Based on the discussion in topic #28094, I would like to put forward a proposal to implicate year tags to century tags. For example, everything from 1301 to 1400 would imply 14th_century.

Please share your opinions on doing so and also suggest a time depth to implicate. For example, everything from the 14th century to the 19th century, more or less?

We should remember that some number tags are aliased to invalid or to artist/character/position names.

Bump so this does not get lost to the eternal sands of time

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topic #28077 Benju/Brush BUR

topic #28093 Russian Visual Novel BUR 2

topic #28113 This BUR is Quite Unusual

topic #28127 An Interesting Point of View (BUR)

topic #28134 Don't Cum on my Stomach (BUR)

topic #28136 HOLY SHIT THERE'S SO MUCH FUCKING BLOOD PLEASE HELP (a bloody long BUR)

topic #28156 young characters BUR

topic #28157 Entwined BUR 7: I messed up and I'm sorry

topic #28196 Cum On, Mate (BUR)

topic #28212 You expected a Bulk Update Request, but it was me, Implication Removal Request!

topic #28220 Onmyou Taisenki BUR

topic #28226 Little Tail Bronx BUR

topic #28237 Arknights BUR

topic #28238 Nekojishi BUR 2

topic #28239 Tail Tale BUR

topic #28243 Purrfect Apawcalypse BUR 2

My own input here is partially derived from a comment I made in the aforementioned forum page.

The *_century tags (like 14th_century) seem to function as Meta category tags, rather than General or Lore category tags. The *_century tags seem to function in a similar manner as the year tags (with each *_century tag representing the century a post was made in), hence why I think these tags should instead be Meta category tags. I agree with implying each of these year tags to their equivalent century tag, so these could effectively act as a base tag.

Though it's hard to say what cutoff point there should be for the time periods, since several of those *_century tags that date back several centuries would likely never see use. While I can't definitively say, 14th_century might be a good cutoff point. I'm also wondering if the range of centuries should go from 14th_century to 21st_century, to also cover more modern posts.

@TheVileOne suggested the creation of decade tags as well. Should they apply only to the 20th century or more?

gattonero2001 said:
@TheVileOne suggested the creation of decade tags as well. Should they apply only to the 20th century or more?

Personally, I don't think there's enough pre-1980 year tags to justify subdividing the century tags. I was considering using those as the lore tags, at least for the 20th century. It's likely that someone setting a picture in or is inspired by a particular time period, at least when it comes to the 20th century, will have a particular decade in mind. Having something like 1920s in a different section from 1920 would better distinguish them, visually.

Currently, limiting the century tags to my recent failure of a BUR, that would be the 15th_century to the 20th_century, the last of which covering 1900 to 1979. (I only went back to the 1400s because I was tired, and there didn't seem to be anything further back at least to 1000AD.) As the current tags from 1980 to present represent the contemporary furry fandom, their century tag ought to be something like modern_era.

clawstripe said:

If you ever want to write another year BUR, feel free to use the C code in topic #28182. You just have to run it here after defining N.

A simple modification would allow it to be used for category change.

If this topic gets no further engagement in 12 hours, I will submit the 14th century BUR without community input

The bulk update request #543 is active.

Reason: As suggested by gattonero2001, a BUR implying all the year tags that almost went meta here to their appropriate century. As the original set of meta year tags, from 1980 to 2020, represent art for the furry fandom as we now know it (more or less), I suggest implying them to modern_era. Since I figure it's unlikely this BUR will be approved before the new year, I've thrown in 2021 as well.

Addendum: Four missing pre-existing century tags were added: 1st_century, 1st_century_bc, 5th_century_bc, and 6th_century_bc.

Addendum: (12/31/20) ~ Removed 2021's category change to meta. For that, see Watsit's BUR here .

Addendum: (1/1/21) ~ Removed all implications and category changes concerning modern_era, and added implications for the centuries to ancient_furry_art as well as switching ancient_furry_art to meta.

EDIT: The bulk update request #543 (forum #302158) has been approved by @Millcore.

clawstripe said: The bulk update request #543 is pending approval.

👍＋１ : I think using modern_era is a good idea.
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Seeing @gattonero2001's recent post makes me wish more users would join the forum.
Also I hope there are other users who know about Japan besides me, but that would be difficult ...
Recently, I introduced the e6 to some artists, but users(volunteers) are hard to find.

clawstripe said:
As suggested by gattonero2001, a BUR implying all the year tags that almost went meta here to their appropriate century.

I agree with the spirit of the BUR, but why not implicate tags that are not yet being used?

As the original set of meta year tags, from 1980 to 2020, represent art for the furry fandom as we now know it (more or less), I suggest implying them to modern_era.

I agree with the creation of the modern_era tag, but what exactly defines its range (1980-present)?

Since I figure it's unlikely this BUR will be approved before the new year, I've thrown in 2021 as well.

Millcore will go on another spree from Christmas to the New Year, so perhaps it could happen sooner. However, including 2021 now does no harm in my opinion.

gattonero2001 said:
I agree with the spirit of the BUR, but why not implicate tags that are not yet being used?

Which ones? I was pretty much limiting this to my previous BUR plus some pre-existing century tags. Eventually, tags for missing eras and centuries will have to be looked at for this same treatment, but I had to start somewhere.

I agree with the creation of the modern_era tag, but what exactly defines its range (1980-present)?

Essentially. As NotUncommon and TheGreatWolfgang pointed out, this is the time frame for the modern fandom and part of the logic behind NotUncommon's original meta-year BUR.

Millcore will go on another spree from Christmas to the New Year, so perhaps it could happen sooner. However, including 2021 now does no harm in my opinion.

Might as well. Even if it wasn't a couple of weeks away, it already exists on e621 anyway.

clawstripe said:
Which ones? I was pretty much limiting this to my previous BUR plus some pre-existing century tags. Eventually, tags for missing eras and centuries will have to be looked at for this same treatment, but I had to start somewhere.

I mean the 722 tags from 1300 to 2021. It would be easier to use the code in topic #28182 to write that out.

Essentially. As NotUncommon and TheGreatWolfgang pointed out, this is the time frame for the modern fandom and part of the logic behind NotUncommon's original meta-year BUR.

Could you link the specific arguments used? I do not remember reading them and I have not been active in the forum for long.

Might as well. Even if it wasn't a couple of weeks away, it already exists on e621 anyway.

Bloody time travelers innit?

gattonero2001 said:
I mean the 722 tags from 1300 to 2021. It would be easier to use the code in topic #28182 to write that out.

I figured that might be seen as excessive, especially considering that it's highly unlikely many of those years would get a picture uploaded. Even now, I wonder if I really needed to go back to 1800 instead of stopping at, say, 1850.

Could you link the specific arguments used? I do not remember reading them and I have not been active in the forum for long.

This post and the one under it.

clawstripe said:
I figured that might be seen as excessive, especially considering that it's highly unlikely many of those years would get a picture uploaded. Even now, I wonder if I really needed to go back to 1800 instead of stopping at, say, 1850.

Indeed, that is one aspect that I failed to consider.

This post and the one under it.

Oh, I did read it before, though I had already forgotten. Thank you for the link

I vehemently disagree with the modern_era tag.

Almost every single post on the site would fall under that. Maybe, it would be better to go the other way around - to create a tag for artwork that predates the modern furry fandom?

bitwolfy said:
I vehemently disagree with the modern_era tag.

Almost every single post on the site would fall under that. Maybe, it would be better to go the other way around - to create a tag for artwork that predates the modern furry fandom?

I agree, adding a tag that will end up on 99% of posts is unnecessary.

Also, there already is a tag for pre-fandom art: ancient furry art.

supina said:
Also, there already is a tag for pre-fandom art: ancient furry art.

I was wondering all last night when someone was going to mention that. :p

I've updated the BUR to remove modern_era and added implications for ancient_furry_art (which I'd originally forgotten about) via the century tags. In any case, ancient_furry_art needed to turn meta anyway.

clawstripe said:
I was wondering all last night when someonw was going to mention that. :p

I've updated the BUR to remove modern_era and added implications for ancient_furry_art (which I'd originally forgotten about) via the century tags. In any case, ancient_furry_art needed to turn meta anyway.

Thank you! 👍 from me now.

I think we should get the job done in one go and impilicate even the currently unused year tags to centuries and make them meta. Otherwise we are just setting ourselves up for more work in the future every time any of those years gets a post.

clawstripe said:
I've updated the BUR to remove modern_era and added implications for ancient_furry_art (which I'd originally forgotten about) via the century tags. In any case, ancient_furry_art needed to turn meta anyway.

Clawstripe, should 20th_century implicate ancient_furry_art? I believe that it is too "late" to be so.

The bulk update request #543 (forum #302158) has been approved by @Millcore.

supina said:
I think we should get the job done in one go and impilicate even the currently unused year tags to centuries and make them meta. Otherwise we are just setting ourselves up for more work in the future every time any of those years gets a post.

As I said above, I only did that back to 1800 and still wondered if I was overdoing it. Anything earlier I think would be excessive, especially considering that it's highly unlikely very many of those years would get a picture uploaded. I figure any pictures given tags for years pre-1800 that aren't currently covered can be switched to meta as they come up.

gattonero2001 said:
Clawstripe, should 20th_century implicate ancient_furry_art? I believe that it is too "late" to be so.

Currently, I'm going by what I see as the spirit of ancient_furry_art. It's "ancient" not so much because it's necessarily old as being from the pre-fandom era ending in 1979. It's kind of like how children sometimes perceive events from before they were born as being "prehistoric".