The tag alias #63989 dragonification -> dragonified is pending approval.

Reason: This tag primarily refers to characters that have been depicted as a dragon, not necessarily in the middle of a transformation. dragonification -transformation has many more posts than dragonification transformation.

Given the other -ified tags being expressly not for transformation, this shouldn't be either. I'm also not sure I like this referring to such a particular creature; we don't have dogified or horsified, so a tag for an alternate character depiction as a dragon specifically seems too specific.

watsit said:
I'm also not sure I like this referring to such a particular creature; we don't have dogified or horsified, so a tag for an alternate character depiction as a dragon specifically seems too specific.

We do actually have ponification, mainly because it was too widespread a phenomenon to ignore (and also because pony tags have a historical tendency to get special pleading on this site anyway).

watsit said:
Given the other -ified tags being expressly not for transformation, this shouldn't be either.

That's why I am proposing -ified which does not have any transformation meaning implied, but -ification sounds like transformation.

X-ification imply transformation into a X.
X-ified imply a depiction as an X without transformation.

So dragonification and dragonified are mutually exclusive.

kamril said:
X-ification imply transformation into a X.
X-ified imply a depiction as an X without transformation.

So dragonification and dragonified are mutually exclusive.

That's not apparent from their names. Linguistically they relate to the same thing; -ification is the process of changing, and -ified is the result of changing. Dragonified/draconified is the result dragonification/draconification. For the purposes of e6 tags, the -ified/-ification tags mean a character design change and explicitly not a result of a(n "in world") transformation, alongside alternate_species and alternate_form, while *_transformation tags relate to transformations.

Since the e6 tags are not about in-world transformation, the -ified tags make more sense to me.

If I wanted to describe "a character that has been turned into a dragon", I would say that character is / has been "dragonified", while "dragonification" sounds like the process (and the process isn't what's being tagged, since users who want to see the process can search for dragonified transformation). With "dragonification" it only makes sense in sentences like "the character is undergoing dragonification", you can't say "the character is dragonification" or "dragonification character" like you can with "the character is dragonified" or "dragonified character".