Pet Cone Aliases

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BUR #4634 has been approved by @Hillside_Moose.

create alias elizabethan_collar -> pet_cone
create alias dog_cone -> pet_cone

I'd be surprised if a lot people know about what an Elizabethan Collar is but it's what Wikipedia calls them, or do people want to change the name to pet cone to keep it simple? I included dog cone since there was a post tagged that earlier and it sounds likely that people would try it when trying to find this tag.

I don't think Wikipedia should be taken as an authority here. They probably chose that term because they could find some sort of published reference for it that meets their citation standards, and because they don't want separate pages for dog cones and cat cones (not that we do either.)

Moreover, I think it runs a risk of being confused with real Elizabethan collars worn by people - Wikipedia can direct people to 'ruffs' more easily than we can (from the post listing.) As noted on the wiki page, the current danbooru tag for these is neck_ruff, though it needs cleaning up and possibly separation into multiple tags. The neckwear in post #3748506 and post #3685954 should really not have the same tag IMO.

Back on topic, I went to Amazon and did a search for some phrases in the "Pet Supplies" category. This is what I got:

  • Elizabethean collar: 443 results
  • Dog cone: over 1,000 results
  • Cat cone: over 1,000 results
  • Pet cone: over 2,000 results

Based on this I think the tag should be pet_cone.

Updated by 7HS

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