I have tried suggesting this as an tag alias suggestion and a BUR, but both failed due to

Error: Error: Antecedent name '(character)' cannot begin with a '(' (create alias (character) -> character)

Reasoning: Both are basically equivalent and both should be invalid

Additionally:
Most of these tags also need to be invalidated or aliased away.

snpthecat said:
I have tried suggesting this as an tag alias suggestion and a BUR, but both failed due to

Error: Error: Antecedent name '(character)' cannot begin with a '(' (create alias (character) -> character)

Reasoning: Both are basically equivalent and both should be invalid

Additionally:
Most of these tags also need to be invalidated or aliased away.

Hmm, they obviously are fragments of tags that likely apply. (the legend of zelda) for example.

Note on (･3･): Do not alias or update this tag away - it's actually how the artist name is spelled!

https://e621.net/tags?commit=Search&search%5Bhide_empty%5D=0&search%5Bname_matches%5D=%28%2A&search%5Border%5D=count Way too many of these still exist....

Sterling needs to be fixed, as well. That looks like at least 2 characters. It's possible that it's supposed to be sterling_(oc) but that doesn't seem to exist. It should be a disambiguation because there's multiple tags sterling* in character category.

Predictively, a lot of these posts had really awful tags.