The whistle tag seems to be used for both an object(whistle) and the act of whistling, while there is the tag whistling which has about 2 pages already and whistle has about 8 and is used for both

I have two ideas. We either use the tag whistle_object for pictures like this for the object
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And keep whistling for these examples and alias whistle to whistling basically forcing it as the verb form.
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I think that would help for finding picture with character blowing on whistle unless we think we need a separate tag for that act
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The other idea is to use whistle_in_mouth and/or holding_whistle instead for picture like the following and just add whistling if it's obvious that's occurring like in the dinosaur picture above this, basically using whistle only as it's noun form
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And I'll go through and change whistle to whistling if someone is whistling with just their mouth or off scene and there is no physical whistle present and make note in wiki that whistle is used for the object and whistling is for the act, that way no new tag alias has to be made.
I still think there will be mis-tagging until we choose whether the tag whistle should be either a noun or verb and than either alias it to whistle_object or whistling that way it will be more obvious the wrong tag was used after applying it.

Anyways those are my ideas. Thoughts?

My thoughts: the tag should be split in two as you stated, something like whistle_(object) and whistling. That way you can distinguish between the object or the act.

Of course, considering how as of now they're mixed together, the tags are gonna obviously need a clean up to properly tag as one or the other.

DiceLovesBeingBlown said:
My thoughts: the tag should be split in two as you stated, something like whistle_(object) and whistling. That way you can distinguish between the object or the act.

Of course, considering how as of now they're mixed together, the tags are gonna obviously need a clean up to properly tag as one or the other.

I guess the next question should be do we alias whistle to whistle_(object) similar to what was done to the tag fan. Would help with the cleanup as I would guess the 2/3rds of the posts with the tag are using it as the object

After looking through many more pictures tagged with whistle and seeing why the tag was added in each instance, I now propose we use whistle_(object) and whistling and maybe alias whistle to whistle_(object) or make it invalid. This will allow the use the the usual premixes holding_whistle and whistle_in_mouth to also apply, as there are pictures that 3 of the 4 could apply but not all, and it would be beneficial to users who want to find cat calling behavior or whistling, and those who seem to be into coaches/life guards and being suggestive with their whistles.