"Official Art" artist entry

Posted under General

I've noticed that multiple Twitter accounts, and even some Pixiv accounts, are the sources of official art. An example would be an account maintained by a company. Whenever I have encountered these images from, they always fit under the use of official art.

Therefore, should we have something like an artist entry named official art, and populate it with the corresponding Twitter/Pixiv/whatever URLs as we find them? At least for myself, this would be helpful, as I always seem to have to catch myself from creating an artist account for one of those companies. Instead, if the URL was listed as an official art source, I could just skip it.

I just tested setting up a tag for something like the above on Testbooru, and unfortunately it currently changes the tag category to Artist, although it can always be changed back. If this is something that would be desired though, I'm sure that can be worked around somehow.

Thoughts?

The main issue I'd have with this is that uploaders would become lazy in regards to actually entering in, or sourcing out the artist for the corresponding art piece they are submitting to Danbooru even if the artist name is blatantly obvious from it being in the Twitter post itself. As I've seen plenty of people just submit the artwork for alternate costumes to current games with established characters yet they don't even bother to manually look up the artist for the tagging itself. Even though you can just do a quick "(insert character) official_art" query to find the necessary artist name.

I get the concept but I can't say I'd support it.

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