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Site rules and reporting guidelines

The following is the base for the common understanding all users should share when using TagThing.

TLDR

If you only read one part of this page, read this.

No illegal shit.Use common sense for anything not directly covered by the rules.NSFW tagging is mandatory when applicableDuplicates are not allowed.Media and nature matters for duplicates: a manga series is different from a manga chapter, a book is different from its movie adaptation.Details should be accurate, defensible, and not intentionally or unintentionally misleading.Self-promotion is selectively allowed based on contribution history.

General rules

These apply across browsing, creating, editing, and reporting. The site should stay usable, factual, and reasonably safe for other people to review.

Forbidden content

Intentional shock content, slurs, and illegal material are not allowed anywhere on the site.

Tag explicit material immediately

If a thing includes explicit sexual content, nudity, or otherwise adult material, the contribution must include the nsfw tag.

Rule of thumb for expliciteness

If a thing includes both explicit and non-explicit material, it should be explicit by default.
Use of a child tag to nsfw is authorized (i.e. light_nsfw), but only alongside the nsfw tag itself.

No duplicates

Each thing, cover, tag, and alternative name should only exist once. If something already exists, add to it instead of creating a new entry.

Copyright

While we allow copyrighted material to be listed as things, do not use copyrighted material without authorization or clear fair use.
For covers, this means you can upload the cover of a book, but not a screenshot from one of its pages.
Infringing material should be reported for removal, and repeated or blatant infringement may lead to a ban.

Accuracy and good faith

Contributions should be made in good faith and based on accurate information.

Privacy

Do not post personal information anywhere on the site. If a thing is a person, do not use sneaky photos or other images that were not clearly meant to be publicly shared for identification or presentation.

Contribution standards

When you submit content, reviewers should be able to assume it is of interest to anyone looking at that page.

Things

  • Create a new thing only when it is genuinely distinct and not already listed.
  • Use the most common title, add any alternative titles as aliases.
  • The order of priority should be: official english title, romanified non-english title, official non-english title, widely used fan title in any appropriate language.
  • Initial tags should include: the top-level category (book, movie, game) and any immediately relevant descriptors (fantasy, horror, etc).
  • If the thing includes nsfw content, it should be tagged nsfw.

Covers

  • Covers are not mandatory.
  • Use official cover arts, photographies, or title screens that actually belong to the thing and are clear enough for reviewers to verify.
  • Fan-art that is not officially recognized by the creator of the thing is not authorized.
  • If the thing is a person, only use publicly available images that were clearly meant to represent that person. Public profile pictures are allowed, including illustrations.
  • If the person is anonymous or primarily known as an artist, a work they shared publicly for free may be used when it identifies them well, but not if using it would reasonably undercut their revenue.

Tags and relationships

  • Add tags that materially improve discovery, filtering, or safety labeling.
  • Relationship contributions should be factual and directional, not speculative or decorative.
  • In case of bidirectional semantic overlap, the relationship should be related, not parent or child.
  • If two tags have more than one relationship, the relationship may be reported for duplicate.
  • Related relationships should take priority in case of ambiguity.

Alternative names

  • Only add aliases, translated titles, or alternate spellings that are actually used for that thing.
  • Synonyms, uncommon misspellings, and unrelated titles are not helpful and should be avoided.

Reporting guidance

Reports should identify the smallest piece of content that is actually wrong and use the closest available reason.
For any reason, details may be added to provide context or explain a reasoning.

Reporting a thing

Thing

When the page itself should not exist as a standalone thing: for example because it is duplicate, spam, abusive, or an untagged explicit entry.

Reporting a cover

Cover

When the image is irrelevant, incorrect, copyrighted, misleading, or otherwise unsafe to keep attached.

Reporting a tag

Tag

When a tag is false, misleading, or clearly not meaningful in view of other more precise tags it is a parent of.

Reporting a name

Alternative name

When a name is wrong, misleading, abusive, or inserted as spam instead of a legitimate alternate name.

Reporting a relationship

Relationship

When a parent, child, or related relationship is factually wrong or misleading.

Reasons available for things

SpamDuplicateHarassment or hateUntagged explicit contentOther

Reasons available for covers, tags, names, and relationships

IncorrectInvalidSpamDuplicateHarassment or hateUntagged explicit contentMisinformationCopyright issueOther

Report reasons: what they mean

Reports are meant to help sort out factually wrong information and content that doesn't belong on the site.
Regular differences in opinions should be sorted through scoring and do not warrant removal.

Incorrect

An implied or explicit claim is false or misleading based on available information.

CoverTagAlternative nameRelationship
A movie tagged as a book.A name that isn't referenced anywhere.A cover that belongs to a different thing.

Invalid

The selected item is malformed, unusable, or doesn't meet the site's standards.

CoverTagAlternative nameRelationship
A fan-art for a coverGibberish tagA name with a typo

Spam

Advertising, engagement bait, repeated low-value submissions, scam links, or similar.

ThingCoverTagAlternative nameRelationship
Link used as a title or alias.Mass-created entries with low factual value.

Duplicate

Already exists and should be removed.

ThingCoverTagAlternative nameRelationship
A second thing page for the same work.The same cover image submitted twice.

Harassment or hate

Slurs, targeted abuse, or content intended to attack groups or individuals.

ThingCoverTagAlternative nameRelationship
A tag added solely to insult a person or group.A cover image that is intentionally offensive or abusive.

Untagged explicit content

Sexual content, nudity, or other nsfw material that is not properly labeled.

ThingCoverTagAlternative name
A sexually explicit cover on an untagged thing.A thing that is known to be explicit but isn't tagged nsfw.

Misinformation

Misleading, speculative, or false information

CoverTagAlternative name
A cover chosen to impersonate a different thing.A tag that is not just false but offensive to fans of the thing.

Copyright issue

Copyright infringement with no clear fair use or authorization.

CoverTagAlternative name
Images obtained through pirated sources, or that constitute by themselves a significant portion of the original work.Links to pirated content used as names or tags.

Other

Use this only when none of the listed reasons fit cleanly.

ThingCoverTagAlternative name
It fits multiple reasons and you aren't sure which one to pick.It's a unique situation but is a common sense removal.