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I wanted to upload art from pixiv user 刹火 (http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=17934 ) however his name is in Chinese. Should I use a machine translation to translate his name or use the name which appears in the direct image URL (03170317go)? This artist doesn't have a homepage or blog so those can't be used for naming.
Updated by reese
The account name is really ugly this time, so I'd say wait a little and see if anyone can recommend a decent romanization. I'm guessing it's setsuhi or satsuhi based on rikaichan. Also when you say it's Chinese, do you just mean that it's using kanji ("Chinese" characters), or do you mean the artist is actually Chinese (his account looks to all be in Japanese to me), which would probably change what the romanization should be.
I'd go with setsubi. Though as long as the artist wiki entry contains a direct image url there shouldn't be a problem with minor spelling variations anyway.
The proper Japanese in the artist profile and comments suggests that the artist is of Japanese nationality but the kanji compound gets many more hits in Chinese than Japanese. Still, I think a Japanese reading is fine.
jxh2154 said:
Also when you say it's Chinese, do you just mean that it's using kanji ("Chinese" characters), or do you mean the artist is actually Chinese (his account looks to all be in Japanese to me)
See the second half of Seabook's response. That's what was happening so I assumed it was Chinese.
wanchan said: The only combination that gets any hits on Google is "刹火" "せつか"
Looks like setsuka is taken by a SC character, so setsuka_(artist) should probably be the tag.
jxh2154 said:
Looks like setsuka is taken by a SC character, so setsuka_(artist) should probably be the tag.
Works for me.
