Tag alias: extraction -> extraction_(image)

create alias extraction -> extraction_(image)

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The term "extraction" by itself probably doesn't immediately bring to mind the idea of an extracted image for most people. I know that when I saw it on the tag list of the main post page, I first assumed it was for pictures of someone pulling teeth, or evacuating an agent, or carefully fishing something out of a hole, or something like that.

I was initially going to suggest "extracted_image" as the alias, but in case I'm completely wrong, and "extraction" really is the common term for the practice, I didn't think it would be right for me to demand that everyone else had to use something wildly different just because I thought their term wasn't clear enough.

I suggest doing a mass update instead. The word extraction could be properly used for what you said, pulling teeth or fishing out something from a hole.

just want to add, some people use rendering for the same thing. while posts under rendering seemed to be used differently, we have the render tag for the same idea for extraction.

the tags are all ambiguous and i would propose for a qualifier whichever is the final tag, then a cleanup or mass edit to follow, and finally tag aliases for autocompletion.

Rendering and render would probably be the worst possibly terms to use, as that could very easily be confused with 3D rendered images; something not that rare on the site. While other meanings for extraction have been proposed, they're also concepts that would either be unlikely to be seen on the site or they're something where better and clearer terms are available. Extracting a tooth would be either a "dental extraction" or even better called a "tooth pulling" (this one is the best, as it allows for things like pulling a tooth with a string and the like). We only have 14 images of a dentist, so a professional extraction is unlikely to be depicted.

As for anime images of characters taken from a more complete image, I've only ever seen it referred to as an extraction. I would not say that I've been around enough to be definitive that that is the only term though, as clearly a google search shows render is also being used, but I'd say that is even worse for causing confusion of usage. The process though from my own personal knowledge is refereed to as extracting, and was the purpose of things like Photoshop's extract tool.

I'm in support of any name that keeps the term "extract" or "extraction" in it for the tag.

Please change this to a mass update instead. The usage of "extraction" here is kind of unusual and not what I would expect so I don't think an alias is a good idea.

The tag alias extraction -> extraction_(image) has been rejected.