"neck nuzzle" and "neck hug": merge or separate?

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Moving this discussion to a dedicated thread from the General Tagging Discussion so it doesn’t get buried by the page break and other topics.

Should `neck nuzzle` and `neck hug` be aliased or separated?

If separated, description text for each would be necessary to define what is a neck nuzzle and what is a neck hug.
Around 300 images (220 neck nuzzle + 85 neck hug) would need to be recategorized to the new definitions if a separation is the solution.
Is a neck hug defined as hugging with the neck or as the neck receives the hug?
Would whichever tag includes the behaviour of hugging with the neck earn a horses doing horse things implication? IRL horses use their necks to express affection to their preferred humans as well as to other horses.

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With regards to neck hug, I had written this in General Tagging Discussion, and will copypaste here:

Hm, yes, “neck hug” as a phrase could be interpreted as “hug targeting the neck” or “hug performed by a neck”…

Looking at a few that are currently tagged with “neck hug”, for ones like:

I think hoof around neck/arm around neck ought to be used instead of “neck hug”. The one with AJ and Rarity could even be a side hug.

For ones like:

ordinary hug plus arms around neck seems like a good way to identify it.

This leaves “neck hug” for exclusively the horse behavior of “hug performed by a neck”:

I had also written that IMO nuzzling in general is defined by being a pushing and rubbing of one’s face and head into and against the subject of affection. Some neck hug pictures could have both behaviors, like:

and

and there are a few where I’d remove the neck hug tag and instead use neck nuzzle, such as:

but this leave the question open whether nuzzling against someone else’s neck is a concept worth keeping distinct from “nuzzling” in general.

Contingent on what, if any, action is taken in terms of potential aliasing or not, neck nuzzle ought to imply nuzzling

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Should neck nuzzle and neck hug be aliased or separated?

Should `neck nuzzle` and `neck hug` be aliased or separated?