The tag alias #50725 burlywood_body -> tan_body has been approved.

Reason: I'm noticing a large portion of burlywood_* tags, but am unsure if it's just a couple of people adding these tags or if it is just being used by a group that knows the name for one of the ambiguous "human skin tone" colors. I've been eliminating a few by changing them to the appropriate tan and brown tags, with occasional blonde/yellow and white.

Not sure if it's worth trying to push this series of tags or if it's better to just alias them in to the ambiguous "tan" tags to try and keep our color tags from getting out of control.

EDIT: The tag alias burlywood_body -> tan_body (forum #304075) has been approved by @bitWolfy.

EDIT: The bulk update request #1637 (forum #) has been approved by @bitWolfy.

+1, i've never heard the word "burlywood" until now

strikerman said:
i've never heard the word "burlywood" until now

Nor I, but as Volteer notes, it seems to be the name for a particular brown sandy color (HTML #DEB887).

This is a placeholder tag for a shade of brown that is easily confused with orange. It shouldn't be aliased to any color. It is an ambiguous color tone.

These are my tags and I would appreciate if they weren't aliased, because tan has too many aliases at the moment. These tags are seeds that are being used to figure out how to break tan up into something useful in the future rather than a wastebasket color tag. They also serve as homes for colors that are on the border between multiple color groups.

If necessary I will move the tags into personal sets, and clear out the tags myself.

Bumping this to see if anyone else has an opinion on the matter.
Personally, I don't see a massive need for such a specific color tag. Plus, the name "burlywood" might be misleading for people not familiar with that color.

specific color tags can get thown out a plane, we're not buying paint damn it

These are overly specific, and I’m sure most people will not know what this color is. I sure didn’t. Better to just manually sort them out into orange or brown, I think.

What the hell is a "burlywood"? Get in the bin. Considering just the other day I was considering whether a distinction between light_grey and dark_grey might be useful, but then remembered what a nightmare that would end up causing with middling shades of grey or grey under different lighting, I'm certainly not giving "one specific shade of tan" the time of day.

though bring back the aliased away blonde tags, yellow and blonde are different. Hell it would make more sense if it got aliased to tan then yellow given that blonde is like, really light brown.

The tag alias burlywood_body -> tan_body (forum #304075) has been approved by @bitWolfy.

The bulk update request #1637 (forum #) has been approved by @bitWolfy.

Aliased the whole lot to corresponding tan_* tags.
Skipped burlywood_exoskeleton and burlywood_scales for now, since they don't seem to have any posts.

Will fix if that changes.