Artist name differences for artist created artworks

There is a bug in the SAC system that is causing artist name differences whenever an artist that has multiple words in their name, claims their profile and begins to add artworks.

In figure 1, see an example where a recently claimed artist “EJ Zyla” has claimed her profile, amd artworks created by a hunter show the “correct” artist name, but artworks created by the artist are shown as “Ej-zyla”.

This is because the artist name that is pre-populated into the artist field when an artist creates an artwork has this incorrect capitalisation and hyphens replacing spaces.

See figure 2 for an example of this.

To get the correct capitalisation of the name the artist can hit the “X” to cancel the pre-populated artist name, then select their name from the drop-down.

However, it would be much simpler to ensure that the pre-populated field is the correct artist name.


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Thanks for pointing this out Andrew! I want to finally fix this properly soon - it’s something I’ve been aware of for a long time too.

Thankfully, under the hood we are linking to the correct artist, we’re just displaying the internal name/ID of the artist (the lowercased version with dashes) incorrectly as the ‘public’ display name in some cases.

So once this is fixed, I should be able to run a script to correct it for all past artworks that show the incorrect name.

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