Steven Universe gem species tags

There's a bunch of tags for the various Gem species from SU, made by user #1253215.
pearl_(species)_(steven_universe)
ruby_(species)_(steven_universe)
rose_quartz_(species)_(steven_universe)
jasper_(species)_(steven_universe)
lapis_lazuli_(species)_(steven_universe)
diamond_(species)_(steven_universe)

The main issue with these tags is that most of them refer to a single character. The only exceptions are Diamonds and Pearls, of which there are 4 each.
I don't wanna move on to nuking or deprecating because I feel like these tags could potentially be useful for tagging very minor gems who happen to be of that species, but the way it's being used right now feels like e621-tier tagging.

Other tags in the same vein are homeworld quartz uniform and homeworld lapis lazuli uniform, which feel redundant with homeworld gem uniform.

Canonically and hypothetically there are other characters that qualify for these species (rubies, rose quartzes, jaspers, lulilas), but these feel redundant when you could just... group most of these in an umbrella Gem species tag? Either way creating tags for a species wherein we don't actually see any other members of it on this imageboard is sillie. We're probably never getting fanart of Unnamed Rose Quartz Number 6.

Funnily enough I floated the idea of gem species tags last year in response to art of a gem which I mistakenly tagged as the main character of the species. comment #2466111

post #8402729, based on a comment from the same user, is another where a 'character' is being tagged with a chartag that encompasses their species despite not being the named character associated with that tag.

I'm not super familiar with the show but species tags seem like they have some utility based on how I understand the world to function.

Hmm... maybe they should be chartags then? I know we handle some other species tags as chartags for some copyrights, and that would make sense for things like post #8402550 and post #8402729.

I'm going to assume that these tags, ideally, exist in order to help find OCs or unnamed characters of the gem types, as opposed to mere canon tagging. I know we already have umbrella chartag species for some species floating on the booru as it stands, so I'm willing to back changing them to chartags.

On that note, homeworld quartz uniform and homeworld lapis lazuli uniform should definitely be nuked however. Homeworld gem uniform I don't see an issue with in and of itself. Maybe were we talking about a 100k copytag, but this copyright is simply too small to support anything beyond homeworld gem uniform without it immediately turning into tag padding.

Paging @pirupirupirupirupiru @pipirupirupirupipirupi into the topic to follow the discussion since it's not the first time superfluous tags have been made for Steven Universe (topic #32923).

Pinged the wrong account, adding a new reply so it actually goes through since edited posts do not ping: @pipirupirupirupipirupi

WRS said:

Paging [..] into the topic to follow the discussion since it's not the first time superfluous tags have been made for Steven Universe (topic #32923).

Ylimegirl said:

Either way creating tags for a species wherein we don't actually see any other members of it on this imageboard is sillie. We're probably never getting fanart of Unnamed Rose Quartz Number 6.

To clarify, I only made these tags for gem species that do already have multiple characters posted here (post #8402550 post #9927465 post #8402768 post #8402627 post #2246567)

Also, I'll concede to merging all the gem uniform tags into one, sorry

BUR #47350 has been approved by @evazion.

nuke homeworld_lapis_lazuli_uniform
nuke homeworld_quartz_uniform

Here's the BUR to nuke them

Ylimegirl said:

Hmm... maybe they should be chartags then? I know we handle some other species tags as chartags for some copyrights, and that would make sense for things like post #8402550 and post #8402729.

Honestly, that crossed my mind as well since nearly all members of the same gem species have the exact same face, body type, and voice, the main exceptions being diamonds.

The existence of chartags for the very minor characters I mentioned earlier gives these tags even less of a reason to exist.
What SU needs instead is a wiki page listing all characters. That way instead of having these species tags, related gems would be grouped together in the list.

BaiserLaVerite said:

What SU needs instead is a wiki page listing all characters. That way instead of having these species tags, related gems would be grouped together in the list.

Went ahead and made a preliminary list in the copytag's wiki, going through all the posts up to Spinel's first.

BaiserLaVerite said:

The existence of chartags for the very minor characters I mentioned earlier gives these tags even less of a reason to exist.
What SU needs instead is a wiki page listing all characters. That way instead of having these species tags, related gems would be grouped together in the list.

Hmm, maybe the solution could be to merge all the gem species tags into one gem_(steven_universe) tag and list all the characters by gem-type in the wiki for that? I think listing the characters by role makes more sense for the Steven Universe wiki.

BUR #47405 has been approved by @evazion.

Here's a BUR for getting rid of all the specific gem tags and combining them into one gem tag

This bulk update request is pending automatic rejection in 5 days.

This bulk update request has been rejected because it was not approved within 45 days.

The bulk update request #47350 (forum #386266) has been rejected by @DanbooruBot.

The bulk update request #47350 (forum #386266) has been approved by @evazion.

The bulk update request #47405 (forum #386450) has been approved by @evazion.

It's still not clear to me what, visually speaking, Gem (Steven Universe) is even for. It seems to be in the same category as Oripathy Lesion (Arknights), Vision (Genshin Impact), and Tacet Mark (wuthering waves), i.e., a series-specific tag denoting some minor detail of a character's appearance that is present on most of the characters in the series, and therefore doesn't indicate anything useful.

EDIT: Or is it a species tag for all the non-human characters in the show? But if most of the characters are non-human, then what's the point.