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create implication drainpipe -> pipes
Don't know if this works, but I was once told that pipe is for smoking and pipes is used in a different way. So I'm wondering if drainpipes are then some kind of pipes then^^. Or does pipes only refer to for example gas pipes.
Wiki pages do not exist for both tags.
Regarding the implication, I think it depends on what we consider pipes to be for (it still has no wiki page). If it is for any cylindrical tube used to transport something from one place to another then yes, implicating drainpipe to pipes is fine. If it wants to be something more specific than that then it shouldn't.
Drainpipe and downspout are, for the most part, synonymous. Downspout is if anything a bit more specific to what NWF Renim described, and what the majority of the tag uses are for, but drainpipe is (in my experience) by far the more common word.
But the tag drainpipe seems to be being used for various things that are not actual drainpipes such as post #1746323 or various Mario pictures...
Unfortunately drainpipe also include posts where only the gutter is visible such as post #2499190. That is a half pipe and not a cylinder.
Do we have a tag for gutter?
In order to avoid confusion could we rename/alias pipes to piping as pipes could refer to multiple pipe.
Updated by ion288
ion288 said:
Unfortunately drainpipe also include posts where only the gutter is visible such as post #2499190. That is a half pipe and not a cylinder.
Do we have a tag for gutter?
In order to avoid confusion could we rename/alias pipes to piping as pipes could refer to multiple pipe.
This has more to do with lacking english skill. I thought drainpipe also means this. Guess I was wrong :P.
But I guess we don't have a gutter tag used besides this post, so I just change the two tags for this image.
kuuderes_shadow said:
I've never heard anyone say "rain gutter" in my life.
iridescent_slime said:
I don't see why we can't just continue tagging them as drainpipe, though. The distinction is pretty trivial.
The problem is the other definition of "drainpipe" that exists, which is "a pipe that carries liquid waste and water away from buildings" (Merriam-Webster dictionary). For example a depiction of a factory with pipes that dump waste into a river, those also are drainpipes.
kuuderes_shadow said:
And even if "rain gutter" was used as the tag for some reason then it would want "gutter" to be aliased to it...
-1 , as gutter is an ambiguous term and can also refer to "a low area (as at the edge of a street) to carry off surface water (as to a sewer)" or "a trough or groove to catch and direct something <the gutters of a bowling alley>" (Merriam-Webster dictionary). Particularly there is a decent number of images that depict the covered gutters along Japanese streets (examples post #223403, post #426319, post #2425072) and occasionally will see characters either accidentally stepping into one where the cover is missing or similar depictions.
Not sure why I didn't think of this from the start, but -1 for the implication (regardless of the name of the tag). Where I'm from all housing downspouts are rectangular (ex: external link), and I do not believe we'd naturally tag or expect to find those in the pipes tag. As such applying the pipes tag to these posts should be done manually to avoid any future posts where the downspout is not tubular.
NWF_Renim said:
Not sure why I didn't think of this from the start, but -1 for the implication (regardless of the name of the tag). Where I'm from all housing downspouts are rectangular (ex: external link), and I do not believe we'd naturally tag or expect to find those in the pipes tag. As such applying the pipes tag to these posts should be done manually to avoid any future posts where the downspout is not tubular.
Well, that is nice and dandy, but to what should the pipes then apply? That tag still has no wiki page and I don't know what the word pipes is used for in English language^^.
