Aliasing usa → united_states_of_america
Link to alias

Reason:

It's the long form, but less of a chance of it getting confused with something else (whatever that might be).

parasprite said:
It's the long form, but less of a chance of it getting confused with something else (whatever that might be).

Having one aliased to the other is a good idea so both don't end up floating around, but I don't know that it's really necessary to go in the direction you're suggesting. I think 'USA' is pretty globally understood.

*shrugs* Just my thought. Either works for me in the end.

Yeah, I bet USA is fine :P

We generally steer away from abbreviations with tags, though in this case usa is one of the few times we could probably do so.

However, I just realised the exact same type of alias needs to happen with uk vs united_kingdom. And I don't think uk is quite as clear as an abbreviation.

So I'm going to approve them as the abbreviation to --> the full name for both of them, for the added clarity and consistency. Even though usa/united_states_of_america could have gone either way, I think the other reasons make this direction the better choice overall.

And how about America?

Genjar said:
And how about America?

Technically refers to Canada/Mexico/all the little countries underneath that, but by itself it's more of a synonym for the United States. It's probably fine to alias it after a quick sweep for outliers.

That's a good point. There actually wasn't anything tagging under america that was actually about any other part of the american continents. I guess the association of "america = USA" really is that strong, so an alias should be fine.

So, I aliased america to --> united_states_of_america. And I also aliased american to --> united_states_of_america because we don't tag nationality of a character anymore than we tag their religion or orientation or private thoughts, but if there's stuff about the country/culture/emblems/etc then we'd tag that as the country. And that's most of what was under american anyways.

And then I ran into stars_and_stripes which is for the nationalistic pattern on or off the flag itself vs american_flag/usa_flag/us_flag. I started to clean it up but realised that both tags are being used in the same way: for the flag, the emblem, and the pattern inspired by the flag incorporated into everything from backgrounds to clothing to bodypaint. So instead, I went through and made sure all the stuff that's actually a flag is tagged with the flag tag, and I think it'd be best to alias american_flag into --> stars_and_stripes because it's slightly more broad for the same exact thing. We did a similar thing for union_jack, which is just as prone to be part of a shirt or tattoo as it is to be the actual flag itself. And that seems to work rather well.

And then I think the stars_and_stripes tag could be implicated to --> united_states_of_america since it's one of the main types of imagery for evoking USA and I don't see any other use in there.

furrypickle said:

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I rarely say this but that is some damn good and complete work. Nice job pickle!

furrypickle said:
I aliased america to --> united_states_of_america.

Fuck yeah

parasprite said:
I rarely say this but that is some damn good and complete work. Nice job pickle!

Thanks. I really appreciate the feedback. =)

And the rest of this is finalized (was holding off for a day or so just to make sure there weren't any objections which needed addressed first.)

I know this thread is old but it won't let me create a new one as it says united_states_of_america is already aliased to something else (which it's not).

Aliasing united_states_of_america → united_states
Link to alias

Reason

1. There is currently no alias or implication between united_states and united_states_of_america.

2. The tag united_states is more concise than united_states_of_america