Aliasing covered_eyes → eyes_covered
Link to alias

Reason:

They have the same meaning. Both are used interchangeably; they should be merged.

At first, I recommended that "covered_eyes" be the official tag, since this would've followed the existing "[trait]_eyes" pattern (established by "[color]_eyes", et al). But that seems silly in retrospect. I now realize that the word "covered" should be treated as a verb in this case, not turned into an adjective. This would honor the example of the massive main tags "eyes_closed", "one_eye_closed", etc.

Yet... by that logic, shouldn't "hidden_eyes" be changed to "eyes_hidden" (which is currently unused), etc? That seems like a good idea to me... but I don't know.

In any case, these two "covered eyes" tags should be merged into one.

EDIT: The tag alias eyes_covered -> covered_eyes (forum #272990) has been approved by @bitWolfy.

I say covered_eyes because "eyes_covered" is Passive in tone, whereas most tags on this site follow an Active tone.

Both tags have over 200 posts, so this needs to be sorted out. Keep the eyes_covered tag and alias the other one, similar to eyes_closed.

I prefer hidden_eyes more than these two. Thus, both eyes_covered and covered_eyes must be aliased to hidden_eyes.

Shoot, I've been using obscured_eyes.

strikerman said:
Shoot, I've been using obscured_eyes.

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Well, I actually did not see that coming... B/

Is there any more that's synonymous with covered_eyes?

monsterbomb10010 said:
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Well, I actually did not see that coming... B/

Is there any more that's synonymous with covered_eyes?

obstructed_eyes isn't used much, but it likely stems from one_eye_obstructed. Besides that, I think all the related tags have been listed in the thread.

Alright. The only thing to do now is to vote which tag is to be used mainly then alias the other ones to the main.

So far we have the following tags and posts:
covered_eyes 241
eyes_covered 301
eyes_obscured 19
eyes_hidden 64
hidden_eyes 213
obstructed eyes 10
obscured_eyes 246

Forum topic #28152 and topic #27914 made it clear that and obscured is different from obstructed or hidden. I agree, because when someone's eyes are obscured, they can still see, it's just the viewer that can't see their eyes. It's like wearing a tilted baseball cap.
Therefore, I vote against the use of the hidden tags, because they can be subjective.
Alias eyes_obscured -> obscured_eyes
Alias the other tags to eyes_covered.

The tag alias eyes_covered -> covered_eyes (forum #272990) has been approved by @bitWolfy.