New tag discussion: copyright_notice

For stuff like post #476449.

It's almost always a watermark too.

I guess we could, but is there a particular purpose it serves?

Btw, only use watermark for third-party alterations of an original image. Watermark is a negative concept on danbooru, and we won't want images being penalized for something that was put there by the original artist.

Although glancing through the posts, it seems like people don't use the wiki definition when tagging. Meh.

Its purpose would be to facilitate search, like every tag. In the past, I've wanted to search for particular pictures which I knew had a signature, or a copyright notice.

If you want a more abstract purpose: it's a visible, objective, definite, distinctive property of a picture, which makes it a good tag.

About watermarks, they're still watermarks, even if it was the author who put it there. With the current mod policy, 3rd party watermarks barely (if at all) get approved.

aldeayeah said: About watermarks, they're still watermarks, even if it was the author who put it there.

Uh, not if they're not defined as such. Not every tag on danbooru means its dictionary definition.

Yeah, I know.

I meant that, since 3rd party watermarks aren't being approved anymore, the tag watermark might be extended to "legit" watermarks. Because, as it is now, there isn't any tag for author-created watermarks.

That's a different matter though.

aldeayeah said: I meant that, since 3rd party watermarks aren't being approved anymore, the tag watermark could be extended to "legit" watermarks and thus be made a bit more intuitive.

Well, that seems to be how it's being used now anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter. =P

I was going to clean it up but hey whatever floats your boat.

Just because a tag is 'bad' doesn't mean it needs gentrified. Tags that are typically no-no's (like lowres, jpeg_artifacts, watermark, etc) are useful for screening out subpar posts in the mod queue. I'd be against changing the watermark tag to apply to proper artist signatures and the like, as it would interfere with this trait.

I agree with Shinjidude, but we do need a tag for such notices. It should probably imply text as well. Speaking of which, anyone mind if I broaden the scope of text by editing the wiki? It seems to already be being used like that

Well since watermark seems to be overwhelmed with things that aren't what we intended the tag to be used for, should we start over with a new tag for the bad ones? third_party_watermark or... I can't think of anything that doesn't sound really cumbersome. Then it could imply watermark or... I don't know.