I am currently uploading official art extracted from a mobile game. In-game, each image includes a short description related to the contents. Is it appropriate to include this description in the artist commentary even though it's not from the original artist?
I know there are a series of Genshin Impact food icons on here with the in-game description in the commentary (the vast majority of "commentary game_cg rating:general"), but I don't know if this is a good example to follow.
Edit: Since I haven't gotten any answers in a week, I'll just go ahead and add the commentary to my uploads. It doesn't seem like it will do any harm and I haven't seen any objections to the food icon commentaries. If they're really not supposed to be there, I can always remove them.
In-game, each image includes a short description related to the contents. Is it appropriate to include this description in the artist commentary even though it's not from the original artist?
There are no rules about it but personally, it depends on whether it has relation to the artists, copyrights and/or characters present in the image, like some second and third-party sourced illusts from mobile games.
There are no rules about it but personally, it depends on whether it has relation to the artists, copyrights and/or characters present in the image, like some second and third-party sourced illusts from mobile games.
on this: something bipface brought up in discord is user commissions populated by skeb artists which we sometimes pull for commentary. it’s a great point, since that bit of background info can add a whole lot of context to what would otherwise be “original generic anime girl xyz”. to tag it, I can only think of the ugly non-artist commentary, so this idea needs more fleshing out.
to that end I don’t think it could hurt to have non-artist commentaries, as long as they’re properly tagged and provide some extra layer of detail to the focal point of the image.
Since there are mixed opinions on this, I'll hold off on adding the commentary to each post for now. I added some tentative commentary to post #6199306 to see how this might work based on everyone's feedback so far. The format I'm using right now is:
This feels like something that could real easily get out of hand. I might be alright with it if the description actually contributes to the image, as bob described, but if it's just a general bit of info related to the character it could end up being something that would be better off in a wiki if it's really worth noting, and those are already prone to useless information from overzealous users.
For example, the description of post #6199306 is just basic background and personality information of the girl, and none of it's even reflected in the image itself. The idea of ingame descriptions being useful to taggers is also moot if it's not even in English (good luck getting someone to translate them).
This feels like something that could real easily get out of hand. I might be alright with it if the description actually contributes to the image, as bob described, but if it's just a general bit of info related to the character it could end up being something that would be better off in a wiki if it's really worth noting, and those are already prone to useless information from overzealous users.
For example, the description of post #6199306 is just basic background and personality information of the girl, and none of it's even reflected in the image itself. The idea of ingame descriptions being useful to taggers is also moot if it's not even in English (good luck getting someone to translate them).
The character description is the same for all images focused on the specific character. I agree that those would be more appropriate for the wiki.
How about just adding the character quotes, then? They are different for each image and usually relate to the image contents in some way.
Artist commentaries are meant to contain data from the source as provided by the artist, not random information like this. They're called artist commentaries for a reason. For in-game items like food, item description belongs to the respective game's wiki/fandom site, not danbooru.
Artist commentaries are meant to contain data from the source as provided by the artist, not random information like this. They're called artist commentaries for a reason. For in-game items like food, item description belongs to the respective game's wiki/fandom site, not danbooru.
Understood. I will not put the in-game text in the commentary. Thank you for the feedback.
Edit: Looking back, I think this is probably what blindVigil meant about things getting out of hand. While I would not call the quotes and item descriptions random since they relate directly to content in the specific image, another user might use them as justification to add something farther removed from the image and the artist commentary like a viewer's comment. I don't know what that means for commission commentary, but I do know there have been many problems with users pushing the limits on what tags or ratings cover. I would not even have suggested it if I didn't see the Genshin Impact game assets, which I wasn't sure at the time if it was good practice.
