Board Thread:Ask the Staff/@comment-508329-20160308005342/@comment-508329-20160308024102

Is it really that difficult?

If I see some fanart on Tumblr and want to reupload it here, I need to save the image file, open up another tag, go to this wiki, go to the image upload page, click the browse button, go to my image folder and scroll all the way down to the image and then click "upload file".

And then after that, because of the new categorization rules, I need to go to the image page, click "add categories" and type in "user images".

The extra effort of copying & pasting the Tumblr URL into the file description section on the upload page seems pretty trivial, and providing the Tumblr URL means that anyone can trace the reblog chain all the way back to the original artist. (And if the original artist renamed their blog, listing the original artist's old blog name is at least some form of credit.)

If I upload some fanart I saved from Tumblr and don't remember where I got it from, I probably reblogged it, so I can find it pretty quickly by checking the relevant tags on my own Tumblr.

If I upload some fanart I saved from Tumblr, don't remember where I got it from and didn't reblog it, I can probably find it pretty quckly and easily by checking the relevant tags on the blogs I follow.

If I reupload some fanart I saved from someone I don't follow on Tumblr because I saw it linked on /r/stevenuniverse, just listing it as "something I found on Reddit" would make it pretty easy to track down the source, since Reddit's search features are way better than Tumblr's.

If I reupload some fanart I saved from DeviantArt, the artist credits are already in the file name, so the work's already been done for me. (Sometimes, the artist credits aren't in the filename, but DA images are pretty easy to find with a reverse image lookup.)