Danbooru

Tag alias: title_drop -> copyright_name

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What brought this request about, is that for myself, I can never remember whether to use drop or name, and which side it goes on or the exact wording because of this discrepancy. I always have to search for *character*, *artist*, *name*, or *drop* under the tag search to figure out which tag is being used.

Besides, we don't have to (read: shouldn't) mirror everything that other sites do, such as TV Tropes. IMO, we should use a system that is convenient and easy to remember. Standardization tends to help out with both.

artist_name is used for the red artist tag type.
character_name is used for the green character tag type.
title_drop is used for many things that we do not use copyright tags for.
Examples would be doujinshi covers (parody of existing franchise or original) or made-up titles.
The wiki also include "title of an episode/chapter".

I think the word "title" is OK in this context. The tag isn't limited to images in which the copyright tag also appears in the image as text.

S1eth said:
title_drop is used for many things that we do not use copyright tags for.
Examples would be doujinshi covers (parody of existing franchise or original) or made-up titles.

Then maybe create alias:
title_drop->title_name

I'm not really stuck on the "copyright" part of my proposal, but I am stuck on the "drop" part of the current tag. This is because "drop" is pretty unintuitive, and as I mentioned previously, we don't need to mimic other sites (e.g. TV Tropes) just because. Using title_name would also make things more standardized, and therefore, more convenient and easier to remember.

BrokenEagle98 said:

Then maybe create alias:
title_drop->title_name

Title name isn't much better than title drop. It sounds redundant and unintuitive.

Log said:

Aliasing title name and copyright name to title drop would probably cause the least number of issues

Title drop is still not a good name, so that wouldn't solve much.

Hmm, is there some reason we can't just use title? That would seem to keep it simple and intuitive, IMO.

But failing that, I think that copyright name or maybe something like displayed title would be an improvement over the current name.

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Toks said:

Hmm, is there some reason we can't just use title?

probably the simplest solution. seconding this. then, if not, i'll still go for title_name, yes this appears redundant but for the sake of uniformity (artist_name, character_name) and ambiguous enough not too specific if title of episode, copyright, album, doujin...

and if i remember correctly, title_drop came into being without discussion and became populated all of a sudden. an alias (whichever the consequent) would save users unfamiliar with the term from confusion.

ghostrigger said:
and if i remember correctly, title_drop came into being without discussion and became populated all of a sudden. an alias (whichever the consequent) would save users unfamiliar with the term from confusion.

99.9% of tags came into being with no discussion. Someone finds a taggable concept and tags it.

Title is way too vague and will be misused a lot.

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