Is there a canonical way to name pools?

Many pools names are just the comic/story names.
Some pool names also have

• the artist name, sometimes after the comic/story name, sometimes before, and sometimes in (parentheses) or [square brackets].
• a separator between the comic/story name and artist name ("by" or "-").
• the fetish or franchise.

mantikor said:
Is there a canonical way to name pools?

no

Many pools names are just the comic/story names.
Some pool names also have

• the artist name, sometimes after the comic/story name, sometimes before, and sometimes in (parentheses) or [square brackets].
• a separator between the comic/story name and artist name ("by" or "-").
• the fetish or franchise.

you can't have a "canon" pool name if pools are used to catalog a variety of things. but it has been a personal rule of mine to add "By artist" for every pool.

mantikor said:
Is there a canonical way to name pools?

Many pools names are just the comic/story names.
Some pool names also have

• the artist name, sometimes after the comic/story name, sometimes before, and sometimes in (parentheses) or [square brackets].
• a separator between the comic/story name and artist name ("by" or "-").
• the fetish or franchise.

Although there's no canonical way to name pools, I would recommend that if the pool name is generic phrase, just add a separator followed by the artist name

Also I don't recall seeing the artist's name precede a comic, so I would avoid that.
Scratch that, of the top 3 recently updated pools 2 have artist name precede comic name. Selective memory it is then.

If you want a look at the way that has become uniform *I think* naming practice just click on my profile and click pool changes. The best way to continue stories is to edit the pool description to have information about following chapters, some people have gone through the effort of making multiple different pools for exceptionally long series to distinguish between chapters. (though whether or not web series are acceptable to e6 is a situational topic) and having one large pool ton encompass the whole series.

versperus said:
If you want a look at the way that has become uniform *I think* naming practice just click on my profile and click pool changes. The best way to continue stories is to edit the pool description to have information about following chapters, some people have gone through the effort of making multiple different pools for exceptionally long series to distinguish between chapters. (though whether or not web series are acceptable to e6 is a situational topic) and having one large pool ton encompass the whole series.

Fast link to their pool changes

Your way (artistname - poolname) has not become widely accepted, most pools have poolname before artistname

snpthecat said:
Fast link to their pool changes

Your way (artistname - poolname) has not become widely accepted, most pools have poolname before artistname

It's honestly a coin toss between the two, it fluctuates between both depending on who's creating pools at the time and the trend. That being said I've advocated for years I'd love if there was uniform process to it but it's basically a gentlemen's agreement that in general it should be both pieces of information including artist names and the actual name for the pool from sources if one exists. The reason I tend to do Artistname - pool is, it's a lot cleaner looking once you get multiple pools with their artist tag.

versperus said:
The reason I tend to do Artistname - pool is, it's a lot cleaner looking once you get multiple pools with their artist tag.

I prefer putting the title first, since if I'm looking at the pool name, the thing I'll be most interested in is the title. If I look at the pool name and see "Matemi ..." first, that doesn't tell me much since there's multiple comics/series they've been the artist for. In contrast, if I see "On Borrowed Time ..." first, I won't need to look for the artist name once I'm familiar with who it is. It's also the case that a comic or series may have multiple different artists throughout its run, so there wouldn't be one to put in the pool name, making it more consistent to put the title first.

watsit said:
I prefer putting the title first, since if I'm looking at the pool name, the thing I'll be most interested in is the title. If I look at the pool name and see "Matemi ..." first, that doesn't tell me much since there's multiple comics/series they've been the artist for. In contrast, if I see "On Borrowed Time ..." first, I won't need to look for the artist name once I'm familiar with who it is. It's also the case that a comic or series may have multiple different artists throughout its run, so there wouldn't be one to put in the pool name, making it more consistent to put the title first.

Unfortunately our argument in our perfect world of pool titles and practices isn't done by most of the userbase who just >daisy chain like 10 images together< or make random nonsense pool titles. I often feel like it's only a short list of users that even do curation with pools in the first place...

versperus said:
Unfortunately our argument in our perfect world of pool titles and practices isn't done by most of the userbase who just >daisy chain like 10 images together< or make random nonsense pool titles. I often feel like it's only a short list of users that even do curation with pools in the first place...

Just like how only a small percentage uses the forums, or bother tag fixing, etc.