Is it at all necessary to specify that the signature belongs to the artist? The overwhelming majority of the posts tagged signature are tagged for the artist's signature anyway. If it's really so important that we be able to identify the rare cases where a signature belongs to someone else (e.g., a character), it would make more sense to make a tag just for that instead.
This is equivalent to artist name + signature. I have no opinion as to which it should be aliased to, but we should be sure to tag the other before this is aliased.
Ah, the two tags I often abuse (given I can read kanji names). Umm, I would say probably artist_name is the better alias to make it to. Perhaps then people will think "oh but it's also a signature, I guess I'll also tag it signature" since signature is easily a more prominent tag, but artist_signature -> signature would safely imply most signatures are artist signatures anyway (without prior knowledge of the artist name tag).
This is equivalent to artist name + signature. I have no opinion as to which it should be aliased to, but we should be sure to tag the other before this is aliased.
The signature is not always legible as the artist name, so it should only sometimes be tagged both.
Twitter username is contextually sometimes also the artist name. If it matches to a twitter URL listed in the artist entry then it should be tagged as artist name as well. A twitter username could represent the artist's circle, the handle of a commissioner or person the image is dedicated to, or so on, but if it's a match to one of the artist's twitter accounts then it's a match.
Artist's sometimes sign both their standard name and their twitter username (post #2777426). IMO, the tags should be completely separate to reflect which (or both) names they sign in a tag search.
I just want to note that some artists just put their names on their work by just typing their names on it with a common font. It’s in this cause that I wouldn’t use the signature tag.
I just want to note that some artists just put their names on their work by just typing their names on it with a common font. It’s in this cause that I wouldn’t use the signature tag.
Yeah, that's how I've seen it too. I don't add signature if it's typed.
On a side note, though, I think it would be beneficial to have a character signature tag. character_name signature is mostly filled with instances where the character name is typed and the artist name is signed. It's harder to find posts where the character's name is the signature, like post #2898007.
<< Do we need all those split tags? Adding character_name should be more than enough.
Being fairly strict with the tag's use only around 2% of character_name signature images seem to fit this. Even with a looser definition I doubt it would be more than about 1 in 10. Most stuff that comes up with that search are things like post #2838328.
Being fairly strict with the tag's use only around 2% of character_name signature images seem to fit this. Even with a looser definition I doubt it would be more than about 1 in 10. Most stuff that comes up with that search are things like post #2838328.
I'd still say it's perfectly covered with character name alone. It shouldn't depend on how it's written but what's written. If I recall correctly we shouldn't use artist name if it's only an abbreviation or any other thing you could do with a signature.
There is a distinct situation where a character has signed an object like a photo or letter in-universe. For example, photo_(object) signature has some examples, but most of them aren't, which demonstrates the usefulness of a separate tag. IMO that's what a tag like character signature should be for. It's not at all the same as a character name that happens to be in cursive.
