There is a sticky thread Find The Artist/Source/Image Request Thread. Would it make sense to add a similar sticky thread for questions about the applicability of tags to posts?
I have a concrete example:
It took me a long time to find the following post because I thought it would be obvious that the character is feline and, because of that, added feline to all my search requests.
post #189607
Apparently I was wrong to assume that. The character certainly looks feline to me, but according to Wikipedia, a cacomistle is something completely different.
The character Tee is sometimes tagged feline, sometimes not:
https://e621.net/post/index/1/tee%20feline
https://e621.net/post/index/1/tee%20feline%20solo
https://e621.net/post/index/1/tee%20-feline
https://e621.net/post/index/1/tee%20-feline%20solo
It appears that this is only the case with Tee, though, and not with cacomistles in general:
https://e621.net/post/index/1/cacomistle%20-tee%20feline
https://e621.net/post/index/1/cacomistle%20-tee%20feline%20solo
What do we do with those posts?
How did so many posts with Tee get tagged feline? (Maybe because the character looks feline?)
Do we remove the tag (unless there is another character which is feline)?
Do we consistently add the tag to posts with Tee in it?
Or do we decide on a case-by-case basis? If so: Should the post mentioned above be tagged feline?
Maybe tagging Tee as cacomistle is wrong? I only found this ref-sheet on FA, but it specifies "esperion" as the species, which seems to be fictional, so that's not helpful either.
I kinda feel like creating a new thread for each such request would be overkill. I wouldn't want to spam the forum.
Updated by Maxpizzle