The tag alias #70279 sakura -> cherry_blossom has been rejected.

Reason: Sakura is another word for the cherry blossom.

There were a couple of ambiguous taggings for characters, but not enough to warrant making the tag a disambiguation I think. 200+ posts and it's almost entirely referring to cherry blossoms. I just manually removed or retagged the odd ones out.

EDIT: The tag alias sakura -> cherry_blossom (forum #404374) has been rejected by @Nimphia.

This one should be a disambiguation. There might be mostly related to cherry blossoms currently, but that means that people have been keeping on top of their suffixes/prefixes.

The tag alias sakura -> cherry_blossom (forum #404374) has been rejected by @Nimphia.

The bulk update request #8021 is active.

mass update sakura -> cherry_blossom

Reason: Does this work? It really should at least be mass updated since it shouldn't currently have any posts that aren't cherry blossom related. Don't know if I can do that and alias in the same BUR.

Also huh, apparently the disambiguation already exists. Weird.

EDIT: The bulk update request #8021 (forum #404377) has been approved by @slyroon.

Looks good to me!

nimphia said:
The bulk update request #8021 is active.

mass update sakura -> cherry_blossom

Reason: Does this work? It really should at least be mass updated since it shouldn't currently have any posts that aren't cherry blossom related. Don't know if I can do that and alias in the same BUR.

I'd recommend against having them together in the same BUR. There's no guarantee the two will be executed in that order, so you could end up updating maybe a handful at best and end up stuffing the rest in sakura_(disambiguation) because the alias went through before the update finished, which would then require all of them to be manually cleaned up after all. It's better to have the alias be another BUR.

clawstripe said:
I'd recommend against having them together in the same BUR. There's no guarantee the two will be executed in that order, so you could end up updating maybe a handful at best and end up stuffing the rest in sakura_(disambiguation) because the alias went through before the update finished, which would then require all of them to be manually cleaned up after all. It's better to have the alias be another BUR.

Edited, then :)

The bulk update request #8021 (forum #404377) has been approved by @slyroon.

The bulk update request #8028 is active.

create alias sakura (0) -> sakura_(disambiguation) (37)
create alias sakura_blossoms (5) -> cherry_blossom (2350)

Reason: Followup

EDIT: The bulk update request #8028 (forum #404498) has been approved by @scaliespe.

what should be done about sakura_blossoms?

With Sakura being a very common name for characters and people a disambiguation makes a lot of sense to me.

dba_afish said:
what should be done about sakura_blossoms?

Now that one definitely should be aliased to cherry blossom. I'll add it to my followup BUR.

clawstripe said:
I'd recommend against having them together in the same BUR. There's no guarantee the two will be executed in that order, so you could end up updating maybe a handful at best and end up stuffing the rest in sakura_(disambiguation) because the alias went through before the update finished, which would then require all of them to be manually cleaned up after all. It's better to have the alias be another BUR.

Not to detract from generally good advice, but actually all the posts will be mass updated to the correct tag, but some of the posts will end up in both locations.
Source

But yeah I highly recommend against putting them in the same BUR if the tags have a sizeable number of posts

Also huh, apparently the disambiguation already exists. Weird.

If you see a disambiguation tag in the invalid category without any aliases to it, its very likely that @gattonero2001 changed it, through what I believe was a bulk category change of all *_(disambiguation) to invalid. See here for why I think it's that

The bulk update request #8028 (forum #404498) has been approved by @scaliespe.