General Tag Discussion

@Deserter
 
@Background Pony #AA30  
The purple version is Flutter Doo.

@Deserter  
Didn’t it used to also be implied with Derry Hooves and vice versa a while back? I’ve only ever heard it being used as an alt for Derpy.

@mav  
I feel like there should be a tag for the Fallout Equestria version of her with the with a description reflecting that.

@Background Pony #AA30  
Ditzy Doo was the name Hasbro tried giving Derpy when we had that huge drama about “MLP mocking disabilities” that ‘derpy’ was offensive and so on.
 
But since the fandom never quit calling her derpy and eventually the drama ended they w/e with that Ditzy Doo name.

@Princess Trixie vi Equestria  
i think ditzy should just be aliased to derpy and flutter doo is already a working tag for the purple haired variant

@mav  
While Ditzy (Fallout Equestria) could be used for the Fallout counterpart.

Is there a tag for these sorts of lists of army units? “army roster” or something like that?
 

@Frustration in Excelsis  
Would be useful to have a generic term so it could be used for RPG classes, societeal hierarchies, cliques etc.

@Princess Trixie vi Equestria  
It’s a bit more complex than that.
 
Ditzy Doo was mentioned by name in “Winter Wrap-Up”: she was the pegasus who was supposed to bring back the migratory birds, but messed up and flew north instead of south. By that point, fanon had largely decided that Derpy was a lovable klutz, so some fans took this episode to mean that Ditzy was Derpy’s real name in canon. Someone even asked Faust about that, and the reply was something to the effect of “That wasn’t our original plan, but she can be Ditzy if you want her to.” So the name Ditzy Doo never eclipsed Derpy Hooves, but definitely became the most popular alternative.
 
Then “The Last Roundup” happened. The original script by Amy Keating Rogers used Ditzy Doo as the name; it was someone higher up who told her to use the name Derpy as a nod to the fans. When that exploded in their face, Hasbro backpedaled, in most cases by going out of their way to avoid mentioning her by any name. Hence, when “The Last Roundup” was edited, they removed the name “Derpy” but didn’t give her a new name—and the comics, the trading card game, and the Gameloft mobile game all featured Derpy without naming her. There were a few merch-related cases where Hasbro tried to insist that Ditzy Doo was officially her name (the wiki mentions a Hot Topic hoodie and a conversation between Hasbro and a Gaia Online artist) but those were definitely a minority.
 
Hasbro’s current policy, as far as I can tell, is that a lot of employees internally refer to her as Derpy, but official sources avoid mentioning her name as much as possible—and if they have to use a name, then she’s “Muffins”.
 
Ironically, the “Ditzy Doo” fanon name was the real casualty of Derpygate. Since “Derpy” was now connected to the character in an episode of the show—even if it was edited shortly after, since so many fans insist the original is the “real” version—which is more than we could say for Ditzy Doo. If Hasbro had really committed to Ditzy and outright mentioned the name in a later episode, it could have survived—like Sweetie Drops caught on as an alternative to Bon Bon, following “Slice of Life”. But Hasbro was wishy-washy and evasive about the issue, so Derpy gained more fans while Ditzy faded away.
 
So, agreed with @mav that “Ditzy Doo” should just be an alias for “Derpy Hooves”, and with @EPPony that there should be a “Ditzy Doo (Fallout Equestria)” tag for her FO:E counterpart.

Do I tag fanfic universes with fanfic:<some name>, or do I tag it with what the author calls it? The verse in question is wilyverse from Dusk Melody

@saby  

 
I think I know what you mean, but I’m not entirely sure; I don’t suppose you could provide a few examples? I proposed “army roster” (or “troop list” or something along those lines, working title and all that) because that’s the context I’ve always seen this sort of things in; a list of the types of units in an army. I can certainly see how more or less the same setup could be used for other things – like monster species, for example, or RPG classes as you said – but even then I’m on the fence over the degree of lumping versus splitting these sort of things would warrant.
 
@radpanic  

 
Sounds good to me.

Deviantart watermark is implying obtrusive watermark again. Was that intentional? I thought those two were made to be separate purposefully when the watermark tags were redone awhile ago.

@Frustration in Excelsis  
But like I said, Ditzy is another character entirely.  
 
Rainbow Dash mentions “Ditzy Doo sent the birds from the South to the North” or something like that in Winter Wrap Up, so it’d safe to assume they got the same pegasus to fix it, no?

@Deserter  

 
… honestly, I’m not so sure. Ditzy apparently had a history of botching the job – she went west the previous year, for instance – so it could also be that the weather team decided that, well, it might be better to send someone who doesn’t have a poor track record at fetching the birds. If you consistently do a bad job at something, people generally become less likely to trust you to do it.
 
In any case, we’re already using flutter doo for the purple-haired Derpy recolor. Not sure where that name came from, but if nothing else it’s the one being used right now.

@Frustration in Excelsis  
I’m honestly curious as to where the name Flutter Doo even came from, since the only place I remember seeing it was from an older wiki that seems to have been abandoned entirely.

@Deserter
 
The dialogue is a little more open to interpretation:  

 
So maybe they realized the mistake because Ditzy got back, then they sent Ditzy back out to fix her own mistake. (Third time’s the charm, right?) Or maybe they realized the mistake before Ditzy returned and sent somepony else south to get the birds. So that purple pony with the birds could be Ditzy or somepony else entirely.

@radpanic  
That’s true.

NSFW  
Despite what the artist implies, would this image have a dirty anus tag? Or given some similar tag I could filter

@Dragonpone  
No, the strong edging implies the anus is just very dark.

@Dragonpone  
discoloured maybe, or she has green blood /mucuous membranes… but yeah wouldn’t call that dirty

@Frustration in Excelsis  
@saby  
@Frustration in Excelsis
 
… does anyone else have any other thoughts? I’m leaning towards just making an “army roster” tag myself.

@Dragonpone  
Then perhaps we could change “sweatdrop” to “anime sweatdrop” or “a single sweatdrop”.
 
And merge “sweatdrops” with “sweat/sweating/sweaty”.

@Tetragrammapony  
I’d be fine with something along those lines.

Is abyssinian a species? Do I tag images with anthro cats such as >>1829598, >>1839339, >>1822246 (last 2 NSFW) abyssinian as well?

@Background Pony #A8E1  
abyssinian is a tag referring to the species of bipedal cats of which Capper is the most notable member. Other canon examples would include chummer, the abyssinian king and the abyssinian queen.
 
To answer your question: it is a species tag, but it’s not exactly a species tag to be used for every anthropomorphic cat on the site – strictly speaking, it refers to either canonical members of that species or to characters that are either openly stated to be abyssinians or can be reasonably assumed to be such. Given that the artist of the first picture you posted explicitly said their character was created before Capper was revealed, I would say no for that one.