Danbooru

Artist tagging help

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akp47 said:

post #3337053

Artist name やつはしかけら

Update:
Looking up the twitter, it's actually the same artist as artist #149147, how about rename/alias them?

It's actually artist #51631. I (re)tagged that post and all of the posts under artist #149147, but left the artist name as is especially since there are 100+ posts to that artists name.

If the name is to be changed/aliased, then it should be to yatsuhashi_kakera, as the Pixiv profile uses Yatsuhashi as a standalone introduction, so I'm assuming that's how the name is delineated.

忍猫 said:

I'm not exactly sure how to find the artist for post #3139236.

Fixed post and created artist.

For those interested, the following are steps you can attempt to find an image with nothing identifying what post it came from.

Find the image

1. SauceNAO it. http://saucenao.com/
2. Google Image it. https://images.google.com/
3. Some other reverse image search. (Help:Image Source)

Follow the image

In case you get a hit, you can attempt follow where the image came from. In this case, I found it using Google Image.

1. It was mentioned on several Twitter profile links.
2. I kept checking them one-by-one until I found one with a low amount of tweets
3. I went back several months (the age of the Danbooru post) until I eventually found the Retweet
4. I followed that Retweet, and verified that the art for that Twitter user matched the original

Final

Both of the above steps require a bit of luck and a moderate amount of effort, but I've found the original source for many images that way.

However, sometimes the image can't be found. Either you can't find the image, or you can't follow it to its source. For those, the only recourse left is to attempt to recognize the art style and check the artist's sites for that image, but that's the LUNATIC mode of image finding, and isn't expected of users.