Danbooru

Tag implication: single_earring -> earrings

Posted under General

Tag implication:

Reasons:

  • Both tags are the same thing, except one is restricted by quantity (a single earring) and the other is not (any number of earrings).
  • The wiki of earrings has this note since 2009, emphasis mine: "If you're sure the character is wearing only one earring, you should additionally tag the image with single_earring."
  • The search single earring earrings returns 243 results.
  • The search single earring -earrings returns 217 results.

Updated by NWF Renim

Against this. Renim made that change without consulting anyone. While it wasn't misguided it basically ruins a major utility of the single earring tag.

single_earring earrings should return girls wearing a pair of earrings alongside girls wearing a single earring. Implicate it and these are impossible to find.

Log said:
single_earring earrings should return girls wearing a pair of earrings alongside girls wearing a single earring. Implicate it and these are impossible to find.

They are (relatively) impossible to find already. The search you mentioned doesn't work because earrings is largely used even when there is only one earring in the image.

Are you suggesting that earrings should be used only when both ears of someone got earrings? It would require cleanup.

Log said:
Single earring is intended for when you can tell there is only a single earring at all, if it's not being used that way we may as well alias it.

"Single earring" is being used the way you described, if "at all" means "visible in only a single ear of someone".

EDIT: Wording.

Log said:
Single earring has nothing to do with visibility via policy.

forum #21361.

The conversation you linked to has good points.

Policy or not, now I agree with the idea of using single earring only when someone is clearly wearing a single ring. This includes removing that tag from the post #566228.

Edit: Two addendums.

1. I'm going to double-check all pages of single earring to remove cases like post #566228 from it. I don't guarantee 100% accuracy, however, since earrings are small and troublesome too see from thumbnails. When I finish, I'll come back here and say I'm finished.

2. In spite of what I said, I maintain my observation that earrings refers to any quantity of earrings visible, including just one. And I endorse this use of that tag, so I still request the implication "single_earring -> earrings", the raison d'être of this thread. The simplest reasons I have: what Log said or linked to in this regard didn't convince me at all, and earring is aliased to earrings. However, I won't force my point of view — that is, I won't use earring indiscriminately for many images that fit single earring. Unless the implication I requested takes place.

Updated

Yeah, only use single_earring if you can prove there's only one.

As for not tagging "earrings" when single_earring is present... ehhh I dunno. For example I just did single_thighhigh -> thighhighs today and that seems perfectly sensible to me. If someone is wearing earrings, they're wearing earrings, whether it's 1 or 100.

It's true it makes it harder to find "one girl with one earring next to another girl with two" but you could make variations of that statement for quite a lot of implications. I'm not sure that unlikely search negates the implication.

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