This problem has surfaced again because of Akira Toriyama's recent death, but it's something I first thought about back when Miura died.
The pool:In_Memoriam pool kind of sucks, for many reasons:
- if multiple people involved in a copyright die, it's impossible to filter down by who exactly a pic is paying tribute to (just look at pool:In_Memoriam dragon_ball date:<2024-03-06)
- it's objective who exactly a picture is paying tribute to: it's obvious that post #4828157 and post #4720444 are paying tribute to Kentaro Miura, but he's not in the picture, so it's technically wrong to add his character tag there
- and if we start tagging him there, then there's no real way to filter between actual depictions of the person, and pictures drawn in memory of him.
- pools have the usual issue of being inferior to tags: no suggestion on upload, no default autocomplete suggestion, people are less likely to use them than tags, etc
I'd like to gather opinions around, and propose, the idea of simply tagging these posts with a new standardized type of qualified tag like toriyama_akira_(in_memoriam) (unsure about the qualifier).
This conforms with the rest of our artist-related tags, such as toriyama akira (style) (or _(character)/_(person)/etc), and it gives us a simple way to filter down for these pictures without compromising on search functionality.
It also allows us to search for these in memoriam tags all at once using the /tags page, and it potentially opens the door for converting the in memoriam pool to a tag. It also opens the way to using this type of qualifier not only for real people, but also for pictures drawn "in memoriam" of fictional characters (good luck finding out if there's examples like that in the pool!).
Thoughts? Doubts? Feel free to drop your braindumps about this here.