create alias title_drop -> copyright_name
Standardization. Character Name is used for characters. Artist Name is used for artists. "copyright_name" should be used for copyrights (i.e. titles, brands, etc).
Updated by jxh2154
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create alias title_drop -> copyright_name
Standardization. Character Name is used for characters. Artist Name is used for artists. "copyright_name" should be used for copyrights (i.e. titles, brands, etc).
Updated by jxh2154
+1.
Title drop seems to be used because that's what TV Tropes calls it.
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.
maybe add title_name as well. this was used in the past and might reappear again.
create alias title_drop -> copyright_name
create alias title_name -> copyright_name
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.
Title is very short and non-descriptive, it can be easily added by accident or confused with something other. Note that we have other *_title/title_* tags, like title_parody.
I don't think it is a good idea to use it as a tag name.
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.
What about title_insert?
On an unrelated note, is there a tag for portmanteau titles? An example is post #602201 where Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon and Neon Genesis Evangelion's titles are blended into one to refer to both series.
Benit149 said:
On an unrelated note, is there a tag for portmanteau titles? An example is post #602201 where Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon and Neon Genesis Evangelion's titles are blended into one to refer to both series.
There's a straightforwardly named portmanteau tag that isn't very populated yet.