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Investigate miscredit on Ultralovania artwork, two names maybe the same artist? #588

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towerofnix opened this issue Sep 25, 2024 · 1 comment · Fixed by #658
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The track Ultralovania, on Cool and New Greatest Hits (a more or less original track, not a rerelease!), has a unique cover artwork credited by the wiki to CreatorOfJanespeak, and by Bandcamp to Cloudaria. Both of these names (as linked) are currently separate artist entries on the wiki.

Although we suggested (#hsmusic-chat) that the possibility these are the same artist/person doesn't seem likely, Makin thinks they are.

The wiki doesn't have visiting links for either artist entry. CreatorOfJanespeak has aliases janespeak and AnerVaria, and Cloudaria doesn't have any aliases... but, you know, "AnerVaria" and "Cloudaria" do sound similar, so there's that!

Cool and New Greatest Hits was first committed eb9bae3 by Makin (#241), and includes the relevant credits as-is.

This same album (CaNGH) includes another credit to CreatorOfJanespeak, which is in fact reflected from the Bandcamp correctly, though there it's with the alias Anervaria (no capital V). This track is a rerelease, but has a unique artwork from the original release, so both credits here new to this album.

This album also includes an on-wiki credit to Cloudaria, which is correctly reflected from Bandcamp... but this artwork is reused from the track's original release. The credit on the wiki - Cloudaria - matches Bandcamp. It's clearly possible that the "Cloudaria" name was just carried over from the original release for this track.

However, Cloudaria and CreatorOfJanespeak have significant concurrent artwork credits (during 2016 through 2019). If these are two aliases then they seemed to both be in use at the same time, which is a bit strange from how individuals are usually credited across a single discography.

We should check if these names have any presence online or other external associations; if we're able to reach out directly to the artist (or either artist); if maybe their artworks are of a similar style (and distinct from other CaNMT illustrators); and if anyone we can reach from CaNMT knows more particulars.

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Note: yeah I think they are different artists, dunno what I was thinking back then.

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