Murdering the hikimayu tag

BUR #52859 is pending approval.

remove alias round_eyebrows -> short_eyebrows
create alias hikimayu -> round_eyebrows
remove alias hikimayu -> round_eyebrows

Hikimayu is accorrding to the wiki, "A traditional Japanese cosmetic practice of shaving off the eyebrows and painting on new ones". However the tag is used for any short, rounded eyebrows. In topic #34069, round_eyebrows was aliased to short_eyebrows. This is better then it was before but I'm still unsatisfied. We do have images like post #9457491 that seem to be genuine hikimayu and there has been interest in changing obscure Japanese tag names into more clearer English ones and the term hikimayu is both obscure and technically incorrect.

I'm always in favor of Englishifying tags

wispydreamer said:

BUR #52859 is pending approval.

remove alias round_eyebrows -> short_eyebrows
create alias hikimayu -> round_eyebrows
remove alias hikimayu -> round_eyebrows

Hikimayu is accorrding to the wiki, "A traditional Japanese cosmetic practice of shaving off the eyebrows and painting on new ones". However the tag is used for any short, rounded eyebrows. In topic #34069, round_eyebrows was aliased to short_eyebrows. This is better then it was before but I'm still unsatisfied. We do have images like post #9457491 that seem to be genuine hikimayu and there has been interest in changing obscure Japanese tag names into more clearer English ones and the term hikimayu is both obscure and technically incorrect.

first i think it should be called short thick eyebrows instead and potentially imply both short eyebrows and thick eyebrows

second i don't think hikimayu should be nuked just because people can't tag it right, just move the bad posts to the other tag manually

it's just like we have nail polish separated from nail colors, because not every black nails is nail polish

trapster77 said:

second i don't think hikimayu should be nuked just because people can't tag it right, just move the bad posts to the other tag manually

it's just like we have nail polish separated from nail colors, because not every black nails is nail polish

Even if you think that, the BUR above would allow that, except in reverse: you move all the good posts back to hikimayu manually.

wispydreamer said:

We do have images like post #9457491 that seem to be genuine hikimayu

Then they should be tagged as such.

there has been interest in changing obscure Japanese tag names into more clearer English ones

We're an anime art site, we should not regard Japanese terms that have a Wikipedia article and no direct translation as obscure.

the term hikimayu is both obscure and technically incorrect.

Only if it is misused by people who add tags without knowing their meaning.

Nameless_Contributor said:

Then they should be tagged as such.

We're an anime art site, we should not regard Japanese terms that have a Wikipedia article and no direct translation as obscure.

Only if it is misused by people who add tags without knowing their meaning.

Yes, and like Damian0358 said this is exactly what this BUR allows and is intended to do. Yes, it empties out the hikimayu tag as it is now but that's because the vast majority of posts that are in there are mistagged. I have no intention of deprecating the hikimayu tag but instead having a three tag system. One for actual hikimayu, one for short eyebrows and one for round eyebrows instead of our current two-tag system.

I think the BUR will increase the number of mistags and confusion. Get mad at the people mistagging it. It's impossible to tag accidentally because it's a Japanese term, so it means they just don't know what it is.
And bring back medium eyebrows.