Updated by Aristocrat
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Updated by Aristocrat
Disagree, because that makes the year tags less useful. 2010 should focus on images pertaining to the year (post #933814, post #1051093, post #1020825, etc.), rather than images drawn in that year.
Maybe we can simply find images without day and month by searching for -dated 2010 (the "opposite" of dated 2010)?
That'd also get rid of a bunch of thematic New Year's posts which happened to also have the day and month in it. I'm not seeing a good reason to tag dated images with the year other than "the number of the year is in the image"; does adding the year tag for all the images that an artist signed with a date somehow make the year tag more useful? I don't think it does, but since you are a much more prolific tag editor than I am, maybe you could tell me what the benefits of tagging all those images with the year are.
One with enough perseverance could create separate tags; dated_2010 etc.
Maybe first we should decide exactly what is the use for year tags?
For starters... I, too, have been tagging images that display years. I think it is a simple and straightforward enough way to find known images.
On the other hand, should year tags be historically meaningful? (which would better fit a pool, if anything, by the way)
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I think it would make more sense to reserve year tags for images that refer specifically to the year in question, and not events that happened during a year. We could have tags like attack_on_pearl_harbor, 2011_touhoku_earthquake, etc. if images about them become sufficiently large in number.
Danielx21 does bring up a good point that there is currently no good tag substitute for some of those images currently tagged with the year numbers that would otherwise be nearly impossible to find, but I think there ought to be a better solution to that than making the year tag too inclusive. We should get more opinions about this issue in this thread, in any case.
There are still images like post #1073464 which aren't about new_years, but just the year itself.