It seems to me that *_(character) is rarely the best way to disambiguate a character name tag. If it's a character from an established property, then the property name should be used; if it's an original character, then the name of the owner should be used. The only exception is when a franchise and a character share a name. Is there ever any other reason to use *_(character)? If not, then should we have a policy against it? There are thousands of character tags using it when they possibly shouldn't.

The *_(character) suffix is usually used, when an artist and a character owner share the same name famir_(artist), famir_(character).
The *_(character_owner) suffix isn't needed, if the name of the character is unique. I still like to add them, when I create character tags. It makes it easier to find the character in the future, without digging through 5 year old FA posts to find the ref sheet after 10 minutes of search.

dubsthefox said:
The *_(character) suffix is usually used, when an artist and a character owner share the same name famir_(artist), famir_(character).

Why not famir_(famir)? I guess it looks slightly silly, but it's more consistent with the general form for original character tags.

vulpes_artifex said:
Why not famir_(famir)? I guess it looks slightly silly, but it's more consistent with the general form for original character tags.

Because it looks slightly silly. I always prefer the (artist) (character) form when dealing with artists' fursonas, but I've been overruled on this multiple times before.

I get using (character) to distinguish an OC from the artist but it kind of makes (artist) in the artist tag redundant, doesn't it? I think (artist) works better when it's the same name as a more important tag

Also we don't (or I think shouldn't) do that for official characters. In fact it's backwards. Kirby for the character and kirby_(series) for the franchise
(Hello Kitty is still stuck in limbo regarding this)