Prosthetics tags implications.

hook hand -> prosthetics, amputee  
peg leg -> prosthetic leg, prosthetics, amputee
 
prosthetic arm -> prosthetic limb, prosthetics, amputee  
prosthetic wing -> prosthetic limb, amputee
 
mechanical arm -> prosthetic arm, prosthetic limb, prosthetics  
mechanical eye -> prosthetic eye, prosthetics  
mechanical leg -> prosthetic leg, prosthetic limb, prosthetics  
mechanical wing -> prosthetic wing, prosthetic limb, prosthetics

@Frustration in Excelsis  
Woah. This brings back memories of that Prosthetics thread from a couple of years ago.
 
I’ll look over the tags. But off the bat I think some shouldn’t imply amputee. And possibly not imply prosthetic.  
Like Mechanical wing. Since those could easily be just artificial wings someone make and put on, and not serving as a replacement for a lost body-part.  
Example:  

@Zeb  
I was mostly going off the implications already in place for mechanical limb and copy-pasting, but I see what you mean.
 
My understanding of “prosthetic” is that it refers to any artificial limb, regardless of whether it does or does not replace a preexisting one, and it’s just that in real life they always do. Still, if that’s not how it’s used in practice then that’s not how it’s used.

@Frustration in Excelsis  
I think “prosthetic” can still work. Since the description only says “Any sort of artificial, functional body part replacement” And it doesn’t necessarily have to replace an already existing part.  
I could have a Prosthetic third arm! =O
 
Anywho. I’ll get to implications in a bit. Might leave off amputation on a couple. Will see as I go through.

@Zeb  
Artificial Wings is a separate tag, but I’m going to set up prosthetic wing to imply artificial wing.
 
Basically if it’s amputated and replaced use prosthetic, if it’s a supplemental wing just use artificial.
 
Fake wings is for nonfunctional costume wings but there’s probably people using that for prosthetics.

@cheezedoodle  
What about magic wings?  

@DR35  
It’s under artificial wings: “Functional mechanical or magical wings allowing a creature to fly”
 
And now I see that’s also already its own tag. I’m going to have it imply artificial wings too.
 
So now  
Magic Wings implies Artificial Wings  
Prosthetic Wing implies Artificial Wings  
Artificial Wings is the catch-all for mechanical or magical wings.
 
Fake Wings is its own thing and not tied to the rest.

@Frustration in Excelsis  
I think Mechanical Arm is being used incorrectly on most of those pics. It’s aliased to robot arm. I believe that means that there is a robotic arm somewhere in the picture that’s doing something but isn’t necessarily attached to a creature. Some of the pics under that tag should be tagged prosthetic arm instead, so I’m going to do that.
 
[1 hour later]
 
I aliased mechanical arm into robotic arm/robot arm and retagged the prosthetic arm pics appropriately.  
Robotic Arm is for either characters with “extra” robot arms attached to their backs or armor (think Doc Octopus) or for independent robot arms that usually appear in fetish pics tickling somebody or doing something else to a character.

Aliased cybernetic eye and mechanical eye into prosthetic eye (they were all pretty much the same thing).  
Aliased mechanical leg into prosthetic leg (they were all the same thing).  
Mechanical Wing needs to be split between prosthetic wing (for amputees) and artificial wings (for supplemental wings).
 
Found the exception to all the rules
 

There’s a few implied in the wings tag that either needed to be aliased or add more implications.  
Cyber wings  

 
Glimmer wings or Glossamer wings  

@DR35  
Explain? Glimmer Wings is specifically for the toyline from years back.

@LightningBolt  
I assume that both wings being sparkly and translucent as well looking like butterfly wings kind of confuse most people to tag one or the other or both.

@DR35  
Glimmer Wings should be reserved for the toyline(s) and art inspired by them imo.

@LightningBolt  
Should they also imply artificial?

@DR35  
No.

@cheezedoodle  

 
I get that a majority of prothetic legs were also mechanical, but I’m not all that sure that they’re equivalent terms – partly because a lot of prosthetic legs aren’t mechanical*  
 
And because peg legs, which imply prosthetic leg by default, certainly aren’t mechanical.  
 
_{* I suppose it varies depending on what one means by “mechanical”, but all the same I think there’s a big difference between an artificial limb with a few joints or parts that only move through pressure and one that’s an out-and-out cybernetic appendage.}
 
@LightningBolt  

 
I tend to agree, although that seems like it’d require a lot of cleanup.
 
I would personally assume that gossamer wings should imply artificial wings and magic wings; maybe also butterfly wings?

@Frustration in Excelsis  
I can see a unique tag for the running blade type since they are a specialized form of peg leg, but everything else is a mishmash of tech levels, from simple hinged appendage like Kerfuffle’s, to clockwork/steampunk style, to Fallout-level scifi style, to Ghost in the Shell type cybernetics. 90% of them could fall under more than one of those tech levels without consulting the artist.
 
I’m not going to stop anybody from making a cybernetic leg tag or a running blade leg tag, but they should imply prosthetic leg and the rest of its implications. Mechanical Leg specifically is just too broad a term. Especially when Mechanical Arm is usually used for fetish robots.
 
As for Gossamer Wings, I didn’t even know it was a tag until now. I think that’s just the in-show name for the butterfly wings spell.
 
I think that the pics under that tag should be tagged as both magic wings and butterfly wings, and then the tag aliased into magic wings. If tags are supposed to describe the image and not the backstory behind the image that is not immediately apparent, this seems appropriate.
 
Glimmer Wings sounds like a bad alicorn nightmare. I’m not touching that. (It should be reserved for pics of the toys and pics directly inspired by the toys. Again the majority of pics under that tag are the same as gossamer wings above)

@cheezedoodle  

 
Point taken. Sorting out which prosthetic legs do or do not seem complex enough to warrant a specialized cybernetic leg tag may probably be more work than it’s worth.
 
All the same, I may make a running blade leg tag tomorrow. That at least seems easy enough to keep track of.

@cheezedoodle, @Frustration in Excelsis
Found this thread during due-diligance before I was about to post:

Alias robot legs -> cybernetic legs (>>1624059 and >>62450 are the only exceptions and they have their own special tag, techno trousers)
and/or,
Imply or alias -> prosthetic leg (if implying, inherit implications amputee, prosthetics, prosthetic limb)