Topic: [APPROVED] What to do with vehicle_for_hire?

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

The bulk update request #5284 is active.

remove implication bus (1267) -> vehicle_for_hire (1396)
remove implication rickshaw (11) -> vehicle_for_hire (1396)
remove implication limousine (134) -> vehicle_for_hire (1396)
remove implication taxicab (193) -> vehicle_for_hire (1396)
remove implication vehicle_for_hire (1396) -> public_transportation (3250)

Reason: There's some weird stuff going on with this tag hierarchy. vehicle_for_hire has no wiki, and I don't think the tag name is particularly clear either (hiring as in paying to ride? paying to control destination?). If a school_bus is considered a bus, this makes even less sense. And none of these are necessarily public_transportation.

EDIT: The bulk update request #5284 (forum #372054) has been approved by @slyroon.

Updated by auto moderator

I think it might be more vehicle related tags because I am finding stuff like:
post #4175351
being tagged with delivery_(commerce) due to a chain of implications from tags that have no wiki entries, and I am not sure if ice cream trucks should be considered to be making a delivery when they're just selling ice cream?

Edited to add that apparently the implication chain goes ice_cream_van(no wiki) -> food_truck -> multi_stop_van(no wiki) -> delivery_vehicle(no wiki) -> delivery_(commerce).

Updated

scth said:
The bulk update request #5284 is active.

remove implication bus (1267) -> vehicle_for_hire (1396)
remove implication rickshaw (11) -> vehicle_for_hire (1396)
remove implication limousine (134) -> vehicle_for_hire (1396)
remove implication taxicab (193) -> vehicle_for_hire (1396)
remove implication vehicle_for_hire (1396) -> public_transportation (3250)

Reason: There's some weird stuff going on with this tag hierarchy. vehicle_for_hire has no wiki, and I don't think the tag name is particularly clear either (hiring as in paying to ride? paying to control destination?). If a school_bus is considered a bus, this makes even less sense. And none of these are necessarily public_transportation.

Wikipedia says: "A vehicle for hire is a vehicle providing private transport or shared transport for a fee, in which passengers are generally free to choose their points or approximate points of origin and destination, unlike public transport, and which they do not drive themselves, as in car rental and carsharing. They may be offered via a ridesharing company." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_for_hire
Which makes the public_transportation implication even weirder because the article directly states how it differs from public transportation.

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