The bulk update request #3400 is pending approval.

create implication polterpup (12) -> domestic_dog (343259)
create implication polterpup (12) -> poltergeist (20)

Reason: not sure whether this one is actually useful

We don't implicate characters to species as they could be portrayed as a different species, alive, or cosplayed by someone who isn't that species – or dead.

clawstripe said:
We don't implicate characters to species as they could be portrayed as a different species, alive, or cosplayed by someone who isn't that species – or dead.

polterpup is set as a species, not a character.

We normally don't give species tags implications other than their copyright. If someone were to draw a polterpup before it died, or a polterpup as a cat, it would still be recognizable as polterpup, but the implications would cause mistags.

Also, not your fault but shouldn't polterpup be a character tag instead of a species tag? Poltergeist also should probably be aliased to ghost or spirit, and those two should probably be aliased together too.

watsit said:
polterpup is set as a species, not a character.

Apparently, Polterpup is a character. The tag needs to switch categories.

watsit said:
polterpup is set as a species, not a character.

I haven't played any of the games with him, but based on the Mario Wiki https://www.mariowiki.com/Polterpup, it sounds like there's only one of him usually (red collar), but there are several blue-collar copies of him in a multiplayer mode. That makes Polterpup sort of a gray area between character and species, I think.

crocogator said:
That makes Polterpup sort of a gray area between character and species, I think.

Ah, same as Yoshi and Boom Boom and Birdo and golly gee the Mario franchise has a lot of these

strikerman said:
Ah, same as Yoshi and Boom Boom and Birdo and golly gee the Mario franchise has a lot of these

Kirby gets it too. Kind of annoying that they keep forgetting to name their species.