Topic: Faceless tags ambiguities

Posted under General

Continued from topic #38673. Issue originally pointed out by MagnusEffect.

faceless and faceless_character confusingly have very different definitions, leading to heavy mistagging of faceless. Furthermore, there is a separate featureless_face tag, which seems to be used for what faceless's wiki says. I also found obscured_face, which is just a mess...

faceless_character - The character's face is off-screen or otherwise obscured from view. This is being tagged correctly.
faceless - Literally defined as having a "featureless face", so by definition it seems to be the same thing as the featureless_face tag, Understandably, it's commonly confused with faceless_character though. It's pretty split between the two interpretations.
featureless_face - Defined as characters with "a complete lack of eyes, nose, mouth." Despite the wiki, it is occasionally tagged when a character has only one of those three features if they are missing the other two... which makes sense.
obscured_face - No Wiki. Used for faceless_character, featureless_face, various shyguy- or mimikyu-esque "ghost faces" where the features are seemingly floating in a shadowy void or have a "drawn on" appearance, faces that are slightly obscured by an object, the character is simply not looking directly at the camera facing away from the camera... It's a mess.

So... uh, what do? Do we just have to invalidate faceless (945 posts) and obscured_face (459 posts)? Do any of the Wiki definitions need updating?

Updated

It might need tweaking but I just threw up a wiki for faceless_(disambiguation).
There's a handful of posts which should instead be disembodied_penis and/or disembodied_hand, but I'm assuming that's the usual for faceless_character?

I hadn't caught obscured_face yet, and to be honest I'm not sure where to send posts where only part of a character's face is hidden.

crocogator said:
faceless and faceless_character confusingly have very different definitions, leading to heavy mistagging of faceless.

Of note, the faceless wiki is quite new, while the tag's history goes back 14 years. I'd call it as little as a redundancy that wasn't caught before now.

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