We have:

• injured (16)
• injury (27)
• wounded (28)
• bruise (15)
• bruises (17)

and maybe others. Ideas on cleanup?

There's also damage (used mainly for androids), battle_damage (used mainly for mecha), and 1-2 posts apiece in hurt, cut, and scrapes.

My suggestions:

• Mass-edit/alias battle_damage to damage.
• Alias wounded and injury to injured.
• Alias bruise to bruises.

It doesn't matter much which of wounded/injury/injured becomes the primary tag, but I prefer injured since wounded seems to imply major battle wounds instead of normal injuries.

I'd also like to start a laceration tag for visible cuts as in post #349591. Any comments/objections about that?

No real objections to your ideas, evazion, although laceration is a very....medical-sounding tag. Wouldn't be bad though as long as we aliased cuts and/or cut to it.

Gives us a shortcut to use and prevents alot of mistagging, you know?

Edited away evasion's smallfry. My suggestions:

• battle_damage -> damage (mass edit)
• wounded/wounds/injured/injury -> injuries (alias) (though wounds isn't in use at the moment)
• bruise -> bruises (alias)
• cut -> cuts (alias)

• cuts/bruises -> injuries (implication)

(revised) Pending the resolution of the latest singular/plural argument, which has raised its ugly head again... =P

Don't forget the bruises -> injuries implication as well.

I agree with the suggestions, but on top of aliasing everything to injuries, a tag group for various specific injuries (such as scar, and cut_wrists (or wrist_cutting?)) might also be useful.

There's also bleeding, which says something useful about the extent of injury. (While we're at it, there should be an implication bleeding -> blood, since we do have nosebleed -> blood.)

cut_wrists is better than wrist_cutting

Kayako said:
laceration is a very....medical-sounding tag. Wouldn't be bad though as long as we aliased cuts and/or cut to it.

I was aiming for something that specifically meant a cut in the skin, since cut by itself could mean anything that has been cut.

Granted, that's unlikely to be an issue. Going with cuts should be fine.

Done.

It seems like cut_wrists and wrist_cutting should be merged.

I would do it manually, but I really don't want to look at 15 pictures of wrist cutting.

meatwagon said:
It seems like cut_wrists and wrist_cutting should be merged.

I would do it manually, but I really don't want to look at 15 pictures of wrist cutting.

I was actually going to do this the other day, but I got lazy.

Anyway, I moved them to wrist_cutting, since I prefer that over cut_wrists. If anybody feels strongly about it going the other way, I don't mind changing it to cut_wrists.

Aliased to wrist_cutting.