Aliasing blizzard → blizzard_(disambiguation)
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Reason:

"Blizzard" has various possibly problematic meanings:

• It is a weather condition (blizzard_(weather)).

• It is a video game company (blizzard_entertainment).

• It is the name of multiple characters (List ).

Edit: Typo corrected ("desambiguation").

Blizzard entertainment shouldn't exist as a tag... a tag for multiple copyright worlds that don't mesh (save Heroes of the Storm, which purposely does that) doesn't seem logical to me. I just see the tag as trying to be politically correct.

Siral_Exan said:
Blizzard entertainment shouldn't exist as a tag... a tag for multiple copyright worlds that don't mesh (save Heroes of the Storm, which purposely does that) doesn't seem logical to me. I just see the tag as trying to be politically correct.

'Nintendo'

O16 said:
'Nintendo'

While that is a touché, Nintendo games have an identifiable common imagery, stuff that can look in-place with each other... Blizzard, on the other hand, doesn't really have that, save Warcraft (not World of Warcraft) and Starcraft's theme.

Siral_Exan said:
While that is a touché, Nintendo games have an identifiable common imagery, stuff that can look in-place with each other... Blizzard, on the other hand, doesn't really have that, save Warcraft (not World of Warcraft) and Starcraft's theme.

Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo are all immediately recognizable as being under Blizzard. That's enough for the copyright to exist.

Furrin_Gok said:
Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo are all immediately recognizable as being under Blizzard. That's enough for the copyright to exist.

Except that tags need to have more than just *that*, there needs to be something actually shared amongst them all. If we wanted to go that route, we'd need tags for types of games, types of artists, types of characters (regarding stuff like visible actions, like domming or fighting), to scratch the surface.

Point is, if the only thing binding Warcraft and diablo, for example, is who made it, then more tags would be needed to fine-tune searches for actual usefulness. Take, for instance, an understandable turn-off of feral Pokemon dominating humans. Such a tag could be made and would be better for searching & blacklisting than a vague copyright tag that houses 7 (WoW and Warcraft counted separately in instances where one is only from WoW, Hearthstone separate from WoW because of a small amount of unique characters in Hearthstone) unique copyrights. It'd be more precise to blacklist individual copyrights.

In fact, the only beings not from a known game under Bliz are the Lost Vikings, and they have a cameo in WoW as dwarves (which is the only way to make them relevant on site). While the blanket tag is useful for blacklisting, the searchability, which is equally important, is lacking in Blizzard.

I would count blizzards IPs to be in same kind of universe than Nintendos IPs are, mostly their own games and things, but can from time to time be in smash or kart. Because, you know, Heroes of the Storm is pretty much Smash Bros of blizzard.

Also on PC they have kept their completely independent platform, just like nintendo does with hardware.

As there's also tons of games made and published by them with tons of unique characters, this is already WAY above what is needed to have copyright tag in my eyes.

E: and even if that wasn't copyright tag here, there's still the possibility for users to misstag characters from blizzard universe with blizzard weather and there's also those characters with blizzard name.

So would most definitely disambiguate this one. +1

Siral_Exan said:
Except that tags need to have more than just *that*, there needs to be something actually shared amongst them all. If we wanted to go that route, we'd need tags for types of games, types of artists, types of characters (regarding stuff like visible actions, like domming or fighting), to scratch the surface.

Point is, if the only thing binding Warcraft and diablo, for example, is who made it, then more tags would be needed to fine-tune searches for actual usefulness.

Really? How exactly do we tie together Legend of Zelda, Mario, Kid Icarus, etc? What exactly makes them "more" interconnected through Nintendo than Blizzard's games?