Speech vs Dialogue

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This was discussed in the general tag thread, but I feel it’d be better suited to it’s own thread for finality.  
The way I see it, the two tags should stay separate, and follow these guidelines:  
Dialogue, as it already stands:
For images with speech bubbles, or other such writing indicating characters talking.
Images with generic non-speech or otherwise general text should be tagged with text instead.
 
And speech (alias:public speaking ) with this definition/guideline:
Public speaking (also called oratory or oration) is the process or act of performing a speech to a live audience.
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The above linked posts:  
@Background Pony #A8E1  
For images such as >>1560605 should they be tagged as “speech” or “dialogue”? I’m thinking of speech, but I’m not sure.
@Background Pony #A8E1
I didn’t even know we had a speech tag. I only ever use dialogue or (in addition) speech bubble if there are actual speech bubbles.
I’ve been tagging pictures where just 1 character talks as speech. Not sure if that’s fine, given that dialogue involves two or more people. Is there a better term? Does it count as monologue if they’re talking, but there’s no response?
@Background Pony #A8E1
The word “speech”, to me, only implies that someone is talking. I don’t see any issue with tagging “speech” on a picture with just person, as long as spoken speech is present.
@Background Pony #A8E1
I always tag dialogue. Didn’t even know we have a speech tag. Though, looking at the tag history, that mostly seems to get tagged by one user.
@Background Pony #A8E1
Keep in mind that “speech” has another definition (i.e. to give a speech), and that might be what it was originally meant for. It looks like it’s been rather aggressively retagged over the last few months… 35 pages worth of aggressive tagging, I might add, so I couldn’t say what it’s original use was at the moment.
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On my understanding, dialogue is not supposed to be tagged when it’s only one character talking.
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BigThirsty ponybooru.org
Since there’s recent discussion on it again, I figure I can bring up an issue.  
There seems to be some confusion on how text tag is applied. A number of users (not sure how many) are adding that tag where only dialogue would apply.
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