Tag alias: title_drop -> copyright_name

create alias title_drop -> copyright_name

Link to alias

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).

+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.

I feel the same. Title drop isn't a particularly intuitive name to me either.

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.

Title name is not really that much more intuitive than title drop, tbqh. Aliasing title name and copyright name to title drop would probably cause the least number of issues

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.

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.

I know there were some reservations but I think copyright_name is still the best option so far just for consistency's sake.

create alias title_drop -> copyright_name
create alias title_name -> copyright_name