My artist tag "sinribbons" contains art from both my NSFW and SFW account (bowsaremyfriends). The problem is that I don't want my two usernames to be under the same alias because I wish to keep my SFW content separate from my NSFW content. The user who requested my two usernames to be under the same alias asked for the change without my permission.

How do I go about requesting that? I'm not really familiar with making requests here, and I would really appreciate any help I can get.

The bulk update request #11382 is active.

remove alias bowsaremyfriends (11) -> sinribbons (209)

Reason: Hopefully I did this in the right direction.

EDIT: The bulk update request #11382 (forum #454284) has been approved by @spe.

usually we're pretty good about not aliasing SFW and NSFW names together in cases like this.
topic #54260
hmm... I'm surprised this alias even got accepted. no external links, no discussion, no votes.

sinribbons said:
My artist tag "sinribbons" contains art from both my NSFW and SFW account (bowsaremyfriends). The problem is that I don't want my two usernames to be under the same alias because I wish to keep my SFW content separate from my NSFW content. The user who requested my two usernames to be under the same alias asked for the change without my permission.

Not to be blunt, but explicit permission is not required since we would want to enhance searching functionality rather than having to ask every artist for their preferences.
There are artists who, for some reason, make upwards to 10 different aliases as well as deleting their previous aliases/accounts just to post their artwork.
You can see why mandating the requirement of permissions beforehand wouldn't be a viable or practical option.

Though that does not mean we would deliberately ignore artist preferences when they ask for their aliases to be separate.
Typically, this comes in a form of statement on the artist's profile/gallery to not have them linked together, or when they request it firsthand like you have right now.

How do I go about requesting that? I'm not really familiar with making requests here, and I would really appreciate any help I can get.

You would have to make a Bulk Update Request (BUR) to unalias the tags apart.
However, you don't need to do so since @regsmutt has already done it for you.
You would just have to wait until it gets reviewed by a mod and approved.

dba_afish said:
usually we're pretty good about not aliasing SFW and NSFW names together in cases like this.
topic #54260
hmm... I'm surprised this alias even got accepted. no external links, no discussion, no votes.

It would infinitely help if either the tag's wiki mentions to keep the two tags separated or have it made known by the artist on their profiles (though I apologise if that is indeed the case since I haven't checked).

As for the alias getting approved, I wouldn't be surprised since there are no "meh's" or "no's".
The mod would probably have had gone through the artist's profiles to verify its accuracy before approving it as well.
If we had waited for a minimum of one vote to appear, it would probably be lost in the backlogs for years and forgotten.

thegreatwolfgang said:
Not to be blunt, but explicit permission is not required since we would want to enhance searching functionality rather than having to ask every artist for their preferences.
There are artists who, for some reason, make upwards to 10 different aliases as well as deleting their previous aliases/accounts just to post their artwork.
You can see why mandating the requirement of permissions beforehand wouldn't be a viable or practical option.

Though that does not mean we would deliberately ignore artist preferences when they ask for their aliases to be separate.
Typically, this comes in a form of statement on the artist's profile/gallery to not have them linked together, or when they request it firsthand like you have right now.

This particular alias was a bit odd. I've seen some pretty clear-cut name/identity changes get interrogated for evidence. Imo if there are two active accounts with different subject matter a public link between them should be needed to alias the tags together. Many artists that want to maintain a separation of content types, especially controversial content, do not put a statement up on their pages because doing so would draw attention to it.

The alias was likely approved with neutral intent. Artist and character name changes are very common, so even though this one didn't present evidence, that it got approved isn't like. Proof of anything other than 'approving aliases is hard and dull.'

thegreatwolfgang said:
Not to be blunt, but explicit permission is not required since we would want to enhance searching functionality rather than having to ask every artist for their preferences.
There are artists who, for some reason, make upwards to 10 different aliases as well as deleting their previous aliases/accounts just to post their artwork.
You can see why mandating the requirement of permissions beforehand wouldn't be a viable or practical option.

Though that does not mean we would deliberately ignore artist preferences when they ask for their aliases to be separate.
Typically, this comes in a form of statement on the artist's profile/gallery to not have them linked together, or when they request it firsthand like you have right now.

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The mod would probably have had gone through the artist's profiles to verify its accuracy before approving it as well.
If we had waited for a minimum of one vote to appear, it would probably be lost in the backlogs for years and forgotten.

I don't think this is really a case where "mandating the requirement of permissions" is something that matters here... I mean, even at a cursory glance of the IB pages, even if it's clear that both are the same person, it seems that there's kinda an effort to keep the two names separate and have no direct link between the two. and it's definitely not the general site policy to alias two artist names together who are, very obviously, intentionally kept separate.

I think it was just a little oopsie that the request got approved without thinking too hard about it, not much deeper or shallower than that

bird-tm said:
I'd suggest making two artist tags - one for your SFW art, and one for your NSFW art - and setting up a CDNP for both, that SFW art only be tagged with the SFW handle, while NSFW work is only for the NSFW handle.

Setting a CDNP just to make sure people use the right aliases is completely unnecessary.
If the arrangement has been made every clear to keep them separated (such as in the tag's wiki), there wouldn't be any trouble maintaining the tags as they are.

bird-tm said:
So, I know another artist uses one artist tag for their more kinky posts, and a different artist tag for their more vanilla posts.

I'd suggest making two artist tags - one for your SFW art, and one for your NSFW art - and setting up a CDNP for both, that SFW art only be tagged with the SFW handle, while NSFW work is only for the NSFW handle.

Not at all what CDNP is for, and also sounds like a headache for staff to moderate. Please do not do this

The bulk update request #11382 (forum #454284) has been approved by @spe.