The bulk update request #2356 is active.

create alias otayama -> wakamatsu372

Reason: His SFW accounts "otayama" pixiv and twitter have been dead for three years, their last post being from 2017-04-21. Works under this name make up a small portion of all works.

He is mostly, if not entirely, known as wakamatsu372 (pixiv, enty, twitter) now. I myself have discovered wakamatsu372 three years ago before finding his former name in the wiki. It is strange for someone to start typing "wakamatsu" and not even see it show up aliased; most likely the user iqdb.org's something to get here. His animated works (otayama animated) are watermarked @wakamatsu372.

EDIT: The bulk update request #2356 (forum #164013) has been approved by @evazion.

FYI no need for a mass update when you're also doing an alias. The site will take care of moving the posts. Also we have a dedicated topic for artist aliases/renaming: topic #7713.

nonamethanks said:

FYI no need for a mass update when you're also doing an alias. The site will take care of moving the posts. Also we have a dedicated topic for artist aliases/renaming: topic #7713.

I see, sorry.

Edit: Yeah but how does swapping "primary" name work?

nanashi3 said:

I see, sorry.

Edit: Yeah but how does swapping "primary" name work?

To put it simply, the difference between a mass update and an alias is that a mass update only moves existing posts under a tag (or a tag search) to another, while an alias does that and also catches future uses of the moved tag, and is also shown on the site's autocomplete.

For enstablished tags, aliases are better because some users might still be using the old one without knowing that it was moved.

The bulk update request #2356 (forum #164013) has been approved by @evazion.