I've been working my way slowly through the mermaid tag, and I've seen a lot of mermaids tagged topless, nude, and often both.

We discourage the use of both tags for the same person in general, because otherwise a nude person would gain dozens of partial nudity tags. However, what do we do for characters who don't really have a "bottom" to be bottomless?

Personally, I recommend that unclothed mermaids be restricted to nude. There are a few instances of mermaids who are topless but wearing a sarong -- e.g. The girl on the left in post #446334. -- so the two tags aren't purely equivalent. (Side note: I wouldn't recommend tagging bottomless on most mermaids & lamia with unclothed tails since that's essentially the default.)

While I'm tagging and doing general cleanup on mermaid, I don't mind going back and straightening this out, if we can get a consensus. What do you all think?

Lamiae can also wear skirts, as seen with Miia.

+1 to your proposal. It's how I would've tagged it.

There was once a pool called "topless mermaids" and the imag were all just moved to topless mermaid (forum #57808) without much discussion, so that's why many are tagged topless instead of nude. (and I didn't really agree to that back then)

+1
The way you describe it is how I've always tagged them.

Yeah I'd count natural scales as nude. This is why Zettai Bouei Leviathan was the lewdest series of Spring 2013.

Alright, then. I'll start cleaning up on that.

Should I add a note to the Wikis for topless and for nude?

BCI_Temp said: Should I add a note to the Wikis for topless and for nude?

Would be a good idea, yeah.

Done. Thanks.