artist's page.
No, time and time again all kinds of artist typos are getting fixed / approved etc. (both alphabet and kanji). The only case where it's really like a standard is not correcting album and track titles.

If there ever was an initiative to really leave every typo as is, enforcing attempts are all over the place.
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Old Jul 31, 2016, 10:19 AM
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If the typo/variation isn't linked on at least one album then it won't be automatically detected.

This means future typo/variation won't be linked up because they'll go undetected. Not good.
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No matter how you look at it, it's inconsistent. For example here, a Japanese booklet has a typo of Masatsugu Shinozaki Group already in alphabet, it was still corrected years ago, complete with the discussion
http://vgmdb.net/db/covers.php?do=view&cover=67270

The real variation as a result of different romanization, artist's own preference and such (Shusei/Syusei, Ohta/Ota...) is perfectly fine but counting a potential, complete misreading as a variation doesn't exactly click knowing another point that variation and alias should be used differently too (variation which is so close to the display name and essentially gives away it's the same person easily and alias which is not that 'same').

For people that prefer to keep those typos as well, at least an alias function should be used and not a variation imho (e.g. recent edit - Yoshiaki Hashimoto -> Sumiaki Hashimoto even if it was intentional and not a typo, that's an alias material and not a variation to me).

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Old Aug 1, 2016, 01:28 PM
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I think regardless of keeping typos or not, the Notes field on each entry would be good enough to prevent any misunderstanding if staffs and editors properly put notes with rationales.
When I face typos on Variations without notes, I sometimes get slightly confused and worried that many visitors here can misunderstand and circulate wrong info, chances are that finally it could come back here to help lower info quality.

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Old Aug 19, 2016, 01:28 AM
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the relevant notes taken out

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