I'm head-deep in Tabs/Tags
Somebody ELSE needs to fix this mess.

When you see a Troll from Homestuck it doesn't mean they're a conventional Troll as well, WHY did you (individuals who uploaded) MIX THEM TOGETHER!
Ya made a mess, now it needs fixing. Probably MANUALLY.

Trolls from Homestuck are very complex species with their own totally different make-up.

But yer mixing Trolls from a MOVIE, Trolls from MYTHOLOGY, and Trolls from a WEBCOMIC TOGETHER

FIX THE TROLL TAG or disambiguation it. idc.
Haven't seen such a mess like that since Faun_(spyro) / Faun or Pokemon / Fakemon

Yea, there should probably be a disambiguation page for all the various trolls in fiction, or at least the big changers like Mythological, Homestuck, and the Troll dolls. I've went ahead and tackled troll troll_(homestuck), which only had 35 posts.

siral_exan said:
Yea, there should probably be a disambiguation page for all the various trolls in fiction, or at least the big changers like Mythological, Homestuck, and the Troll dolls. I've went ahead and tackled troll troll_(homestuck), which only had 35 posts.

Thank you Siral

The bulk update request #1585 is active.

remove implication cave_troll (4) -> troll (0)
remove alias trolls (0) -> troll (0)
mass update troll -> troll_(mythology)
change category troll_(disambiguation) (2) -> invalid
create implication cave_troll (4) -> troll_(mythology) (1709)
change category troll_(mythology) (1709) -> species

After that, run this:

alias troll -> troll_(disambiguation)
alias trolls -> troll_(disambiguation)

Reason: Troll is a common name that should be disambiguated. The tag is already in a messy state, and this BUR can help cleaning efforts.

[Is there a way to transfer everything to troll_(mythology) before this BUR? Should I use update? Does update creates an alias or just does a transference?]

EDIT: The bulk update request #1585 (forum #320677) has been approved by @slyroon.

omegaumbra said:
[Is there a way to transfer everything to troll_(mythology) before this BUR? Should I use update? Does update creates an alias or just does a transference?]

That last is indeed what update does. It takes tag aaa and turns it into tag bbb but does not switch over future occurrences of aaa as an alias would.

clawstripe said:
That last is indeed what update does. It takes tag aaa and turns it into tag bbb but does not switch over future occurrences of aaa as an alias would.

Thanks, I updated the BUR. This will require some cleaning of the new tag troll_(mythology), but I believe it will be less work than not doing the update and cleaning the disambiguation later.

The bulk update request #1585 (forum #320677) has been approved by @slyroon.

The bulk update request #6893 is active.

create alias troll (0) -> troll_(disambiguation) (2)
create alias trolls (0) -> troll_(disambiguation) (2)

Reason: Followup

It's being blocked by topic #36277

EDIT: The bulk update request #6893 (forum #393505) has been approved by @slyroon.

The bulk update request #6893 (forum #393505) has been approved by @slyroon.