The tag alias #75363 pink_fox -> pink_body has been approved.

Reason: Not all examples are identifiably foxes, and even if they were a combinatorial tag explosion like yellow_sheep or purple_gardevoir just isn't worth it.

EDIT: The tag alias pink_fox -> pink_body (forum #440348) has been approved by @spe.

Other [color]_[species] tags in the past have all aliased to the species rather than the color, ex. black_fox, blue_fox, brown_fox
Not to say we can't change that if desired, but ideally we'd flip all the rest too

wandering_spaniel said:
Other [color]_[species] tags in the past have all aliased to the species rather than the color, ex. black_fox, blue_fox, brown_fox
Not to say we can't change that if desired, but ideally we'd flip all the rest too

I am partial to having them all flipped

wandering_spaniel said:
Other [color]_[species] tags in the past have all aliased to the species rather than the color, ex. black_fox, blue_fox, brown_fox
Not to say we can't change that if desired, but ideally we'd flip all the rest too

I'm fine with prioritizing the body color over the species, personally. A lot of species will just naturally look like each other.
post #265926 post #116437 post #1020994 post #4843138

lafcadio said:
I'm fine with prioritizing the body color over the species, personally. A lot of species will just naturally look like each other.
post #265926 post #116437 post #1020994 post #4843138

Yeah this. Someone is (probably) still stuck finding a post because they got the species wrong

The bulk update request #10962 is pending approval.

Reason:

THIS BUR IS GOING TO NEED SIX PARTS.

Bringing this back up for discussion and providing a list of tags for easy implementation.

Methodology/Notes

• I'd think users are more likely to remember body colors rather than species when it comes to this kind of art, and colors are a smaller category to begin with. We don't have crimson_scales or scarlet_fur, for instance, but we do have tibetan_sand_fox, ezo_red_fox, etc.
• If something like green_fox returns a bunch of green characters and the user isn't happy about it, the next step is to add fox to the query. I think this is probably going to be a lot easier to grasp than adding green_body, green_fur, green_hair, etc., especially since using green_body instead allows us to include characters with non-fur body coverings: scales, slime, etc.
• green basilisk, red fox, red panda, brown bear, black bear, etc. remain where they are: these are species names, not assessments of the character's color; A red fox is a red fox even if they're black due to melanism.
• there are some terms like "yellow labrador" which are assessments of coat color, but at the same time they're broader than typical usage: while an obsidian-colored labrador is a black labrador (makes sense to me!), a fox-colored labrador is a yellow labrador. At the same time, somebody searching for such a character would probably have better luck with orange_body labrador.
• red oni, blue oni remain where they are because the color is basically a property of their species: red oni are supposed to be hotheads, blue oni are supposed to be more cool. Also, nobody's tried to establish anything like green_oni or yellow_oni yet.
• black_dog gets a pass for similar reasons to the oni.
• black human, white human, etc. can probably remain where they are. It would be really weird to try and conflate colors with races.

lafcadio said:

• there are some terms like "yellow labrador" which are assessments of coat color, but at the same time they're broader than typical usage: while an obsidian-colored labrador is a black labrador (makes sense to me!), a fox-colored labrador is a yellow labrador. At the same time, somebody searching for such a character would probably have better luck with orange_body labrador.

To this point, wouldn't aliasing yellow_labrador to yellow_body maybe not be a good idea?

The tag alias pink_fox -> pink_body (forum #440348) has been approved by @spe.

spe said:
To this point, wouldn't aliasing yellow_labrador to yellow_body maybe not be a good idea?

If people generally disagree then I'm not going to dwell on it, but I think keeping the broader use of yellow (as in, things that are actually yellow, and not just the category of Labrador coat colors) is appropriate. Most people aren't going to be coming in with specialist knowledge like "oh, orange counts as yellow." Lilac is a coat color that's recognized in cats, for instance, but cats don't exactly come in purple.
It maintains consistency with the other conversions in this BUR, and a note can be made to this effect on the wiki:

In the real world, labrador retriever coats are typically placed in three categories: black, chocolate, and yellow. Of these, the "yellow" category is particularly broad, including orange and off-white colorations.