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I've just noticed that the wiki howto:artist says
Most important: Direct image URLs from any sites the artist uses to host their work
I've rarely seen such URLs in artist entries, so my question is if this is still current? If I create or edit an artist entry should I add a direct link in addition to every site like Pixiv or Banciyuan?
Updated by Nameless Contributor
It depends on if truncating the URL produces something unique to that artist that isn't already covered by a non-direct URL. For instance, pixiv direct URLs used to look like http://img13.pixiv.net/img/shirononochiko/2191076.jpg, so all of that artist's pixiv works looked like http://img13.pixiv.net/img/shirononochiko/. But now they use https://i.pximg.net/img-original/img/2021/02/11/10/46/43/87628726_p0.jpg, which isn't helpful.
I've removed that part from the wiki.
The artist finder matches site urls by removing each piece until it finds a match, so if it sees "https://generic-host.com/artist_name/picture.jpg" it will first try to match the whole url, then "https://generic-host.com/artist_name", then "https://generic-host.com/". Since mainstream sites like pixiv don't have artist usernames in the image url anymore, this is not really useful anymore, and it actually causes wrong matches when someone adds a direct image url that has no username in it. It's also why we have this huge blacklist in the code.
