help:artists (locked)

What are artists?

An artist in Sterlbooru represents the person who created a piece of art. Sterlbooru’s artist database tracks extra information about artists, including the websites they use and alternate names they’re known under.

How do artist entries differ from tags?

For starters, artist entries list all websites or artist profiles that are associated with the artist. Sterlbooru uses these URLs to automatically identify the artist tag for new uploads, so it's very important to include this information.

How do I search for artists?

Start at the index. In addition to browsing through the entire artist list, you can also search for artist by name or by URL.

By default, Sterlbooru will search across names, other names, and group names using exact string matching. You can do wildcard searching with *. For example, searching for ran* will return any artist whose name starts with “ran”.

If you only want to search the name field, prefix your query with name, e.g. name:john.

Suppose you know the artist’s homepage, but can’t figure out their name. Simply search for the URL (beginning with http:// or https://) and Sterlbooru will return any associated artists.

How do I create an artist?

Visit the New Artist page.

You’ll see five fields. Name is self-explanatory. Other Names are for any miscellaneous names or identities the artist has, separated by commas. For example, you can place a Japanese artist’s name in kanji or kana in this field. Group is the name of the group or circle this artist belongs to, if applicable. Notes are for any extra tidbits of information you want to mention; this field is actually saved to the artist’s matching wiki page on Sterlbooru.

The URLs field is a list of URLs associated with the artist, like their home page, their blog, and any servers that store the artist’s images. Separate URLs with newlines or spaces.

What is a banned artist?

Artists may request that all their works to be removed from the site. When this happens, the artist is marked as banned. New uploads by a banned artist will be taken down automatically.

See banned artist for the full list of banned artists.

Are artists tied to tags?

No. If you create an artist-typed tag, a corresponding artist is not automatically created. If you create an artist but no corresponding tag, searching for posts by that artist won’t return any results.

You can think of the artist database as separate from the tags database. This is an intentional design decision. By keeping the two separated, users have far more freedom when it comes to creating aliases, groups, and edits.

copied from Danbooru wiki