[REJECTED] Tag alias: sailor_fuku -> serafuku

tag alias #15820 sailor_fuku -> serafuku has been rejected.

Reason: Back in the day boorus used Japanese terms for certain tags. The main example of this is 'pantsu' which became 'panties'. I assume it would reasonably stand to the same precedent that serafuku becomes sailor_fuku.

EDIT: The tag alias sailor_fuku -> serafuku (forum #155562) has been rejected by @Hillside_Moose.

Firstly, you got the alias reversed.

Secondly, why the lackluster incomplete translation? “fuku” is still Japanese. If you want to translate it, it would be sailor_suit.

Thirdly, there are several colored serafuku tags that would need to be adjusted as well.

Is anybody even searching for sailor_fuku? It isn't among the missed searches.

kittey said:

1 & 2: Should I resubmit this request the other way round, using sailor_suit or sailor_uniform (the latter consistent with naming of school_uniform)?
2. I hadn't adequately thought the translation through. I don't know Japanese and had it in mind that fuku might refer specifically to female uniforms and as such not have a 1:1 translation, but I didn't check.
3: Should I submit requests for all of those as well, or are you just making note for any potential approvers?

Part of why serafuku stayed in romanized japanese was because it's a pretty Japanese concept at this point. Outside of Japan, "sailor uniform" would be what a modern naval seaman wears, the Japanese version was based on naval uniforms in the late 1800's when they started to use them, but it's very much become its own thing.

We have the same situation with buruma (a very Japanese specific garnment) which we can't romanize / translate properly, as bloomers are a different article of clothing.

Note that when Danbooru moved away from Japanese terms for Japanese's sake, the alias for seifuku -> student uniform did flip direction, and serafuku intentionally didn't.

The tag alias sailor_fuku -> serafuku (forum #155562) has been rejected by @Hillside_Moose.

Note that when Danbooru moved away from Japanese terms for Japanese's sake, the alias for seifuku -> student uniform did flip direction, and serafuku intentionally didn't.

What does this mean? Why switch one variation of the term and not the other?
I suppose I don't understand the implications of alias directionality.

I guess my wording is a bit confusing, seifuku was the original tag name. When English terms became preferred, the alias seifuku -> student uniform was created. I don't actually remember if there used to be a student uniform -> seifuku alias, but if there was, it was flipped.

The only alias to serafuku would appear to be a shortcut /se -> serafuku (which honestly I didn't realize existed). I think the shortcut aliases on the whole predate autocompletion as a feature though. There wasn't an English/Japanese alias to flip there though, as it was considered a Japanese term on its own.