Furries and animal_hands

I'd like to remove the furry exclusion from animal hands because uh... unlike non-anthropomorphic animals, animal hands aren't actually the default for furries.

furry animal_hands already has 3k posts anyways, and someone who doesn't want to see furries can just do animal_hands -furry... Meanwhile the current exclusion makes it so you can't search for say, Sonic characters with paws instead of their usual humanoid hands.

Also should probably be figured out if pawpads on humanoid hands by themselves warrant this tag. That's not really a major thing though, just a personal annoyance. My main issue is the furry exclusion.

BUR #32496 has been rejected.

remove alias paws -> animal_hands
deprecate paws

Also this is a bad alias that causes a lot of mistags of animal hands on animal feet and just straight up regular animals. Should just be deprecated instead.

Deprecation wiki can list animal hands, animal feet, pawpads, claws and digitigrade.

The clause was added after forum #189171 and topic #18829, where paws was aliased to animal_hands. I must have missed that BUR, because the unfortunate result of its approval was a decent chunk of animal_feet posts (which were only tagged paws at the time) suddenly being tagged animal_hands, and without much of a method to search for these mistags. But that's a different discussion.

As for if the clause should be removed, it seems rather short-sighted for the reasons Trouble Windows has pointed out. Not all furries even have animal hands, and users who weren't aware of the clause (myself included) have naturally continued to use the tag, pointing to the clause's unintuitiveness. As such, I'm in firm support of its removal from the wiki.

Trouble_Windows said:

Also should probably be figured out if pawpads on humanoid hands by themselves warrant this tag. That's not really a major thing though, just a personal annoyance. My main issue is the furry exclusion.

The phrase "animal hands" shouldn't be taken too literally here. If I'm searching for animal_hands, then I'm looking for "animal-like hands", not just "hands that are 100% identical to a real animal's hands". To put it bluntly, the notion that posts like post #5747083 should be excluded from an animal_hands search is absurd.

AngryZapdos said:

The phrase "animal hands" shouldn't be taken too literally here. If I'm searching for animal_hands, then I'm looking for "animal-like hands", not just "hands that are 100% identical to a real animal's hands". To put it bluntly, the notion that posts like post #5747083 should be excluded from an animal_hands search is absurd.

I'll concede on this one, it's not a hill I'm gonna die on. It's probably better to include some things a few people might not be looking for than to exclude some things a lot of people searching the tag are looking for.

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