There are multiple images which have the flail tag because they include mace-type morning stars, but no actual flails, which is just wrong.
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The morning star and spiked mace wikis both refer to morning_star as to use only for flailed maces, while the latter should apparently be used for the rigid ones. Imo this should be reworked because it's pretty unintuitive to have a weapon known in way use a different name here.
We also have ball_and_chain by the way, which seems to have a lot of posts similar to the ones tagged under morning star.
So basically in reworking this we should use three different tags:
- morning star should unimply flail, and it should be used to denote only rigid spiked maces (so then it should imply both spikes and mace);
- ball and chain should be used for, well, weapons consisting of a ball and chain;
- a tag subset, named perhaps spiked ball and chain, should contain what is currently described in the morning star wiki (which will be removed from there), and should imply both ball and chain and spikes.
Anything I'm missing?
See topic #4099.
Do you mean posts like post #2833597? Those are simply mistagged spiked maces because the tagger didn’t read the morning_star wiki. Feel free to correct them.
Edit: Sniped by nonamethanks.
That implication seems to have been made too hastily. Or rather, back then there was no problem with this since I imagine there were pretty few posts under all these tags. But as danbooru grows we have to address this in order to make tagging more intuitive - it helps nobody and it's confusing to have tags follow a definition directly in contrast with how terms are actually used.
BTW a quick google search will clarify to anyone with doubts that flails are only incorrectly labeled as morning stars, since that term only applies to rigid weapons.