Topic: Tag Alias: monstrous -> monstrous_(disambiguation)

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

Aliasing monstrous → monstrous_(disambiguation)
Link to alias

Reason:

Currently monstrous tag is type character.

I think this is because of uploads post #1446230 because the larger character belongs to FA username monstrous
(but the character is named Syrrik).
http://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/monstrous/folder/109632/Syrrik/

Image has two characters, but three character tags: coal (samt517) {which is correct as far as i can tell},
and monstrous and pressure.
(replace pressure with smoosh, pinned or something? or is smothering tag sufficient?)

Various uploads tagged as monstrous:
1) above mentioned 1446230

2) post #981007 depicting nemesis_(resident_evil).

3) post #1066382 depicting Sarin_(mayaa_tiger) : probably tagged with monstrous because character's FA username is SarinMonstrous

4) one or both of the creatures at post #1360189 and 3 related images uploaded to e621. Apparently both unnamed according to artist's description at Tumblr. Artist description includes "cacodemon", so guessing they are both cacodemons. All three tagged with "monster", so probably just remove monstrous tag from these 4 images by Rube.

5) post #1395078 depicting being already tagged with monstrous_humanoid

6) post #1400871 with being tagged as Zavok (and matches appearance at https://www.mariowiki.com/Zavok ) ... so not named Monstrous.

7) post #1407506 , where one character is named Ugo and the other named Tholl .. so neither named Monstrous.

Maybe re-tag to
a) monster
b) monstrous_humanoid
c) the appropriate species tag

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To do: figure out if there a character named pressure.

EDIT: The tag alias monstrous -> monstrous_(disambiguation) (forum #253700) has been rejected by @NotMeNotYou.

Updated by auto moderator

+1, I've had to tell the difference apart between beings canonically monsters (Undertale), and beings legitimately monstrous (the intended tag use). It'd be useful to note that monsters need to look like monsters to get tagged as one, not be merely called one.

I, frankly, would rather monster be aliased to monstrous as it's defining a trait of their being instead of being an actual species. When the wiki literally says "Add this tag only if the creature's appearance is at least somewhat monstrous", perhaps it would be better use the other word instead (after cleaning it up, obviously). Maybe use it in a similar fashion to body type, with "monstrous_anthro", "monstrous_feral", and etc.; maybe preemptively alias "monstrous_human" into "monstrous_humanoid", since such traits would invalidate them as humans currently.

Updated by anonymous

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