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Unification of large_* and big_* tags

Posted under General

Currently, there are a lot of tags that have large or big (sometimes huge) in them.

Large breasts
Large bow
Large areolae
Large wings
Large tail

An entire list of these tags can be found here, ordered by tag count:
https://danbooru.donmai.us/tags?commit=Search&search%5Bhide_empty%5D=yes&search%5Bname_or_alias_matches%5D=large%2A&search%5Border%5D=count

And then there are also many big*_ tags:
Big tail
Big nose

Now, there are very few big_* tags left and most are already aliased to the large_* tag.
But there are some left.
Should these also be aliased to large_*
That means we end up with
"large_tail"
"large_nose"
"large_eyes"

And then there are other tags like big hair.
Wouldn'T it be more intuitive to replace that tag with "voluminous hair" or something similar?

"Big hair" is pretty much an idiom (in American English anyway) to refer to the poofy fashions of the 80's and 90's with wavy perms and that sort of thing. I don't think I've ever used it, but in practical usage "big hair" sounds very much more a thing than "large hair" or "voluminous hair". You can see that via usage on Google as well, where it's about 7 times more popular a phrase.

It's also interesting to note that where "large hair" is used, it's not generally the hair that's large, it's a part of "large hair rollers" or "large hair clips", etc.

The standard hierarchy for size tags is small/medium/large/huge/gigantic. For length tags it's very short/short/medium/long/very long/absurdly long. Most tags should use these terms unless they're an exception to the rule. Big hair is an exception because it's an idiom. Most other big_* tags should probably be large_* though.

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