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EDIT: The bulk update request #12568 (forum #471957) has been rejected by @T_yrek.

Some species will have more or fewer fingers than "normal" as their default state [ tyrannosaurus_rex has two fingers on each hand by default, for example]. Oligodactyly and polydactyly are terms specifically used for animals that have more or fewer than their normal amount of digits. Those are terms used to describe congenital defects. The vast majority of characters with any of these tags will not have a congenital defect, it will be anatomically accurate to the species or a stylistic choice.

The right terms for animals that naturally have certain numbers of fingers or toes would be pentadactyly [5 on each limb like humans], tetradactyly [4 on each limb like birds and non-avian dinosaurs], tridactyly [3 on each limb such as on rhinoceroses or emus], didactyly [2, like two-toed sloths and ostriches], and monodactyly [1, such as horses and dinosaurs such as mononykus]. These are all synonymous with our [x_fingers] tags.

moonlit-comet said:
Some species will have more or fewer fingers than "normal" as their default state [ tyrannosaurus_rex has two fingers on each hand by default, for example]. Oligodactyly and polydactyly are terms specifically used for animals that have more or fewer than their normal amount of digits. Those are terms used to describe congenital defects. The vast majority of characters with any of these tags will not have a congenital defect.
The right terms for animals that naturally have certain numbers of fingers or toes would be pentadactyly [5 on each limb like humans], tetradactyly [4 on each limb like birds and non-avian dinosaurs], tridactyly [3 on each limb such as on rhinoceroses or emus], didactyly [2, like two-toed sloths and ostriches], and monodactyly [1, such as horses and dinosaurs such as mononykus]. These are all synonymous with our [x_fingers] tags.

Yes, but the main anatomy that fursonas follow is that of a human's, unless it is not tagged with anthro

t_yrek said:
Yes, but the main anatomy that fursonas follow is that of a human's, unless it is not tagged with anthro

Implications should not have exceptions. People often draw things such as 2_fingers and 3_fingers on dinosaurs, birds, etc, where it would be anatomically correct to do so, therefore making it have exceptions.

Certain furry species- anthros too - will naturally have certain amounts of fingers or toes. And, people will apply these tags to ferals too, and the tag usage would be correct a good amount of the time because lots of ferals have hands. See dragons, dinosaurs, etc. feral 4_fingers -anthro -humanoid
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Most tags on this site don't solely apply to humans or human anatomy. I believe the [x_fingers] tags in place right now are fine- and I don't think implying artistic and stylistic choices [ 4_fingers has been around almost as long as cartoons and animations themselves] were intentionally depicted as congenital defects feels right from like, an ethical standpoint.

moonlit-comet said:
Implications should not have exceptions. People often draw things such as 2_fingers and 3_fingers on dinosaurs, birds, etc, where it would be anatomically correct to do so, therefore making it have exceptions.

Certain furry species- anthros too - will naturally have certain amounts of fingers or toes. And, people will apply these tags to ferals too, and the tag usage would be correct a good amount of the time because lots of ferals have hands. See dragons, dinosaurs, etc. feral 4_fingers -anthro -humanoid
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Most tags on this site don't solely apply to humans or human anatomy. I believe the [x_fingers] tags in place right now are fine- and I don't think implying artistic and stylistic choices [ 4_fingers has been around almost as long as cartoons and animations themselves] were intentionally depicted as congenital defects feels right from like, an ethical standpoint.

Yes, but you do realize that you can always just remove the tag manually if it bothers you so bad.

t_yrek said:
Yes, but the main anatomy that fursonas follow is that of a human's, unless it is not tagged with anthro

we're talking about cartoon animals here, 4 fingers is absolutely not uncommon. it's like a 5:2 ratio between how much of the population has 5 fingers vs 4.

t_yrek said:
Yes, but you do realize that you can always just remove the tag manually if it bothers you so bad.

That's not how implications work here. If a post is tagged with 3_fingers, and automatically implies oligodactyly, oligodactyly cannot be removed from the post without removing the 3_fingers tag. That's why implications shouldn't have exceptions.

I'm rejecting my own post

The bulk update request #12568 (forum #471957) has been rejected by @T_yrek.

Please don't edit out the [​bur:12568] text, that makes it significantly more difficult figure out what the request was

Don't edit the title and body text to obscure what was originally there.
And don't hide the forum thread either

donovan_dmc said:
Please don't edit out the [​bur:12568] text, that makes it significantly more difficult figure out what the request was

snpthecat said:
Don't edit the title and body text to obscure what was originally there.
And don't hide the forum thread either

They know. It was taken care of on the Discord.