Splitting tag: shoulder_carry -> person_over_shoulder, piggyback

Splitting tag:

• shoulder_carry into:
• piggyback
• person_over_shoulder

Explanation:

• I've seen most posts of shoulder carry.

• Most posts I saw there are perfectly taggable piggyback.

• Most of the few other posts I saw there are perfectly taggable person over shoulder, whose name is in line with a related tag: over shoulder.

+1

-1. While I do think person over shoulder is a good tag to add, I don't agree with getting rid of shoulder carry, and I think it should remain separate from piggyback as there is a visual difference between the two. shoulder carry is when a person is sitting on another's shoulders (for example, post #1028539), and piggyback is when a person isn't sitting on anything and is being carried on another person's back (for example, post #1045448). Both tags could use a cleaning up, though, as there's currently a bit of an overlap between them.

feldt said:
-1. While I do think person over shoulder is a good tag to add, I don't agree with getting rid of shoulder carry, and I think it should remain separate from piggyback as there is a visual difference between the two. shoulder carry is when a person is sitting on another's shoulders (for example, post #1028539), and piggyback is when a person isn't sitting on anything and is being carried on another person's back (for example, post #1045448). Both tags could use a cleaning up, though, as there's currently a bit of an overlap between them.

The word "piggyback" is not inherently specific in the way you mentioned. It can mean being either on somebody's back or on his shoulders.

Maybe we would want to create two additional tags for these different types of piggyback? ... Something like shoulder piggyback and back piggyback. I don't endorse these two, because I would be happy with a piggyback tag alone. But I would just accept them.

EDIT:

I changed some wording a little, before this message got any replies.

Update:

• I still stand by my words; post #1042056 and post #1004543 can be described as two forms of "piggyback". However, despite what I said, the distinction mentioned by feldt is widely present:
• Most posts tagged piggyback can be described as "the carrier supports a person on their back and holds their legs, while the person being carried wraps their arms around the carrier's chest or neck"
• Most posts tagged shoulder carry are that form of piggyback where the carried person puts their legs around the neck of the carrier.
• Relatedly: I populated person_over_shoulder and sitting_on_shoulder with all the applicable posts from shoulder_carry I could find, and from additional searches. I didn't remove these posts from shoulder_carry in the process, however.

Edit, addendum:

At least, I'd like to remove the tag shoulder_carry from post #795389 and other posts that don't depict that form of shoulder carry. For example, the searches person_over_shoulder shoulder_carry and sitting_on_shoulder shoulder_carry probably should return 0 results.

Update:

I did some cleanup.

1. I removed from shoulder_carry all (or most) images that would rather fit any of these tags:

• person_over_shoulder
• person_over_both_shoulders
• piggyback ("back" piggyback, not "shoulder" piggyback)
• sitting_on_shoulder

2. I removed from piggyback the images that would rather fit shoulder_carry.

3. Therefore, I acknowledge the use of shoulder_carry as something different from piggyback (like feldt mentioned). And person over shoulder is now split from shoulder_carry, which was one of the initial proposals of this thread.

So, I think there is not anything left discuss or decide here.