The bulk update request #3294 is active.

change category al (0) -> invalid

Reason: Normally I would suggest a disambiguation for a generic character name tag like this. However, this tag had an extraordinarily large number of invalid uses, due to being only two letters long and a substring of many other tags.

Tags this tag has been mistakenly added alongside include: female_on_feral, mammal, kathu thal (a different character, apparently), alligator, feelferal (an artist), all_nine_eeveelutions, all_fours, alpha_pokemon and internal. Those are just the ones I fixed today.

Currently the only legitimate posts remaining in the tag are these three:

post #3247325 post #3510694 post #623439

Hopefully someone with an FA account can track down the ownership of these Als because I wasn't able to. I did clean out a number of other characters (and artists) to their own respective al_* tags.

EDIT: The bulk update request #3294 (forum #344509) has been approved by @slyroon.

the "true" al to the left is actually named "Angeni" according to the commissioner's gallary (went along and tagged her with Angeni_(riddler356) in case we get any more Angeni's running around

the center most (drawn and owned by the same artist that penned the aforementioned comm, moirah) has their post titled simply "ava" and i just now asked if that's her name or if it's actually "al" (i'm expecting her true name to be the former)

lastly to the audience's right hand side (drawn by the illustrious bastriw <3) is unfortunately a piece of nearly lost media, had it not been for bastriw himself uploading it here, as this piece seems to be gone from both his old and new gallary. i'll contact him soon enough, but given that the piece was uploaded with the chatacter tag "al" and who uploaded it, i think it's safe to say that we have our one and only true al of this galla

(still gonna prolly retag that last one with something like al_(bastriw) to separate it from the crowd)

edit: fixed a mistake where i assumed bastriw's old account (siriuswolfus) was a separate entity

dripen_arn said:
the center most (drawn and owned by the same artist that penned the aforementioned comm, moirah) has their post titled simply "ava" and i just now asked if that's her name or if it's actually "al" (i'm expecting her true name to be the former)

Welp, the artist themself just removed the "al" tag from that post without replacing it with anything else. So we may or may not get an answer to this one, but this does mean we're down to only one actual Al now.

The bulk update request #3294 (forum #344509) has been approved by @slyroon.