I find "belly" more of a juvenile type term which is also quite vague. There are more specific tags such as abs, midriff, navel etc. which I find more suitable.

Any call for aliasing?

I usually think of the term belly as a stomach with a little bulge or sag for characters that are more plump, but most of the images seemed to be tagged for showing the naval area. I think it should either be aliased to midriff or have the definition changed to separate it from navel.

This brings up something related that I wanted to ask about:

At the moment, abs defines itself only as toned, muscular abs. But some things are being put in there that don't fit that.

First, should abs imply muscle, or are the two for different degrees of muscle (so they won't always overlap?)

Second, should abs perhaps be changed to toned abs, for clarity?

Anyway, it seems worth mentioning, when discussing how to divide up the tags that have to do with that part of the body.

Mm, generally speaking, having defined abs doesn't connotate the same degree of muscle definition that the muscle tag usually implies.

When I think of the muscle tag, what comes to mind is "dedicated body-builder".

The abs tag kinda exists on a different wavelength, to my mind.

To bring it back on-topic, I do think belly would be appropriate where there's a bit of plumpness. midriff should be used when said area is bare and fit.

Most of the images currently tagged belly clearly should have midriff instead, so I'll go ahead and edit them.

sgcdonmai said:I do think belly would be appropriate where there's a bit of plumpness. midriff should be used when said area is bare and fit.

Most of the images currently tagged belly clearly should have midriff instead, so I'll go ahead and edit them.

Thanks! I agree with that definition and have edited the wiki page for belly accordingly.

Update: I wonder if stomach shouldn't be reserved to describe the internal digestive organ? We already have midriff and belly...

hungkok2007 said:

Update: I wonder if stomach shouldn't be reserved to describe the internal digestive organ? We already have midriff and belly...

I agree that the stomach tag doesn't seem useful in its current state.

Though trying to use it for just the digestive organ is probably going to result in people misusing the tag. If we want a tag for that then maybe call it stomach_(organ).