What's our stance on creating disambiguation tags for the vast amount of characters out there sharing similar names.

On one side it would help tagging (and since you get tag suggestions when searching, probably that too) but on the other you could probably find upwards to hundreds of character tags in total where there are conflicts.

Also just fishing for thoughts.

+1

I'd leave it to just ones that are likely to be confused (e.g., robin - Robin Hood, Batman & Robin, a species of bird, etc.). Put another way, I don't think we should really care that much about making a disambiguation tag for steve.

While I agree with parasprite, I'd also add: If each of the characters sharing a name has plenty (100+) of legit posts, then a disambiguation tag should be considered; until then, not worth it.

savageorange said:
While I agree with parasprite, I'd also add: If each of the characters sharing a name has plenty (100+) of legit posts, then a disambiguation tag should be considered; until then, not worth it.

I think that's a pretty good rule of thumb. +1

Chessax said:
What's our stance on creating disambiguation tags for the vast amount of characters out there sharing similar names.

On one side it would help tagging (and since you get tag suggestions when searching, probably that too) but on the other you could probably find upwards to hundreds of character tags in total where there are conflicts.

Also just fishing for thoughts.

Well, if the name is shared for characters of multiple artists, it helps to specify which character belongs to which artist.

That's why kalnareff_(character), Jess_(teckly), Isis_(Nightfaux), etc are tagged as so.

I've been compiling a list of possible candidates based on your suggestions, it will hopefully be done in a day or two (or longer since I end up stopping and fixing tags all the time instead...). Though maybe it won't be that interesting, we'll see.

GameManiac said:
Well, if the name is shared for characters of multiple artists, it helps to specify which character belongs to which artist.

Yup, true, though this refers more specifically to actually disambiguating tags (*_(disambiguation)) and not only dividing them.

GameManiac said:
That's why kalnareff_(character), Jess_(teckly), Isis_(Nightfaux), etc are tagged as so.

There is a good reason not to do this by the way: "jess teckly" is a valid request that means exactly that, "Jess (by) teckly".

Unless, of course, it's the same character drawn by somebody other than teckly. In which case, I still think it should be tagged "teckly" somehow to signify character origin. Alongside the artist tag.

"*_(disambiguation)" tags make no sense. This kind of tags just does not fit within the tagging model e6 uses. If one wants to see all characters named Jess, "jess" without additional artist tags should be the right query.

That's just my musings however, I may be wrong. And in any case, for this to work well the site must handle tag types differently.

hslugs said:
"*_(disambiguation)" tags make no sense. This kind of tags just does not fit within the tagging model e6 uses. If one wants to see all characters named Jess, "jess" without additional artist tags should be the right query.

Technically that would be jess* (with or without the disambiguation suffix).

Nah, that would match for instance "jessica_rabbit", a character clearly not named Jess.

hslugs said:
Nah, that would match for instance "jessica_rabbit", a character clearly not named Jess.

jess_*

Problem bloody solved.

ShylokVakarian said:
jess_*

Problem bloody solved.

Nope.
You need to search jess OR jess_*. Which I think can be done currently with ~.

savageorange said:
Nope.
You need to search jess OR jess_*. Which I think can be done currently with ~.

Okay, problem NOW bloody solved. ~jess ~jess_*.

savageorange said:
Nope.
You need to search jess OR jess_*. Which I think can be done currently with ~.

~ and * don't play well currently. Searches with both (~jess_*) won't return any results. I suspect that either ~ or * is getting counted as part of the tag, but I'm not sure which.

That being said, searching jess doesn't return jess_(teckly) anyways, so the disambiguation is probably preferable.