Aliasing q-tip → cotton_swab
Link to alias

Reason:

Same thing. Q-Tips is a brand name for cotton swabs.

Misc.

• They're also called cotton buds.

It's a thing

Random said:
It's a thing

I know.

I think that cases of alias involving synecdoche, such this one, should be analyzed more carefully. "q-tip" is a more popular and shorter term, so might be better do the reverse alias.

O16 said:
"q-tip" is a more popular

In America, maybe.

BlueDingo said:
In America, maybe.

In this site, I was talking about e621.

Flygon said:
Just gotta say, for Australia, I have *never* heard anyone say Q-Tip. I'm for Cotton_Swab, myself.

I don't blame ye. Us aussies tend to say "cotton bud" and I don't think the Q-Tips brand is sold here.

+1 for alias

'Q-Tip' is a brand name that is commonly used as a blanket term for cotton swabs in North America, just like 'Xerox' for photocopies, et.al.

Q-tip —> things_that_shouldnt_go_in_your_ears

Fenrick said:
Q-tip —> things_that_shouldnt_go_in_your_ears

That is a joke, I presume.

O16 said:
That is a joke, I presume.

As an alias yeah. But as life advice, well…

Hey, At least they're not still called "Baby Gays" imagine the confusion THAT'D cause.

Flygon said:
Should we lodge another alias request for cotton_bud > cotton_swab? :D

I doubt it would ever get accepted due to low usage.

O16 said:
That is a joke, I presume.

Nope. There has been a multitude of studies that show that removing ear wax (especially with swabs) is usually unecessary and more likely to cause more harm than good.

They're great for makeup though.

+1
Hardly anyone outside of America has heard of q-tips, and it's usually best to avoid brand names in general tags.

^{By the way, if the Wikipedia is to be believed, those used to be called Baby Gays. I can see why they renamed it.}

+1
I'd also recommend aliasing cotton_bud → cotton_swab since the wiki entry directly refers to the alternate name.

I decided to just tag them all, since this hasn't been touched in 3 months. Now all posts that are tagged q-tip are also tagged cotton_swab, and vice versa. It will not have effect on future posts, though.