I don't mean the lore category, I mean the general tag literally called lore. It has no wiki description yet hundreds of tagged posts, but I cannot see a commonality between them.

It looks like it just refers to an arbitrary amount of descriptive text lmao.

post #5187591 post #5326211

The tag seems "useful" in cases there's a lengthy story literally written on the art itself but I can't imagine it ever being used consistently.

It largely seems to be used for posts with story or backstory/character introductions.

There's about 150 there that are tagged with model_sheet and 93 with comic

It looks like if the image has any implication of lore, in the most basic sense, being present
Be it backstory, origin, explanation, etc.

oneohthrix said:
The tag seems "useful" in cases there's a lengthy story literally written on the art itself but I can't imagine it ever being used consistently.

a tag with this function exists, backstory's got similar population and it's prolly a better name as well.

dba_afish said:
a tag with this function exists, backstory's got similar population and it's prolly a better name as well.

I tend to agree that lore doesn't seem like a TWYS friendly tag

I think backstory and lore are misstags. Story covers everything whether the story/lore/backstory is in the image or description, so maybe they should be aliased.

I like to think that at least backstory has a niche that specifies the story's context
But I don't feel strongly enough to not support an alias

oneohthrix said:
I think backstory and lore are misstags. Story covers everything whether the story/lore/backstory is in the image or description, so maybe they should be aliased.

I think backstory specifying that it's information about a character but isn't directly related to the content of the post seems valid to me.

The bulk update request #11223 is pending approval.

create alias lore (495) -> invalid_tag (10)

Reason: This seems warranted, then.