Trying to Sort out Bike Shorts (Again)

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BUR #42787 is pending approval.

create implication bike_shorts -> shorts

Related Topics: topic #1217, topic #9491, topic #16986, topic #25614 and topic #28826

The tag that never seems to be sorted out should probably be sorted out at some point. Currently no way to tag coloured versions of bike shorts so people use the short colour tags right now which implicated shorts. Makes sense since "shorts" is literally in the name of the tag.

BUR #42788 is pending approval.

create alias bike_shorts -> spats

But what if we wanted individual bike shorts but also wanted the colour tag for them?

From forum #265271

I think the primary issue with bike_shorts is the tag's name. If it was called spats (as they commonly are in translated manga) then there'd be much less disagreement and we'd likely already have bike shorts colour tags. Functionally, they occupy a different clothing layer to shorts. Bike shorts are worn a layer under shorts, in place of leggings or pantyhose. Because of this, I think it's reasonable to want more granular tagging between those layers. This would allow, for example, searching for different colours of shorts and bike shorts within the same image.

Changing the name of them to spats would allow for tags like yellow spats to exist without users getting confused by the short colour tags and keeping them separate things.

For the record, if the amount of work to fix posts that are tagged as both bike shorts and shorts when they shouldn't be is a determining factor in the vote for spats then I'm willing to go through it all. Might take a lil bit considering it's 20k posts but yeah. I'm not 100% fussed either way but would prefer them separate if I had to choose.

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