Donmai

nuke maid_dress

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BUR #3803 has been approved by @evazion.

mass update maid_dress -> maid dress
create alias maid_dress -> maid

It's just maid + dress. There's no character with a maid dress who shouldn't also be tagged with maid.
If anything, there should be a tag for nontraditional maids, rather than a tag that serves only as padding like this one.

EDIT: The bulk update request #3803 (forum #175140) has been approved by @evazion.

Updated by DanbooruBot

Obstetrics said:

Theoretically there might be an unworn maid dress in an image where no characters are a maid, though I couldn't find any examples of this with a quick search.

I found some like post #2853722, but they were already tagged as maid + clothes_removed rather than maid dress, so it doesn't look like an issue.

Maid_dress might be useful if it consistently described a particular style of dress, but it doesn't. It gets used for long dresses, short dresses, sleeveless dresses, long-sleeved dresses, dresses with collars, dresses with plunging necklines, whatever the hell this is, and so on. Kill it.

Speaking of post #4150512, it might be a good idea to dig through maid_dress -dress first and weed out the other posts that aren't actually dresses. I've already found a few such posts at a glance, and it's likely that there are many more.

I´m not really in favor of the nuke, because searching for maid+dress doesn´t mean you get the chance for searching specific colored dresses, as for example: maid + red_dress would get you posts like that post #4175756.
Especially when you want to search for the specific maid_dress itself, it would be usefull enough to keep it.

Sadly, as slime stated, the tag does get misused alot, just as every other maid specific tag IMO. So if it gets nuked, I won´t complain further.

On the other hand, if a nontraditional_maid tag would be created, I would support it.

Guaro1238 said:

I´m not really in favor of the nuke, because searching for maid+dress doesn´t mean you get the chance for searching specific colored dresses, as for example: maid + red_dress would get you posts like that post #4175756.
Especially when you want to search for the specific maid_dress itself, it would be usefull enough to keep it.

Sadly, as slime stated, the tag does get misused alot, just as every other maid specific tag IMO. So if it gets nuked, I won´t complain further.

On the other hand, if a nontraditional_maid tag would be created, I would support it.

Well to be fair that's more of an issue of how we use tags in general - the same problem applies to color legwear, eyewear and similar tags. But a quick glance at maid red_dress shows that the vast majority of results are for maids in red uniforms, so it doesn't look like a problem in this case. Note that your example post would show up even if you searched for maid_dress + red_dress.

This is another of those tautological tags. What is a maid dress? A dress worn by a maid. What is a maid? A person who wears a maid dress. There's no way to define it without making it a redundant tag.

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