Danbooru

Edit: astronaut → space_suit ?

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I was wondering if this might be a good idea. Astronaut has some national semantics attached to it (c.f. cosmonaut), and seems to make less sense when the subject is not actually in space at the time (post #434852), or is in a clearly fictitious universe (post #219592, post #161057, post #148936).

I don't know that an alias or implication is in order for the same reasons as above, but maybe an edit would be good? Space_suit would be more general and more naturally encompass everything on the site.

Anyway I wanted to bounce this off you guys, and get your feedback.

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Shinjidude said:
I was wondering if this might be a good idea. Astronaut has some national semantics attached to it (c.f. cosmonaut), and seems to make less sense when the subject is not actually in space at the time (post #434852), or is in a clearly fictitious universe (post #219592, post #161057, post #148936).

I don't know that an alias or implication is in order for the same reasons as above, but maybe an edit would be good? Space_suit would be more general and more naturally encompass everything on the site.

Anyway I wanted to bounce this off you guys, and get your feedback.

I agree space_suit is more neutral. I say go for it.

I think an astronaut -> spacesuit alias would be fine. It's possible to have an image that wouldn't fit the alias, but none currently do so it's not likely to come up. (For example, an image of the cockpit of the space shuttle showing astronauts without their spacesuits on.)

In addition, skin tight spacesuits would get bodysuit as well for searching purposes. It wouldn't be very intuitive to have two *suit tags for the same image but the spacesuit wiki could explain that.

NWF_Renim said:
You've forgotten the currently used spacesuit will need to be aliased to space_suit.

I have a question though, is there a way to separate traditional (bulky) space suits (post #423844) from skin tight (post #313137, post #309467), retro scifi style (post #145514), and other style (post #188678) space suits? Since right now astronaut for the most part seems to mostly be used to cover the bulkier style suit.

I'd use pilot_suit to tag post #313137 and maybe post #309467.

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