the doujinshi tag

What's the point of doujinshi? Going through the pages, its mostly scans, some comics, some magazine scans/artbooks, and a couple of series pools. There doesn't really seem to be unifying theme to all of them. The wiki page mentions webcomics, flash games, and animations but almost none of those actually have the tag. I've uploaded several comics now without the tag because I've never been really sure what it meant.

If you are looking for comics, then you search comic. I know a lot of people already blacklist comic because of random dumps.
If you are looking for magazine scans, then you search magazine scan.
If you are looking for any fan made work, then you search -official_art.
If you want anything that isn't covered by comic, you search the pools.

Doing -doujin_cover -pool:series -monochrome -greyscale -artbook -comic doujinshi shows pretty much no correlation between the images, just that most of them have exhentai or e-hentai as the source. I would add -source:*e-hentai* and -source:*exhentai* but it times out after that.

If anyone can offer some explanation (and maybe a wiki rewrite) of the tag, it would be appreciated. Do all comics count as doujinshi? Does the comic have to be physically scanned? Plenty of artists post old doujins to pixiv. Do the cover pages all count as doujinshi? I was thinking about a BUR, but there's too much under the tag to be changed.

The "shi" part of the word means it's a magazine or printed volume of some sort, so it shouldn't be used for webcomics/flash games/animations.

Most posts seemed to be tagged for pages from actual doujinshi (scans or digital releases of printed works), i.e. "amateur-published printed work", or "fanzine". Most people seem to ignore the wiki definition (likely dragged in by the doujin -> doujinshi alias) and don't tag webcomics/flash games/animations with them. Excepting webcomics that are also digital releases of printed works.

Doujinshi works are usually formatted in a certain way and are often identified such in the artist commentary (or title, for 'pirated' scans). These will usually mention the fan convention where the work was released (e.g. Comiket 90).

Usage-wise, the tag can be useful for people trying to search for doujinshi published by a certain artist, or to find all (tagged) doujinshi for a given copyright. Searching for pools with post tags: doujinshi and category: series roughly emulates an e-hentai/sadpanda category search for Doujinshi OR Non-H. People trying to block doujinshi dumps can also blacklist doujinshi instead of going nuclear with blacklisting comic and ending up blocking all webcomics and comic-illustrations.

It seems fairly useless since you would expect it to be a composite search of scan -official_art, but nobody tags it (many people don't even tag scan, in fact), so it's actually less useful than that.

BUR #7424 has been rejected.

nuke doujinshi

Yeah, this tag is largely useless for us. Can't even really alias it to comic because doujinshi doujin_cover.

This needs cleanup first because a lot of doujinshi posts are missing the scan tag.

I'll write a quick bot to add scan to posts having a e*hentai source with no "[Digital]" in the title, and then approve this.

I've been also cleaning up these pools since there's really a lot of untagged scans. I'll approve this once I'm done with them.

This bulk update request is pending automatic rejection in 5 days.

There are a lot of covers that arent tagged as such with the doujinshi tag, needs to be fixed. Also a surprising number of untagged comics.

This bulk update request has been rejected because it was not approved within 45 days.

The bulk update request #7424 (forum #197725) has been rejected by @DanbooruBot.