"stolen art" should be aliased to "art theft"

stolen art -> art theft
 
They mean the same thing.

Why are these tags even a thing? Just either a, retag it with the real artist, b, tag the original artist and add edit/trace where appropriate, or c, report it if you’re the artist who created the original and have it taken down.

@GyroTech  
it makes it easier for artists to find what art has been stolen from them so they could report them.

Was just going to create a similar topic here before the site revealed one under the same name already exists… and from what I see here seems to have gone unnoticed.

What about art in which art theft is a discussion subject ? Like, say, Lyra talking about art theft to Bon Bon.

@rautamiekka  
“Theft” has the same definition in the dictionary as “stealing”, so it could still apply.

If some piece of fanart is “stolen art” or would qualify for “art theft”, just report it for Rule #1 and provide a link that shows what or whose art was stolen.
 
On the other hand, if it’s just another in a long line of examples of Hasbro or some other company using Fan Art in their own products, well, then yeah - those tags make sense, and there isn’t anything Rule #1 can do about it.
 
Looking through the tags … ugh.
 
Ok, clearly some of these should have been reported for Rule #1 but people just tagged it “Stolen Art” or “Art Theft” and never reported it. And in other cases people are actually tagging colored versions of pencil line art as “stolen”, when it’s clearly just a colored or inked version of lineart.
 
What a mess.
 
I will look through these tags once I get the other stuff on my plate caught up.