I want to request "painted_nails" and "colored_nails" to be separated, this is because "colored_nails doesn't filter out naturally colored nails, and includes a LOT of naturally black or white claws, when I'm trying to specifically search for characters wearing nail polish.

Given TWYS: How would you even figure out whether a character's nails are naturally colored?
Something like ~red_nails ~blue_nails ~purple_nails (etc.) is probably better for your use case.

if you want to try regardless, you use the "request BUR"

lafcadio said:
Given TWYS: How would you even figure out whether a character's nails are naturally colored?

I suppose it could be based on whether the nail colors fit the color scheme the species normally has. For example, if you have an anthro wolf with fur coloring similar to a grey wolf or whatever, and they have green finger nails, that could be considered "painted nails" since it wouldn't be the natural coloring you'd expect on their nails/claws.

Though given we're dealing with fictional character depictions, I suppose it is a bit more ambiguous than that. Like, a human with light blue hair doesn't necessarily have dyed hair, even though light blue isn't a natural human hair color (blame anime).

gloriouszote said:
I want to request "painted_nails" and "colored_nails" to be separated, this is because "colored_nails doesn't filter out naturally colored nails, and includes a LOT of naturally black or white claws, when I'm trying to specifically search for characters wearing nail polish.

Neither black_claws nor white_claws imply colored_nails, so I'm not sure how you're having this problem.

wat8548 said:
Neither black_claws nor white_claws imply colored_nails, so I'm not sure how you're having this problem.

Because a lot of black claws and white claws pictures do at the same time have colored_nails tag

gloriouszote said:
Because a lot of black claws and white claws pictures do at the same time have colored_nails tag

colored_nails: 187 pages
colored_nails white_claws: 3 pages
colored_nails black_claws: 7 pages

So not that many, proportionally speaking.

And from a cursory look through those results, a lot of them seem to be mistags. The nails wiki page says they are "can at times be mistaken as claws", and that seems to be exactly what a lot of taggers - including those who should know better - are doing.

For example, post #2882603 depicts exactly one set of claws, which are black, and not a nail to be seen. One user added both the black_claws and black_nails tags at the same time. In fact that user's tagging history seems like a good place to search for images to clean up in general, because they appear to believe that claws and nails should be aliased to each other and all of the images I checked were at least suspect. But they're not the only one at it - post #2946158, despite featuring a total of two sets of claws and 0 nails, has managed to achieve the full house of black_claws, black_nails, white_claws and white_nails. Sometimes there's some room for doubt over whether a bipedal character has nails on the upper limbs and claws on the lower, as in post #3022142, although I think the overall design strongly suggests both are meant to be claws. post #3019614 might have nail-like claws or claw-like nails, depending on interpretation, but it's probably still no excuse to tag both at the same time as one user (a different one to before) did. post #2634974 is one of my favourite examples, for despite featuring two characters with exactly the same style and nearly the same colour of claws, one intrepid tagger decided one should be tagged white_claws and the other should be tagged grey_nails - and then added yellow_cum for good measure, despite all the cum being completely normal-coloured! Seems like somebody might need to adjust the colour settings on their monitor?

In summary, this is a cleanup project, not an aliasing one. Just because some users are misusing the nails tag to mean claws does not mean the distinctions between the two tags should be abolished.