The tag alias #55508 sharkidiot -> sharked.co has been approved.

Reason: New copyright = Sharked.co

EDIT: The tag alias sharkidiot -> sharked.co (forum #321884) has been approved by @bitWolfy.

What is it? A quick search doesn't turn up anything for sharkidiot or sharked.co, except SharkIdiot seems to be the name of an artist, not a copyright/company, and Shark Idiot being a role playing character name.

The tag alias sharkidiot -> sharked.co (forum #321884) has been approved by @bitWolfy.

If I'm getting this right, Sharked.co is the name of the character owner, and we don't normally tag character owners as Copyright for images (several instances have been aliased to invalid_tag, even recently in the case of that last one). So if that's right, both of these should be aliased to invalid_tag too.

????

I think Cole the Shark is the character owner, actually? The only person who has ever used the sharkidiot tag is Cole the Shark. Sharked.co appears to be the url of his vanity website.

Did we start allowing commissioners as copyright or something? I thought whitekitten was the only one with that dubious honor. This is mystifying.

Edit: I found another with a cursory look: hollandworks aj_the_flygon chimangetsu feuerfrei Presumably there are more. I guess they work kind of like artist tags? Whatever.

matrixmash said:
Did we start allowing commissioners as copyright or something?

Not as far as I know. Since anyone can create a tag, it's not surprising that there's others hiding around, but they should be aliased away when found.

The bulk update request #1783 has been rejected.

create alias sharked.co (52) -> invalid_copyright (0)
change category invalid_copyright (0) -> invalid
create alias katmorgan (0) -> invalid_copyright (0)
create alias mike_argentum_(copyright) (88) -> invalid_copyright (0)

Reason: We don't tag character owners. List that information on the character's wiki, or change the character's tag to cole_(sharked.co) instead.

EDIT: The bulk update request #1783 (forum #323681) has been rejected by @slyroon.

Do we need an invalid_copyright tag? Why not just alias it to invalid_tag? Also, sharkidiot -> sharked.co needs to be unaliased first, then both get invalidated (along with the others MatrixMash found).

watsit said:
Do we need an invalid_copyright tag? Why not just alias it to invalid_tag? Also, sharkidiot -> sharked.co needs to be unaliased first, then both get invalidated (along with the others MatrixMash found).

helps people realize which kind of tag they added that was considered invalid. If it just aliases to invalid_tag they might keep at it, not realizing it's the copyright tag they tried to add.

furrin_gok said:
invalid_copyright helps people realize which kind of tag they added that was considered invalid. If it just aliases to invalid_tag they might keep at it, not realizing it's the copyright tag they tried to add.

Since tags like these tend to only be added by the person themself, it not appearing in the resulting tags while invalid_tag does should be clue enough. I don't think invalid_copyright provides much more clarity that the commissioner/character owner tag is invalid, and would just be another tag that needs to be watched for cleaning.

Found another one: katmorgan. This one's set as an Artist tag, even though from all that I can see, the arts' always by someone else and they're just the character owner.

... I'll have to get back to this one.
Throw in mike_argentum_(copyright) as well.

The bulk update request #1783 (forum #323681) has been rejected by @slyroon.