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Topic: do artists, characters and copyright count as a tag ?

Posted under General

I saw a post where the poster just ad the tags for the artist, character, copyright and one general tag. and the general tag is just "c"

Does this meet the requirements of the "four tags" rule?

Sorry if my grammar is off. I used google as help.

Updated by user 22273

four tags is four tags no matter what tag type they are. though im p sure that c is not a valid tag and doesnt count

Updated by anonymous

Yes. They are considered some of the more important tags, especially artist since sometimes it is unknown who made it.
The only tags that do not count as tags is tagme, invalid tag, junk/joke tags(eg: tag it yourself, which unfortunately was a tag someone used), and meta tags(eg: rating:s, rating:e, source:example.com, etc).

Updated by anonymous

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