alias nail_polish -> colored_nails

BUR #6575 has been rejected.

nail_polish is essentially just a tag for colored nails - however, it only applies if the nails are painted, so naturally colored nails don't count. This causes issues as in many cases this is an impossible distinction to make; unless evidence of the nails being painted is present then there is no way to tell if the nails are "naturally" colored or not (such as in post #3759400). Changing the parent tag for colored nails from nail_polish to colored_nails removes this issue and lets us imply each individual color to the parent tag.

I've also included two aliases from gold_nails -> yellow_nails and silver_nails -> grey_nails since they are essentially the same color. If there is an unexpectedly large amount of opposition to this, I can remove them from the BUR.

I don't know about pink nails, because several taggers are dumb and use that tag for extremely normal-looking nails.

nonamethanks said:

I don't know about pink nails, because several taggers are dumb and use that tag for extremely normal-looking nails.

If they look "extremely normal", wouldn't this rather mean to garden the tag than not to imply it to colored nails? If they really have a sligthly pinkish touch, you can still argue that they are colored.

In theory, yes. But pink nails has 17k posts, and who knows how many mistags are in that mess.

I went through the 20 most recent uses of the pink nails tag and none were mistags.

In case they'd just been tagged well recently, I went through 30 random images with the tag and only one was questionable as to whether the tag was warranted. Unless I got really lucky there aren't a significant number of mistags in there.

That said, I don't like this proposal for a different if somewhat related reason - which is simply that colourless nail polish exists and the shiny effect that this creates can be visible in the picture as nail polish, without being coloured. The nail polish wiki even makes specific allowance for nail polish that is not coloured.

Well, it depends on whether something like post #3784994 counts as colored nails then, because using order:random I found quite a lot of them.

I agree that the crux of the issue is whether "colored nails" is a good enough name for nails that only have a gloss.

We could say that the fact that they're pink alone means they're not the generic skin-colored fingernails, so it's still worth to have them under "colored nails".

polished_nails could mean either painted or shiny.

This bulk update request has been rejected because it was not approved within 45 days.

The bulk update request #6575 (forum #193355) has been rejected by @DanbooruBot.