Topic: [APPROVED] Tonight's Random Aliases

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

Clawstripe

Janitor

The bulk update request #5265 is active.

create alias x-mas (6) -> christmas (32966)

Reason: Just as xmas has been aliased to Christmas, so ought x-mas (with a hyphen) be so aliased.

Fun fact: The X in Xmas isn't the English letter X. It's the Greek letter X (khi), the first letter of Χρῑστός (Khrīstós), used as an abbreviation. Furthermore, you know that old movie cliché of illiterate people signing their names with an X? Same thing there. It used to be a real thing a long while ago, when most people were illiterate anyway. Instead of using their names, they signed with a Greek X to show their piety.

EDIT: The bulk update request #5265 (forum #371797) has been approved by @slyroon.

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alphamule

Privileged

clawstripe said:
The bulk update request #5265 is active.

create alias x-mas (6) -> christmas (32966)

Reason: Just as xmas has been aliased to Christmas, so ought x-mas (with a hyphen) be so aliased.

Fun fact: The X in Xmas isn't the English letter X. It's the Greek letter X (khi), the first letter of Χρῑστός (Khrīstós), used as an abbreviation. Furthermore, you know that old movie cliché of illiterate people signing their names with an X? Same thing there. It used to be a real thing a long while ago, when most people were illiterate anyway. Instead of using their names, they signed with a Greek X to show their piety.

A cross (✝) is also a symbol of death-by-torture, so some people actually object to it, not to mention idolatry issues. There's a similar story about 's' looking like 'f'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

The funny bit about '╳' (or variants) is that it's also the minimal symbol to remotely show any uniqueness of handwriting. The angle and ratio of the lines could become habitual or dependent on anatomy. We still require a literate witness.

Clawstripe

Janitor

faucet said:
Why does this already have 5 posts? We're still a few days away >:(

Time travelers? [Shrug.]

I think 2021 and/or 2022 was similar.

Nimphia

Member

The bulk update request #6769 is active.

create alias digitalartist (2) -> digital_media_(artwork) (1145111)
create alias digital_draw (1) -> digital_drawing_(artwork) (139106)
create alias album_art (7) -> album_cover (546)
create alias conceptart (3) -> concept_art (1258)
create alias bodyart (3) -> body_art (70)
create alias palworld_fanart (1) -> palworld (3051)
create alias not_my_art (1) -> invalid_tag (0)

Reason: Just tossing some miscellaneous junk found while looking at art related tags into here. Didn't feel they warranted their own thread, they're pretty straightforward.

not_my_art needs to go to invalid.

EDIT: The bulk update request #6769 (forum #392540) has been approved by @slyroon.

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Clawstripe

Janitor

The bulk update request #7241 is active.

create alias humanoide (3) -> humanoid (430682)

Reason: On tonight's random aliases, removing a misspelling. While humanoide hasn't been mistagged a lot, it has been made a few times, going back a few years by a few different Users.

Annoyingly, the majority of, if not all of those aren't humanoids by our definition.

EDIT: The bulk update request #7241 (forum #397388) has been approved by @slyroon.

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