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Yamada Elf's hairstyle

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Hello.
I noticed inconsistent tagging in the hairstyle of yamada_elf. The wiki states that she has blonde drill_hair, but a lot of posts depicting her are tagged with ringlets which is a somewhat similar type of hairstyle, but apparantly different since an implication or alias don't exist. Maybe ringlets are a subset of drill hair.

To me, her hair looks more like ringlets as it's described in the wiki.
So should the wiki entry for her be changed: Instead of drill_hair she has ringlets and does the yamada_elf drill_hair search needs a clean up.

I've never been really sure when to use which tag.

One way to do it would be to say that drill hair approximates an upside-down cone in shape, whereas ringlets approximate a cylinder. This would need quite a bit of tag gardening, but then so would anything bar an alias from one to the other. It would also make it perfectly possible that the same character would be drawn with one by one artist but the other by another.

I did a bit of looking into it a few days myself. Basically, ringlets seems synonymous with drill hair in terms of usage, with twin_drills being used only if twintails are drills, not sidelocks. So, we should either separate their function somehow or combine them.

CodeKyuubi said:

I did a bit of looking into it a few days myself. Basically, ringlets seems synonymous with drill hair in terms of usage, with twin_drills being used only if twintails are drills, not sidelocks. So, we should either separate their function somehow or combine them.

So should we create an implication from ringlets to both drill_hair and sidelocks?

kuuderes_shadow said:

So are we saying drill hair is for all ringlet hairstyles and ringlets is for when the ringlets are specifically on prominent sidelocks? That seems really counterintuitive to me.

The implication to sidelocks seems rather weird since not all ringlets are sidelocks: -sidelocks ringlets. Just following as how I understood @CodeKyuubi comment on it.
post #2834391 also doesn't look like drill hair to be honest.
But the intention was to make clear when to use twin drills and when ringlets. And according to CodeKyuubi, ringlets seem to be a subset.

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