Implicating chinese_crested_dog → dog
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Reason:

Chinese crested dogs are dogs...
(64 posts? More common than I expected.)

By the way, what do you suppose should be done about the terrier and various terrier breeds such as bull terrier? Should those be chained: bull terrier -> terrier -> dog, or is that too many tiers for a single species?

I'd say chained as long as people care about the distinction. There's nothing wrong with having multiple breeds as long as:

1) People are actually using them.
2) They eventually get implicated to dog.

That's just my 2¢.

Approved the implication of chinese_crested_dog to --> dog.

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As for terrier, I could see it go either way. It is a basic category of dog breeds. But if we keep terrier for dogs in the terrier breed group, then we should also keep hound for those in the hound breed group. Both are the same level of breed group tag. I can see some use for keeping it, and I know in real life these are commonly used and considered helpful groupings for dog breeds. But I'd want to hear feedback on it first. What do people think?

furrypickle said:
Approved the implication of chinese_crested_dog to --> dog.

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As for terrier, I could see it go either way. It is a basic category of dog breeds. But if we keep terrier for dogs in the terrier breed group, then we should also keep hound for those in the hound breed group. Both are the same level of breed group tag. I can see some use for keeping it, and I know in real life these are commonly used and considered helpful groupings for dog breeds. But I'd want to hear feedback on it first. What do people think?

There's a lot of these kinds of tags for dogs in particular. Some of these breeds are more distinct from each other than others (an afghan_hound is much different from a greyhound). However, for our purposes I see nothing wrong with implicating the *hound/hund species together under hound, *_terrier under terrier, etc. At the very least we can organize them for our own purposes.

Any questionable or hybrid ones can probably just get implicated to dog or whatever their "last name" is (bull_terrier -> terrier rather than to bulldog or both). Even if it isn't 100% accurate, we aren't really here to trace obscure lineages, and even so there's far too much inter-breeding for this to even be practical.

My simple plan:

1. Organize them
2. Implicate what we can to groups
3. Clean up small but understandable errors as we go (if there are any)

It's not exactly how we normally do things, but for brevity's sake this is probably the only way we can make any sense of this. Fortunately there are probably less than 100 dog tags in frequent use right now, so I don't think we will have much in the way of issues.