Potential Artist Overlap (Nashidrop/San P.dro)

Apologies if this is the wrong place to bring this up.

It seems like the artist tag for nashidrop artist #208596 is currently pointing to two different artists, one who goes by nashidrop on Patreon, Pixiv, and Twitter, and one who goes by San P.dro or sanphidro on Patreon and Pixiv. I've done some looking around and the two pages don't reference or cross-promote each other, and they have very different styles and subject matter (compare post #10131572 and post #9494242)

This change seems to have been automated, since sanphidro's links were added to the alias on 2023-11-30 by DanbooruBot. I don't see any reason to believe they are the same person, so I'm not sure why they would have been folded under the same tag. If they ARE the same person, then sorry for kicking up a fuss, but if not it feels like it makes sense to address it.

Unrelated, but please don’t type artist #208596 between brackets, it will be formatted correctly without them. Same for the posts.

Onto the artist. After a quick research, I was able to find the artist alias and its reason.

The alias was requested in forum #260404 and approved in forum #260818. *It can be explained by https://www.patreon.com/posts/announcement-big-93002426. DanbooruBot made the change after the alias was approved, so it wasn’t 100% automated.

Fun fact: nashidrop and sanphidro are anagrams. It doesn’t necessarily justify anything, but it’s curious.

Anyway… as far as I know, if artists try to make sure that their separate accounts don’t link each other, it’s best to not alias them. However, I’m unsure if this is the case here, since both Patreon posts are still available and effectively give a link between the two accounts.

*Edited to include the English Patreon announcement instead of the Japanese one found in forum #260449.

The Patreon post is enough of a link to keep them together. They aren't actively trying to separate their content in terms of people knowing but rather separated in terms of what's available on a given profile. That's what validates the alias; they aren't trying to hide that they control both accounts and the separation is purely for content categorisation, not for privacy. If this link wasn't apparent, the alias should've not happened or should've been broken up.

That being said, if the artist ever reaches out to us about separating their accounts, we'll honour it and use two separate art tags.

Understood! Apologies for the confusion, and thanks for the quick response.