[Discussion] Let's not duplicate the information on artist entries

Why are we continuing to duplicate the URL information on both the wiki portion and the URLs portion for artist entries?

• Example: artist #17671

Maintaining wikis with such information is harder and more likely to be outdated, plus it adds a lot of clutter and takes up unnecessary space on artist entries. As I understand it, that information was originally added since the artist URLs didn't appear when searching for artist tags, however that is no longer the case (example: jack_hamster, click the "Artist" link at the top next to the "Posts" link), as the artist entry is now shown in its entirety on the excerpt section of the post search page.

Therefore, I'd like to propose removing any and all artist URLs from artist entries unless there is extra information about the URL, such as that it requires a password or some other novel information. Thoughts?

+1 to this.

I tried my hand at deleting these unnecessary wiki entries before, but there's just too many to count.

Yeah, this is pretty much useless. The fact that we can mark urls as deleted too makes those links obsolete and impossible to keep updated.

Sorry to double post, but just wanted to point out that if these are nuked, they should be merged to URLs, not removed. I've often found urls in the wiki page that weren't inserted in the URL field.

Agreed, this wall of text/links are really annoying to see when opening up the artist entry.

One thing I'd like to point out is that the wiki, unlike artist pages, allows for URLs to have extra descriptions. This is useful in cases when artists have links associated with them which aren't just general purpose art dumps, or otherwise would benefit from having a short description.

The example that came right to mind was eiri (eirri)'s alternate twitter where she posted her guro art... but she deleted it at some point and its purpose was never actually described on her wiki page, so that doesn't work very well. I think it would be considerate to warn people if they're about to click into objectionable content like that (that they may not see on Danbooru because they have it blacklisted.)

The ideal solution would probably be adding some way to describe URLs in artist pages, then (when possible) making sure existing descriptions aren't lost if wiki URLs are merged to artist pages.

That said I can recognize this is a pretty niche concern and wouldn't fight hard for it.

Edit: Whoops, didn't read the first post closely enough, BrokenEagle98 kinda mentioned this. That said I think "improve the functionality of artist pages" would be a better solution than "just leave the links on the wiki when necessary," especially since I'm not sure how you could automate moving URLs over to artist entries if you have to check whether each one 'belongs' on the wiki for some reason.

I already don't mess with the URLs in the wiki page all that much, so it'd be a welcome change.

I don't think there's a good way to automate it without losing something, I'm fine with just doing it manually when I see it and leaving some URLs as necessary. I think you can just search http* in in the wiki body to find most of them, anyway.

As for improving the artist page, I don't know aside from maybe using some symbol to mark notes or turning it into a two-column table thing.

+1 to everything 7HS said.

I'll start looking into how to mostly automate this process, and begin working on it then.

BrokenEagle98 said:

I'll start looking into how to mostly automate this process, and begin working on it then.

All twitpic.com, twipple.jp, yfrog.com, img.ly, plus.google.com, and geocities.com entries can be safely removed as they have no stated intention of coming back.

Prinz_Poigen said:

All twitpic.com, twipple.jp, yfrog.com, img.ly, plus.google.com, and geocities.com entries can be safely removed as they have no stated intention of coming back.

We still keep track of those for archival reasons. They can be marked as deleted accounts rather than just erased.

nonamethanks said:

We still keep track of those for archival reasons. They can be marked as deleted accounts rather than just erased.

I think he meant they can be safely erased from the wiki portion.

Amen to this.

I've started working on the artist wikis, and I've noticed that there should probably be a need for at least the following sections.

• 1. Original characters
• Characters that do not appear in any of an artist's officially named works
• 2. Works
• Copyrights which an artist is the main or partial contributor to
• 3. See also
• Would contain all other links to another wiki on Danbooru
• 4. External links
• Would contain all external links

The last two are pretty standard for all wikis on this site as is their position at the end of the wiki.

The question is, are there any other sections that should be utilized on artist wikis besides the above? Also, are the names of 1. and 2. good and clear, or do they need to be altered.

BrokenEagle98 said:

The last two are pretty standard for all wikis on this site as is their position at the end of the wiki.

The question is, are there any other sections that should be utilized on artist wikis besides the above? Also, are the names of 1. and 2. good and clear, or do they need to be altered.

Do 1 and 2 need to be separate sections?

Looking through the test edits, I noticed that while personal websites were moved to the artist page, so were collaborative sites. This includes any site shared with another artist, usually circle partners. I think this is something that should be kept somewhere, like in the external links section.

BrokenEagle98 said:

I think he meant they can be safely erased from the wiki portion.

Yes, you're right. I should have said "marked as deleted" to be clearer.