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Duster ambiguity

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A duster can refer to two things; a cleaning tool as seen in post #1549216, or a kind of coat as seen in post #1520392.

If there's enough images using it for the coat, I propose that we use the tag duster_(clothing). If not, nix that use and just tag dusters as coats.

Edit: I forgot to mention, I've also seen it used to refer to a chalkboard eraser, as seen in post #1640558. Since this is covered by the eraser tag already, we can probably nix these without any trouble.

ghostrigger said:

just to add, there also exists feather_duster which i assume the majority of the current duster tag.

Depends on how you define "feather duster." If you mean "feather duster" as in any of the cleaning tools for clearing dust, then yes, but if you mean specifically the cleaning tool that uses feathers for clearing dust, then it would be no; the majority depicted are those that use cloth strips (I guess common in Japan or at least popular in anime/manga).

Cloth strip type: post #1575597
Rag type: post #4124
Feather type: post #766836, post #904100, post #693650
Brush type: post #1421245, post #770812

JBridge said:

If there's enough images using it for the coat, I propose that we use the tag duster_(clothing). If not, nix that use and just tag dusters as coats.

Could also alternatively use the tag name "duster_coat" instead of having the qualifier in there.

JBridge said:

Since this is covered by the eraser tag already, we can probably nix these without any trouble.

Covered better currently by classroom_eraser, since eraser really is predominately pencil eraser (they look different, but you'd find both in a classroom setting). As for the name "classroom eraser," I think "board_eraser" would be better, since it suggests in name exactly what it is better, and visually there isn't much difference between a chalkboard eraser and a whiteboard eraser.

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