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Tagging Spoon or Spork for pictures of Toutetsu Yuuma (Touhou 17.5)

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With regards to the character of Toutetsu Yuuma from Touhou Gouyoku Ibun, she canonically holds an oversized spork, however several artists do mistake it for a spoon and depict it as such in their artwork.

My question is, what would be the most appropriate way to tag ambiguous images where the spoon/spork she's holding contains a liquid? See the following two images as an example.
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Both images are by the same artist, however the first image makes it ambiguous as to whether it's a spoon or a spork. Do we leave it as spoon or change the tag to spork?

Also of note are other images where you can't even see whether she's holding a spoon or a spork as it's offscreen, such as this.
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How should cases like these be handled? Should we still tag them as spork as that's the more canonical option?

Username_Hidden said:

new pool: "Spork?"
Maybe spoon or just cutlery.
No reason to tag a spork if it can't be seen. Think whether you want to see those artworks or not when you search for spork.

I suppose that may be best. Would implying spoon, spork, and other cutlery tools to cutlery suffice? As well as editing her wiki page to mention tagging her utensil with cutlery if the image is ambiguous? Also perhaps aliasing utensil with cutlery.

In the US at least, cutlery more commonly refers to knives and similar cutting utensils, not spoons/sporks and other kitchen utensils. I don't know if we really need both as separate tags, but I don't think cutlery is the better choice as the main tag.

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