Danbooru

Lamia Boy -> Snake Boy

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If an alias is going to be made, I think the alias should be from snake_boy -> lamia_boy. The former tag isn't specific enough and is often used for furries or characters with snake features. Despite the wiki specifying the tag's usage, only a little over half the images are of male lamias. Previously, the only way a user could search for male lamias was by searching monster_boy + snake_boy, and even then the results still included non-lamias.

We already have harpy_boy as a male specific tag for harpy. Having a male lamia tag is helpful for both tagging and searching. Furries and other characters can go into reptile_boy/lizardman.

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I believe this is caused by the ancient alias of snake_girl -> lamia, which is a questionable alias I've never been able to convince those who can approve undoing it that it is indeed a questionable alias despite images like post #6413231 being tagged lamia and the hundreds of snake tail girls being unable to be tagged snake girl.

You say that it would be consistent with harpy boy, but this would be like aliasing bird boy or bird girl to harpy boy and harpy, respectively.

Flopsy said:

Unless we want to limit the X_girl/boy tags to characters who are basically humanoid, but have themed ornaments?

We don't tag harpies with bird girl, we don't tag centaurs with horse boy or girl, and we don't tag mermaid with fish girl.
This has been policy for years.

Flopsy said:

BUR #18090 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

remove alias snake_girl -> lamia

As stated above, a snake_girl isn't necessarily a lamia.

I'm going to approve this after some consideration because I think it's definitely possible to tell apart snake-like girls and lizard-like girls, and there's no reason for us to not want to search for those separately. Forked tongues, slit pupils and glasgow smiles are usually the best examples of this.

However, I already know it's just going to be filled with Kemono Friends by people who cannot read.

Also people need to clean up snake boy from male lamias.

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