Topic: [APPROVED] Dracorex Fix BUR

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

The bulk update request #1974 is active.

mass update dracorex -> western_dragon
create alias dracorex (0) -> pachycephalosaurus (200)

Reason: Someone, long ago, apparently decided that the dracorex tag could be used as a vanity species tag for someone's western dragon character. As far as I can tell, it's only really being used for that one character, and this character has no anatomical differences from any other regular western dragon, so this is nothing more than a vanity tag for that character. What's worse, "dracorex" is actually an alternate name for a real species of dinosaur better known as pachycephalosaurus. This has caused a very significant number of mistags where dinosaurs were being tagged as this dragon species, and not as the correct species. Many of them were also missing the dinosaur tag because dracorex does not have an implication chain leading to it, whereas pachycephalosaurus does.

Source: Wikipedia redirects 'Dracorex' to 'Pachycephalosaurus'

In order to remedy this, I have first moved all of the pachycephalosaurs to the pachycephalosaurus tag, leaving only the dragon in the dracorex tag. Since this is a pointless vanity species tag for someone's regular western dragon OC, I suggest mass updating all of the current posts to western dragon (most of them currently lack this tag despite being the appropriate species tag for all of them, and some of them even lack the regular dragon tag). Then, in order to prevent future mistags and to allow people to find the correct species tag (I mean, "pachycephalosaurus" is a pretty hard tag to remember and spell correctly, plus many people only know this species by the name "dracorex"), I suggest aliasing dracorex to pachycephalosaurus.

EDIT: The bulk update request #1974 (forum #326514) has been approved by @bitWolfy.

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