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Should we do anything to tighten up the definition of contrast? It's an extremely vague tag that I've recently noticed is being used for practically any sort of image with two or more different blocks of color, even if it's just two characters with different skin or hair color. See post #1685997, post #2453590, post #2819027, post #2945326, post #3216959 — the list goes on and on. If we're going to allow this tag to be used so loosely, it might as well apply to half the multiple_girls posts on the site.
So contrast is a milder version of high contrast? I have to admit I've never seen the tag before much less used it so I don't know how useful it is in the first place.
Unbreakable said:
So contrast is a milder version of high contrast? I have to admit I've never seen the tag before much less used it so I don't know how useful it is in the first place.
Contrast has been around for quite a while, but for a long time it was poorly populated and undefined. From what I can tell it was used in much the way you describe: images that used bright and dark colors for visual effect, like post #603082, post #677234, and post #1031537. Within the last couple years, though, user #454515 apparently decided to expand it to include anything and everything with contrasting concepts — angel and devil, day and night, different reflection, dual persona, interracial, split theme, and all kinds of symmetry with little regard for whether there's any significant visual contrast at all. Like, if post #3335887 counts as contrast, then so does literally any other picture of a light-skinned person with black hair.
IMHO, the tag's existence was already on shaky ground to begin with, as it was basically high contrast-lite, but now it's so ambiguous I don't see the point in keeping it.
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I'm not sure if this is the place to mention it, but since someone made a tag to differentiate Orchis from Granblue Fantasy's Queen Orchis, I thought I'd made wiki entries for both of them to make the distinction between the two characters clearer. It's my first time putting effort in writing a wiki entry, so I'd like it if other people looked over it to make sure it reaches whatever quality standard is usually set for these.
I'd also just like someone to look over the Orchis entry to expand a little bit on the Shingeki no Bahamut stuff. I don't play it, and I haven't read up on the lore in ages.
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What do we mean by clear sky?
To me, a "clear sky" is one that is completely devoid of clouds, but the tag's use on post #3276526, post #3563412, post #3592188, and post #3601457 suggests that we aren't all on the same page.
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The wiki entry for wynn and winda priestess of gusto needs to have the part that states their relationship is unknown changed to that they are siblings. Or at the very least that they are both part of the Gusto Main House.
The oil_lamp tag is mostly split between the ancient, simple style of lamps (post #1289042, post #2458045) and modern lamps with a glass chimney and an adjustable wick (post #3218936, post #3357827). Since we already have a kerosene_lamp tag for the more modern type, does anyone object to me defining oil_lamp exclusively for the older type of lamp and cleaning it up a bit?
The current wiki for sound effects seems to be copied from a dictionary. Its certainly not how the tag is used here. Can anyone think of a better definition?
What should we do about swivel_chair? This tag is something like 90% office chairs, though only a handful of them are actually tagged office_chair. The remaining ~10% are mainly just stools, and I'm not sure this tag is suited for them in the first place, since there's no reason to assume that stools like post #3309366 can actually swivel.
Would it be a problem if we updated can to make clear that cans aren't just for beverages? There doesn't seem to be a better tag in use for empty food cans like post #803740 and post #1352761. We have canned_food, but it feels wrong to use that tag for cans without any food in them.
iridescent_slime said:
Would it be a problem if we updated can to make clear that cans aren't just for beverages? There doesn't seem to be a better tag in use for empty food cans like post #803740 and post #1352761. We have canned_food, but it feels wrong to use that tag for cans without any food in them.
food can...?
BrokenEagle98 said:
food can...?
You mean as a replacement for canned_food, right? Or are you suggesting fragmenting the tags further?
iridescent_slime said:
You mean as a replacement for canned_food, right? Or are you suggesting fragmenting the tags further?
Yes. We also have soda can instead of canned soda. What's inside the can doesn't matter. What the shape of the can is, and what it implies is inside, is important.
BrokenEagle98 said:
Yes. We also have soda can instead of canned soda. What's inside the can doesn't matter. What the shape of the can is, and what it implies is inside, is important.
Though we have canned coffee instead of coffee can.
BrokenEagle98 said:
Yes. We also have soda can instead of canned soda. What's inside the can doesn't matter. What the shape of the can is, and what it implies is inside, is important.
It was suggested in forum #115299 that the canned beverage tags all be merged together, though I don't understand the point of a beverage_can tag if can is only supposed to be used for beverage cans anyway.
Unbreakable said:
Though we have canned coffee instead of coffee can.
That may be because coffee_can is likely to be misconstrued as a tag for the other kind of coffee can, at least in parts of the world where coffee isn't typically consumed from a can.
iridescent_slime said:
That may be because coffee_can is likely to be misconstrued as a tag for the other kind of coffee can, at least in parts of the world where coffee isn't typically consumed from a can.
I forgot those exists since I'm only used to coffee coming from packages, I just wanted to bring it up since we were talking about canned tags.
Dunno if this is the right forum for this...but the artist "lightninglight" should be changed to "eguchi_tumoru"...both his Twitter and his Skeb account use that name vs. only one account using "lightninglight"...
