Extractions are third-party edits

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nonamethanks said in forum #348739:

This needs some cleanup, there's a lot of first-party simple background variants here.

After about a year, we finally got the requested tag in the form of first-party extraction... and that name sucks. The artist would not be extracting the art from anything, they would have the clean art already, even moreso in cases where it's the second-party source (magazines, promotional art for games, etc) adding stuff atop the art, meaning the artist only ever had the clean version to begin with.

But what to call it? Something with "clean" or "separated" or "isolated" comes to mind right now, but no definitive ideas.

I agree with Damian, but was unsure of a better name for it. I mostly created the tag to be able to fix some cases I knew were first-party and get rid of the implicated third-party edit tags implied after this was changed.

I agree that in the majority of cases it's the version with the background that is composited with this isolated version as a component rather than the background being directly removed. Not sure if "isolated" is very intuitive though since that would more likely make me think of a lone character on a desert island or something like that. The other suggestions also have multiple meanings, which is somewhat problematic.

As a side note, this tag is going to be a royal pain to populate. I tried to do it for posts I didn't have first-hand knowledge of, and there isn't a great way to query for them at the moment that I could think of.

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