The tag alias #56562 rubber_clothing -> latex_clothing has been rejected.

Reason:

EDIT: The tag alias rubber_clothing -> latex_clothing (forum #327276) has been rejected by @bitWolfy.

Please provide a reason when making a request, there's also a thread discussing this

Bloody hell, you did not need to spam that many requests at once.
That's what Bulk Update Requests are for.

Also, as faucet said – reasons, please.

bitwolfy said:
Bloody hell, you did not need to spam that many requests at once.
That's what Bulk Update Requests are for.

Also, as faucet said – reasons, please.

Two very serious things you absolutely should have done. Also:

faucet said:
there's also a thread discussing this

A thread which specifically split the two terms apart. Which was approved. They aren't the same, latex is fluid, rubber is solid.

furrin_gok said:
A thread which specifically split the two terms apart. Which was approved. They aren't the same, latex is fluid, rubber is solid.

More importantly, I think, the two words are used somewhat differently in common parlance… and there are two rather different things being included under that same tag here.

Of course, I’ve already made my point about that on that thread, so I’ll leave it over there.

furrin_gok said:
Two very serious things you absolutely should have done. Also:
A thread which specifically split the two terms apart. Which was approved. They aren't the same, latex is fluid, rubber is solid.

And 99% of Latex clothing arts are still rubber arts.

tankersss said:
And 99% of Latex clothing arts are still rubber arts.

Which will just have to be cleaned up manually. Latex is very different than rubber, so aliasing them together won't work.

furrin_gok said:
Which will just have to be cleaned up manually. Latex is very different than rubber, so aliasing them together won't work.

Going by IRL latex clothing and rubber are very simmilar in look, so you can't really tell them apart :)

tankersss said:
Going by IRL latex clothing and rubber are very simmilar in look, so you can't really tell them apart :)

This whole thing has already been discussed at some length over here.

But, in short:

“Latex rubber” is a type of rubber. “Latex” itself is technically just the milky white fluid used to make latex rubber, but the term is most commonly used to refer to latex rubber, because nobody wants to keep saying “latex rubber” all the time.

I think the real issue with keeping the two aliased together is that the terms are not really used interchangeably, even though they technically are. What we are concerned with here is common usage of these words, not their technically precise definitions. The term latex, as it turns out, is the word that the latex fetish community exclusively uses to refer to their fetishwear - even if what they’re wearing, in some cases, isn’t even real latex. Sometimes it’s PVC. But that technicality isn’t really important to them. They call it latex regardless.

Case in point: if someone says “rubber gloves,” the general connotation is not those long black rubber elbow gloves worn by dominatrices. Those are called latex gloves - even if they’re not made of actual latex. Generally, you’re probably thinking of those bright yellow cleaning/dishwashing gloves, or the stretchy disposable medical gloves. That’s the difference in terminology.

In reality, all these different types of gloves can be made with latex, which also means that they’re rubber gloves, as latex is a type of rubber. But this is useless for tagging, because you’re probably not wanting to search for all these different types of gloves - you probably just want to find one or the other. Using the same tag, “rubber_gloves,” for all of them with no other distinctions is pretty unhelpful. Hence the de-alias. Hence the idea of separating fetishwear and “fashion latex” into “latex” and more utilitarian rubber clothing into “rubber.”

scaliespe said:
Hence the idea of separating fetishwear and “fashion latex” into “latex” and more utilitarian rubber clothing into “rubber.”

Dealiasing is fine, but latex vs rubber discussion ended in "latex is liquid, and rubber is rubber" not in "latex = fashion/fetish".

tankersss said:
Dealiasing is fine, but latex vs rubber discussion ended in "latex is liquid, and rubber is rubber" not in "latex = fashion/fetish".

Did you read the entire thread?