Implicating turtle, dragon -> reptile.

Reason: Turtles and dragons are both reptiles.

Could add lawyers to the list as well.

Dragons are not real creatures and therefore do not fall into our common taxonomic classifications.

null0010 said:
Dragons are not real creatures and therefore do not fall into our common taxonomic classifications.

Komodo Dragon???

To put it another way, dragons are reptilian, but they are not reptiles.

TheHuskyK9 said:
Komodo Dragon???

Komodo Dragons aren't what the dragon tag is for.

Foobaria said:
To put it another way, dragons are reptilian, but they are not reptiles.

all reptilian are not reptiles? Oo

Zenti said:
all reptilian are not reptiles? Oo

No, 'reptilian' means "having the qualities of a reptile", so since dragons are based upon qualities that real reptiles share, they are reptilian, but they're not actually a reptile in the first place.

If dragons were genuinely real in our actual world, they'd most likely be reptiles, since they usually are cold-blooded, scaley, and ovipositional, but they're not.

Cool. Implicate that joint.

Actually, dragon should probably imply scalie, right?

Furry_Fanatic said:
Actually, dragon should probably imply scalie, right?

There are many not scalie dragons, like in post #277754

Gilda_The_Gryphon said:
There are many not scalie dragons, like in post #277754

I'd consider that a hybrid before I'd be willing to consider it a dragon.

Maybe we should just title them all "cold blooded" It'd be good to have a nice broad category (other than scalie) when looking for reptiles, amphibians, dragons and things of that nature.

Digital_Kindness said:
I'd consider that a hybrid before I'd be willing to consider it a dragon.

RACIST!

Gilda_The_Gryphon said:
RACIST!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyu2jAD6sdo

It doesn't even look like a dragon, I don't care how much the person who thinks they're that character says his mother had sex with a dragon and now he's some sort of uber dragon/wolf hybrid.

Digital_Kindness said:
It doesn't even look like a dragon, I don't care how much the person who thinks they're that character says his mother had sex with a dragon and now he's some sort of uber dragon/wolf hybrid.

I hope you're consequent in your racism and don't consider female dragons with boobs than more than mammalian mudblood. :P

Gilda_The_Gryphon said:
I hope you're consequent in your racism and don't consider female dragons with boobs than more than mammalian mudblood. :P

They're equally stupid.

null0010 said:
Dragons are not real creatures and therefore do not fall into our common taxonomic classifications.

There's plenty of creatures that aren't real with implications to our "common taxonomic classifications" like unicorn -> equine, charr -> feline and arcanine -> canine.

Really, there's plenty of implications like this. There should either be implications like this, or remove them all.

Additionally, dragons are not always reptilian. See: oriental fox and wolf dragons, luck dragons, dragons from those Anne McCaffery books, whatever Kohaku was in Spirited Away... I'm sure there are others.

Unicorns, arcanines, and charrs on the other hand, are uniform in appearance. Dragon myths are varied enough that we have one word that applies to a large family of fantastical creates.

null0010 said:
Additionally, dragons are not always reptilian. See: oriental fox and wolf dragons, luck dragons, dragons from those Anne McCaffery books, whatever Kohaku was in Spirited Away... I'm sure there are others.

Unicorns, arcanines, and charrs on the other hand, are uniform in appearance. Dragon myths are varied enough that we have one word that applies to a large family of fantastical creates.

So you're saying that there are too many special cases of dragons that aren't reptiles even though a majority of dragons have some appearance of a reptile, including hybrids.

Furry_Fanatic said:
So you're saying that there are too many special cases of dragons that aren't reptiles even though a majority of dragons have some appearance of a reptile, including hybrids.

Does this image look reptilian to you?

It has the dragon tag. If we implied dragon to reptile, this image would be incorrectly tagged.

Well, I could've gone the whole rest of my life without seeing that. Ouch.

Rule 34 is dangerous, man...

There are a lot of dragons who should be tagged scalie and who currently aren't. I make occasional runs through the archive to pick them out. My goal is to make sure that a search for dragon -scalie turns up only furred dragons. There are too many dragons who aren't scalie to just use an implication.

There are probably dragons who ought to be tagged reptile who currently aren't, but I'm less familiar with the reptile tag, and thus I leave it be.

Bumping, because besides dragons there was suggestion to make turtle -> reptile implication which I think is valid.

Nobody seemed to mention anything about turtles. Poor turtles, everybody thinks that they're lame.