Tag discussion: bun

I see a quite a few tags relating to bun hairstyles, and a few might be redundant, so I decided to bring them up for discussion.

bun - Has wiki entry stating it should be used for hairstyles.
buns - Seems to be rarely used.
hair bun - Redundant with "bun".
hair buns - Redudant, mostly with "double buns" since the plural seems to imply more than one though there may be "single bun" images in there.
double buns - Specific in that it's two buns and is the most used out of these tags. I noticed "odango" is aliased to bun, even though it's usually used to refer to double buns (like Usagi's hairstyle in Sailor Moon)

I was thinking that buns, hair_bun, hair_buns (alias)-> bun, and then double_buns (implication)-> bun (making it a catch-all for bun hairstyles). Any thoughts on this?

EB said:
I see a quite a few tags relating to bun hairstyles, and a few might be redundant, so I decided to bring them up for discussion.

bun - Has wiki entry stating it should be used for hairstyles.
buns - Seems to be rarely used.
hair bun - Redundant with "bun".
hair buns - Redudant, mostly with "double buns" since the plural seems to imply more than one though there may be "single bun" images in there.
double buns - Specific in that it's two buns and is the most used out of these tags. I noticed "odango" is aliased to bun, even though it's usually used to refer to double buns (like Usagi's hairstyle in Sailor Moon)

I was thinking that buns, hair_bun, hair_buns (alias)-> bun, and then double_buns (implication)-> bun (making it a catch-all for bun hairstyles). Any thoughts on this?

Sounds alright, but what about buns as in the food?

I think it might make a little more sense to use hair_bun as the primary tag. Also I thought double_buns already had an implication to bun, guess I was wrong.

Does the "odango" hairstyle specifically have to be double buns? I noticed that there were a few images of completely round buns that didn't come in pairs. If possible I think freeing that from an alias would be nice, since it is somewhat a unique style of hair bun. That'd require giving it an implication to the right tags of course.

Also should bun_cover have a implication to bun (or hair_bun)?

For reference, this was brought up a couple months ago in forum #15517.

I agree that hair_bun should be the primary tag.

evazion said:
For reference, this was brought up a couple months ago in forum #15517.

Oh geez... I should have searched for that. @_@ Thanks for pointing it out, as I must have forgotten or missed it.

Scalar said:
Sounds alright, but what about buns as in the food?

nikuman

Not all non-hair buns are of the Japanese variety.

I don't really see the point of having a "bun" tag for the food item. What images are we going to be tagging it with? Why not just use "bread" instead?

I think its worthwhile to keep "bun" open for now.

Bump.

before I edit any tags
This hasn't been solved yet.

I think an alias would be cleaner, and like EB says, bun(s) doesn't seem necessary as a separate tag. On the other hand if we're aliasing, there's no real reason we can't use bun(s) then. And while hair_bun sounds fine to me (and I sided with it in the earlier thread), double_hair_buns feels odd for some reason.

There's bread for non-nikuman buns as in post #432905 so theres no reason why these can't all be aliased. We could always reverse this, if it proves bothersome. Double_bun doesn't need to be change to double_hair_bun for consistency's sake.

I wouldn't have a problem using hair_bun and double_bun. It's not that inconsistent, and is probably the most clear. A "double bun" could only apply to food in the most contrived situations.

Unless you want to say "double_bun_hair" or "double-bun_hair"
But other than that Double Bun largely refers to a hairstyle.

I personally like hair_bun as a tag, better than "bun". Which always had me doing a double take.

+1 to aliasing to hair_bun and double_bun. The rest just really seems unnecessarily complicated or unintuitive. (Double_bun_hair is possibly the wonkiest tag I've ever read.)

unicogirl said:
I personally like hair_bun as a tag, better than "bun". Which always had me doing a double take.

This.

chainedwind said:
This.

Buns make me think of something else ;)

Aliased:
bun -> hair_bun
buns -> double_bun
double_buns -> double_bun
hair_buns -> double_bun

Thing to watch out for will be people using "hair_buns" when they just mean hair_bun.

awesome.

Should I remove the double_bun pics from the hair_bun tag?