Namespace

Namespaces are designations for tags indicating their purpose. They are of particular usefulness when a tag would have multiple meanings, such as being the name of both an artist and a character.

Adding a Tag within a Namespace

For any tag that exists within a given namespace, inputting that tag prefixed by namespace: will tag it under that namespace. Therefore, if example is an artist, inputting artist:example will tag example in the artist namespace. Note, however, that this does not apply to the namespace labeled "miscellaneous"; this is simply the default namespace, for which no prefix is necessary.

Each namespace also has one or more aliases which may be used in place of the full namespace designation. These aliases are listed in the table below. Note that the default namespace has no valid prefix at all.

Simple	Alternate	Namespace
a		artist
c	char	character
f		female
g	creator, circle	group
l	lang	language
m		male
p	series	parody
r		reclass

Default Tags

All tags that don't share any conflicts with other namespaces is defaulted. This means that if a user enters such a tag without a namespace prefix, the tag will automatically jump into the correct namespace.

Forced Prefixes

In contrast to tags with a default namespace, tags existing in multiple namespaces will not be taggable without the explicit use of a namespace prefix.

For example, generic is both an artist as well as a character. This means that users will be required to explicitly enter character:generic to tag the character or artist:generic to tag the artist.

Restricted Namespaces

At the current time, all namespaces except the default namespace are restricted. This means that regular users are only allowed to use tags that already exist within that namespace. New tags may be added to namespaces by tag moderators.

In other words, if sometag is not in the artist namespace and the user tries to tag artist:sometag, the tag will be rejected. If sometag is a valid artist, then the user may tag it in the default namespace and visit this thread to request that a tag moderator move sometag into its proper namespace. If it is not possible to tag sometag in the default namespace - perhaps because it is defaulted to another namespace - then the user may request that a tag moderator add artist:sometag to an appropriate gallery, thereby allowing artist:sometag to be tagged freely thereafter.

Examples

• Tag "a:mario" for the artist; tag "c:mario" for the character.
• Tag "m:glasses" for when a male wears them; "f:glasses" tag females.
• Tag "c:doraemon" for the character; tag "p:doraemon" for the series.

See also

• Gallery Tagging
• Tagging Mechanics
• Using the tag namespace tool - Requests for new namespace assignments should be posted here.