The bulk update request #7953 is pending approval.

change category copyright_request (116) -> meta
change category species_request (3598) -> meta

Reason: Like the other *_request tags.

Can you add species_request as well?

tarrgon said:
Can you add species_request as well?

Yep, one moment

I think I once asked this on the Discord - what is the purpose of copyright request?

How would you know that the post has a relevant copyright tag without knowing the copyright? With characters and species it's immediately obvious that there's a character or a species in an image.

faucet said:
I think I once asked this on the Discord - what is the purpose of copyright request?

How would you know that the post has a relevant copyright tag without knowing the copyright? With characters and species it's immediately obvious that there's a character or a species in an image.

I'd imagine branding and stuff like that?

faucet said:
I think I once asked this on the Discord - what is the purpose of copyright request?

How would you know that the post has a relevant copyright tag without knowing the copyright? With characters and species it's immediately obvious that there's a character or a species in an image.

Sometimes you know but don't remember the name. Also cosplay, meme copyright tags, brands, etc

For example I added it to these because I know they're cosplay, but I don't know what they're from:
post #621056 post #3591998

Also these type of giant multi-copyright images:

post #4703280 post #4488687

Sometimes even, an artist will just say something is fanart but not say from what.

Lot of potential uses, really! At first glance it seems odd but when you really think about it there's a lot of use cases.

Bump because I've been adding this whenever I come across a post with branding I know is from a real world thing but don't know the name of

Part of me thinks the *_request tags should be in the category they're requesting information for. To make it more obvious the copyright/species/etc is missing and making it more apparent to remove when it's set. unknown_artist works that way, which is effectively artist_request.

watsit said:
Part of me thinks the *_request tags should be in the category they're requesting information for. To make it more obvious the copyright/species/etc is missing and making it more apparent to remove when it's set. unknown_artist works that way, which is effectively artist_request.

The issue is, that messes up searches for copytags:0, chartags:0, etc.

nimphia said:
The issue is, that messes up searches for copytags:0, chartags:0, etc.

as do mythology, christmas, etc.

nimphia said:
The issue is, that messes up searches for copytags:0, chartags:0, etc.

I mean, wouldn't that make more sense, then? the people who want to avoid brands or copyrighted characters/OCs/whatever would also want to avoid them if they're in a post just not identified...

dba_afish said:
I mean, wouldn't that make more sense, then? the people who want to avoid brands or copyrighted characters/OCs/whatever would also want to avoid them if they're in a post just not identified...

I use those searches mostly for finding stuff that's missing tags, so IDK.

pleaseletmein said:
as do mythology, christmas, etc.

This is true and they drive me batty.