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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.
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.
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