Either the artist signed with a squiggle, or there was no name on it, the uploader failed to provide the source, and/or used an unclear tag and did not set it as an artist tag. Remove when the image gets tagged with the artist's name or nick. Source link is only to assist finding the original source image, not to ascertain the artist. Commonly the poster is unsure or just lazy. Report users who use maliciously.

Not to be confused with:

• anonymous artist - Use if the artist wishes to remain unknown.
• The artist called unknown_artist (or kemodick)
• The artist called artist-unknown

See also:

• ambiguous_gender
• source_request
• tagme
• translation request
• species_request
• unknown_artist
• unknown_artist_signature
• unknown_character
• unknown_species