Topic: The curious case of cushions

Posted under Tag/Wiki Projects and Questions

Song

Janitor

The word cushions is currently aliased to pillow. However, its singular version, cushion, is not aliased away and has over 1k tag results.

How should this situation be handled? Should
A) cushions be unaliased from pillow and aliased to cushion instead, or
B) cushion be aliased to pillow?

I ask since there is no cushion wiki page to define the tag or its specific use cases over pillow.

It's probably left behind since the cushions alias was done a very long time ago.

Cushions are actually distinct from pillows, but the terms sometimes overlap or are used interchangeably.

  • Pillows tend to be small & fluffy, used to rest your head on.
  • Cushions tend to be large & semi-rigid, typically forming part of a couch or bed and are used to be sat on or laid upon.

IMO, if cushion doesn't look to messed up and overlapped with pillow, it can be its own tag (with cushions being realiased to it).

thegreatwolfgang said:
It's probably left behind since the cushions alias was done a very long time ago.

Cushions are actually distinct from pillows, but the terms sometimes overlap or are used interchangeably.

  • Pillows tend to be small & fluffy, used to rest your head on.
  • Cushions tend to be large & semi-rigid, typically forming part of a couch or bed and are used to be sat on or laid upon.

IMO, if cushion doesn't look to messed up and overlapped with pillow, it can be its own tag (with cushions being realiased to it).

Agree