Street Fighter

I hate to be that guy, but using the Japanese names for characters is the standard, right?

Western Name -> Japanese Name
Akuma -> Gouki
M. Bison -> Vega
Vega -> Balrog
Balrog -> M. Bison (Mike Bison, actually)

If it's alright, I'll go and make these changes.

Also, can anybody clarify some other minor points for me?

1. Street Fighter, not Streetfighter, right? Looks backwards to me.

2. Capcom & SNK tags indicate what, exactly? Copyright owner of the art, or the character? If it's the character, shouldn't we have tag implications for all the SF crowd -> capcom?

3. Streetfighter tag - is it appropriate for any character who originated in SF? Any character whose most famous game is SF? Should we have implications like chun-li -> Street_Fighter?

Yeah, it's Street Fighter, curiously, soul_calibur which is actually soulcalibur is separated.

capcom and snk are the companies that made the characters, about the implication, I made a cirno -> touhou implication once but it was denied, there must be some reason why it was.

I personally only use company tags when the artwork is official art released by the company (ie, as a pseudo "artist" tag)

That makes little sense, the ones who make the art are the artists, not the company they work for.

Example: shinkiro, who worked for snk but now works for capcom.

The company tags probably came about with the everyone pictures with lots of characters from different games of a single company.

There doesn't seem to be a unified rationale for handling company tags, or if there is, it's far from being anywhere near respected. You'll find company tags on some posts and not in others for no discernable reason. The only counter-argument to the implications I can imagine would be situations like small crossovers such as a character cosplaying as another from some other game, and even then the potential mess doesn't sound very big to me.

Then again, company tags are of variable usefulness. Type-Moon, Gust and Nippon_Ichi all have a very integrated universe so the company tags come in handy when you just want to look up everything. On the other hand, something like Tri-ace or Square_enix would cover a bunch of games with barely any relation to each other.

I always add copyright tags if a character from a certain copyright is in there. I figure it's more informative than useful, but for example if you want to find crossover pics you can search for something like "capcom SNK" and get them. When something is official art I add the "official" tag, that way you can find them by going "capcom official".

I don't mind changing my habits, but I thought what I was doing was the Right Thing, so we'll need to figure something out and stick to it.

Ephyon said:

Then again, company tags are of variable usefulness. Type-Moon, Gust and Nippon_Ichi all have a very integrated universe so the company tags come in handy when you just want to look up everything. On the other hand, something like Tri-ace or Square_enix would cover a bunch of games with barely any relation to each other.

Even then it's rarely useful since not many people tag with them. For example, Type-Moon only has 71 posts, while Tsukihime has 2447.

I know that, I meant that the tag is useful in principle. The mess that is company-tagging makes it no so in reality.