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And to amend my earlier statement, maybe using “disembodied head” for cases of heads alive without bodies is the more sane way to go about things, rather than to consider it a mistag.  
I get why this stuff exists, but I really am not a fan of how hard it is to figure out tagging on, I wonder how other boorus deal with it.
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I’d go with the latter. portrait allows for neck/shoulders to be showing, and bust can be anything from the navel up.
 
If head only implied portrait and bust, and had its own definition of “no neck”, that’d probably be better.
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@cheezedoodle  
On a related note, we’ve got a head shot tag that can’t agree on whether or not it’s for portrait-adjacent images or gunshots to the head.
 
Furthermore, ‘headshot’ and ‘headshots’ alias into ‘portrait’, for a bit more complication.
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@Dragonpone  
Probably best to mass-tag the portraits to the appropriate tag and alias that to “shot in the head” or something.
 
To me, “headshot” and “head shot” meaning different things makes sense, but obviously it’s not working here.
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@cheezedoodle  
As I’ve said before, using spacing to differentiate tags isn’t great, cause they really do mean the same thing, and people see it as a style choice, not a differentiation. Also many users just tag however they spell things…  
On a technical note, this might be a case for “hard merging” the appropriate tag, basically like an alias that doesn’t persist, just migrates the name.
 
Anyways, there’s soooo many tags here. So, from what I understand, things should be like this? (aliases are same-line, implications are reversed with indentation):  
Bust (head with optional neck)  
->Headshot/Head shots/Head only->Portrait (head but no neck)  
->->Floating head->Disembodied head (head with no body anywhere around)  
Head (???)  
->Floating head->Disembodied head (head with no body anywhere around)  
-Head shot–>Shot in the head (gunshot to the head)
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@Princess Luna  
Yeah I can’t parse your arrows and indents.
 
Head Only: Images where only characters’ heads are the entire image, no necks or other anatomy, and strictly no decapitations.  
Examples: >>2066494s (deleted)
 
This will seriously cut down the head only tag count as the majority of those are actually portrait tag (head and shoulders).
 
Portrait tag is fine as-is. Bust tag is fine as-is.
 
Alias Floating Head into Disembodied Head
 
Disembodied Head: A character’s head floating in a scene with other things going on, also strictly no decapitation.
 
Examples:
 
The majority of pics under this tag also fit better under eather Head Only or Portrait
 
As for the head tag, F that. May as well mass tag it on anything that isn’t tagged no pony
 
Edit:
 
One other thing: I think Head Only should not imply bust or portrait. It should stay as only sticker-like heads. I suspect there’s a lot of pics under portrait that are actually head only.
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@cheezedoodle  
“Disembodied head” would imply “head”, “portrait”, “bust”. “Portrait” would (still) imply “bust”.  
“Floating head” would be aliased into “disembodied head”. “Headshot”, “head shots”, and “head only” would be aliased into “portrait”.  
“Head shot” would be hard merged into “shot in the head”.
 
“Head” tag sucks, I’m not sure why it exists, just didn’t want to destroy existing stuff.  
Also, “disembodied head” here would technically overlap with some cases of “severed head” when it’s a head that’s alive but is kinda gorey; I don’t know of a better way to deal with it than to apply it in general on heads missing a body that aren’t dead/dying, short of creating a whole new tag (“bodyless”).
 
…so if “head only” isn’t aliased into “portrait”, what exactly distinguishes them?
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As for the head tag, F that. May as well mass tag it on anything that isn’t tagged no pony
 
Well, the way I understand how body-part tags work, you would tag head only when the creature in question wouldn’t normally have a head. This would not leave a lot. I mean, if someone drew the Headless Horseman with a head, I could see it, but otherwise it seems like a useless tag.
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@cheezedoodle
“Headshot”, “head shots”, and “head only” would be aliased into “portrait”.
“Head shot” would be hard merged into “shot in the head”.
I don’t like the idea of two tags that are such close variations of the exact same phrase (‘Headshot’ and ‘head shots’) remaining under a different alias than another (‘Head shot’).  
In an earlier post you even bring up that using such minor differences like spacing isn’t ideal. Anyone who doesn’t use/pay attention to the autofill will be mixing up the 3 tags.
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@Princess Luna  
That’s nice at least, though I still think putting the headshot tags in the direction of ‘shot in the head’ rather than ‘portrait’ would be the better option.
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Also amazing are the horribly underused useful tags. The tag apple bloom’s bow has an astounding 612 images, despite the search apple bloom, screencap turning up nearly 6000 results. I’m pretty sure most of those have her wearing the bow, so we need to either wipe an actually useful tag or change the rules for things like that.
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That’s because, much like Applejack’s hat, people shouldn’t be tagging Apple Bloom’s bow so long as it’s in Apple Bloom’s hair.
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