Aliasing white_coat → lab_coat
Link to alias

Reason:

Tag sounds like an improper distinction, but the images clearly refer to lab coats.

*Looks at white coat tag*
*Sees white fur*

post #116508 post #81055 post #266642 post #473978

YUp, gonna need a little cleaning too.

Technically speaking, it could refer to a puffy winter jacket that is colored white as well, but this is much less of a problem now than it was ~5 years ago (most of the purple_sunglasses, blue_and_white_stockings, orange-brown_topwear, alterntating_brown_and_pink_pawpads type tags are from around then) so I don't think it's that much of an issue.

The white_fur could be a problem, but not enough of one to not consider aliasing this. At the very least they should be retagged properly, even if this doesn't get aliased. I'll have to wait and see what happens.

Denied. It just doesn't work on a couple of levels:

Lab_coat is a style of coat while white_coat is a color of coat. These are never going to be equivalent things unless it is actually a unique situation where it is literally impossible for this color or style to occur in any other combination. But it can; so this won't work.

"Coat" is common lingo for the surface texture of an animal, often a furred animal. On a furry site this type of use for the word is going to occur no matter what we do about it, and will have to be factored into any tags that use the word. Aliasing this would cause future issues with white bodied animals ending up in the "lab_coat" tag for no apparent reason. So that's another reason why this wouldn't work.

And finally, even if we believed that the tagging of white bodied animals would stop, and that no other types of white coat clothing would exist....there were still other styles of clothing in here, like nurse_uniforms and white jackets that were too short to be called a lab_coat. A lot in fact weren't really coats to begin with, and better fit under other tags. By this point, the tag had only a handful of images under it left, so I just tagged them out into better tags and made sure the ones that were actually lab_coats got the tag added manually.