The bulk update request #3596 is active.

Reason: Why are we trying to be more complicated than Wikipedia? This is a site to let people look at fluffy images, they shouldn't need a zoology degree to navigate. Yes, the common names are aliased to these headache names, but no that doesn't matter when the complicated names are listed in the sidebar and not being able to find a "dolphin" is remarkably unintuitive. And it's really, really not like we're futureproofing the site by using these names; scientific names can change as our understanding of the world develops, but in common parlance a bear will always be a bear. This naming convention straight up creates mistakes that aren't caught until far too late, because people see a random long name and assume it's correct because of course we would, we don't know anything about this stuff! Before you say that's a one-off example, dolphins belong to numerous different families and not just the delphinoid family, and yet...

Call a spade a spade, please.

In short, this BUR (and the BURs below due to tag limits, once I get around to them) will unalias or unimply several tags, with the end goal of realiasing or re-implying them to another tag.

• accipitriform --> buzzard (edit: never mind, it's more complicated than that)
• armadillidiid --> pill bug - BUR #3600
• cervid --> deer - BUR #3596
• chiropteran --> bat (or potentially bat (animal) / bat (species) if we're concerned about baseball bats) - BUR #3601
• delphinoid --> dolphin (given what I stated above, this would be an implication)
• didelphid --> opossum
• hyaenid --> hyena - BUR #3623 + BUR #3624
• lutrine --> otter - BUR #3613
• mustela --> weasel - BUR #3622
• phalangeriform --> possum
• rhinocerotoid --> rhinoceros - BUR #3602 + BUR #3603
• sciurid --> squirrel
• ursid --> bear (or bear (species)if barazoku is a concern) - BUR #3614

I'm not an animal expert, so if anything here is outright incorrect, please let me know. Likewise, if anything is missing here, let me know too!

Even if you disagree with any of the particular destinations for these tags, step 1 is still to unalias and unimply. For the sake of convenience, for the sake of the readers and taggers on this site, for the sake of futureproofing against people without knowledge making easily preventable mistakes, don't let this convoluted naming convention continue.

To be clear, once these BURs go into effect, the next step will be to create new BURs that add aliases and implications to the appropriate tags, hence the "Part 2" in every description.

Edit: added wat's suggestions

EDIT: The bulk update request #3596 (forum #350661) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

+1 for the most part, with a few caveats:

IIRC, the bear alias predates most of the current mess and was added due to concerns about people who don't go here using it in its slang meaning of "a large, hairy, gay male" (what we would tag as barazoku, which has its own issues ).

bat_(species) would be more in line with tag name conventions. I don't know if any serious study has ever gone into the percentage of mistagged sporting equipment, but in general, I believe all three-letter tags are prone to misuse, sometimes not even due to ambiguity but outright typos.

sciurid is a hot mess of a tag, due to the site's insistence that ground_squirrels and tree_squirrels should both be included in it, despite nobody thinking of chipmunks when they write "squirrel". 99% of posts in sciurid -tree_squirrel -ground_squirrel are tree_squirrels, so this is a case where an attempt to enforce scientifically accurate terminology has significantly harmed the usefulness of the tags.

Finally, you forgot lutrine -> otter. There may yet be others.

this change needed to happen for so long, i'd gladly take the mixup between possum and opossum over delphinoid and didelphid ANY DAY OF ANY WEEK OF ANY MONTH OF ANY FUCKING CENTURY!

wat8548 said:
IIRC, the bear alias predates most of the current mess and was added due to concerns about people who don't go here using it in its slang meaning of "a large, hairy, gay male" (what we would tag as barazoku, which has its own issues ).

Might be good if we use bear (species), then?

wat8548 said:
bat_(species) would be more in line with tag name conventions. I don't know if any serious study has ever gone into the percentage of mistagged sporting equipment, but in general, I believe all three-letter tags are prone to misuse, sometimes not even due to ambiguity but outright typos.

Fair enough. I'll leave it as an open question until the BUR for properly aliasing the tags goes into effect. (incidentally I haven't made the other BURs just to make double-triple-absolutely sure that nobody will come in and say that one of my suggestions is incorrect)

wat8548 said:
sciurid is a hot mess of a tag, due to the site's insistence that ground_squirrels and tree_squirrels should both be included in it, despite nobody thinking of chipmunks when they write "squirrel". 99% of posts in sciurid -tree_squirrel -ground_squirrel are tree_squirrels, so this is a case where an attempt to enforce scientifically accurate terminology has significantly harmed the usefulness of the tags.

woof. Untangling the tags would be... one heck of a project.

wat8548 said:

Finally, you forgot lutrine -> otter. There may yet be others.

Added, ty! I tried to cover my bases, but things must've still slipped through the cracks.

I agree. I always mix up suid and ursid. And there is no benefit in keeping them, beside what Wat said about bats and bears. We could get around that by ambiguouating bat and bear and adding *_(species) suffixes to them.

dubsthefox said:
I agree. I always mix up suid and ursid.

Ooh, that's another one. The best part about the sus_(pig) tag is that it is more ambiguous than what it replaced, by its own admission.

I'd prefer if the aliases were reversed into implications rather than eliminated altogether.

The way the BUR is right now, it will just create a worse problem; that is, species only being tagged in the most specific ways.

-1.

lendrimujina said:
I'd prefer if the aliases were reversed into implications rather than eliminated altogether.

The way the BUR is right now, it will just create a worse problem; that is, species only being tagged in the most specific ways.

-1.

Bear in mind that BURs need to be done in two parts. You can't directly 'swap' the alias/implication of two tags, you need to unalias or unimply the tags in one BUR, then re-alias or re-imply then in a subsequent BUR.

Kind of meh on this one. Not really had a problem with it.

Some are useful. Some are not. Going on a massive spree to wipe out "big words" is as harmful as unilaterally aliasing those common names to the "big words" in the first place. Each group of animals (deer, bears, etc.) ought to be taken separately and considered without a hostility towards the "big word" for being a big word. We need to focus on understandability without slipping into anti-intellectualism. I mean this as a warning rather than an argument against the subject of this thread.

But yes, some of these words should have their aliases reshuffled if the common name is synonymous with the "big word". Bears are synonymous with ursids, so bear_(species) would be better than ursid. Deer are synonymous with cervids, so deer_(species) would be better than cervid. A suid is a pig is a suid, so pig_(species) or hog_(species) would be better than suid. The same logic applies for bat_(species) and chiropteran.

On the other hand, felid would be better than cat_(species) as there are three different types of living cats and a few distinct groups of extinct cats plus the potential for confusion with domestic_cat. Canids are even more so.

wat8548 said:
sciurid is a hot mess of a tag, due to the site's insistence that ground_squirrels and tree_squirrels should both be included in it, despite nobody thinking of chipmunks when they write "squirrel". 99% of posts in sciurid -tree_squirrel -ground_squirrel are tree_squirrels, so this is a case where an attempt to enforce scientifically accurate terminology has significantly harmed the usefulness of the tags.

strikerman said:
woof. Untangling the tags would be... one heck of a project.

Yes, it is. Adding in tree_squirrel has been a (stalled) tagging project of mine. At this point, I think the best thing to do is to keep sciurid as an umbrella tag for the various types of squirrels (like canid is for dogs, foxes, and similar) and alias squirrel to tree_squirrel, because when someone tags the latter, they're referring specifically to tree squirrels rather than any other squirrel. Using squirrel_(species) won't work because users will think that refers to tree squirrels instead of all squirrels which only perpetuates the current headache of the sciurid scheme.

So, essentially, currently, all ground squirrels imply sciurid. My proposal is to extend this to all tree_squirrels implying sciurid. The tag squirrel is kept removed by aliasing it to tree_squirrel instead of sciurid. Ambiguity of squirrel removed.

dripen_arn said:
...i'd gladly take the mixup between possum and opossum over delphinoid and didelphid...

We still should work something out to prevent that mix-up, though. Perhaps instead of just opossum or possum, we should differentiate them as new_world_opossum and old_world_possum that also includes the cuscuses. An alternative could be American_opossum versus Australian_possum or Indoaustralian_possum, but I think those would be veering into "confusing big words" again.

wat8548 said:
The best part about the sus_(pig) tag is that it is more ambiguous than what it replaced, by its own admission.

Sus is sus?

alphamule said:
Kind of meh on this one. Not really had a problem with it.

i envy you

Please. I've never seen any point of choosing to alias common animal names that people would expect to see to a scientific family/order name that most people have never even heard of. I would've thought armadillidiid had something to do with armadillos instead of pill bugs.

Even Wikipedia doesn't use these overcomplicated names: Bat, Hyena, Squirrel, Bear, etc.

I'm not really sure the (species) disambiguation is necessary, considering that bat and bear are already aliased to chiropteran and ursine with very little problems, and it won't get any worse.

The bulk update request #3600 is active.

remove alias parson-pig (0) -> armadillidiid (0)
remove alias tiggy-hog (0) -> armadillidiid (0)
remove alias roly_poly (0) -> armadillidiid (0)
remove alias roly_poly_bug (0) -> armadillidiid (0)
remove alias pill_bug (123) -> armadillidiid (0)
remove alias armadillidiidae (0) -> armadillidiid (0)
remove alias tiggy_hog (0) -> armadillidiid (0)
remove alias roly_polies (0) -> armadillidiid (0)
remove alias pillbug (0) -> armadillidiid (0)
remove alias armadillidiidaen (0) -> armadillidiid (0)
remove alias parson_pig (0) -> armadillidiid (0)
remove alias doodle_bug (0) -> armadillidiid (0)
remove alias roly-poly (0) -> armadillidiid (0)
remove alias potato_bug (0) -> armadillidiid (0)

Reason: Covering armadillidiid to pill_bug

EDIT: The bulk update request #3600 (forum #350738) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3601 is active.

Reason: Covering chiropteran to bat

EDIT: The bulk update request #3601 (forum #350740) has failed: Alias for chiropteran_taur not found

EDIT: The bulk update request #3601 (forum #350740) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

I wanted to make a BUR for accipitriform and buzzard/common buzzard but i'm so drastically out of my field here that I'm not sure where to even start (Wikipedia for reference )

The bulk update request #3602 is active.

Reason: Covering rhinocerotoid -> rhinoceros

EDIT: The bulk update request #3602 (forum #350743) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3603 is active.

remove alias rhinoceros_humanoid (30) -> rhinocerotoid_humanoid (0)
remove alias rhino_humanoid (0) -> rhinocerotoid_humanoid (0)
remove implication white_rhinoceros_humanoid (4) -> rhinocerotoid_humanoid (0)
remove implication woolly_rhinoceros_humanoid (2) -> rhinocerotoid_humanoid (0)
remove implication sumatran_rhinoceros_humanoid (1) -> rhinocerotoid_humanoid (0)
remove implication javan_rhinoceros_humanoid (0) -> rhinocerotoid_humanoid (0)
remove implication indian_rhinoceros_humanoid (0) -> rhinocerotoid_humanoid (0)
remove implication hyracodontid_humanoid (0) -> rhinocerotoid_humanoid (0)
remove implication elasmotherium_humanoid (0) -> rhinocerotoid_humanoid (0)
remove implication black_rhinoceros_humanoid (2) -> rhinocerotoid_humanoid (0)

Reason: Covering rhinocerotoid_humanoid -> rhinoceros_humanoid (too many to slot into the previous BUR)

EDIT: The bulk update request #3603 (forum #350744) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

It's been a long time coming. This will make the site a lot more practical and intuitive to use. I agree with Clawstripe though, we shouldn't get trigger happy, some scientific names are still better then trying to juggle dozens of synonym names. I think all of the BURs in this thread so far are solid though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur9pmujkZ14

strikerman said:
Reason: Covering chiropteran to bat

Part 2

alias chiroptera -> bat
alias bat/mammal -> bat
alias bats -> bat
alias chiropteran -> bat
alias bat_(species) -> bat
alias bat_(animal) -> bat

imply chiropteran_taur -> bat
imply ambient_bat -> bat
imply chiropteran_humanoid -> bat
imply nimbat -> bat
imply pteropodid -> bat
imply succubat_(dragon_quest) -> bat
imply microchiropteran -> bat
imply werechiropteran -> bat

alias chiropteran_taur -> bat_taur

alias werechiropteran -> werebat

alias microchiropteran -> microbat
alias microchiroptera -> microbat

imply yangochiropteran -> microbat
imply rhinopomatid -> microbat
imply rhinolophid -> microbat
imply hipposiderid -> microbat
imply megadermitid -> microbat
imply emballonurid -> microbat

While I agree with converting chiropteran to the common name, I believe bat_(species) is the better target than simply bat. This is a case when a disambiguation is necessary. Finding bat_(disambiguation) in the Invalid category and fixing it is far easier and faster than finding a mistagged bat amongst possibly a large bunch species consisting of (for example) baseball fans and cricket players, including a batboy dressed like Batman and a batter dressed like Bat Masterson, none of whom is actually a fledermaus (which would be a missed opportunity, in my opinion :p ).

clawstripe said:
While I agree with converting chiropteran to the common name, I believe bat_(species) is the better target than simply bat. This is a case when a disambiguation is necessary. Finding bat_(disambiguation) in the Invalid category and fixing it is far easier and faster than finding a mistagged bat amongst possibly a large bunch species consisting of (for example) baseball fans and cricket players, including a batboy dressed like Batman and a batter dressed like Bat Masterson, none of whom is actually a fledermaus (which would be a missed opportunity, in my opinion :p ).

Given that bat is already aliased to chiropteran, is that really such a big concern?

Why Accipitriform to Buzzard...? Accipitriformes is an entire order of animals that includes eagles, hawks, vulures, and etcetera, I don't really see how it'd become more practical to alias it to buzzard given that buzzard isn't really the generic term you use for these specific birds of prey. There really isn't any concise one for accipitriformes, unfortunately. Some people may use Buzzard in a generic sense but to most North Americans I think it suggests a vulture specifically (speaking as a North American). Buzzard is presumably aliased away due to this lack of precision, not because it's the best generic term for the group.

Rest are fine with me, I'm a taxonomy nerd but this stuff isn't necessary, sadly. wah wah

opilione said:
Why Accipitriform to Buzzard...? Accipitriformes is an entire order of animals that includes eagles, hawks, vulures, and etcetera, I don't really see how it'd become more practical to alias it to buzzard given that buzzard isn't really the generic term you use for these specific birds of prey. There really isn't any concise one for accipitriformes, unfortunately. Some people may use Buzzard in a generic sense but to most North Americans I think it suggests a vulture specifically (speaking as a North American). Buzzard is presumably aliased away due to this lack of precision, not because it's the best generic term for the group.

Rest are fine with me, I'm a taxonomy nerd but this stuff isn't necessary, sadly. wah wah

I did mention I'm not an animal expert, so I appreciate any and all advice you can provide.

Buzzard is a weird one. You could get away with unaliasing it from Accipitriform and instead using it for the Common buzzard, but I dunno how many people are tagging Buteo buteo specifically as buzzard rather than using the term for either any big bird of prey or any vulture; this is where the more elaborate nomenclature makes more sense, some terms are simply too general and vague to be used precisely, and there's no term for Accipitriformes as a whole that isn't also used for other raptors. Like, you know, raptor.

I guess maybe you could use hawk, and collapse the accipitrid subtag into the Accipitriform tag; these family tags can be pretty useless sometimes. Hawk is already aliased away to accipitrid, so... but no one would call a secretarybird a hawk, so maybe just change acciptirid to hawk, make buzzard its own tag (and have it imply hawk/acciptirid), and bite the bullet on Accipitriform.

But that'd mean eagle implies hawk, and even though both terms lack any specific definition scientifically-speaking, it'd confuse people. Maybe just free buzzard from the alias.

strikerman said:
I wanted to make a BUR for accipitriform and buzzard/common buzzard but i'm so drastically out of my field here that I'm not sure where to even start (Wikipedia for reference )

opilione said:
and there's no term for Accipitriformes as a whole that isn't also used for other raptors. Like, you know, raptor.

I was going to say raptor_(bird) or something, but... yeah. That doesn't work. Not with falcons being their own order. The unfortunate part with birds is that there's a lot of areas you can't really get away with concise common names because those names are shared across other families and the like. The closest I could think of is hawk-like_raptor or something similar, given the etymology, but even that I feel like would have issues that the scientific name would not.

Similarly, I would've suggested "buzzard" be used for the genus Buteo specifically, but many of those species are also called hawks, and while that may not really matter on a scientific basis, it may confuse people. Not to mention the fact that the term buzzard is used for non-Buteo birds of prey, such as the black-breasted buzzard among others. I can't even say to re-alias buzzard to accipitrid, due to (as previously pointed out), some vultures sometimes being colloquially referred to as buzzards. Buzzard being left aliased where it is may be the best catch-all option here.

The bulk update request #3613 is active.

remove alias feral_lutrine (0) -> lutrine (0)
remove alias anthro_otter (0) -> lutrine (0)
remove alias anthro_lutrine (0) -> lutrine (0)
remove alias lutrinae (0) -> lutrine (0)
remove alias otter (30269) -> lutrine (0)
remove alias feral_otter (0) -> lutrine (0)
remove alias otters (0) -> lutrine (0)
remove implication african_clawless_otter (5) -> lutrine (0)
remove implication lontra (442) -> lutrine (0)
remove implication lutra (113) -> lutrine (0)
remove implication sea_otter (355) -> lutrine (0)
remove implication giant_otter (56) -> lutrine (0)
remove implication spotted-necked_otter (4) -> lutrine (0)
remove implication otter_taur (7) -> lutrine (0)
remove implication river_otter (1233) -> lutrine (0)
remove implication otter_humanoid (97) -> lutrine (0)

Reason: lutrine --> otter

EDIT: The bulk update request #3613 (forum #350893) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3614 is active.

remove alias anthro_ursid (0) -> ursid (0)
remove alias bears (0) -> ursid (0)
remove alias bear (122130) -> ursid (0)
remove implication ursine (27237) -> ursid (0)
remove implication pandaren (4543) -> ursid (0)
remove implication ursid_taur (38) -> ursid (0)
remove implication ursid_humanoid (783) -> ursid (0)
remove implication wereursid (229) -> ursid (0)
remove implication giant_panda (20737) -> ursid (0)
remove implication tremarctine (363) -> ursid (0)
remove implication hemicyon (3) -> ursid (0)

Reason: ursine --> bear (even if you disagree with this particular destination, the first step still involves unaliasing and unimplying)

EDIT: The bulk update request #3614 (forum #350894) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

strikerman said:
Given that bat is already aliased to chiropteran, is that really such a big concern?

I agree to Clawstripe. I think the suffix could be handy and (hopefully) prevent mistagging. Right now it's shown like this in the dropdown menu bat -> chiropteran. This makes it very clear, that it is not supposed to be the sports equipment. chiropteran -> bat Is not that clear, especially to new user who are not familiar with the category colors. And chiropteran -> bat_(species) would make it obviously, again. Same for bear. Because chubby hairy guys are called bear too.

The bulk update request #3622 is active.

Reason: mustela --> weasel

EDIT: The bulk update request #3622 (forum #351043) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3623 is active.

Reason: hyaenid --> hyena

EDIT: The bulk update request #3623 (forum #351049) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3624 is active.

remove alias werehyena (143) -> werehyaenid (0)
remove alias hyena_humanoid (106) -> hyaenid_humanoid (0)
remove implication spotted_hyena_humanoid (14) -> hyaenid_humanoid (0)
remove implication aardwolf_humanoid (18) -> hyaenid_humanoid (0)
remove implication striped_hyena_humanoid (0) -> hyaenid_humanoid (0)
remove implication brown_hyena_humanoid (0) -> hyaenid_humanoid (0)

Reason: werehyaenid --> werehyena & hyaenid_humanoid --> hyena_humanoid (splitting since there's too many tags for one BUR)

EDIT: The bulk update request #3624 (forum #351050) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

strikerman said:
alias hyaenid -> hyena
[...]
imply werehyaenid -> hyena
imply hyaenid_humanoid -> hyena

If hyaenid is being aliased to hyena, shouldn't werehyaenid and hyaenid_humanoid be aliased to werehyena and hyena_humanoid respectively?

Also, the alias hyaenid -> hyena may be bad because certain fictional species like mightyena can be tagged hyaenid, but shouldn't be tagged with a real species like hyena (like how buizel can be tagged mustelid but not weasel).

watsit said:
If hyaenid is being aliased to hyena, shouldn't werehyaenid and hyaenid_humanoid be aliased to werehyena and hyena_humanoid respectively?

Whoops, that's my bad. You're right, I just forgot to fix those

I edited right as you replied, but I think the alias hyaenid -> hyena would be bad because certain fictional species like mightyena can be tagged hyaenid, but shouldn't be tagged with a real species like hyena (like how buizel/typhlosion can be tagged mustelid but not sea- or river-otter/badger). Might be better to leave hyaenid as valid, and revalidate hyena to implicate it.

watsit said:
I edited right as you replied, but I think the alias hyaenid -> hyena would be bad because certain fictional species like mightyena can be tagged hyaenid, but shouldn't be tagged with a real species like hyena (like how buizel/typhlosion can be tagged mustelid but not sea- or river-otter/badger). Might be better to leave hyaenid as valid, and revalidate hyena to implicate it.

Your point's 100% valid, but I'm not sure how to feel about making a tag whose purpose is essentially just "hyenas + things that look like hyenas".

strikerman said:
Your point's 100% valid, but I'm not sure how to feel about making a tag whose purpose is essentially just "hyenas + things that look like hyenas".

I think a tag for this purpose is pretty nice, to avoid the need for future disambiguation.

And also, that's how the TWYS policy works right? You see a hyena character, you tag it with hyena. You see a hyena-looking character that clearly isn't a hyena, you tag it with hyena-like or something.
Same for age tags, if the character looks young, you tag it with young, even if they're not.

The bulk update request #3644 is active.

remove alias australian_possum (457) -> phalangeriform (0)
remove alias phalangeriformes (0) -> phalangeriform (0)
remove alias possum (0) -> phalangeriform (0)
remove alias phalangeriforme (0) -> phalangeriform (0)
remove implication acrobatid (0) -> phalangeriform (0)
remove implication brushtail_possum (49) -> phalangeriform (0)
remove implication cuscus (1) -> phalangeriform (0)
remove implication honey_possum (0) -> phalangeriform (0)
remove implication petaurid (384) -> phalangeriform (0)
remove implication pseudocheirid (6) -> phalangeriform (0)
remove implication pygmy_possum (4) -> phalangeriform (0)
remove implication phalangeriform_humanoid (0) -> phalangeriform (0)
remove alias possum_humanoid (17) -> phalangeriform_humanoid (0)
remove implication sugar_glider_humanoid (8) -> phalangeriform_humanoid (0)

Reason: phalangeriform --> possum

EDIT: The bulk update request #3644 (forum #351364) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

idk what's going on here but there are 2 things I DO know.

They're so many species on here, are you really going to dumb down ALL their names? Every single one of them so that the common man can understand what animal they're looking at?
I was under the impression that E621 species tags was under an elaborate spider-web of alias and implications. Are you undoing it all?

2ndly, I'm all for deleting the scientific names of animals, but I also believed that it was because of the implications, it made it easier to tag what animal we were seeing, even if we didn't know what the animal was called.

Does this mean we have to know the animal we're tagging now?

idk, I may put an "IDK Face" instead of thumbs up

closetpossum said:
are you really going to dumb down ALL their names? Every single one of them so that the common man can understand what animal they're looking at?

It looks like it, and I think this man earns a badge from all of us for his bravery.

closetpossum said:
idk what's going on here but there are 2 things I DO know.

They're so many species on here, are you really going to dumb down ALL their names? Every single one of them so that the common man can understand what animal they're looking at?
I was under the impression that E621 species tags was under an elaborate spider-web of alias and implications. Are you undoing it all?

2ndly, I'm all for deleting the scientific names of animals, but I also believed that it was because of the implications, it made it easier to tag what animal we were seeing, even if we didn't know what the animal was called.

Does this mean we have to know the animal we're tagging now?

idk, I may put an "IDK Face" instead of thumbs up

As I've stated multiple times, these BURs are part 1. Tags cannot be unaliased and re-aliased in the same BUR; once/if these BURs are approved, then I'll set up new BURs to create the necessary aliases and implications.

The bulk update request #3596 (forum #350661) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3600 (forum #350738) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3602 (forum #350743) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

IT'S HAPPENING

The bulk update request #3603 (forum #350744) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3613 (forum #350893) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3614 (forum #350894) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3622 (forum #351043) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3623 (forum #351049) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3624 (forum #351050) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3644 (forum #351364) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

Judgement Day

Ah.

The bulk update request #3645 is active.

create implication possum (0) -> marsupial (42171)
create implication possum_humanoid (17) -> marsupial_humanoid (72)
create alias australian_possum (457) -> possum (0)
create alias phalangeriformes (0) -> possum (0)
create alias phalangeriform (0) -> possum (0)
create alias phalangeriforme (0) -> possum (0)
create implication acrobatid (0) -> possum (0)
create implication brushtail_possum (49) -> possum (0)
create implication cuscus (1) -> possum (0)
create implication honey_possum (0) -> possum (0)
create implication petaurid (384) -> possum (0)
create implication pseudocheirid (6) -> possum (0)
create implication pygmy_possum (4) -> possum (0)
create implication possum_humanoid (17) -> possum (0)
create alias phalangeriform_humanoid (0) -> possum_humanoid (17)
create implication sugar_glider_humanoid (8) -> possum_humanoid (17)

Reason: phalangeriform --> possum

EDIT: The bulk update request #3645 (forum #351473) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3646 is active.

create implication werehyena (143) -> were (36613)
create implication hyena_humanoid (106) -> mammal_humanoid (100982)
create alias werehyaenid (0) -> werehyena (143)
create alias hyaenid_humanoid (0) -> hyena_humanoid (106)
create implication spotted_hyena_humanoid (14) -> hyena_humanoid (106)
create implication aardwolf_humanoid (18) -> hyena_humanoid (106)
create implication striped_hyena_humanoid (0) -> hyena_humanoid (106)
create implication brown_hyena_humanoid (0) -> hyena_humanoid (106)

Reason: werehyaenid --> werehyena & hyaenid_humanoid --> hyena_humanoid

EDIT: The bulk update request #3646 (forum #351474) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3647 is active.

create implication hyena (40850) -> mammal (3154469)
create alias hyaenic (0) -> hyena (40850)
create alias hyaenidae (0) -> hyena (40850)
create alias hyenas (0) -> hyena (40850)
create alias hyeena (0) -> hyena (40850)
create alias hyaena (0) -> hyena (40850)
create alias hynea (0) -> hyena (40850)
create alias hyenid (0) -> hyena (40850)
create alias yeena (0) -> hyena (40850)
create alias hyaenid (0) -> hyena (40850)
create alias yeen (0) -> hyena (40850)
create alias albino_hyena (0) -> hyena (40850)
create implication aardwolf (833) -> hyena (40850)
create implication brown_hyena (363) -> hyena (40850)
create implication spotted_hyena (21764) -> hyena (40850)
create implication striped_hyena (4353) -> hyena (40850)
create implication adcrocuta (0) -> hyena (40850)
create implication ictitherium (0) -> hyena (40850)
create implication pachycrocuta (1) -> hyena (40850)
create implication protictitherium (0) -> hyena (40850)
create implication chasmaporthetes (0) -> hyena (40850)
create implication gnoll (2199) -> hyena (40850)
create implication werehyena (143) -> hyena (40850)
create implication hyena_humanoid (106) -> hyena (40850)

Reason: hyaenid --> hyena

EDIT: The bulk update request #3647 (forum #351476) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3648 is active.

Reason: mustela --> weasel

EDIT: The bulk update request #3648 (forum #351477) has failed: Error: Alias would modify other aliases or implications through transitive relationships. (create alias mustela_humanoid -> weasel_humanoid)

EDIT: The bulk update request #3648 (forum #351477) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3649 is active.

create implication bear (122130) -> mammal (3154469)
create alias anthro_ursid (0) -> bear (122130)
create alias bears (0) -> bear (122130)
create alias ursid (0) -> bear (122130)
create implication ursine (27237) -> bear (122130)
create implication pandaren (4543) -> bear (122130)
create implication ursid_taur (38) -> bear (122130)
create implication ursid_humanoid (783) -> bear (122130)
create implication wereursid (229) -> bear (122130)
create implication giant_panda (20737) -> bear (122130)
create implication tremarctine (363) -> bear (122130)
create implication hemicyon (3) -> bear (122130)

Reason: ursine --> bear

EDIT: The bulk update request #3649 (forum #351478) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3650 is active.

create implication otter (30269) -> mustelid (65896)
create alias feral_lutrine (0) -> otter (30269)
create alias anthro_otter (0) -> otter (30269)
create alias anthro_lutrine (0) -> otter (30269)
create alias lutrinae (0) -> otter (30269)
create alias lutrine (0) -> otter (30269)
create alias feral_otter (0) -> otter (30269)
create alias otters (0) -> otter (30269)
create implication african_clawless_otter (5) -> otter (30269)
create implication lontra (442) -> otter (30269)
create implication lutra (113) -> otter (30269)
create implication sea_otter (355) -> otter (30269)
create implication giant_otter (56) -> otter (30269)
create implication spotted-necked_otter (4) -> otter (30269)
create implication otter_taur (7) -> otter (30269)
create implication river_otter (1233) -> otter (30269)
create implication otter_humanoid (97) -> otter (30269)

Reason: lutrine --> otter

EDIT: The bulk update request #3650 (forum #351479) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3651 is active.

create implication rhinoceros_humanoid (30) -> mammal_humanoid (100982)
create alias rhinocerotoid_humanoid (0) -> rhinoceros_humanoid (30)
create alias rhino_humanoid (0) -> rhinoceros_humanoid (30)
create implication white_rhinoceros_humanoid (4) -> rhinoceros_humanoid (30)
create implication woolly_rhinoceros_humanoid (2) -> rhinoceros_humanoid (30)
create implication sumatran_rhinoceros_humanoid (1) -> rhinoceros_humanoid (30)
create implication javan_rhinoceros_humanoid (0) -> rhinoceros_humanoid (30)
create implication indian_rhinoceros_humanoid (0) -> rhinoceros_humanoid (30)
create implication hyracodontid_humanoid (0) -> rhinoceros_humanoid (30)
create implication elasmotherium_humanoid (0) -> rhinoceros_humanoid (30)
create implication black_rhinoceros_humanoid (2) -> rhinoceros_humanoid (30)

Reason: rhinocerotoid_humanoid -> rhinoceros_humanoid

EDIT: The bulk update request #3651 (forum #351481) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3652 is active.

Reason: rhinocerotoid -> rhinoceros

EDIT: The bulk update request #3652 (forum #351482) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3653 is active.

create implication pill_bug (123) -> woodlouse (127)
create alias parson-pig (0) -> pill_bug (123)
create alias tiggy-hog (0) -> pill_bug (123)
create alias roly_poly (0) -> pill_bug (123)
create alias roly_poly_bug (0) -> pill_bug (123)
create alias armadillidiid (0) -> pill_bug (123)
create alias armadillidiidae (0) -> pill_bug (123)
create alias tiggy_hog (0) -> pill_bug (123)
create alias roly_polies (0) -> pill_bug (123)
create alias pillbug (0) -> pill_bug (123)
create alias armadillidiidaen (0) -> pill_bug (123)
create alias parson_pig (0) -> pill_bug (123)
create alias doodle_bug (0) -> pill_bug (123)
create alias roly-poly (0) -> pill_bug (123)
create alias potato_bug (0) -> pill_bug (123)
create implication deer (74451) -> mammal (3154469)
create implication deer_taur (1057) -> mammal_taur (9771)
create implication deer_humanoid (310) -> mammal_humanoid (100982)
create implication weredeer (67) -> were (36613)

Reason: armadillidiid --> pill_bug (and also sneaking some deer tags here since there are too many for the standalone deer BUR)

EDIT: The bulk update request #3653 (forum #351483) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3654 is active.

Reason: cervid --> deer

EDIT: The bulk update request #3654 (forum #351484) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

watsit said:
I edited right as you replied, but I think the alias hyaenid -> hyena would be bad because certain fictional species like mightyena can be tagged hyaenid, but shouldn't be tagged with a real species like hyena (like how buizel/typhlosion can be tagged mustelid but not sea- or river-otter/badger). Might be better to leave hyaenid as valid, and revalidate hyena to implicate it.

I think on further reflection, I'm gonna come down on the anti-hyaenid side here. The obvious counterexample would be fox, which even the previous tagging system never attempted to obfuscate, and is routinely tagged on pictures of braixen, vulpix, eevee, etc.

The bulk update request #3655 is active.

remove implication cervid (0) -> mammal (3154469)
remove implication lutrine (0) -> mustelid (65896)
remove implication ursid (0) -> mammal (3154469)
remove implication mustela (0) -> true_musteline (17511)
remove implication mustela_humanoid (266) -> musteline_humanoid (371)
remove implication hyaenid (0) -> mammal (3154469)
remove implication werehyaenid (0) -> were (36613)
remove implication hyaenid_humanoid (0) -> mammal_humanoid (100982)
remove implication phalangeriform (0) -> marsupial (42171)
remove implication phalangeriform_humanoid (0) -> marsupial_humanoid (72)
remove implication rhinocerotoid (0) -> mammal (3154469)
remove implication rhinocerotoid_humanoid (0) -> mammal_humanoid (100982)
remove implication armadillidiid (0) -> woodlouse (127)

Reason: some tags I missed whooooops

EDIT: The bulk update request #3655 (forum #351490) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3655 (forum #351490) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3656 is active.

remove implication cervid_taur (0) -> mammal_taur (9771)
remove implication cervid_humanoid (0) -> mammal_humanoid (100982)
remove implication werecervid (0) -> were (36613)

Reason: deer tags, last emergency BUR

EDIT: The bulk update request #3656 (forum #351500) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3656 (forum #351500) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3601 (forum #350740) has failed: Alias for chiropteran_taur not found

The bulk update request #3601 (forum #350740) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3646 (forum #351474) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3645 (forum #351473) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3648 (forum #351477) has failed: Error: Alias would modify other aliases or implications through transitive relationships. (create alias mustela_humanoid -> weasel_humanoid)

The bulk update request #3648 (forum #351477) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3650 (forum #351479) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

The bulk update request #3651 (forum #351481) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.