Danbooru

Listing Some Other Related Tags

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The related tags list is failing fully convey "related tags" and I have a simple way of addressing it. Two things that I have noticed about the related tags is that it often misses really useful tags that might be easily forgotten, and sometimes lists a few strange things.
Right now I am reading a list of suggested tags for izayoi_sakuya. Some tags which I am noticing are missing are frills, puffy_sleeves, and thigh_holster. I'm also noticing remilia_scarlet and monochrome. Nearly every touhou character has frills, including izayoi_sakuya, why then doesn't it show up under related tags? Well, because people don't tag it enough for the system to see the high incidence. puffy_sleeves and thigh_holster are in the same boat, and I'd find all three of these important as an artist in search of reference images. remilia_scarlet is a fair related tag in that the two are often pictured together; however, Sakuya does not actually necesitate remilia_scarlet, its just that people like to see these two together. monochrome is a bit of a myster to me, because I simply don't know where that corrolation would come from. For the most part I see this happening for characters and their common outfit.
To solve this I would simply suggest a habbit of listing some related tags in the wiki entries for characters, or what ever other tags have such a relation. This mostly plays the roll of the "See Also" lists that some wiki articles; however, "See Also" lists more alternatives rather then what I'm talking about. Such a list could also then be displayed in the tagging interface but it need not be.
What do people think of this idea? Do I even need to people's permission to start making things like these?

Imosa said:

remilia_scarlet is a fair related tag in that the two are often pictured together; however, Sakuya does not actually necesitate remilia_scarlet, its just that people like to see these two together.

Related tags aren't "necessary tags". Not all related tags will always apply, it's just that the most commonly used tags are listed so they can be conveniently added with a single click when they do apply, or ignored when they don't.

Imosa said:

monochrome is a bit of a myster to me, because I simply don't know where that corrolation would come from.

A lot of the posts under izayoi_sakuya are black and white comics.

Imosa said:

To solve this I would simply suggest a habbit of listing some related tags in the wiki entries for characters, or what ever other tags have such a relation. This mostly plays the roll of the "See Also" lists that some wiki articles; however, "See Also" lists more alternatives rather then what I'm talking about. Such a list could also then be displayed in the tagging interface but it need not be.
What do people think of this idea? Do I even need to people's permission to start making things like these?

This feature already exists. There is a "wiki" related tags column (it appears to the right of the regular related tags column) which lists all tags that are linked to in the tag's wiki page. Take a look at the wiki for miki_sayaka, for example - it links to tags like short_hair, blue_hair, hairclip, tags that usually apply to miki_sayaka. These tags appear under the "wiki" related tags column. You can see more examples like this in the wikis for the danganronpa_1 characters.

The thing is that most character wikis (including izayoi_sakuya) are still missing this since there hasn't been a concentrated effort to add them yet. If you want to help out with this where you can then that would be fine.

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