Artists

An artist tag can have an artist entry: the artist’s other names, their group or circle, and the places they post their work. Find them under Tags → Artists (/artists), searchable by any of their names, their group, or one of their URLs.

Anyone with the Edit the wiki and artists permission (members, by default) can start or change an entry: New artist on the list, or Start an artist entry on an artist tag’s wiki page. An entry’s name is its tag; a tag that doesn’t exist yet, or that no post uses yet, becomes an artist tag. Every change is kept under History, and Recent changes (/artist_versions) lists every entry’s changes, filterable by user. Entries can be deleted and restored.

The entry’s page shows the URLs, the first paragraph of the tag’s wiki page (the longer description lives there), and the artist’s newest posts.

URLs

List the artist’s profiles and galleries, one per line. Put - in front of ones no longer in use (a deleted account, a site that closed): they’re shown struck out, but still identify the artist.

Find an artist by URL (/artists/finder) takes any address, a profile or a page of one of the artist’s works, and lists the artists whose URLs it falls under: https://x.com/someone/status/123 finds the artist with https://twitter.com/someone. Addresses are compared without www., the scheme, or anything after ?, and x.com counts as twitter.com.

The upload form does the same with the link you upload from and the source: when they belong to a known artist, their tag is offered beside the tags box. For works on Pixiv, X, Bluesky, DeviantArt, Fanbox and Skeb, the site is asked who made it, so a work’s page finds the artist whose entry lists their profile, even when the page’s address doesn’t contain it (Pixiv’s don’t); an artist without an entry gets a link to start one, with their name and profiles filled in.

Banned artists

Staff who can manage tags can ban an artist from their entry (for example at the artist’s request). What that does is a site setting, under Admin → Settings → Banned artists:

• Hide their posts (on by default): posts with the artist’s tag are left out of searches, and their pages aren’t found.
• Refuse uploads (on by default): uploads with the tag, and edits adding it, are refused.

Staff who approve posts still see the posts and can post them. Bans are recorded in the moderation log.

Commentary

A post can have the artist’s commentary: the title and description the artist gave the work where they posted it, and a translation. It’s shown under the picture, translated when there’s a translation (with the original a click away), and anyone who can edit posts can add or change it from the same place. Descriptions use the wiki’s markup. Every change is kept (Commentary history; /artist_commentary_versions lists them sitewide), and commentary: searches find posts with commentary, with or without a translation, or by its words: commentary:untranslated lists commentary waiting for a translator.