The tag alias #56825 ancient_egyptian -> egyptian has been approved.

Reason: I believe they are currently being used the same way. The wiki says "egyptian is a tag referring to Ancient Egypt".

Currently, ancient_egyptian is on 8 posts, while egyptian is on 6,000+ posts.

I have proposed a similar alias ancient_egypt to egyptian, for the same reasons, in tag alias 56826 .

edit: add link to related alias

EDIT: The tag alias ancient_egyptian -> egyptian (forum #329631) has been approved by @bitWolfy.

I kinda think there should be separate tags so anything relating to the modern-day Egypt (probably a minimal amount) isn't mixed in with ancient Egyptian stuff.

Keeping Egyptian as the tag for ancient Egypt is probably the best because that's what people primarily use... I can't think of a good name other than modern_egyptian for anything more recent.

faucet said:
I kinda think there should be separate tags so anything relating to the modern-day Egypt (probably a minimal amount) isn't mixed in with ancient Egyptian stuff.

Keeping Egyptian as the tag for ancient Egypt is probably the best because that's what people primarily use... I can't think of a good name other than modern_egyptian for anything more recent.

I like how we are tagging some cultures based on our stereotypic view of their history, such as greek, roman, etc., but I guess it can be argued/reframed that all of the themes featured originate from the culture itself, such as british, french, chinese, japanese, korean, italian, russian, etc.

Meanwhile, some culture tags are aliased away to their countries instead, such as with polish (got disambigauted) and american (got aliased to USA).

Then, we have german trying to distance itself from it's WW2 history (i.e., nazi).

The tag alias ancient_egyptian -> egyptian (forum #329631) has been approved by @bitWolfy.