During other tag cleanup, I discovered the existence of the tag: western. It has no wiki, and it generally used on images that have a "Western" feel to them, i.e. elements that would indicate a setting in 19th-century American midwest. You know, like
post #238144
But then there's shit like
post #222161
post #158559
and
post #143290

Is there a meaning to the word that I'm not getting? I can aaaalmost maybe get Celestia being there, as she's a character from a ubiquitous example of modern Western animation, as opposed to Japanese "anime." But beyond that, wtf.

I'm asking just in case there's another meaning I don't know before I just go and remove it from the images.

The dress that Celestia is depicted wearing is one of the stereotypical 'old west dancer' dresses. The other two might be due to misguided taggers thinking 'western? That must mean the western dragon type'. It's indicative of a clarifying wiki edit being needed.

I didn't catch it as being a saloon girl sort of outfit, but I guess it is. Ah! As opposed to a Chinese Dragon? Ok, that makes a little bit of sense. Wiki edit and tag cleanup. Does the western_dragon tag exist? -checks- It does. Very good. It should be used more.

Ok, tags and wikis cleaned and created, respectively. If anyone who has more knowledge about what exactly distinguishes western from eastern dragons than I would kindly go in and add to it, that'd be great. And spread the use.

feel like our "western-as-in-cowboy' tag should have a different name to it some how..to differenciate it out... mostly because of silly people wanting to tag 'western' artists and 'western' dragons.

old_west?
Spaghetti_western?
western_theme?

I'd say maybe cowboy gear or something, but that still doesnt' quite cover the whole range of coybows n indians and saloons and dancers and such.

Maybe 'western' is good enough.

as for dragons, I can tell the difference, but not put it into words :C

and there are a lot of hybrids these days. c_C