BUR #58570 is pending approval.
create alias hairpin -> hairclip
Opening from topic #35829 for visibility
We currently have two tags, hairclip and hairpin, that are basically the same tag split apart.
In theory, hairclip was meant to be for something like decorated hairpin or thick hairpin, for ones that have sort of a clip mechanism to keep them in place because they're heavier, and hairpin for the "simple ones", except that
- people just use one or the other depending on which term they are more familiar with
- there's also things like claw hair clip in there that look nothing like the rest of the tag
- additionally there's the occasional mistag of hair stick in hairpin: topic #19669, xu_fu_(fate) hairpin
- there's bobby pin too
If you open hairclip and hairpin side by side there's basically no difference.
This has been a longstanding issue that even 15 years ago had people confused: topic #5726.
In an ideal world we'd just rename hairclip to hairpin, except that it has half a million posts, and in most cases it's impossible to tell whether there's a mechanism. I'll propose two different burs, one to keep hairclip as main tag, and one to move everything to hairpin. We'll have to unimply claw hair clip regardless, since visually speaking it's a completely different object.
There's then the issue of not being able to distinguish between bobby pin/simple hairpin and ornate ones. At this point, we might as well just use bobby pin for the traditional simple black hairpin, to distinguish them from ornate ones. We might also want to create tags for more styles such as the one worn by Princess Zelda (compare princess_zelda hairpin vs princess_zelda hairclip, same exact result).
