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How do I tag this?

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c933103 said:

Actually, is there currently no tag to tag characters in illustrations according to their ethnicity? No matter if they are American, British, Chinese, Egyptian, or whatever

We have a few race-specific tags: asian, caucasian, very dark skin. They don't get used much because few characters are drawn with features specific to any given ethnic group.

I'd advise against trying to make up tags any more narrow than these, because really, to what extent can you determine a character's racial background just by looking at a picture? Most people don't look that much different from their neighbors, even without taking anime stylization into account.

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c933103 said:

Actually, is there currently no tag to tag characters in illustrations according to their ethnicity? No matter if they are American, British, Chinese, Egyptian, or whatever

We have many (insert_nationality_here)_clothes tags, with japanese_clothes being by far the biggest for obvious reasons. traditional_clothes goes well with one of the clothing nationality tags.

iridescent_slime said:

I'd advise against trying to make up tags any more narrow than these, because really, to what extent can you determine a character's racial background just by looking at a picture? Most people don't look that much different from their neighbors, even without taking anime stylization into account.

Agreed. It’s much easier to categorize the clothes, which is why we have tags for those.

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iridescent_slime said:

We have a few race-specific tags: asian, caucasian, very dark skin. They don't get used much because few characters are drawn with features specific to any given ethnic group.

I'd advise against trying to make up tags any more narrow than these, because really, to what extent can you determine a character's racial background just by looking at a picture? Most people don't look that much different from their neighbors, even without taking anime stylization into account.

In the previous example they have the ethnicity written on the image itself so it would be possible to tell... Although might be a more generalized tag Austronesian would work instead?

kittey said:

We have many (insert_nationality_here)_clothes tags, with japanese_clothes being by far the biggest for obvious reasons. traditional_clothes goes well with one of the clothing nationality tags.

Now there are indian clothes, but that is for the real India. Is there any tag for clothing style from American Aboriginal tribes?

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c933103 said:

How to tag color band artifacts like post #862822 ? I was going to tag jpg artifact but the image is not jpeg and it is likely caused by video compression

It’s called (color) banding and we don’t have a tag for it, I believe. I wouldn’t tag it on that post, though, because it doesn’t look that noticeable to me. JPEG artifacts should also only be tagged if they’re noticeable when viewing the post normally.

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