Aliasing ewe → sheep
Link to alias

Reason:

Since gendered species terms like ram and bull are already agreed to be aliased to their base species, I don't see any reason why the opposite shouldn't get this treatment.

Ergo: ewe should change to sheep, as it means "female sheep".

Related species term aliases:

• billy goat → goat (male goat)
• billygoat → goat
• buck → buck (disambiguation) - This is already aliased to deer, but I feel an alias to a disambiguation would be more fitting since buck isn't specifically a deer term and can refer to males from a variety of species such as kangaroo, caribou, etc.
• gander → goose (male goose)
• gobbler → turkey (male turkey)
• gorcock → grouse (male grouse)
• heifer → cow (female cattle)
• leopardess → leopard (female leopard)
• nanny → nanny (disambiguation) - Nanny is a term for female goat, but is also a term used in place for babysitter. I suggest an alias to a disambiguation tag that will redirect people to either babysitter or goat.
• nannies → nanny (disambiguation) - Ditto
• reynard → reynard (disambiguation) - Can refer to either male foxes or various fictional characters, such as the eponymous reynard the fox from dutch, english, french and german fable.
• seamare → seahorse (female seahorse)
• seastallion → seahorse (male seahorse)
• she-bear → bear (female bear)
• she-wolf → wolf (female wolf)
• sow → pig (female pig)
• steer → bovine (male ox/cattle)
• tigress → tigress (disambiguation) - Yes, tigress is a gendered term for female tiger, but at the same time its the name for the popular tiger character from the KFP series (master tigress). So I feel I should be aliased into a disambiguated tag which will redirect people into either the tiger tag or the master tigress tag.
• tomcat → tomcat (disambiguation) - Tomcat is the common term for a male cat, but in term is also a popular name for cat based characters (tom from tom and jerry for example), so a disambiguated tag that redirects to either cat or various tom named cat characters would probably be for the best.
• tom_cat → tomcat (disambiguation) - Same as above
• tommiecat → cat - Very similar term as the above, but this term is much more commonly attributed to male cats than as a name for a character, so aliasing to just cat in this case I feel works

Thoughts/additions?

I) Usually (in the overwhelming majority of the cases) we don't need aliases to tags that were never used, or are used so sporadically that would be more practical to fix manually. Referent to:

• ewe → sheep.
• billy goat → goat.
• billygoat → goat.
• gander → goose.
• gobbler → turkey.
• gorcock → grouse.
• leopardess → leopard.
• nanny → nanny (disambiguation).
• nannies → nanny (disambiguation).
• seamare → seahorse.
• seastallion → seahorse.
• she-bear → bear.
• she-wolf → wolf.
• steer → bovine.
• tom_cat → tomcat (disambiguation).
• tommiecat → cat.

II) The tag in use is 'cattle', not 'cow', would be better to change it in your suggestion. Referent to:

• heifer → cow.

III) It seems really unlikely for the tag 'tomcat' to be used to the character which you are referring; I would suggest either aliasing it to 'cat' or just cleaning it manually. Referent to:

• tomcat → tomcat (disambiguation).

IV) I sincerely don't know enough about the possibility of 'reynard' being used to characters to opine. Referent to:

• reynard → reynard_(disambiguation).

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+1 to buck → buck (disambiguation). Explanation below:

I) The term is also used to other cervines as well as to some antelopes (I know nothing about it being used to ksngaroos though).

II) It is a proper name.

+1 to sow → pig. It seems to be used consistently with the species.

+1 to tigress → tigress (disambiguation). In this case the character's name may be a real problem.

cow A-> female and doe A-> female because both refer to female members of multiple species.

Interestingly, bitch was aliased to female instead of dog.

BlueDingo said:
cow A-> female and doe A-> female because both refer to female members of multiple species.

Interestingly, bitch was aliased to female instead of dog.

That is a joke, right?

No. Cow can refer to female cattle, buffalos, camels, elephants, whales and others. Doe can refer to female deer, rabbits, antelope, hamsters and others. And bitch means "female dog".

Here's a more complete list.

BlueDingo said:
No. Cow can refer to female cattle, buffalos, camels, elephants, whales and others. Doe can refer to female deer, rabbits, antelope, hamsters and others.

Are you sure that those additional meanings aren't in disuse? I never heard about them.

Also even if that is a true issue, aliasing those terms to 'female' would be risky, due to the possibility of they being tagged to dickgirls and herms.

Edit: About the bitch → female alias, it probably should be revised, after all, it was one of those primeval aliases.

I believe we have a precedent against sex-specific species tags implying their respective genders.

As for `bitch` -> `female`, this isn't the first time this has been brought up. (forum #207731)

BlueDingo said:
cow A-> female and doe A-> female because both refer to female members of multiple species.

Interestingly, bitch was aliased to female instead of dog.

Aliasing cow to female runs the risk of people tagging a bull as a female by accident due to the species being called "cow" regardless of gender. Unless used specifically to indicate gender, it indicates species, and aliasing it with female is going to have a lot of mistags.

kamimatsu said:
Aliasing cow to female runs the risk of people tagging a bull as a female by accident due to the species being called "cow" regardless of gender. Unless used specifically to indicate gender, it indicates species, and aliasing it with female is going to have a lot of mistags.

yeah if cow wasn't the major name of a breed of cattle I'd agree with it being aliased to female, but in this case it's probably for the best for it to be aliased to cattle, due to the common association of it to cattle rather than it being a generalized term (buck for example is much more of a common term and isn't commonly attributed or associated with one known species like cow is, hence my suggestion to alias it to a disambiguation page. most people kind of associate it with deer but not nearly as commonly as cow is attributed to cattle imho)

Approved the following:

• ewe -> sheep
• sow -> pig
• heifer -> heifer_(disambiguation) (artist title)
• tigress -> tigress_(disambiguation)
• master will likely get the same treatment.
• nanny - nanny_(disambiguation)
• may alias to babysitter instead.
• reynard -> reynard_(disambiguation) (needs a wiki page)

`buck` and `steer` will be looked at again.

Everything else is low priority.