Cleaning up tags

Tags from several sites and models end up with more than one name for the same thing, and with names you never wanted. Aliases fold the spellings into one, implications add the tags that always go together, and rejected names keep the unwanted ones out.

Aliases and implications#

People use different tags for the same thing: blond_hair and blonde_hair, or a character’s name in two orders. An alias points one spelling at another, so tagging or searching with blond_hair gives you blonde_hair.

On the Tags page, select the spellings you want to fold away and use Alias to: their images move to the target and the old names stay behind as aliases. Merge does the same among the selected tags, keeping the one you pick. Rename can keep the old name as an alias too, so saved searches that use it keep working.

An implication says one tag always brings another along: hatsune_miku implies vocaloid. Declare it with Imply on the Tags page, or in the Implies list on the tag’s own page, and every image with hatsune_miku, now and later, gets vocaloid too. Implied tags are real tags as far as search is concerned. In an image’s tag list they sit indented under each tag that brought them, and leave when it does.

With monloader and its copy of the Public Tag Repository set up, Find aliases and implications on the Tags page fetches the aliases and implications the PTR knows for the selected tags. It only adds; nothing is removed or sent anywhere.

The same name can sit in two categories as two different tags, like artist:kirin and character:kirin. The Tags page lists those under Conflicts, where you merge the ones that were filed twice.

An artist’s other names, like the ones Danbooru lists, go in as aliases on the artist’s own page, in any script, so tagging or searching with any of them lands on the artist.

A tag no image uses any more stays on the Tags page until you delete it.

Rejected names#

Some names you never want, whichever site, model or import brings them. Reject tags on the Tags page takes a list of names, strips them from every image and keeps them out from then on. Deleting a tag offers Delete and reject to do both at once. The Rejected filter on the Tags page lists them, each with Un-reject to let it back in.

Rules for one site or one auto-tagger are set elsewhere: What applies when says which rule goes where.

A tag’s own page draws Where this tag comes from: every source that can bring the tag, and where a rule stops it on the way. Click a box to open the place that step is edited.