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This is... going to cause a similar issue like that for the Genshin characters.

Though I suppose our general policy is to prefer full names. Maybe we can use full names for all of them for now, and only consider reversing the alias later if the wiki and English Blue Archive fan community prefer shorter names (like for Genshin). But this is going to be a contentious issue so I'll refrain from voting unless some sort of consensus can be ironed out in the forums.

Simply put:
We need to start using Wikipedia's "common name" policy. Does the community at large call the character Tendou Arisu? Would they come to Danbooru and type "tendou" into the search bar to look for that character? Would they know the character if they saw it in the sidebar?

Plenty of gacha game characters have canon full names that we ignore for the answer to all those questions being "no". We're not gonna do istina_(arknights) -> Anna Morozova, for example.

Strobe_Red said:

In game the characters are very rarely referred to their full names, so I'm against this. I'm content with just having their full names in their wiki page.

If that's the case then I'd say no against this alias. If even players who are dedicated fans aren't aware of their full names, then their full names should not be the primary chartag name.

How does this work, do I reply in the same thread, or should I create a new one?

For some games, like League of Legends or Genshin Impact it makes a lot of sense, characters' full names are rarely, if ever, used. But in Blue Archive, characters' full names are capitalized in their profile from the moment you get them. They are commonly addressed with just their first name, but the in discussion thread about Genshin Impact most users - including @evazion - agreed that full name is the standard for tags, and firstname_(series) is an exception for when the name is ambiguous, or obscured in official material.

Worst case, we should at least have an alias for them. Right now someone searching for Asagi Mutsuki - which was a standard for 15 years - will not find absolutely anything.

Plenty of gacha game characters have canon full names that we ignore for the answer to all those questions being "no". We're not gonna do istina_(arknights) -> Anna Morozova, for example.

Why not? Why is ignoring characters' full names supposed to be a good thing? This petition is supposed to change exactly that. When talking about irl people we usually use their first names only. Using series' name in parenthesis after characters' first name has been a convenient exception, as it is less natural than using character's full name.

NNescio said:

If even players who are dedicated fans aren't aware of their full names, then their full names should not be the primary chartag name.

I'm not even a fan and I bothered to look up their names, they are on in-game profile from the moment you unlock the character. Are they really dedicated fans if they don't care about characters' full names? Danbooru's goal is cataloguing images and characters on them, the character's name is Kuda Izuna, just like Miku_(vocaloid_1st_gen)'s name is Hatsune Miku. If convenience is the goal, we can have aliases. Skipping characters' names is further erasing them from existence.

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Vasi1 said:

Why not? Why is ignoring characters' full names supposed to be a good thing? This petition is supposed to change exactly that. When talking about irl people we usually use their first names only. Using series' name in parenthesis after characters' first name has been a convenient exception, as it is less natural than using character's full name.

I will say in the case of Arknights that there's a very good reason for not doing it, in many cases their full names are either unknown or so obscure most fans don't even know them, and every character in the game is known first and foremost by their operator name, both in profile and by the fandom at large.
Only a few of the characters even have a known full name at all, and in most cases most people don't even know what it is.

That said I do agree that in the case of Blue Archive, at the very least having aliases in place is probably a good thing because their full names aren't really obscure at all imo.

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