alias wardrobe -> closet

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create alias wardrobe -> closet

Seems they have little difference between them, specially regarding for danbooru purposes, being the most relevant that closet is used in US and wardrobe in UK. If an alias is too much, I can request an implication instead.

In the US, a wardrobe is a piece of furniture, whereas a closet is a room. Visually, they're not the same, and neither an alias nor implication is appropriate.

In fact, the problem is not as simple as I initially thought, because the sources disagree between themselves, for example:

• In Wikipedia, wardrobe is a subset of closet:

A small closet used for storing clothes.
A wardrobe or armoire or almirah is a standing closet used for storing clothes.
The name of wardrobe was then given to a room in which the wall-space was filled with closets and lockers, the drawer being a comparatively modern invention. (No bibliographic citation)

• In the Collins dictionary, it's the opposite:

A wardrobe is sometimes built into the wall of a room, rather than being a separate piece of furniture.
In American English, a built-in wardrobe is called a closet.

• In Cambridge dictionary:

Wardrobe

A tall cupboard in which you hang your clothes
A wardrobe is also a piece of furniture where clothes are kept.

Closet

A cupboard or a small room with a door, used for storing things, especially clothes
A small room or space in a wall where you can store things such as clothes, sheets, etc., often having a door so that it can be closed

Finally, if someone would ever go deeper for this, there's this link where the person really did the homework and investigated further.

TLDR: Sources don't say exactly the same thing, specially wikipedia, there's also cupboards in the mix, in a way that wardrobes are just a large version of those. Any ideas for implications or aliases, or should we keep it as it is?

I could see us having one tag for the furniture to hang clothes and another for an entire dedicated room, but the question is clearly which word is which, as shown above. Maybe we can vote on this?

Wait, where do the drawer-only ones fall?

It might be worthwhile qualifying wardrobe as wardrobe_(furniture) to discourage usage of it for closets. Most of the wardrobe posts I believe (at a glance) seem to match the furniture usage for the term. If necessary afterwards could have wardrobe, wardrobe_(architecture), or similar aliased to closet for the room feature.

I currently do not want to mess with the cupboard tag, since that would probably also then invite bringing in the term cabinet into the discussion.

NWF_Renim said:

If necessary afterwards could have wardrobe, wardrobe_(architecture), or similar aliased to closet for the room feature.

Maybe just closet_(room)? Then alias wordrobe_(room) to closet_(room) and alias closet_(furniture) to wardrobe_(furniture).

There are three main types under the search closet:

• 1 - Some posts contains a movable furniture: post #4903134
• 2 - Most of the posts are depicting a built-in wardrobe: post #4027870, post #4815876
• 3 - A few posts have a room filled with wardrobes: post #4689195, post #3965748, post #4317174

Maybe we should call 1 and 2 wardrobe_(furniture) and 3 closet or walk-in closet?

post #4815876 is just a closet with a shelf, it's wrong to call that "furniture" and I wouldn't call it a wardrobe.

I'd rather not mix together things like post #4903134 and post #4027870, if it doesn't look like you could move it, it shouldn't be called "furniture"

We could make a walk-in closet tag, probably imply it to closet.

blindVigil said:

post #481876 is just a closet with a shelf, it's wrong to call that "furniture" and I wouldn't call it a wardrobe.

I'd rather not mix together things like post #4903134 and post #4027870, if it doesn't look like you could move it, it shouldn't be called "furniture"

We could make a walk-in closet tag, probably imply it to closet.

I agree with your idea and arguments, I actually brought the built-in category because I was also hesitant about calling it a furniture. I suppose you got the wrong post in the first link? I can't see any wardrobes or closets at all in post #481876.

I'll try making a imply walk-in closet -> closet BUR as a way to see if everyone agree with the whole idea, rather than expecting someone will take the first step and getting nothing done or me/someone else creating the tag and populating it, much to the dismay of others because no consensus were reached before.

BUR #10315 has been rejected.

create implication walk-in_closet -> closet

As said above, please only upvote if you also agree with the creation and populating of the tags mentioned above (walk-in closet and wardrobe_(furniture)).

blindVigil was referencing post #post #4815876, but the 5 got deleted from it so it ended up post #481876

Most closets would be fairly small (ie a broom closet, a coat closet, etc), ones you probably couldn't walk into once you actually started putting things into it. So your #2 would definitely be what most people in the US would regularly just call a closet and not the furniture wardrobe.

Yeah, I typoed, it's fixed now.

I'm surprised it let you submit that BUR, since walk-in closet is empty.

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