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Joseph Joestar

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We have two separate tags for Joseph Joestar: Joseph Joestar and Joseph Joestar (young). This is nonsensical, or, one might even say, bizarre.

  • Several images are tagged as both, despite not featuring both versions. post #4449780, post #4367338, post #4303719, post #4300233, just to name a few.
  • The tag for his appearance in the part where he's the main protagonist has a qualifier but for the part where he's a secondary character doesn't?
  • They're literally the same person.

I suggest having joseph joestar (young) and joseph joestar (old) which both imply joseph joestar.

related: topic #9790

I believe that Joseph Joestar (Young) shouldn't have a qualifier, in parts because of Joseph Joestar (tequila). If we had an approach similar to Fate series, Tequilla Joseph and Old Joseph would be variants of Young Joseph, which is the main Joseph in every sense: its Joseph's depiction as the protagonist of his own part, has the largest number of posts, and its arguably the version of Joseph that comes to mind most of the time when people think of "Joseph Joestar". Old Joseph is quite relevant in Part 3 however, but still not as relevant as his Part 2 version (and in Part 4 he's a side character that only appears a few times)
Just to give an example, if we maintained the "(Young)" qualifier, Tequila Joseph's tag would be something like Joseph Joestar (Young) (Tequila) in Fate style approach.

I suppport that we either:

  • Take out the qualifier from Young Joseph (which is the main and most relevant depiction of Joseph for the reasons I explained above) and give a qualifier to Old Joseph instead.
  • Have both Young and Old Joseph with qualifiers implying Joseph Joestar like Aqros's suggestion.

mongirlfan said:

If we had an approach similar to Fate series, Tequilla Joseph and Old Joseph would be variants of Young Joseph, which is the main Joseph in every sense: its Joseph's depiction as the protagonist of his own part, has the largest number of posts, and its arguably the version of Joseph that comes to mind most of the time when people think of "Joseph Joestar".

If we had an approach similar to the Fate series, because there are more than 3 character tags, all three should be implied to Joseph_Joestar_(all).

guys, I'm just saying that Joseph Joestar (tequila) is a variant of Young Joseph, not Old Joseph. That's why in Fate style the tag would be like Joseph Joestar (young) (tequila).

Still, most of the time (if not all) Part 2 Joseph is the main version of the character. In all promotional material about JoJo in general, its Part 2 Joseph who gets attention (like in post #4449780). And Old Joseph is always referred to as Old Joseph, not as just Joseph. It simply makes more sense for the Joseph Joestar tag without qualifier to refer to Part 2 Joseph, while Old Joseph gets the qualifier, becoming Joseph Joestar (old).

mongirlfan said:

guys, I'm just saying that Joseph Joestar (tequila) is a variant of Young Joseph, not Old Joseph. That's why in Fate style the tag would be like Joseph Joestar (young) (tequila).

Still, most of the time (if not all) Part 2 Joseph is the main version of the character. In all promotional material about JoJo in general, its Part 2 Joseph who gets attention (like in post #4449780). And Old Joseph is always referred to as Old Joseph, not as just Joseph. It simply makes more sense for the Joseph Joestar tag without qualifier to refer to Part 2 Joseph, while Old Joseph gets the qualifier, becoming Joseph Joestar (old).

This makes no sense, if we acknowledge it's confusing to have only one unqualified why would we make it even more confusing by just swapping the qualifier around? Especially given that these tags are as old as Danbooru. If we're fixing this, both should have the qualifier.

nonamethanks said:

This makes no sense, if we acknowledge it's confusing to have only one unqualified why would we make it even more confusing by just swapping the qualifier around? Especially given that these tags are as old as Danbooru. If we're fixing this, both should have the qualifier.

That's not what I mean. I'm not against both having qualifiers, I'm saying that if one of them shouldn't have the qualifier and be the main tag, it should be Part 2 Joseph, not Old Joseph like how it is right now.

I'm +1 to Aqros' suggestion.

mongirlfan said:

BUR #5164 has been approved by @evazion.

create alias joseph_joestar -> joseph_joestar_(old)

It seems there's at least some agreement that we should give a qualifier to Old Joseph. The plan is to imply both Young and Old Joseph (and maybe also Tequila Joseph, as it has more than 100 posts) to a new Joseph Joestar catch-all tag in another BUR, following Aqros' suggestion.

I don't think creating an alias is the right thing to do here, though.

Bumping this. If the BUR gets approved, we can make a consistent tag family for Joseph:

Updated

mongirlfan said:

Bumping this. If the BUR gets approved, we can make a consistent tag family for Joseph:

I don't still don't fully understand the difference between all the different Josephs, but this approach makes sense to me.

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