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albert03 said:
It doesn't have to have a unified visual aesthetic, what defines an assassin is the characters profession or actions
Ideally for a tag like this youd want to be able to tell they were an assassin just by looking at them. See a tag like ninja, if its not visible at a glance such as hitman attempts its not a good tag.
I think there are cases when you can tell, but its not a very cohesive tag as opposed to other similar profession tags.
albert03 said:
It doesn't have to have a unified visual aesthetic, what defines an assassin is the characters profession or actions
We try to avoid canon tagging. Tags need some level of coherence to be useful in any way. Searching assassin gets you post #3325265 alongside post #3318561. There are more Warhammer images in there than there are Fate characters, a series where several 5k+ tag count characters have assassin as their job title and profession. There're multiple characters named assassin and almost none of them are in the tag.
We don't tag professions. If we did, every fire emblem character would have an encyclopedic list of tags attached to them, like Chrom getting prince, king, royal, swordsman, and knight on every image of him. That we don't have a tactician tag for every image of Robin is telling.
Assassin is a useless tag. If you want to tag someone's actions, we have severals tags like murder to use.
Provence said:
We literaly do canon tagging everywhere, from family relationships to anial features on named characters.
Like I said:
We try to avoid it, using it only where it is useful.
It is simply not useful here and nobody is searching for it to begin with. Normal for profession tags I say to convert them to costume tags or sometimes an action tag (thief gets tagged on a lot of stealing pictures), but there is no assassin costume and we have tons of tags for covert murder. Thus, this doesn't need to exist.
The bulk update request #23601 (forum #269919) has been rejected by @DanbooruBot.
When you want to deprecate a tag you need to provide alternatives in the wiki on what the replacements should be. The wiki for assassin says nothing about why it should be deprecated or how it should be replaced or how things like post #7188821 or post #7403271 (actual assassination) should be tagged with. We have tags like murder that could replace it, but a wiki needs to be written first.
