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Updated by Ratte
Procyon is a genus while procyonid refers to any member of family procyonidae. This would be like aliasing Canis to canine/canid.
The Procyon tag is about as useful as tagging Canis or Vulpes, which we don't do. I added the procyonid species tag because it covers more than just raccoons, which is all the Procyon tag is good for.
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Ratte said:
Procyon is a genus while procyonid refers to any member of family procyonidae. This would be like aliasing Canis to canine/canid.The Procyon tag is about as useful as tagging Canis or Vulpes, which we don't do. I added the procyonid species tag because it covers more than just raccoons, which is all the Procyon tag is good for.
It still seems it's like a super redundant tag to exist imho, as like you said it's like tagging a fox tag with both fox and vulpes. Idk, does it even have a purpose here? If it's specific to raccoons, then why wouldn't the raccoon tag by itself serve the same purpose? But perhaps I'm missing a purpose it could possibly have, even if I am not currently seeing it
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facelessmess said:
It still seems it's like a super redundant tag to exist imho, as like you said it's like tagging a fox tag with both fox and vulpes. Idk, does it even have a purpose here? If it's specific to raccoons, then why wouldn't the raccoon tag by itself serve the same purpose? But perhaps I'm missing a purpose it could possibly have, even if I am not currently seeing it
Your guess is as good as mine. An alias to raccoon would make enough sense, though the wiki entry will have to be nuked since it's all wrong anyway, referring to procyonids as a whole and not just raccoons. Oh well.
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