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BUR #29690 has been rejected.
nuke white_head_scarf
nuke blue_head_scarf
nuke grey_head_scarf
So...Head scarves, huh? The BUR is more a formality, honestly, but I did want to use it to start a discussion: what are we gonna do with these tags? Obviously "x headwear" won't cut it, but "x head scarf" sounds kinda silly in my opinion. But they aren't hats either. And I don't think the people searching for scarves want to see head scarves either. So...What should we do with them?
It'd probably look less silly if it was written correctly as "headscarf" instead of splitting it into two words.
Merriam-Webster: Headscarf
Wikipedia: Headscarf
Dictionary.com: Headscarf
Oxford English Dictionary: Headscarf
Google: "head scarf" About 8,520,000 results (0.40 seconds) vs "headscarf" About 25,400,000 results (0.47 seconds)
Agreed. I keep typing "headscarf" over the tag head scarf. Tag names like white headscarf sound less awkward. How'd we get head scarf again, anyway?
Knowledge_Seeker said:
Agreed. I keep typing "headscarf" over the tag head scarf. Tag names like white headscarf sound less awkward. How'd we get head scarf again, anyway?
It seems to just be a case of one beating the other in being a tag. headscarf as a tag was first made in June 2008, but head scarf was already a tag by that point. This would eventually lead to topic #8805 in 2012, with headscarf being aliased and ending the mistagging, relatively speaking. There was no discussion at any point, just an understanding that the tag that was first and more populated should be the main one, essentially. Oldbooru things.
BUR #29693 has been approved by @nonamethanks.
create alias head_scarf -> headscarf
Let's see how people feel about reversing the alias then. Assuming this alias goes through (and we agree color headscarf tags can stay), it should be pretty painless to manually switch the current color tags over to "x headscarf". But one step at a time.
The bulk update request #29693 (forum #297382) has been approved by @nonamethanks.
The bulk update request #29690 (forum #297372) has been rejected by @nonamethanks.
BUR #31472 has been approved by @nonamethanks.
rename white_head_scarf -> white_headscarf
rename blue_head_scarf -> blue_headscarf
rename grey_head_scarf -> grey_headscarf
So I take it we want to keep these, right? If so, we better bring them in line with the new tag name (and let me just say: white headscarf already feels less silly a tag). If this BUR passes, we can work on populating these headscarf tags, and hopefully establish enough for implication.
The bulk update request #31472 (forum #307372) has been approved by @nonamethanks.
