Danbooru

What the Hell is Winter Hat?

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So I recently discovered a little tag called winter hat. It's a small tag (not even fifty posts) that apparently covers hats typically associated with winter. However, this name is rather...ambiguous, to put it mildly. Most of the post seem to be for those little knitted wool caps, often with a pom pom at the end, but then you got things like post #6341574 in there (though that one is also tagged with headwear request). This tag probably shouldn't be kept due to the obvious potential for misuse.

So why no BUR? Because you see, I don't know what the proper tag for these hats actually are (if there even is one). And it wouldn't surprise me if most of the people who used this tag had the same issue. So basically, if we have a tag for them, what is it (so it can be aliased to it)? And if not...what exactly should we do about it? I'm all for a tag covering these knitted caps, but winter hat just isn't the tag name we should be using.

zetsubousensei said:

Those hats are called Beanie and I don't think there is a special term for the ones with puff balls on top.

Huh. Do you think there should be a tag for the ones with pom poms? Personally, I can see someone wanting to search for those, but not too many. And if so, what should said tag be called? I can't think of anything good.

zetsubousensei said:

Winter Beanie maybe? Google returns mostly the pom pom style when searched.

Looking over the wiki for beanie, it states that a beanie is:

A knitted hat that is designed to provide warmth in the winter or cold months.

So winter beanie does sound redundant if that's the case, even if I know for a fact not all beanies are strictly winter wear and can be a fashion accessory. That or the wiki needs reworking. But I definitely shouldn't be the one making that call if I didn't know beanies had a tag until thirty minutes ago. Hm...

BobTheBuilder_v1 said:

Pom pom beanie

I don't quite like the sound of that name, tbh. But it does get the point across. Doesn't help that, looking at the first few pages for beanie, not too many of them have a pom pom at the end.

Maiden_in_Orange said:

Looking over the wiki for beanie, it states that a beanie is:

So winter beanie does sound redundant if that's the case, even if I know for a fact not all beanies are strictly winter wear and can be a fashion accessory. That or the wiki needs reworking. But I definitely shouldn't be the one making that call if I didn't know beanies had a tag until thirty minutes ago. Hm...

I'll edit it, people wear Carhartt beanies literally everywhere nowadays.

I don't quite like the sound of that name, tbh. But it does get the point across. Doesn't help that, looking at the first few pages for beanie, not too many of them have a pom pom at the end.

Sorry, I kinda just skimmed and fired that response off in between Project Sekai pubs. I think "pom pom beanie" is the best kind of tag, descriptive and immediately obvious, especially given our pom pom tag. But Google shows similar for "pom beanie", as an alternative.

BobTheBuilder_v1 said:

Sorry, I kinda just skimmed and fired that response off in between Project Sekai pubs. I think "pom pom beanie" is the best kind of tag, descriptive and immediately obvious, especially given our pom pom tag. But Google shows similar for "pom beanie", as an alternative.

Don't worry about it. I personally like the sound of "pom beanie" better, but if people prefer "pom pom beanie", I won't put up a fight over it as both are immediately obvious. I think what I'm gonna do is just run one of those "pick the better name" BURs and then implicate beanie and pom pom (clothes) to the winner.

I don't hate "winter beanie" either honestly, though I do see how that could get messy. Then again, that is how we end up with tags like winter hat in the first place...

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