Why change Retsu's English alias to include his Japanese name?
Regarding r58995
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#2
Restune only calls himself "Retsu" on Niconico, so specifying it is redundant.
And regardless, Retsu_(user/[ID)] would be a better specification for an English tag
#3
For example, if a work is reuploaded on another platform by a third party, and that person has only seen the creator’s name on Niconico, it’s entirely possible that they would credit the creator as “retsu”.
You're right that Retsu_(user/ID) is better — that had slipped my mind. I had been thinking only about readability when adding it manually.
There are two authors who use the name retsu, れつね and 歹刂, so I decided to specify it because I thought it was necessary.
I think this is desirable for determining the correct creator when manually adding creator tags in cases such as where they are listed on google spreadsheet as participants in a collaboration.
I don’t think the information in parentheses necessarily needs to be in Japanese, but I thought “retsu_(line_retsu)” was a bit redundant.