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Currently, the looking_up tag has been used for when you are looking up to a character.
looking_down tag has been used for when you are looking down at a character.
but uploaders have been placing the tags as when the Character themselves are looking up or down.
should the purpose of these tags change and go with it's related alternate tags?
Updated by 0xCCBA696
IMO the latter usage is much more intuitive. I'd say use from_above and from_below for the former notion. There seems to be a small precedent.
And anyway, you are the sole editor of the wiki articles for looking_up, looking_down, view_from_below, and aerial_view, so this looks more like a matter of users not adapting to your new tags as easily as you thought they would, rather than stray newbies abusing widely-used tags. Frankly, view_from_below is cumbersome and aerial_view makes little sense. looking_up and looking_down are sort of gerunds, and so should apply to the character in the image, not to the viewer.
My proposal: from_above for images in which the perspective is, well, from above. from_below for the opposite. looking_up for when a character is looking at something above the viewer, and looking_down for the opposite.
I've always wondered why looking_up had the unintuitive use it did (though I tried to stick to it). I second xCCBAA696's motion. It makes it fit better with looking_back as well, which is from the subject's perspective.
0xCCBA696 said:
And anyway, you are the sole editor of the wiki articles for looking_up, looking_down, view_from_below, and aerial_view, so this looks more like a matter of users not adapting to your new tags as easily as you thought they would, rather than stray newbies abusing widely-used tags.
they are not "My tags", i didn't create them, they have been there (from what it looks like, 2 years) and i just saw the pics related to those specific tags and made a wiki for it. figuring that is what they were being specifically used for.
i will gladly change it to make it easier to follow.
as in a character action.
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0xCCBA696 said: My proposal: from_above for images in which the perspective is, well, from above. from_below for the opposite. looking_up for when a character is looking at something above the viewer, and looking_down for the opposite.
Yes, this is exactly how I would define them.
0xCCBA696 said:
My proposal: from_above for images in which the perspective is, well, from above. from_below for the opposite. looking_up for when a character is looking at something above the viewer, and looking_down for the opposite.
I agree with this, it makes more logical sense.
unicogirl said: so shall there be an alias for the new above/below?
Nah. Reread 0xCCBA696's stuff I quoted, we're using from_above as something different from looking_up.
So if you, as the viewer, are viewing the character from abobe, it's from_above. Regardless of what the character is doing.
If the character is looking upwards, then it's looking_up. Regardless of where we as the viewer are viewing them from.
unicogirl said: i am referring to taking the new tags, and placing them over the viewfrombelow / aerialview
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fixed them, and added the new tags.
Oh I see what you mean.
Yes, I'll alias:
view_from_below -> from_below
view_from_above -> from_above
aerial_view -> from_above
unicogirl said:
they are not "My tags", i didn't create them, they have been there (from what it looks like, 2 years) and i just saw the pics related to those specific tags and made a wiki for it. figuring that is what they were being specifically used for.
Sorry, my mistake. I'd just never noticed or seen those tags before, I guess. Anyway, this issue seems to be resolved now. :)
