Implicating light_blue_fur → blue_fur
Link to implication

Reason:

alias would be better

Commander_Eggplant said:
alias would be better

I disagree. Light blue can look much different from other shades of blue, it deserves its own tag.

Dutchnoob said:
I disagree. Light blue can look much different from other shades of blue, it deserves its own tag.

we do not generally separate light and dark versions of colors, we do not even separate teal, cyan and blue. so having tag for light blue fur seems very excessive considering how roughly the colors are handled.

Commander_Eggplant said:
we do not generally separate light and dark versions of colors, we do not even separate teal, cyan and blue. so having tag for light blue fur seems very excessive considering how roughly the colors are handled.

I know it's not the most convincing argument, but light blue fur is my fetish and I'd be really sad to see it go. It seems used heavily, so I don't see a problem.

Dutchnoob said:
I know it's not the most convincing argument, but light blue fur is my fetish and I'd be really sad to see it go. It seems used heavily, so I don't see a problem.

..its not used heavily at all. it has only around 60 posts while all other fur color tags have tens of thousands posts.

Most people don't bother tagging light/dark shades of colours. Orange is an exception, as brown is basically dark orange. But then again, most people don't see brown as a shade of orange.

Commander_Eggplant said:
..its not used heavily at all. it has only around 60 posts while all other fur color tags have tens of thousands posts.

Perhaps not heavily, but it is used a decent amount.

BlueDingo said:
Most people don't bother tagging light/dark shades of colours. Orange is an exception, as brown is basically dark orange. But then again, most people don't see brown as a shade of orange.

Well...

Technically... Tan is light-brown. Gray is light-black. Pink is light-red.

SO it's not unheard of to tag a lighter color. The difference is that we, in english, consider those to be different colors.

No, wait, hear me out for a sec: Different languages and different cultures have different words to describe colors. Japanese, for example, has a single word to describe things that are blue or green. --they've ALSO got a word for 'green' but that only happened around WW2. Russia, on the other hand, says that light blue and dark blue are called sinii and goluboi --as different as red and pink are to us. Hungarian amd Turkish also have words for 'dark red' and 'red' or "brownish red". In another language, there is no yellow, only green.

So, it comes down to language, what we perceive as color. This webpage is a pretty interesting read :)
Anyway. more relevantly... I'd love to see blue and purple split into light/dark shades. The problem is that there are 51,000 blue_fur and 25,000 purple_fur posts. Even the smallest tag, green_fur has more than 7000 posts.

It's one of those things that it'd take a LOT of work to "catch up' to where the other tags are and make them equal, more work than most people want to put in.

Should be aliased away.

Valid colors are listed in tag_group:colors.
We got rid of most of the uncommon colors in the revamp a few years back, light_* and dark_* among them. Because most colors weren't tagged with any consistency. Part of the problem is that the users' monitor settings are all over the place; high gamma, low gamma, high saturation, etc.

Of the remaining colors, cyan, teal, tan, and beige remain problematic. Cyan and teal get mixed up all the time, and tan and beige overlap with brown.

Genjar said:
Should be aliased away.

Valid colors are listed in tag_group:colors.
We got rid of most of the uncommon colors in the revamp a few years back, light_* and dark_* among them. Because most colors weren't tagged with any consistency. Part of the problem is that the users' monitor settings are all over the place; high gamma, low gamma, high saturation, etc.

Of the remaining colors, cyan, teal, tan, and beige remain problematic. Cyan and teal get mixed up all the time, and tan and beige overlap with brown.

I think we should go for whatever is closest.