The tag alias #50760 g-string -> thong has been rejected.

Reason: G-string is a sparsely used tag which seems to have pretty much the same definition as thong. The article for g-string even says they're fundamentally similar without really differentiating them. Most of the posts which contain the g-string tag seem to use it instead of thong rather than alongside it despite the definition of g-string implying there should be a lot of crossover, so the existence of the two tags together seems to just be splitting images arbitrarily rather than adding any categorical value. Proposing the less used tag be aliased to the more popular one.

EDIT: The tag alias g-string -> thong (forum #304336) has been rejected by @bitWolfy.

I'm wondering if implicating g-string -> thong would be better than aliasing it away. While they're very similar to each other, I had thought that the back side of a g-string was smaller than on a traditional thong.

However, like you pointed out, there doesn't seem to be much difference in the way both tags are utilized and the wikis aren't helpful in making the tags distinct from each other. Both g-string and thong seem to be used indistinguishably from one another, so if g-string is kept as it's own tag, both g-string and thong would still need some significant cleaning up.

thong can also mean those thin straps in leather sandals, and sometimes those straps in flip flops, but it's rare to call them that nowadays due to language drift.

alexyorim said:
thong can also mean those thin straps in leather sandals, and sometimes those straps in flip flops

kemonophonic said:
Isn't thong another word for flip_flops?

regionally, yep. The wiki for thong disambiguates that it means the underwear sense rather than the footwear sense though. Might be worth adding clarification to the flip_flop and sandal pages too.

d.d.m. said:
I'm wondering if implicating g-string -> thong would be better than aliasing it away. While they're very similar to each other, I had thought that the back side of a g-string was smaller than on a traditional thong.

To the best of my knowledge, the difference is that thongs have thin bands of cloth around the waist, while g-strings just have the thinnest strings possible. They are recognisably different in that regard, although I'm unsure if we should just go with the tendency for people to use them interchangeably.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Panties_styles_-_en.svg
Here. I believe they are different enough, visually, to warrant tagging separately, but that depends how anal we all want to be about how much difference changes what clothes are. Probably the same argument to be had about skirt vs. miniskirt vs. microskirt and all.

The tag alias g-string -> thong (forum #304336) has been rejected by @bitWolfy.