Aliasing peafowl_feather → peacock_feather
Link to alias

Reason:

could go either way, really

IN ADDITION

black_feather -> black_feathers
blue_feather -> blue_feathers
brown_feather -> brown_feathers

green_feather -> green_feathers
grey_feather -> grey_feathers
orange_feather -> orange_feathers

pink_feather -> pink_feathers
purple_feather -> purple_feathers
red_feather -> red_feathers

white_feather -> white_feathers
yellow_feather -> yellow_feathers
teal_feather -> teal_feathers

tan_feather -> tan_feathers
rainbow_feather -> rainbow_feathers
cyan_feather -> cyan_feathers

Why alias the neutral gender to a non-neutral gender tag?

The term peacock is properly reserved for the male; the female is known as a peahen, and the immature offspring are sometimes called peachicks.

Imo, that should be:

alias peacock_feather -> peafowl_feather
alias peahen_feather -> peafowl_feather

Or, if we've suddenly decided to change our minds regarding binary gender tags, use both separately and make that an implication instead i.e

implicate peacock_feather -> peafowl_feather
implicate peahen_feather -> peafowl_feather

It should be noted that if these are aliased, females don't have the signatory plumage of the males, so it would be impossible to search for male peacock plumage without an additional tag

Also, what happens when a post with a single coloured feather has to be tagged?

titanmelon said:
Also, what happens when a post with a single coloured feather has to be tagged?

Yes, that is somewhat problematic. And not easily fixed.
Feathers is supposed to be tagged for feathery characters, but posts such as these end up with the tag:

post #41046 post #142745 post #169702

There's plenty of such posts out there. Feathers are commonly used as decorations.

Hm,

or
*_body_feathers ?

titanmelon said:
Also, what happens when a post with a single coloured feather has to be tagged?

titanmelon said:
Hm,

*_feather_{item}

or

loose_feather is currently used for that, but it's kind of an obscure tag. We could probably alias it to single_feather or something to make it more obvious.

titanmelon said:
*_body_feathers ?

That's not a bad idea.

parasprite said:
loose_feather is currently used for that, but it's kind of an obscure tag. We could probably alias it to single_feather or something to make it more obvious.

Even then, users are likely to tag loose feathers as <color>_feather. So it'd get implicated to feathers anyway.

WHAT AN INTERESTING DEVELOPMENT.

What if we changed all feathers tags to plumage instead?

Somewhat off-topic but still related. Putting it in here since discussion is active

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bump before I break something

any objections to aliasing the singulars to the plurals?

Knotty_Curls said:
any objections to aliasing the singulars to the plurals?

My objection remains unchanged. Those posts shouldn't get implicated as feathers, since that tag is for plumage. Feathers is in the same tag group as fur, scales, and skin, and shouldn't be tagged for hat or hair decorations.

Also, feather_in_hair needs to be unimplicated. Same goes for loose_feather.