Mikaeri said:
Alright, now here we have a doozy
post #2697159
This... has the pawoo username! But the child has the twitter username. What do. Maybe we might have to have a compounded tag for both of these things... maybe a general username tag would be best (for either implications or aliases). Anyone else have thoughts? Or should I 'mistag' the pawoo username as a twitter username...
For [site] username I think it's contextual. For direct URLs (i.e. artist.deviantart.com) I extrapolated it as deviantart username at least and if it matches with the artists URLs artist name as well and also add the particular URL to the artist entry if it wasn't already three. Also there will be cases where, say, you see a username right below a Patreon logo; in which case it's clear that you have a patreon username.
Now for what you brought up this leads us to a situation where the @name matches up to both the Twitter and Pawoo handle of the same artist, then what to do?
We could alias twitter username to @handle/@username or such. I advise against a generalized "username" because it cases where it isn't ambiguous (like deviantar username, tumblr username, et al) there's no reason to strip that info. I would much prefer a manual approach where we take into account the available known artist names and URLs, although this would be liable to laziness (automatically slapping on twitter username without checking) which I suspect would be much more common. Another indicting mark against an alias is that a Twitter username may have been tagged not because of the "@handle" but because the name was next to the Twitter logo or derived from a URL.
I also suspect there are more sites that use this type of name.