I was trying to tag body color for a living_inflatable character. I realized that I didn't really know which body type to use. If you have material that looks like skin, but isn't skin, do you tag based on the material (default body) or the thing that material represents?

Tag as body color or fur color?

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Do we tag body color for non-living things that resemble living things? If there is a doll that isn't alive, then would we still include a color tag for that doll even though it isn't really a character? Would we tag using the represented body type?

Tag body color or no?

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From any of the *_body wikis, you find following:
A character with a body that is difficult to determine the type of skin, fur or scales that the character has.

So if you are unable to determine what kind of stuff the body is made out of, then fall back to <color>_body tag, othervice use feathers, fur, scales or skin.

I would tag first example with orange_body because how clear it is that it's tried to be made out of some material.
animate_inanimates are also tagged with colors, but as for second example, that doesn't count one so it's handled as object rather than character meaning that ones color will not get tagged.

Thanks for clarifying. I was thinking it meant body, but I did not want to start tagging wrongly.

About the second part, I suppose that makes sense. A bit non-intuitive since we tag things we see and we don't necessarily associate these things with actual characters. Things with eyes have to be associated with actual characters regardless if there are things that look like eyes in the piece, but there can be symbol representations of objects that get tagged as the object.

Things representing characters, but are not characters get tagged.
Things representing objects, but are not those objects get tagged.
Things representing features of objects representing characters don't get tagged as the thing they represent.

Confusing stuff.

It's like we can tag a symbol of a tree as tree, but we can't tag a branch of that tree as a branch because it is only a symbolic depiction of a branch of a symbolic tree. But that is if the character rule applied to objects as well, which it doesn't.