Mikaeri said:
Wherever you sourced the image is wherever you sourced the image -- be the most accurate about it. I know you're selfish about wanting to know where the grapevine leads, but in cases like these when someone doesn't provide a source such as game CG, they could have just torrented it and then uploaded some of the original files. Yes, it may just lead to legal issues -- you never know. Do you know about Wani magazine? They're the publishers for some of the biggest Hmanga magazines in the industry, namely comic x-eros and comic kairakuten among other things. But their galleries are regularly purged on sadpanda because they're against the site rules after they decided to legally threaten many major sites (sadpanda being one of them). If such an image was sourced to there and the link was a redirect (gallery was purged, etc) then it's essentially NG. And again, let's not get started on listing torrent or piracy sites as sources.
And no, it is not a contradiction. It is the status quo that sourcing is highly recommended but it isn't paramount. Builders who upload without source often? Yeah sure, give them a Dmail or then a neutral if the source was easy to find through a quick SauceNAO or GIS. But if they were somewhat accurate about it (such as a link to the post on yande.re) then it's fine. Actually, I'm still mystified by where post #1754433 came from -- it's probably from an official artbook somewhere that CodeKyuubi torrented or downloaded from God knows where, but I'm not going to put in any more manhours than I need to finding it.
Woah, didn't think you write such a long text. Because we apparantly still share the same opinion anyway, read the bold part. That's all I wanted to to ask here anyway if one should contact one user if they are doing just this :3.