Splatoon-character alt-costume Implications & Aliases

These were all implications without tag moving, so I approved them. Feel free to submit more BURs to fix the above concerns.

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Splatoonsiast

9 days ago

AngryZapdos said:
Here are the tags I don't like the concept of:
callie_(squid_sisters_outfit)_(splatoon), marie_(squid_sisters_outfit)_(splatoon), pearl_(off_the_hook_outfit)_(splatoon), marina_(off_the_hook_outfit)_(splatoon), shiver_(deep_cut_outfit)_(splatoon), frye_(deep_cut_outfit)_(splatoon)
These are just the mascot characters' default outfits. I really don't like the idea of the vtuber *_(1st_costume) disease spreading to other copyrights, but it is true that if you just search marina_(splatoon), for instance, there's a lot of other stuff in there besides the default outfit.

I was somewhat hesitant on them as well initially, due to the amount of work it would've taken to tag them. But I ended up going for it since it would give people a means of filtering the default outfits out of their search through the use of a single tag. In case they only want to see alternate ones instead.

callie_(squid_form)_(splatoon), marie_(squid_form)_(splatoon)
Rather than tags for Callie and Marie's squid forms, I'd much prefer to see a more inclusive inkling_(squid_form) and octoling_(octopus_form). Every humanoid Inkling and Octoling can do this, not just Callie and Marie.

inkling_(swim_form) octoling_(swim_form) or just swim_form_(splatoon) could also work as a catch-all term. Since that's what the form was renamed to in Splatoon 3 (since that's when Inklings and Octolings were both available from the beginning). I only did it for Callie and Marie since they were the ones i started with and the form seemed to be a bit more prevalent with those two in the fanart I saw, at least when compared to the other idols.

callie_(kimono)_(splatoon), marie_(octo_idol_outfit)_(splatoon), marie_(news_anchor)_(splatoon)
These are just tags for Marie and Callie cosplaying each other's outfits. The appropriate costume/cosplay tags should be used instead.
callie_(octoling_armor)_(splatoon)
This is just takozonesu_(cosplay).

I unfortunately learned the existence of/and how the CharacterName_(cosplay) tags were utilized only after I made those. Though it does seem a little bit limited if all it takes account for is just the character being cosplayed, rather than which specific costume that belongs to that character is being cosplayed. Maybe CharacterName_(CostumeName)_(CopyrightName)_(cosplay) could work, though it does seem a bit wordy.

Here are the tags I think should be renamed:
callie_(agent_1/casual)_(splatoon), marie_(agent_2/casual)_(splatoon)
These should be (agent_1_casual) and (agent_2_casual). There's no need to throw an unnecessary slash into the tag.

I chose the slash because both people and the original source frequently associate the costumes under either the terms "agent_#" and "casual" fairly equally and I wasn't entirely sure of which one to arbitrarily prioritize / assign more value to. So the slash was chosen as a more space-efficient way of saying "Or" or "Also known as".

callie_(splatoon_2_one_year_anniversary), marie_(splatoon_2_one_year_anniversary), pearl_(splatoon_2_one_year_anniversary), marina_(splatoon_2_one_year_anniversary)
These should follow the *_(splatoon_2_1st_anniversary)_(splatoon) format instead.

I was considering that as well when I made them, but wasn't entirely sure on the redundancy of mentioning "Splatoon" twice in the same tag.

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c spl

9 days ago

For squid forms for any given character, shouldn't alternate form + octopus / squid suffice?

Don't think we need any new gen or char tag for those.

Also I support Zapdos' renames. Will have to think about the others a bit more later.

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Splatoonsiast

9 days ago

c_spl said:
For squid forms for any given character, shouldn't alternate form + octopus / squid suffice?

I would've agreed if it weren't for the two-tag search-limit for the majority of users and site visitors.
I think the limit encourages the creation of new tags with varying degrees of specificity just so people have better means of navigating around it.

Splatoon + Squid works slightly better for it at the moment, however you'll still get a lot of pieces that are just kid-form inklings with no swim-forms in sight.

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AngryZapdos

9 days ago

Splatoonsiast said:
inkling_(swim_form) octoling_(swim_form) or just swim_form_(splatoon) could also work as a catch-all term. Since that's what the form was renamed to in Splatoon 3 (since that's when Inklings and Octolings were both available from the beginning). I only did it for Callie and Marie since they were the ones i started with and the form seemed to be a bit more prevalent with those two in the fanart I saw, at least when compared to the other idols.

Ah, that's right, I forgot the game has a name for this form. In that case, yes; the tags should be inkling_(swim_form) and octoling_(swim_form). That way, they can imply inkling and octoling.

I unfortunately learned the existence of/and how the CharacterName_(cosplay) tags were utilized only after I made those. Though it does seem a little bit limited if all it takes account for is just the character being cosplayed, rather than which specific costume that belongs to that character is being cosplayed. Maybe CharacterName_(CostumeName)_(CopyrightName)_(cosplay) could work, though it does seem a bit wordy.

Cosplay tags for skins are generally reserved for the likes of mash_kyrielight_(dangerous_beast)_(cosplay), and should be avoided as much as possible outside of these edge cases. marie_(kimono)_(splatoon) and marie_(cosplay), for instance, should be used instead of marie_(kimono)_(splatoon)_(cosplay).

I chose the slash because both people and the original source frequently associate the costumes under either the terms "agent_#" and "casual" fairly equally and I wasn't entirely sure of which one to arbitrarily prioritize / assign more value to. So the slash was chosen as a more space-efficient way of saying "Or" or "Also known as".

Punctuation like slashes, colons, and hashtags are generally only used for skin names if that's the official spelling released by the copyright holder (daitaku_helios_(#summer_#new_me)_(umamusume), k/da_akali, koyanskaya_(lostbelt_beast:iv)_(fate) etc).

I was considering that as well when I made them, but wasn't entirely sure on the redundancy of mentioning "Splatoon" twice in the same tag.

That's understandable, but what's more desirable on Danbooru is consistency. Doing this opens the doors to users arbitrarily start deciding when skin tags do or don't need a qualifier, which we don't want.

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