Implicating species_request → unknown_species
Link to implication

Reason:

Requesting a species tag implied the tagger does not know the species, ergo this implication.

Related implications

• character request → unknown character

EDIT: The tag implication species_request -> unknown_species (forum #235511) has been rejected by @Rainbow_Dash.

-1 to both, requesting a species can also be so specific as "what exactly is their species" for real species, or that you simply do not know the name (like a fantasy race) yet you know the base species; character request should probably be aliased to unknown_character. The number of posts and how the wikis are written seem to show that they are the same thing.

Seems like unknown_character is getting tagged for characters who probably don't have a name. Whereas character_request has been working pretty well for its intended usage.

Better to implicate than alias those. Though I'm not sure what purpose unknown_character serves. As I said, it's mostly unnamed characters, which are generally left untagged..

Genjar said:
Seems like unknown_character is getting tagged for characters who probably don't have a name. Whereas character_request has been working pretty well for its intended usage.

Better to implicate than alias those. Though I'm not sure what purpose unknown_character serves. As I said, it's mostly unnamed characters, which are generally left untagged..

So then, should we get rid of unknown_character? We don't need two tags that perform the same function. And any subtly in place is being misused.

Siral_Exan said:
So then, should we get rid of unknown_character? We don't need two tags that perform the same function. And any subtly in place is being misused.

That might be the best solution.
Aliasing it either way would just fill the combined tag with characters that can't be named.

Unknown is supposed to only be used if the tagger doesn't know, but the character or species does exist. If it's something that isn't named, it should be ambiguous_species or no character tag whatsoever.

If we're getting rid of unknown_character and keep character_request then we should probably change unknown_artist to artist_request to be consistent.

Granberia said:
If we're getting rid of unknown_character and keep character_request then we should probably change unknown_artist to artist_request to be consistent.

Unknown artists also include the impossible: unsourced, not signatured, and ancient pieces of art. You keep the tag on if you couldn't find an artist, whereas artist_request wouldn't fit as well in that situation.

The tag implication species_request -> unknown_species (forum #235511) has been rejected by @Rainbow_Dash.