How do we deal with multiple artists who have the same romanized name?

I came across this problem. I wanted to upload images from an artist whose name appears on Pixiv in katakana. I searched the name here to see if there is a tag for it, and it turns out there is - however, it's a different artist, who spells their name with kanji. Same translation.

How do we deal with this?

First provide us with the links to the artists in question.

For pixiv artists, you can use the "username" from the URL of the image. It's not perfect, but it's guaranteed to not conflict with other pixiv artists.

Also, if there happens to be a website linked, and from there you can discern the artist's real name, that is preferable to either of the pixiv handles.

I think I just realized what to do, after thinking about this for like an hour. *facepalm* You add "_pixiv####" to distinguish it by ID number, right?

I'll post the links anyway.

Artist I wanted to link: Takehito タケヒト http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=3500

Artist on Danbooru: Takehito 竹人 http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=7508 ( http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/index?tags=takehito )

LoliBiscuit said:
I think I just realized what to do, after thinking about this for like an hour. *facepalm* You add "_pixiv####" to distinguish it by ID number, right?

You absolutely, positively DO NOT DO THAT. Ever.

The fact that people still do this is utterly infuriating.

Don't use pixiv id numbers they are a horrible mess and we are slowly purging tags with those in them from the system by making them into proper tags.

efb

Oh, okay. Hahah, glad I didn't do it then.

I'm not so sure I understand what you mean by the image "username", Shinjidude.

Here is the artist's homepage: http://takehito-tukinokimagure.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ My knowledge of Japanese is limited, but I can't seem to find a real name listed.

Edit: I'm actually surprised this artist isn't already on Danbooru... am I missing it?

Sorry to double post, but problem resolved. *facepalm*

http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/index?tags=shingetsu_takehito

Sorry guys. I'd still like to know how to deal with this in the future, though.

By "username" I meant what you see as the most significant directory in the url of the images themselves.

For example Pixiv post#5739886's image's URL is "http://img01.pixiv.net/img/goodnight/5739886.png" . From there you can see that the artist's "username" is "goodnight" which is also a particularly terrible artist tag name.

EDIT: Ok, it looks like you found it, but this method is probably the way to go in the future if you can't resolve it in a better way.

Ooh! I never noticed that before.

Thanks. :)