Title question. Asking so I know before I go and change tags on a bunch of posts, because it might break a lot of stuff if I'm wrong.

I tend to see a lot of posts slip through my blacklist of characters giving birth to live young - I leave birth unblacklisted so I can remove the tag from oviposition related posts [and other unrelated posts] as they show up. However, a lot of people don't seem to tag young, which I do have blacklisted, or baby or even newborn (which honestly should be implicated/aliased to baby or young) on posts of characters actually giving birth.

It does seem obvious that one should tag young when in regards to live birth - but a lot of them slip through, and I'm not exactly sure where the line is. birth -young has several pages of posts.

Is the line drawn at crowning? Or would one only tag young if the offspring is fully born in the image? How about monster offspring such as grubs, worms, and slimes? Monster offspring in particular seems to be in a hazy area in regards to what people tag - I suppose they're usually depicted as "ageless" and not actually babies, but they're still being born.

The wikis don't seem to go into detail on how birth-related age tags should be applied, so answers would be appreciated.

Some of those are from rebirth, a rather undertagged vore thing, which don't involve young. That said, as long as the newborn counts as a character in the image (so, actually visible), and there's no reason to think it's anything other than a baby, yes, baby should be tagged. That includes monster offspring, of course. Most of the posts in the search you linked are indeed mistagged, though far from all of them.

scth said:
Some of those are from rebirth, a rather undertagged vore thing, which don't involve young. That said, as long as the newborn counts as a character in the image (so, actually visible), and there's no reason to think it's anything other than a baby, yes, baby should be tagged. That includes monster offspring, of course. Most of the posts in the search you linked are indeed mistagged, though far from all of them.

Okay, thank you for your input. I'll see if I can set aside some time to fix all those mistags.
That being said, regarding rebirth, a lot of posts involving that tag also involve age_regression, which I imagine should count for young if the character appears to be a baby at the time of rebirth.