An approval method could work too, maybe?

We will absolutely have an approval system, and people who show a good track record we'll let just go ahead and add tags without anything. However I don't think we should have a set of pre-allowed tags - that'd be one sure fire way of increasing the vast number of sheets found under each tag.

We'll list the tags still - small fonts and multiple columns and all that. In terms of spellings mistakes and all of those sorts of issues, you have to consider that mistakes are bound to happen. This site is built by humans and is used by humans - we're going to make mistakes. Most sites that allow tagging on images often have these problems, and while we aren't like most standard "gallery" sites, we are still a gallery of some sort. However we have the ability to fix those mistakes when they get brought up.

Ton's idea of including characters that appear in big multiple-person sheets makes sense. Lots of our "Overworld" sheets don't include who is actually on them... that's a bit of a problem for the search feature. I'm half tempted to just have the search bar show results for things with the tag given - it's really what people would want in the end, I believe. If someone is looking for "Little Mac" then it should just have a new header for "Sheets tagged with "Little Mac"".

We've begun adding the tagging feature to the site, though of course it's unfinished at this stage. At the moment, admins are able to add and remove tags from a game, tags are searchable for games, and you can click a tag at the bottom of a tagged game to view other games tagged with the same thing.

We're going to finish adding features for tags on games first, then move on to sheets. This is just to give us a groundwork to copy over to sheets. The things we will be working on before we get to sheets are:

The ability to submit tag suggestions (adding or removing) for a game.
The ability for us to approve or reject said changes.
The ability to filter based on multiple common tags across different things.
A page listing all games that currently do not have any tags or have less than 3.

Something I'd like to put as a basic for every game is to include any company involved in its creation, be it a publisher, developer, or original creator (such as Nickelodean, or Cartoon Network). Additionally, genre of game, and series.

Tags are set in a simple textbox with a comma separated list. So for Minish Cap it would be:
While the series name will frequently be in a series' title, it allows us to use it as a tag and part of the tags system, so you can cross reference to see every Zelda game that Capcom worked on, for example.


Some examples of games with tags:
http://www.spriters-resource.com/other_s...ldthegame/
http://www.spriters-resource.com/genesis_32x_scd/sor3/
http://www.spriters-resource.com/genesis_32x_scd/sf1/
http://www.spriters-resource.com/snes/su...ostlevels/

One thing I noticed is when you have separate tags with the same word in it (e.g. sonic the hedgehog, sonic, sonic team), it will show the same game as multiple results.

http://www.spriters-resource.com/search/...=ts&o[]=tg

Is there a way for this to be avoided or is it intended?

Interesting - I'm sure we can work something out with that. Good find!

Is this something like the system on Facts? If not, could it be implemented over there?

Also noteworthy, I feel is that it might be a good idea to avoid , well, spamming tags.

For example, a pac-man sprites sheet of all of the sprites in the game

ghosts,ghost,pacman,fruit,items,red,blue,pink,orange,pixel,retro,arcade,yellow,cherry
etc...

this could defeat the purpose of trying to search with surgical precision, as search settings would need to be tweaked a lot to not pop-up a bunch of sheets loaded with tags, including the example I mentioned here.

Hope this is helpful?

Some of those are viable tags though. Ghosts, ghost, pacman, fruit, items, orange and cherry would be fine. Adding as many logical tags as possible is a great idea, because if a sheet has, for example, clouds on it, or fire, or flames, then people will be looking for those things. Searching them should show results for what is on a sheet...

Also, psychospacecow, facts are being tagged differently as it works on a different level. Because trivia is all text whereas this is for purely graphical elements, tags are to explain what is in an image, while facts can be searched for through Google. This is to improve google search results for content, and make them easier to find on the site.

Ah, alright then. Could use some of the Facts details as a baseline assuming the game is on both.
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
Naughty Dog
Crash Bandicoot
PlayStation

as an example.

We can't just export from that site, as it's a completely different backend. Not only that, but we have variance in names in some places, more games than on VGFacts, and extremely different games for the most part.

Alright, it was just a thought. That being said, is there some sort of criteria you have in mind for filling out the different games? I know the series, developer, genre and the thing specifically packaged.

I'm not sure what you mean... Anything you think is relevant and at least a little broad? Game based on comic book characters can be tagged "comic", if it's a film tag it "film". Anime adaptation can be tagged "anime"... Can you explain what you mean a little more? To me the criteria seems a little self-explanatory.

One thing to keep in mind is that we should stick to singular tags whenever possible. Ghosts and ghost, as referenced above, would be redundant and result in unnecessary clutter.

Well, if you had a list of things that you want listed out in general, it would make it easier to have people list things out. Like, name. check. Dev. check. Series. check, etc.