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Aliasing kubo_tite -> kubo_taito.
Reason: According to our forcible reromanization policy. 久保帯人 is read くぼ・たいと, which romanizes to kubo taito. Going one step deeper, the name is a pen name for 久保宣章, or kubo_noriaki, so maybe we even want to alias to kubo noriaki.
Updated by 0xCCBA696
jxh2154: I guess he just wanted to be a tite d00d.
T5J8F8: English Wikipedia and Japanese Wikipedia agree. Video/audio no idea.
By the way, "Tite" cannot be a Japanese name, because there's no syllable "ti" in Japanese. If it were really ちて, we'd write it as "chite", but reading the kanji for his name would be a stretch, whereas "taito" is quite reasonable.
Hmm I don't know if our usual romanization policies necessarily apply in this case. It seems different from, say, "Tunasima Sirou" just using a painful romanization. It's like he's not necessarily intending it to be a name of Japanese origin (but is kanji-ifiying it anyway? because... that's cool? Or something.)
Well, that's all moot if we alias it to kubo noriaki. Not too sure about policy on that one, though, since all his stuff is published under the names "KUBO TITE" or 「久保帯人」.
Disagree. This is the same case as shirow_masamune.
Good example. Whatever we do with kubo tite will have to extend to shirow masamune as well, and yasuhiro nightow etc. etc.
In principle, the whole judging-based-on-popularity may not be a great way to go about it, but I think realistically, in this case, the popularity of certain artists have caused the way they spelled their names (albeit incorrectly) to become widespread and thus much more easily recognizable. I believe the concern here is that changing it to follow the rule may cause a lot of undue confusion that could just create a new problem in place of the old one. It might turn out to be more trouble than it's worth, at least in the short term.
recklessfirex said:
I believe the concern here is that changing it to follow the rule may cause a lot of undue confusion that could just create a new problem in place of the old one.
danbooru policies have traditionally been anti-mainstream. Anyone remember the whose toosaka_rin fiasco? I still think that toosaka_rin should have stayed, though it seems we decided to go with tohsaka_rin in that instance. As usual I'm going to support keeping to a standard rule in as many cases as possible. And that means pushing through this alias ;)
0xCCBA696 said: And that means pushing through this alias ;)
But again, I'm still not quite convinced that this is the same as a difference in romanization scheme (yes, I wanted toosaka to stay too, but oh well, that ship has sailed... a few times, actually, as we went back and forth). Instead it just looks like he made a name up and retroactively kanji-fied it. I guess that's what seems different about it to me, and leaves me inclined to leave the name alone. Or just go with his real name.
