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I'd like it if a search for an extant tag that has no tagged images would still show the tag info. Right now, such a search only shows "No images found!".

Two motivations to do this:
1. When an artist has a DNP, you can find it on [the DNP list](/dnp) (for which other people have already posted about its shortcomings), or by visiting their artist *tag page* ([example](/tags/artist-colon-0ron0) - not picking on this artist, they're just alphabetically the first one with 0 images, from the DNP list). However, the quickest and most front-facing interface on the site is search, and [performing a search](/search?q=artist%3A0ron0) for a 0-image artist tag yields no information that the site knows anything about them, leading to extra steps to find out if it's due to DNP.
2. For non-artist tags, showing that a tag has existed but has 0 images gives the hint that the tag is not to be used - maybe it's a misspelling, maybe it's in the wrong form but not used so often that it's gotten aliased, or otherwise simply not used on the site. Someone with enough intecureiosity could follow the link to see the tag changes and check the images which had it removed, to potentially learn what tag to use instead, - but as it is where the tag is not displayed at all, there's no information, no link to follow, and nothing to learn from.
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Again, one could visit the tag page to find out these things, but as in the first point, it is not the primary search interface that's most directly accessible.

I'd like it if a search for an extant tag that has no tagged images would still show the tag info. Right now, such a search only shows "No images found!".

Two motivations to do this:
1. When an artist has a DNP, you can find it on [the DNP list](/dnp) (for which other people have already posted about its shortcomings), or by visiting their artist *tag page* ([example](/tags/artist-colon-0ron0) - not picking on this artist, they're just alphabetically the first one with 0 images, from the DNP list). However, the quickest and most front-facing interface on the site is search, and [performing a search](/search?q=artist%3A0ron0) for a 0-image artist tag yields no information that the site knows anything about them, leading to extra steps to find out if it's due to DNP.
2. For non-artist tags, showing that a tag has existed but has 0 images gives the hint that the tag is not to be used - maybe it's a misspelling, maybe it's in the wrong form but not used so often that it's gotten aliased, or otherwise simply not used on the site. Someone with enough interest could follow the link to see the tag changes and check the images which had it removed, to potentially learn what tag to use instead, but as it is where the tag is not displayed at all, there's no information and nothing to learn from.
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Again, one could visit the tag page to find out these things, but as in the first point, it is not the primary search interface that's most directly accessible.