Donmai

deprecating Dragon bodypart tags

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BUR #16134 has been rejected.

deprecate dragon_horns
deprecate dragon_tail
deprecate dragon_wings
deprecate dragon_ears

these don't actually tag a particular concept and more are just canon tags, mostly since, as dragons are a fictional creature from hundreds of years ago based on reptiles, don't have any sort of consistent design

in fact a lot of bodypart tags like this could likely be gotten rid of under the same logic but i understand this is likely to be a controversial precedent to set so we'll start with this to see how it fairs

These tags currently function as an umbrella for dragon-like body parts, because there's no tags for the individual subtypes (think dragon antlers vs "scaly" dragon horns, or scaly pointy ears vs scaly head fins). They cannot be deprecated if we don't have tags for the specific subtypes, because it would mean just nuking this kind of information without offering an alternative.

TBH even if we had subtype tags I'd probably argue for keeping the umbrella tags.

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