Aliasing wife_beater → tank_top
Link to alias

Reason:

So... a guy who beats his wife is the top part of a tank?

actually technically even if it is kinda stupid, a wife-beater actually is a type of tanktop shirt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife-beater

got a wonder who came up with the name thou.

I would support a disambiguation thou as it would seem rather easy to misconstrue the definition it would have for users on e621.

I think it would be better to just manually change the posts tagged with this to tank_top.

TheGreatWolfgang said:
I think it better to just manually change the posts tagged with this to tank_top.

It's a common name for it, though. Sometimes, "wife-beater" is genuinely more familiar to me than "tank top".

Strikerman said:
It's a common name for it, though. Sometimes, "wife-beater" is genuinely more familiar to me than "tank top".

7300+ posts tagged with tank_top

7 posts tagged with wife_beater

Edit: Nevermind, just alias it. It has already been aliased.

Yea

Strikerman said:
It's a common name for it, though. Sometimes, "wife-beater" is genuinely more familiar to me than "tank top".

Different words for different regions. Over here, it's called a singlet.

You guys do know that a muscle shirt and wife neater are seperate things right? And niether are called a tank top unless you are a girl?

CamKitty said:
You guys do know that a muscle shirt and wife neater are seperate things right? And niether are called a tank top unless you are a girl?

Which one is a muscle shirt? Google gave me singlets, sleeveless shirts and this thing.

BlueDingo said:
Which one is a muscle shirt? Google gave me singlets, sleeveless shirts and this thing.

All those are muscle shirts. Holes where arms go through.

Wife beaters are the arm holes that go half way down the shirt, for fat people

CamKitty said:
You guys do know that a muscle shirt and wife neater are seperate things right? And niether are called a tank top unless you are a girl?

Says you. Everybody, regardless of gender, calls it a tanktop here.

Furrin_Gok said:
Says you. Everybody, regardless of gender, calls it a tanktop here.

Regional differences! Yay!

TheHuskyK9 said:
Yea

Good. I tried googling this a couple of years ago, couldn't find any concrete answers. Just plenty of threads from people who were confused by the same thing.

Everyone mixes them up. We also have a sleeveless_shirt tag, which overlaps a lot with tank_top. Not sure what to do about that. Because, again, I don't know what's the exact difference.

Genjar said:
Good. I tried googling this a couple of years ago, couldn't find any concrete answers. Just plenty of threads from people who were confused by the same thing.

Everyone mixes them up. We also have a sleeveless_shirt tag, which overlaps a lot with tank_top. Not sure what to do about that. Because, again, I don't know what's the exact difference.

Tank tops are the bare minimum of a shirt, they don't cover your entire shoulder because they have a strap design (but are still one whole piece and don't need to be strapped) and expose the unders of your armpit. They just cover most of your chest and all of your stomach.

Sleeveless shirts, in comparison, still cover your shoulders (except for the protruding blade, which is only ever covered by sleeved shirts) and don't leave your under armpit exposed. They cover all of your chest and stomach, basically following the design of a normal shirt.

But this is both IRL, and can have variations: a man's and a woman's tank top will look different because a man's will usually have a curved collar for the top, exposing the top of your chest. A woman's tank top would be a flat collar, which would expose more than a shirt but less than a man wearing a tank top. But in art, those lines are obviously blurred, so a simple way is to just check to see how much of the shoulder and under armpits are exposed.

Siral_Exan said:
But in art, those lines are obviously blurred, so a simple way is to just check to see how much of the shoulder and under armpits are exposed.

Yes, but sleeveless_shirt is only tagged on 156 posts. And tank_top numbers 7342. As far as I can see, a lot of those are under the wrong tag. Thousands, maybe.

Would it be worthwhile to sort those, and then try to keep them in order?

Here's some random examples from tank_top:
post #1284730 post #98211 post #151586 post #728002 post #1210928

Genjar said:
Yes, but sleeveless_shirt is only tagged on 156 posts. And tank_top numbers 7342. As far as I can see, a lot of those are under the wrong tag. Thousands, maybe.

Would it be worthwhile to sort those, and then try to keep them in order?

I'm partial to say that tank tops are more common than sleeveless shirts, but I can organize them if no one else wants to.

To answer your images: tank top, sleeveless, something I never have seen but reminds me of a sports bra from Miu's ask blog, sleeveless, tank top. Three of them are not under the right tag, but I think I see a reason why they are wrong: the wiki is not specific over how much of the sleeve is cut off, and what parts remain.

Siral_Exan said:
I'm partial to say that tank tops are more common than sleeveless shirts, but I can organize them if no one else wants to.

That'd be good. It could definitely use some cleaning, and you seem to have a good handle on which belong in which.

This sounds a little bit like whiskey to me... The more exposed each person is to the thing, the more terms they recognize in the variations. Sleeveless is pretty well agreed upon, but the slightly more scooped out version I'd normally call a tank top is still a lot more cloth than the things I'm used to calling a muscle shirt, a physique shirt, a stringer, or a y-back, all of which could be distinct or sometimes overlap.

Genjar said:
That'd be good. It could definitely use some cleaning, and you seem to have a good handle on which belong in which.

Ok, I'll work on that shortly. I'll make a set for ones I have to research. It looks like I was right about the sports bra one.

For people wondering, in my house I have to handle a large and diverse amount of clothes, masculine and feminine alike. My brother wears sleeveless and tank tops, for instance, and my step-mom wears tank tops.