So, I had in mind making a copyright tag for Merryweather's Internet Explorer webtoon series and also tags for the characters on it (the browsers' personifications), as it has good amount of arts here and its a very popular series, so it will be easier for users to search arts for this series specifically. For this matter, would like to ask, what would be the ideal way to name those tags? https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/internet-explorer/list?title_no=219164 According to Webtoons, the official name for the series is just "Internet Explorer", what would be the ideal way to name it? internet_explorer_(webcomic)?, or webseries, webtoon, comic series, etc.

Also for the characters, better naming them with the sufix "chan" or with "(personification)" (such as post #3855803 and post #3792218)?

Try to avoid doubleposting in the future, just edit your previous post.

The character designs are unique and consistent, so creating character tags should be fine if it helps search for them among all the other OS-tans, especially if other artists produce fanart using these designs. There's already precedent for this in Aizawa Inori, a much older Internet Explorer personification. The tags should follow a <name>_(<artist>) format to avoid confusion, because any artist can create a new personification of something.

I don't see a point in creating a copyright tag for this series. For now, pool #14259 seems to be adequate for keeping these comics ordered where they can be easily found. We don't need separate copyright tags for every artist's OCs; there are hundreds of them and few are so prominent as to be worth tagging anything other than original.

iridescent_slime said:

The character designs are unique and consistent, so creating character tags should be fine if it helps search for them among all the other OS-tans, especially if other artists produce fanart using these designs. There's already precedent for this in Aizawa Inori, a much older Internet Explorer personification. The tags should follow a <name>_(<artist>) format to avoid confusion, because any artist can create a new personification of something.

I don't see a point in creating a copyright tag for this series. For now, pool #14259 seems to be adequate for keeping these comics ordered where they can be easily found. We don't need separate copyright tags for every artist's OCs; there are hundreds of them and few are so prominent as to be worth tagging anything other than original.

But the Pool features the original Comics (the ones drawn by Hinghoi), it wouldn't have arts or fanarts made by other artists about this Comic Series for example (like post #3863538 and post #3258354), which a copyright tag could have.

lamialover97 said:

But the Pool features the original Comics (the ones drawn by Hinghoi), it wouldn't have arts or fanarts made by other artists about this Comic Series for example (like post #3863538 and post #3258354), which a copyright tag could have.

Note that I endorsed the use of character tags for these personifications. As I already said, if someone wants to search for fanart of this series, they could use the character tags for that. It's the same situation as with any other named OC, like when other artists draw Kemomimi-chan. You don't need copyright tags to find that.

If this comic were turned into something more commercial like an anime series or VN, it might be worth revisiting this and creating a copyright tag like we did for Getsuyoubi no Tawawa and Nekopara. As it is now, though, it's basically on the same level as any original series published on Pixiv or Twitter, and we don't generally make copyright tags for those, especially if they don't even have a name.

iridescent_slime said:

Note that I endorsed the use of character tags for these personifications. As I already said, if someone wants to search for fanart of this series, they could use the character tags for that. It's the same situation as with any other named OC, like when other artists draw Kemomimi-chan. You don't need copyright tags to find that.

If this comic were turned into something more commercial like an anime series or VN, it might be worth revisiting this and creating a copyright tag like we did for Getsuyoubi no Tawawa and Nekopara. As it is now, though, it's basically on the same level as any original series published on Pixiv or Twitter, and we don't generally make copyright tags for those, especially if they don't even have a name.

To be fair right now we have a lot of precedents for creating copyright tags once they become popular enough for fanart to emerge. See arai-san_mansion for example.
It does seem fanart is slowly showing up, like post #3273868, post #3863538, post #3399024, post #3563152. Wouldn't really mind having a copyright tag for those.

nonamethanks said:

To be fair right now we have a lot of precedents for creating copyright tags once they become popular enough for fanart to emerge. See arai-san_mansion for example.
It does seem fanart is slowly showing up, like post #3273868, post #3863538, post #3399024, post #3563152. Wouldn't really mind having a copyright tag for those.

In that case, maybe there should be some sort of definitive guidelines for when an OC should get a copyright tag other than original. AFAIK there are aren't any such guidelines, and I can't find any relevant forum discussions, so it would seem that at least in some cases, these tags get created on a whim.

If the existence of fanart is enough, then practically any borrowed_character is a candidate for a copyright tag. Zone-tan, for instance, appears in more fanart than Arai-san Mansion has posts in total, but I've yet to see a suggestion that we create a Zone_Archive copyright tag. Araiguma-san and dark-skinned_girl_(23) each have a respectable amount of fanart as well, and they also share universes with their artists' other OCs, which again seems to fulfill all the criteria for having a copyright tag.

iridescent_slime said:

In that case, maybe there should be some sort of definitive guidelines for when an OC should get a copyright tag other than original. AFAIK there are aren't any such guidelines, and I can't find any relevant forum discussions, so it would seem that at least in some cases, these tags get created on a whim.

If the existence of fanart is enough, then practically any borrowed_character is a candidate for a copyright tag. Zone-tan, for instance, appears in more fanart than Arai-san Mansion has posts in total, but I've yet to see a suggestion that we create a Zone_Archive copyright tag. Araiguma-san and dark-skinned_girl_(23) each have a respectable amount of fanart as well, and they also share universes with their artists' other OCs, which again seems to fulfill all the criteria for having a copyright tag.

Well, in this case there's several characters and they appear in interconnected comics with their own stories, we're not just talking about an artist's OC, so imo that makes it enough for a copyright tag. For araiguma-san etc it's just the same character drawn in different poses, there's no story so to speak - or if there is it's just limited to single posts, there's no thread connecting them.

iridescent_slime said:

If the existence of fanart is enough, then practically any borrowed_character is a candidate for a copyright tag. Zone-tan, for instance, appears in more fanart than Arai-san Mansion has posts in total, but I've yet to see a suggestion that we create a Zone_Archive copyright tag. Araiguma-san and dark-skinned_girl_(23) each have a respectable amount of fanart as well, and they also share universes with their artists' other OCs, which again seems to fulfill all the criteria for having a copyright tag.

Arai-san Mansion isn't just an artist's OC that's some level of popular, it's an established setting with reoccurring characters. Especially given that some of the characters are from a preexisting copyright, a copyright tag of its own was the only way for users to actually find art of it that wasn't drawn by the original artist, while also allowing pool #15717 to remain exclusive to art done by the original artist.

An established and reoccurring setting and cast of characters would be at least one criteria for a copyright tag, I don't think something should need to be commercialized for it to deserve a copyright tag. If it's actually needed, of course.

I believe a "Internet_Explorer_(webcomic)" copyright tag could be made in this case, and I believe it's also needed for posts like post #3863538. The Merryweather tag is used for comics with scripts/story written by him, but in post #3863538 's case, its not a comic but a recreation of a scene from the comics, and the Merryweather tag is here mostly because it features his characters and it was posted by himself, so it could also count as commissioned work. This is where I think a copyright tag for the series would come in handy.

Ok, so I've made the copyright tag and wiki page for Merryweather's Internet_Explorer_(webcomic) series. I'm going to update the other posts soon, with the main character tags too.