Not an alias request as i don't know exactly what i would suggest as an alternative, but there is a disconnect between this tag's intended meaning and how it tends to be used. The wiki states it's for "characters interacting for the first time" which is something i'm not opposed to having a tag for because context clues can absolutely convey that, but there are a lot of posts right now using this tag to mean what the separate tag, business_meeting is meant to cover. At a glance, more than are actually conveying the stated meaning of the tag (there's some that to me don't seem to convey either, but i've decided to leave those alone). So it seems to me like either an alias to something more descriptive or a merge (if this concept is declared un-tagworthy altogether) is needed.
If i was absolutely pressed to come up with a clearer name right now it would probably be first_meeting or characters_meeting?
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