The bulk update request #5211 has been rejected.

create alias eyelid (106) -> eyelids (2294)

Reason: Alias a less-common tag to the more-common one.

I am pretty sure they both mean the same thing - small flaps of skin that a character can move to cover their eye(s).

Normally, I would propose it the other way around (plural to singular - if you have many, you have one), but the plural version is much more popular.

EDIT: The bulk update request #5211 (forum #370618) has been rejected by @kora_viridian.

Hmmm.....
I wonder if having eyelids would be considered the default though, and shouldn't be tagged at all? Like how eyes and mouth are invalidated because they're the default. These images seem to all show either narrowed_eyes or eyes_closed.
We do have eyebrows though so maybe it's fine?

This is kind of bizarre, actually.

Basically every character here has eyelids. This is somewhat pointless. It would be better to tag the characters that don’t have eyelids, but… it seems we don’t have a tag for that? All I can find is no eyelids, but of the two results, neither even look accurate. In one, the characters are all lacking eyes entirely, which defeats the purpose; and in the other, well… both characters clearly have eyelids? One of them maybe doesn’t, it’s hard to tell. I don’t know what either tagger was doing here, regardless.

I’m sure there’s a decent number of characters here without eyelids. Probably insects, snakes, geckos, and so on, especially ferals.

post #2093303 post #3691237 post #3570859

I'm not really sure how useful this is... but an alias probably isn't a bad idea either way. Even if it gets moved to the invalid category, the alias will still need to be made.

The bulk update request #5222 is pending approval.

change category eyelids (2294) -> invalid

Alias eyelid to eyelids then move it to the invalid category, like how it has been done with eyes.

I wonder if people will have ever pick up on tagging no eyelids

Also while we're on the topic of eyes, what's with the tags horizontal_eyes,vertical_eye, vertical_eyes?

scaliespe said:
It would be better to tag the characters that don’t have eyelids, but… it seems we don’t have a tag for that?

The problem I see is that many characters with open eyes don't have visible eyelids, either due to simplified detail or stylistic choices (your pfp, for example, doesn't -- there's a brow, but no lids; post #4159687 and post #4156622 also don't have any defined eyelids).

watsit said:
The problem I see is that many characters with open eyes don't have visible eyelids, either due to simplified detail or stylistic choices (your pfp, for example, doesn't -- there's a brow, but no lids; post #4159687 and post #4156622 also don't have any defined eyelids).

That is a potential issue.
I believe that the non-circular eye at least implies eyelids because the eye sockets themselves cannot change shape or open and close, and eyelids are the only way for an eye to open or close. Typically, animals which actually lack eyelids entirely will have perfectly circular eyes like in the examples I gave.
But this can also happen for facial expressions, like surprise, which often results in the eyes being fully wide open, particularly in simplified or toony styles (it's not anatomically possible to open your eyes to a perfect sphere like that, but cartoons have their own rules).

snpthecat said:
Also while we're on the topic of eyes, what's with the tags horizontal_eyes,vertical_eye, vertical_eyes?

Both posts under horizontal_eyes right now are mistagged horizontal_pupils

The bulk update request #5211 (forum #370618) has been rejected by @kora_viridian.