Topic: Tag Alias: undead -> zombie

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

Aliasing undead → zombie
Link to alias

Reason:

Right now, these two tags are separate things. It would make logical sense to combine the two as both are essentially the same thing atm. Similarly, there seem to be a fair amount of zombie content that doesn't go into it but still remain in undead

Updated by user 22273

-1, undead can be used to refer to a number of creatures, such as skeletons, ghosts, ghouls, and so forth. It should be aliased into a disambiguation page instead apparently it has implications, so not even that.

Updated by anonymous

Um, no?
ghosts, among others, are definitly not zombies, yet they're both undead. Try reading the wiki.

I think it's good to keep it an umbrella tag. That said it's missing an implication from ghost, unless I'm missing something.

Updated by anonymous

MyNameIsOver20charac said:
Um, no?
ghosts, among others, are definitly not zombies, yet they're both undead. Try reading the wiki.

I think it's good to keep it an umbrella tag. That said it's missing an implication from ghost, unless I'm missing something.

Are ghosts undead? I thought that undead refereed more to corporeal things like animated skeletons and zombies and stuff.

Updated by anonymous

darryus said:
Are ghosts undead? I thought that undead refereed more to corporeal things like animated skeletons and zombies and stuff.

Wikipedia:
The undead may be incorporeal like ghosts

Wikipedia says yes (although it also says that the definition varies) and so does the current e6 wiki.

Updated by anonymous

Genjar

Former Staff

darryus said:
Are ghosts undead? I thought that undead refereed more to corporeal things like animated skeletons and zombies and stuff.

Actual ghosts, as in ghost of a formerly living people, are undead.
Though here ghost is tagged purely by twys, and the subtag spirit makes it even trickier. Some creatures just naturally look like that without actually being undead, so maybe the ghost -> undead implication wouldn't work well.

Updated by anonymous

darryus said:
Are ghosts undead? I thought that undead refereed more to corporeal things like animated skeletons and zombies and stuff.

if it died but continues functioning, its undead

Updated by anonymous

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