Implicating raindeer → deer
Link to implication

Reason:

raindeer is a kind of deer
Example:
post #574075 was tagged raindeer but not deer.
When searching for "yuurikin deer" I did not find the post.

wait, do you mean reindeer or is there some species called raindeer?

Oh geez. It took me a while to figure that one out.
I mean "reindeer" with "e".

That doesn't even look like a reindeer.

rain deer LOL

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With caribou aliased to reindeer, they are just not closely enough related for this implication to work.

reindeer implies cervine, and that should be just fine as is.

Am I missing something?
The wiki page for reindeer literally says "A species of deer":
https://e621.net/wiki/show?title=reindeer

And here I was being amazed there's thing called raindeer - and now I'm super dissapointed it being typo :c

Denied (typo).

Hudson said:
Denied (typo).

Could always at least alias raindeer to reindeer got about 38 uses in tag history.

Hudson said:
Denied (typo).

Would reindeer -> deer be accepted then?

Calimero000 said:
Would reindeer -> deer be accepted then?

I'd rather have it aliased to reindeer like Chessax said (if others agree with that too). It's a typo.

Chessax said:
Could always at least alias raindeer to reindeer got about 38 uses in tag history.

+1

Calimero000 said:
Would reindeer -> deer be accepted then?

I think the problem is less the typo and more with the implication itself.

Reindeer are deer, but only in the sense that they're part of the Cervidae family. They're as much deer as other members of Cervidae, like moose and elk, are deer. Reindeer are not, though, the animals what we commonly call 'deer'. Those are things like the white-tailed deer, sika deer, etc. and these species are what the deer tag refers to.

If we tag reindeer as deer, then moose and elk must also be tagged as deer. This kinda makes the deer tag less useful to find what we commonly call deer, which is why I think people wouldn't want this implication.

I feel the need to point out that Santa's reindeer are called "reindeer" because they're the deer that pull the reins.

This is why in both normal and furry work, Santa's reindeer are typically portrayed as more similar to deer proper than to caribou.

Thus reindeer itself is an ambiguous tag, because it means something different when applied to Santa's reindeer than to the actual Earth creature called a reindeer.

Hudson said:
I'd rather have it aliased to reindeer like Chessax said (if others agree with that too). It's a typo.

+1

Sharp_Coyote said:
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With caribou aliased to reindeer, they are just not closely enough related for this implication to work.

Reindeer and caribou are both Rangifer tarandus, or a subspecies of it. I don't understand what you're saying at all.

Man, this thread is a mess of misunderstandings, let me attempt to summarize:

• OP suggested reindeer -> deer (understood through context, and later correction), Hudson apparently interpreted it literally as a raindeer -> deer alias (which was denied) and later misread (easily done, no-one's blaming).

• The current deer implications (none) does not match current wiki explanations (any cervine is a deer), hence Calimero000's confusion.

• raindeer should be aliased to reindeer either way (spelling alias) (pending)

• caribou is aliased to reindeer because they are regional variants of the same species, i.e. reindeer = Rangifer tarandus, as Tuvalu said, while caribou is North American reindeer.

• Santa's Reindeers are not necessarily based on reindeers, hence characters like rudolph may look more like your typical white-tailed deer or fallow deer etc. rather than an actual reindeer.

• Whether reindeer should imply deer is still under debate.

Chessax said:
Man, this thread is a mess of misunderstandings, let me attempt to summarize:
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If I could upvote your comment I would. Thank you for the explanation.