The bulk update request #4319 is active.

Reason: Judging by the following search results, it looks like we have settled on *_(tloz) as the canonical suffix for characters, species and other concepts from the Legend of Zelda series:

https://e621.net/tags?commit=Search&search%5Bhide_empty%5D=1&search%5Bname_matches%5D=%2A_%28tloz%29%2A&search%5Border%5D=count
https://e621.net/tags?commit=Search&search%5Bhide_empty%5D=1&search%5Bname_matches%5D=%2A_%28zelda%29%2A&search%5Border%5D=count
https://e621.net/tags?commit=Search&search%5Bhide_empty%5D=1&search%5Bname_matches%5D=%2A_%28legend_of_zelda%29%2A&search%5Border%5D=count
https://e621.net/tags?commit=Search&search%5Bhide_empty%5D=1&search%5Bname_matches%5D=%2A_%28the_legend_of_zelda%29%2A&search%5Border%5D=count

This small series of BURs will update all the currently used tags from the other forms.

is by far the most popular, with 50 tags in all. The most numerous of these, keaton_(zelda), came into being only last week (following the invalidation of the base keaton tag). I am not considering implications within the scope of this thread to keep it to a mostly-manageable size - other people can propose them if desired. (There are quite a few pending Zelda BURs, too.)

This first part contains the more popular half of the *_(zelda) tags.

EDIT: The bulk update request #4319 (forum #359619) has been approved by @gattonero2001.

The bulk update request #4320 is active.

Reason: The rest of the *_(zelda) tags. Currently, none of these have more than 2 posts each.

EDIT: The bulk update request #4320 (forum #359620) has been approved by @gattonero2001.

The bulk update request #4321 is active.

create alias zazak_(legend_of_zelda) (0) -> zazak_(tloz) (1)
create alias christine_(the_legend_of_zelda) (0) -> christine_(tloz) (5)
create alias kiki_(the_legend_of_zelda) (0) -> kiki_(tloz) (0)
create alias old_man_(the_legend_of_zelda) (0) -> old_man_(tloz) (0)
create alias bubble_(the_legend_of_zelda) (0) -> bubble_(tloz) (0)
create alias fi_(legend_of_zelda) (0) -> fi_(tloz) (60)
create alias amy_(loz) (0) -> amy_(tloz) (1)
create alias beth_(loz) (0) -> beth_(tloz) (0)
create alias meg_(loz) (0) -> meg_(tloz) (1)
create alias joelle_(loz) (0) -> joelle_(tloz) (1)
create alias death_sword_(loz) (0) -> death_sword_(tloz) (0)
create alias koko_(botw) (0) -> koko_(tloz) (1)
create alias finley_(botw) (0) -> finley_(tloz) (4)
create alias remote_bomb_(botw) (0) -> remote_bomb_(tloz) (0)
create alias mija_(botw) (0) -> mija_(tloz) (3)
create alias mei_(botw) (0) -> mei_(tloz) (1)

Reason: Other tag formats. As far as I can tell, the "old man" here is the one who utters the series' most famous catchphrase at the start of the first game, although there's probably still a better name for that.

Fi deserves a special mention, which I will split out into a fourth request.

EDIT: Added *_(loz) and *_(botw) tags.

EDIT: The bulk update request #4321 (forum #359621) has been approved by @gattonero2001.

The bulk update request #4322 is active.

mass update fi -> fi_(tloz)
change category fi (0) -> invalid

Reason: TL;DR: Two letter tags bad.

fi is an extremely problematic name for a canonical tag, as can be seen by looking at the removal log. Currently, all posts tagged fi are also tagged the_legend_of_zelda, but only because I removed post #2337416 and post #2533666 first. Both of those posts were tagged "sci fi", which seems to be the most common mistake, but every tag that short has a track record of being added by fat fingers alone.

EDIT: The bulk update request #4322 (forum #359623) has been approved by @gattonero2001.

There's also (loz) and (botw)

wat8548 said:
*_(zelda) is by far the most popular, with 50 tags in all.

...Dumb question, why don't we use that as the base suffix then?

strikerman said:
...Dumb question, why don't we use that as the base suffix then?

Because all the tags with implications, and with more than 50 posts, end *_(tloz).

strikerman said:
There's also (loz) and (botw)

Added to the third BUR, except for "dragmire_(botw)", which appears to be a name invented out of whole cloth by some random tagger 4 years ago. That name appears nowhere in BOTW, the wiki says it's only ever appeared in manuals for previous games, and it isn't even mentioned in the source. I retagged its one post with giant_horse_(tloz).

The bulk update request #4319 (forum #359619) has been approved by @gattonero2001.

The bulk update request #4320 (forum #359620) has been approved by @gattonero2001.

The bulk update request #4321 (forum #359621) has been approved by @gattonero2001.

The bulk update request #4322 (forum #359623) has been approved by @gattonero2001.

The bulk update request #4858 is active.

create alias link_(breath_of_the_wild) (0) -> link (6538)
create alias zelda_(breath_of_the_wild) (0) -> princess_zelda (3718)
create alias spirit_orb_(breath_of_the_wild) (0) -> spirit_orb_(tloz) (0)
create alias koyin_(breath_of_the_wild) (0) -> koyin_(tloz) (0)
create alias breath_of_the_wild_2 (0) -> tears_of_the_kingdom (2942)
create alias ganondorf_(tears_of_the_kingdom) (0) -> ganondorf (778)
create alias gloom_hands_(tears_of_the_kingdom) (0) -> gloom_hands_(tloz) (0)
create alias sonia_(tears_of_the_kingdom) (0) -> sonia_(tloz) (63)

Reason: Found some more. Plus post-TotK updates.

The rauru and rauru_(tears_of_the_kingdom) tags are better handled by topic #38482.

While we're here, could someone go over all those previous BURs and correct all the tag counts? It's ridiculous that tags like king_rhoam_(tloz) are still showing up as having 0 posts.

EDIT: The bulk update request #4858 (forum #366295) has been approved by @gattonero2001.

The bulk update request #4858 (forum #366295) has been approved by @gattonero2001.

The bulk update request #4860 is active.

create alias penn_(totk) (0) -> penn_(tloz) (106)
create alias yona_(totk) (0) -> yona_(tloz) (61)

Reason: These are currently the only tags matching *totk* that haven't already been aliased from something else. Penn in particular has already amassed quite a bit of art.

EDIT: The bulk update request #4860 (forum #366308) has been approved by @gattonero2001.

The bulk update request #4860 (forum #366308) has been approved by @gattonero2001.