I added this new section to the List of Disambiguation Pages because I was concerned about potentially ambiguous tags that are being used to identify a popular character or object without qualifiers:

Tags in Current Use

These tags are potentially ambiguous, but are in widespread use to identify an object or character. They also double as disambiguation pages to guide to similarly named tags. Further discussion is needed to determine if qualifiers would be needed. Their current use is denoted in brackets.

• apple (fruit)
• bara (term)
• blue (color)
• Cattleya (Queen's Blade character)
• Karin (manga)
• mint (herb)
• Nagi (Kannagi character)
• orange (fruit)
• red (color)
• rose (flower)
• Simon (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann character)
• yuri (term)

There may be other tags that could be added to this list, but that's just a start for now.

Orange should definitely be qualified. The fact that orange is the fruit and not the color makes it inconsistent with other color tags and leads to frequent tagging errors.

In fact I wouldn't mind if all color tags were qualified with *_(color). It's a common mistake to add these tags due to autocomplete errors.

evazion said:

Orange should definitely be qualified. The fact that orange is the fruit and not the color makes it inconsistent with other color tags and leads to frequent tagging errors.

In fact I wouldn't mind if all color tags were qualified with *_(color). It's a common mistake to add these tags due to autocomplete errors.

It'd be a complete nightmare to manually change all of the (color)_(clothing) wikis though if we were to add a *_(color) qualifier, especially since I did a large portion of those wikis over the years.

Benit149 said:

It'd be a complete nightmare to manually change all of the (color)_(clothing) wikis though if we were to add a *_(color) qualifier, especially since I did a large portion of those wikis over the years.

I think he just means the basic version of each colour tag like white, blue, green and such, no need to change clothing tags since I doubt we'll ever have a orange_(fruit)_shirt tag...

If you mean fixing things like the black skirt wiki to link to black (color) instead of black, that could be scripted without too much trouble.

evazion said:

If you mean fixing things like the black skirt wiki to link to black (color) instead of black, that could be scripted without too much trouble.

That's what I was referring to.

I added Karin and yuri to the list as well.

Yeah that makes sense, I misunderstood. You have to wonder why those links are even there though, I doubt they would help in any way.

Unbreakable said:

Yeah that makes sense, I misunderstood. You have to wonder why those links are even there though, I doubt they would help in any way.

I often add them to refer new users to the fact that images with an overall thematic color can be tagged with that color as well.

Some more potentially ambiguous tags, in no particular order. Not all of these necessarily need to be qualified.

General

• bow (a tied ribbon, not the weapon or instrument)
• drum (the musical instrument, not drum (container))
• staff (a long wand, not the staff (music) symbol)
• club (the weapon, not the club (shape) symbol)
• diamond (the gemstone, not the symbol or shape)
• heart (the symbol, not the body part)
• star (the symbol, not the celestial object)
• sun (the celestial object, not the symbol)
• moon (the celestial object, not the symbol)
• neptune (the celestial object, not Nepture (series))
• sex (the act of intercourse, not sex acts in general)
• mole (the beauty mark, not the animal)
• profile (the side of a person's face, not a character profile)
• v (the peace sign gesture, not the letter or bunny ears gesture)
• whale tail (a thong, not an animal's tail)
• flossing (the act of flossing one's teeth, not a wedgie)
• nail (the metal fastener, not fingernails)
• washer (the piece of hardware, not a washing machine)
• buttons (the buttons on clothing, not the buttons on a machine)
• fan (a hand fan, not an electric fan)
• vampire (the creature, not Vampire (game))
• prinz eugen (the actual ship (?), not the Kancolle character)
• bismarck (the actual ship (?), not the Kancolle character)
• serval (the animal, not Serval (Kemono Friends))
• tenshi (aliased to angel; not the Touhou or Angel Beats! characters)
• ram (computer memory, not ram (animal) or Ram (Re:Zero))
• crystal (the gemstone, not Crystal (Pokemon) )
• unicorn (the mythical horse, not Unicorn (Azur Lane))
• anchor (an actual ship's anchor (supposedly), not an insignia on clothing (anchor symbol))
• king and queen (the royal figures, not the chess pieces (queen (chess) and king (chess))
• crane (the construction equipment, not the animal)
• chicken (the living animal, not the cooked food (chicken (food)). See *_(food) for more).
• amazon (the female warriors (?), not Amazon the company)
• baton (any nonspecific type of baton)
• shrug (the gesture, not the clothing (shrug (clothing)))
• arena (a fighting arena, not the clothing brand (Arena (company))
• photo (the image's medium is a photograph, as opposed to the image containing a photo (object). See also wallpaper, poster, manga, dakimakura, or *_(object) in general)
• paint (the image contains paint, as opposed to using paint as a medium (paint (medium))
• ink (as with paint)

Artists

• Shimakaze (not the Kancolle character)
• Inazuma (not the Kancolle character)
• Hibiki (not the Kancolle character)
• Kashima (not the Kancolle character)
• Ooi (not the Kancolle character)
• Mutsu (not the Kancolle character)
• Souryuu (not the Kancolle character)
• Sazanami (not the Kancolle character)
• Naka (not the Kancolle character)
• Hiryuu (not the Kancolle character)
• Bishop (not the chess piece (bishop (chess))
• Drain (not the plumbing fixture (drain (object))

Copyrights

• Akagi (not the Kancolle character)
• Yukikaze (the series Sentou Yousei Yukikaze, not the Kancolle character)
• Canvas (a game, not canvas (object))
• Claymore (the series, not the sword)

Characters

• Saber (the character, not the weapon)
• Archer (the character, not the profession)
• Rem (the Death Note character, not the Re:Zero character)
• Hiei (the Yuu Yuu Hakusho character, not the Kancolle character)
• Asuna (a Bakunyuu Maid Gari character, not the Sword Art Online character)
• Musashi (a Kaizin Rumble character (?), not the Kancolle character)
• Kuma (the 2chan meme, not the Kancolle or Persona 4 characters)
• Charm (a Heavy Object character, not the object (charm (object)))
• Emilia (an unknown character, not the Re:Zero character)
• Bola (a Rockman (?) character, not the weapon (bola (weapon)))

I can take a look at those tomorrow since I cleaned up a bunch of single name tags this evening. If this new section of the list gets big enough, would an addition to the Table of Contents be necessary, or is it too early to tell?

Shouldn't we mass update these artists, though?

Smoking Pipe, not the liquid/gas transporting kind, that is tagged with pipes for some reason.

What about gap? For anyone not familiar with Touhou, that's a very confusing tag name, especially when we also have tags like strap gap and thigh gap.

Excellent suggestions, y'all. I made these changes today:

asuna -> asuna_(bakunyuu_maid_gari) (all deleted posts BTW)
bishop -> bishop_(masterbishop)
bola -> bola_(rockman_dash)
canvas -> canvas_(cocktail_soft)
charm -> charm_(heavy_object)
drain -> drain_(evork_festa)
emilia -> nuked altogether
hibiki -> hibiki_(narume_i)
hiei -> hiei_(yuu_yuu_hakusho)
hiryuu -> hiryuu_(kugelcruor)
kashima -> kashima_(naozari)
musashi -> musashi_(kaizin_rumble)
neptune -> neptune_(planet)
ooi -> ooi_(ooi_s_so)
ram -> ram_(computer)
rem -> rem_(death_note)
sazanami -> sazanami_(saza73)

I did not add moon because there is no moon (symbol) tag to compare against, but there is the crescent vs. crescent moon which I have added.

Otherwise they've been added to the new list.

ADDENDUM: For the Fate series characters named after one of the classes, would the same apply to Berserker, Rider, Lancer and Caster? Assassin already has the assassin_(fate/stay_night) tag.

What about anchovy? anchovy_(fish) has only got 3 posts but still.