Danbooru

Create alias dark -> dark background

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BUR #8837 has been rejected.

create alias dark -> dark_background

I think they mean virtually the same thing, given that they're being used similarly when you browse through the posts while the latter has a better name than the former. Rather this, the reverse alias or nuking one of the two tags because looks like padding.

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Hyozen said:

I've been using black_background when there's a solid black color on the background and dark or dark background when it's a more complex dark background rather than just solid black. This has also been discussed on forum #111514.

It seems the wiki definition of Dark is aligned with what was discussed back in topic #111514. However I'm not sure what would be the best tag name for this concept, because virtually all "___ background" tags are very related to simple background and we know dark background doesn't mean it's a simple bg. However, dark as tag can be very ambiguous to a lot of different meanings.

But in general, I'm +1 to the BUR.

The background here is clearly not suitable by analogy with other tags.

The tags discussed are now ambiguous, both due to the simplicity of the word in general terms, and the lack of a description for the "background" tag.
dark > post #4544558 implies an analogue of darkness or even an emotional component; post #4440169 some blackout; post #4337186 post #4338895 also does not fit the description of the tag.
dark_background analogue of black background. post #5098285 post #4991225 misuse; post #5009768 post #4990938 direct analogue.

For images without a clear light source that cannot be directly attributed to night, I would look at replacing with "blackness". Or other analogues, similar in meaning and understandable to a wide range of users. https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/semidarkness
This includes images with a dark environment, but without a solid black background. It can also include places in the shade.
However, the absence of a material environment (floor, walls, earth, etc.) should be marked with a dark background.
The discussed tag "dark" is better to transfer to the category of ambiguous.

dark_background analogue of black background. post #5098285 post #4991225 misuse; post #5009768 post #4990938 direct analogue.

I agree with the misuses, but post #5009768 better have black background imo, it's solid black, while I'd use dark or dark background for post #5074377, to make my reasoning simple.

Dolmatov said:

dark > post #4544558 implies an analogue of darkness or even an emotional component; post #4440169 some blackout; post #4337186 post #4338895 also does not fit the description of the tag.

This seems to be a rather broad use which make even more clear it's an ambiguous tag, I honestly don't know how I'd tag the two last examples you gave though, they definitely don't fit neither black background nor dark background, specially post #4338895. But I still believe such cases deserves a better tag than simply "dark", if it doesn't exist already. Even if the tag continues to exist just for such specific cases, we'd still have dark and dark background overlapping in a lot a posts while we don't need two tags to express virtually the same thing.

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