alias gorgon -> snake_hair

BUR #6202 has been approved by @evazion.

create alias gorgon -> snake_hair

The wiki for snake hair says

For characters whose hair starts as normal hair at the scalp and takes the shape of snakes or turns into actual snakes at the end of the hair.

Use Medusa for characters who have snakes growing directly from their head.

This clause seems to have been specifically made for sengoku nadeko (post #1926994), and yet a quick look at snake hair vs gorgon shows that there's no actual difference between the two tags' usage (about half of snake hair already have the gorgon tag).

There's also the issue that gorgon is constantly used for canon "gorgon" characters like medusa (fate) and medusa (shingeki no bahamut) (in no small part because we have the alias medusa -> gorgon).

Given how many posts like post #4022674 or post #3187958 or post #2539634 can be found under gorgon and how often these clauses are ignored (because "snake hair" just means having snakes as hair) I think this artificial distinction can be safely thrown into the trash and the two tags merged without downside.

It should be pointed out that we already have petrification for the gorgon's most known effect. Ironically, petrification snake_hair has one more post than petrification gorgon (20 vs 19).

Not directly related but should snake hair imply snake? I'm often in doubt if the snakes in the hair count as actual snakes when using this tag.

snake hair is for actual snakes as hair, soa tentative maybe? Unless someone manages to find that one post that counts as snake hair but not snake.

BUR #6205 has been rejected.

create implication snake_hair -> snake

As above.

nonamethanks said:

snake hair is for actual snakes as hair, soa tentative maybe? Unless someone manages to find that one post that counts as snake hair but not snake.

Sengoku Nadeko in her "medusa" incarnation (sengoku_nadeko snake_hair) sometimes have her hair drawn stylized (or glowy) enough to the point where the individual snake heads can't be discerned, though they still look snake-like to qualify for snake hair.

Think the anime also does it semi-frequently. No eyes, no mouths, just vague bulges at the end of he hair that kinda look like snake heads. Intermixed with scenes where they are more actual, overt snake heads. Shaft's idiosyncratic art style, I guess.

Ah yeah, I guess post #1584219 counts (though at that point it should probably be tentacle hair, but there's no arguing with blind taggers)

The bulk update request #6205 (forum #190897) has been rejected by @nonamethanks.

There are some outlier posts under gorgon -snake_hair that I'm not sure what to do with. This can be aliased once those are taken care of.

The only ones I was unsure about were post #1051273, post #1989026 and post #1053983, but then I realized we have medusa (mythology) for those so I just used that tag.

The bulk update request #6202 (forum #190887) has been approved by @evazion.