Image Booru works for me.

Calling someone a pedant is an automatic Insult Backfire. Real pedants will be flattered.

I like the first better.

This is good too.

edited 14th May '12 10:49:29 AM by DarkConfidant

Image Booru would work for the official name, while Booru can work as the redirect.

Okay, that's fine. Now, do we have the actual writeup?

If I may please say something—sorry, I didn't even know this was going on and I hope I'm not too late—Ponibooru has a lot more than just Fan Art; it also has much Metafiction, user regulated functions (such as "Movie Night"), and even its own independent Interactive Comic, ect. I don't know much about the other 'Booru's, but from what I've heard, Ponibooru's a bit of a Black Sheep. (For lack of a better trope)

...Okay, I'm a llama...

While the other boorus probably don't have metafiction (as far as I know) or interactive comics (again, as far as I know. Then again, flash files are allowed if I remember correctly) it still seems similar enough to the other boorus to share the same page. It's like how each of the chans has their own type of community and different types of images, but share the same trope page under Image Board.

edited 25th May '12 11:22:45 AM by encrypted12345

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I see. Are we still allowed to keep the information & tropes listed from the current 'Booru's when we merge? (Please forgive me, I'm still a bit new at this)

...Okay, I'm a llama...

Information I don't know, but I can't see why we'd need to keep the tropes at all. They're imageboards. That would be like listing the tropes of Youtube.

And what's wrong with that? We have a viable list of working tropes for Facebook.

...Okay, I'm a llama...

Also, the article now has its own collaborative character subpage. The members are very happy about this. Please reconsider nuking the page.

...Okay, I'm a llama...

Are we allowed to have character pages for boorus?

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It's more of a question if we're allowed to have character pages of other websites at all. I have no idea since no one usually bothers making any as far as I know.

>.> I'm allowed to have thing's I'm passionate about. I actually have some pride in making the main page and am currently working as much as I can to make it Trope Overdosed. Alas, that's out of topic.

edited 7th Jun '12 7:57:53 PM by encrypted12345

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Yea...that's what I meant, not what I said.

and...Rance? ...That Rance?!

We shouldn't have a page like that. It'd be like making a character page to trope me and the other people in this thread. Pointless and has nothing to do with fiction, just egostroking.

Sounds logical to me. I'll cutlist it.

EDIT: Nevermind. Arha beat me to it.

edited 7th Jun '12 8:35:11 PM by encrypted12345

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Like I've said before, Ponibooru is not in anyway your average Booru. And it's not WASN'T "egostroking", it was a listing of tropes for the members of the community. Most of them do this in a sort of Roleplaying using OCs or just regularly and make a little story out of it, not just simply a listing of some ransom forum users who trope themselves and each other for the hell of it. I'm being as civil as can be here and trying to give you my best word, so please take a moment to reconsider. Everyone's had a lot of fun out of this.

Thank you.

EDIT: Also started work on the new Image Booru article. This does not mean any less that I would still appreciate you all to reconsider my appeal. (Or maybe do you think we could just give it its own Just for Fun page so there's no confusion? #ThirdOptions)

edited 11th Jun '12 10:04:50 AM by NotALlama

...Okay, I'm a llama...

Okay. This is the setup I hammered out for the Image Booru page. Let me know if it needs any fine-tuning before I go and make my edit.

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An Image Booru is a new breed of Image Board and is essentially a tag-based image archive. Most, if not all, of the current ones are based loosely around anime. Because the idea is still relatively new, there are not that many of them around compared to, say, forums or more traditional imageboards. The name is derived from Danbooru, the first booru. These sites cater to those who want the Pixiv experience, but don't feel like sifting through Japanese. A very large majority of the images you see on boorus came from Pixiv first.

These sites often have a tagging system in which users sort the images into categories while uploading: e.g. [X character], [X show], [X artist]. They also have pools where certain images that are related to each other in a way that the tag system doesn't allow for can be collected for viewing, and is the primary means for works hosted on the boorus to be compiled.

Image Boorus often differ from Image Boards — but are still closely related — by nature of simply viewing many images and occasionally commenting on them as opposed to starting a comment thread with an image and continuing in the same thread with more images. Because Image Boorus also have much the same attitude regarding censorship that other Image Boards have, the content of many boorus is Not Safe for Work. You Have Been Warned.

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Notable Image Boorus

• Danbooru: The very first booru, dedicated to anime and video game images, whose name comes from the Japanese word for "Cardboard Box." Many of the site's images in question come from Pixiv, including many Doujinshi. Site content is given three major ratings, ranging from Safe (non-explicit images), Questionable (a bit racy, but not explicit), and Explicit (sexually explicit images). When doujin pages are hosted on the booru, people are usually on hand to translate the Japanese or other language for better reading by English-speakers. The most objectionable content is such that users have to pay for the privilege of viewing it. The main rule the site follows in regards to images is no live-action or real-life explicit content.
• Safebooru: A mirror site for Danbooru, this booru hosts only images that have been rated Safe on the parent site.
• Gelbooru: Hosts much of the same stuff as Danbooru, but has no qualms about showing more objectionable content right out in the open. Very much Not Safe For Work, and will not be linked to on this wiki.
• Ponibooru: A booru dedicated to fanart of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
• /tg/booru: A repository for images found on the 4chan imageboard /tg/.

edited 28th Jun '12 8:07:53 AM by TwoGunAngel

Looks fine to me, but either the page needs to be locked or it needs a warning that tropes and whatnot are not to be added.

I've just made the edits and did some final touching up on the page.

I'm not averse to having it locked myself, but a notice that no tropes are to be added is definitely a good idea.

edited 28th Jun '12 8:32:33 AM by TwoGunAngel

Well, then Ponibooru and Danbooru need to redirect to it. The one page was cut and for the other is there anything we want to salvage off of it?

sounds good.

Added an entry about something I saw on Ponibooru. Are we good to redirect the pages?

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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Should be fine. Go for it.

Looks like we're done.

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