Native name should be part of the author page so it shows up in search properly.

[elemhunter]

A common problem I see on MD is that an author will have multiple artist pages, because their romanization can result in different spellings. For example,

https://mangadex.org/author/a7d9ef8d-7345-4af5-a14c-f197203fc88d/ookubo
https://mangadex.org/author/78bdf9ce-45ca-494f-a5b5-4f03113768f8/ohkubo-akiyo

are both

https://www.mangaupdates.com/author/mqvs10l/ookubo-akiyo

which is actually spelled Ookubo Akiyo on Mangaupdates, which is not on MD at all and thus will not show up if you search by that name. This could all be solved if you simply allow the native name to be added to author pages, so that people can search for that name instead of playing hop scotch with different spellings and duplicate artist pages.

 

[Roler]

Alt author/artist names are planned.
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/author-aliases-section-on-author-page-searchable.1149275

 

[elemhunter]

Alt author/artist names are planned.
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/author-aliases-section-on-author-page-searchable.1149275

I guess it'll maybe be fixed in 5 years then. Oh well, at least I'm not the only one who brought it up.

 

[Akule]

I guess it'll maybe be fixed in 5 years then. Oh well, at least I'm not the only one who brought it up.

I had been noticing this in a lot of the Korean author fields, as depending on which English translation site it was, the author names can vary wildly. I've been putting the native Korean Hangul spelling of the name in with whatever the most commonly assumed English author name has been. That way, at the very least, you can search by the author's native name and still get the author.

It's a potential workaround until the author/artist Associated Name list is implemented.