I think Panty is for ONE Panty and Panties is for 2;3;4 Panties...
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Almatia said:
I agree all "panty" tags should be changed into "panties", since it's "a pair of panties", afterall. So lets all pray to the pantsu god and maybe it will just happen without efforts?
or a mod will do a mass edit and hope no one else will use the singular form of the word as a tag.
Disland said: or a mod will do a mass edit and hope no one else will use the singular form of the word as a tag.
Done.
Also, I put in a suggestion for a panty > panties alias. While 'panty" is a word in the dictionary, for all intents and purposes it only is used in the plural.
As a reminder, anyone can submit tag alias suggestions: http://miezaru.donmai.us/tag_alias
Tag aliases are basically a way of redirecting one tag to another. You can read more about them here: http://miezaru.donmai.us/help/tag_aliases
We need aliases especially for plural/singular tags, for common misspellings of names, etc. The cost of adding more aliases is very low, so don't be afraid to suggest some.
Log said: gun/guns, knife/knives, rifle/rifles all fall pray to this same thing, but I can't figure out any reason to use one of the other (or a pressing need to retag the entire sets, defining a difference between each item in a pair) so nothing's been done with them.
I guess we can just go plurals by default. No need to have to search both 'cat' and 'cats' to get all images with cats, when the latter can encompass both.
So yeah I'll try to remember to suggest some more aliases when I come across such things.
crisisx said: well there is an autocorrect thing, so this shouldn't even be a major problem would it? Like, just set one of the two as a default and the other redirects to it. I don't know what's the big problem here.
That's the alias system people are talking about. The discussion is just which things need aliasing and which should be the "dominant" tag. Aliases need to be suggested and approved manually.