The bulk update request #8878 has been rejected.

Reason: People kept using [color]_muzzle tags on posts because countershading is an obscure term, so this should make things more accessible.

EDIT: The bulk update request #8878 (forum #411065) has been rejected by @spe.

I think cyan should alias to teal, teal is a newly "officially recognised" color but is currently missing from the BUR.

Indigo and violet aren’t really deserving of mention, they have 0 posts tagged anyway.

No, character can have a solid coat. This would still make their muzzle that particular color, but without countershading.

dimoretpinel said:
I think cyan should alias to teal, teal is a newly "officially recognised" color but is currently missing from the BUR.

Indigo and violet aren’t really deserving of mention, they have 0 posts tagged anyway.

I was aliasing indigo_muzzle to blue_countershading for consistency. And I fixed the cyan part. (But the alias already exited, apparently.)

kyiiel said:
No, character can have a solid coat. This would still make their muzzle that particular color, but without countershading.

Yaeh but some people would look up white_muzzle instead of white_countershading, for example, because it's more Intuitive. That's way this helps.

1eyed-rosd said:
Yaeh but some people would look up white_muzzle instead of white_countershading, for example, because it's more Intuitive. That's way this helps.

Those are not the same thing, so they cannot be aliased.

This post has no countershading, but has a white muzzle. With your BUR, if someone tagged white_muzzle, white_countershading would be added instead, creating a mistag.

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muzzle is ambiguous as it can refer to a snout or muzzle_(object). Aside from a colored muzzle/snout not necessarily meaning it's countershading, <color>_muzzle can equally refer to a colored snout or a colored muzzle object.

watsit said:
muzzle is ambiguous as it can refer to a snout or muzzle_(object). Aside from a colored muzzle/snout not necessarily meaning it's countershading, <color>_muzzle can equally refer to a colored snout or a colored muzzle object.

That's a very good point.

I would not consider a dark muzzle on a hyena or German shepherd to be a form of countershading, not even reverse_countershading, since it only covers that part. This is why the muzzle_(marking) tag exists. As for characters with a light-colored muzzle that doesn't extend to any other part of their face... I'm not sure I've ever seen one. But I suppose the tag would apply for that too.

The bulk update request #8878 (forum #411065) has been rejected by @spe.

The only one of these tags that's currently populated at all is tan_muzzle, but most of the results don't even include countershading. Aliasing all these muzzle colors to (color)_snout would probably be fine, though.