Should there be some kind of consistency between them when it comes to "bite/bitting"?

• assbiting
• ball_biting
• biting_lip
• bite_mark
• cheek_bite
• ear_biting
• finger_bite
• glove_bite
• hand_bite
• hat_bite
• head_bite
• nail_biting
• neck_bite
• nipple_bite
• penis_bite
• tail_bite
• thumb_biting

• bug_bite
• mosquito_bite

I'd say leave bite_mark as it is, alias everything else in the first group to its *_bite counterpart, and alias bug_bite to mosquito_bite.

I think bug_bite is better for being more general, mosquitos aren't the only bugs that can cause a mark from biting. Without a mosquito present, they'll all look a like anyway and we're only assuming where the mark came from.

Should all of the action ones have "ing" at the end of it?

assbiting needs to be ass_biting.

Unicogirl has a point. Danbooru's policy has been towards aliasing actions to gerund (-ing) tags.

Thus tags with biting would cover images featuring acts of biting, while tags with bite would cover images featuring bite marks.

Also, +1 to a mosquito_bite → bug_bite alias (or implication).

Katajanmarja said:
Unicogirl has a point. Danbooru's policy has been towards aliasing actions to gerund (-ing) tags.

Thus tags with biting would cover images featuring acts of biting, while tags with bite would cover images featuring bite marks.

That seems understandable. We can just alias all tags to *_biting tags, bitemark -> bite_mark, and bite -> biting as the mother tag, although it seems like a lot of work and database space to set that all up.

Also, +1 to a mosquito_bite → bug_bite alias (or implication).

Agreed as an implication.

I'd rather alias mosquito_bite to bug_bite than implicate, since they all look the same.

Aliased mosquito_bite -> bug_bite
Aliased bitemark -> bite_mark

As for the rest, I think we need to differentiate between which are depicting a wound (like bug_bite) and which are depicting an action, as others have said. Looking at the list... I'd say they're all _biting besides bug and of course bite_mark, which could cover the depiction of the wound when it accompanies any of the _biting tags.

So, done.

There are a number of biting_* tags as opposed to *_biting. The latter seems to dominate, and the only alias we have going in the direction of the former is the one for biting_testicles (though actually only from ball bit(e/ing) and not testicle biting). Any opinions on which way to alias these?