I spent a good chunk of two nights organizing all tagged-"card" pictures and including the names and symbols (♠ ♣ ♥ ♦) for all the playing cards and tarot cards I could make out. I have the following suggestions.

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Implications:
playing_card implies card
tarot_card implies card
tarot_card implies tarot

Reasoning: This helps better organize these, I think

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Aliases:
cards aliases to card
tarot_cards aliases to tarot_card
playing_cards aliases to playing_card

Reasoning: Basically, these just turn the plurals into singular. The advantage to this suggestion is that all pictures with cards will appear in one search, regardless of how many cards they actually have in them, instead of some pictures under "card" and some under "cards".

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let's see.. all of this is reasonable, I think, but what is tarot for? [{Tarot_card]] is obvious, of course... but tarot?

SnowWolf said:
let's see.. all of this is reasonable, I think, but what is tarot for? Tarot_card is obvious, of course... but tarot?

Essentially, tarot (rhymes with "snow", not "carrot") is what you do with tarot cards.* My original logic for the two was that users could search for either one and get the same results. However, on further thought, maybe tarot would be better off used when someone is actually using one or more tarot cards in a picture (be it playing, fortune telling, or just posing), but not when the picture is just one or more tarot cards.

In other words:

tarot_card does not imply tarot

after all, but

tarot does imply tarot_card

since you can't play tarot without its cards.

Is it okay if I write up the wiki entries for playing_card, tarot, and tarot_card?

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*In English-speaking countries, that's fortune telling, but despite what some might tell you, tarot cards were associated with divination only in the past couple of centuries. Before then and in many countries nowadays, tarot (also tarok, tarocchi, etc.) refers to playing games with tarot cards, just as card games are played with a standard poker deck. In fact, today's poker deck was derived from the tarot deck with two jokers added in.

you don't need permission to write upwiki pages :) we encourage it.

Anyway, that sounds good :D

I"ll also make Tarot imply fortune telling for all your glass ball, palm reading, tarot carded needs. <3

And yes, I know you can play tarot like.. a card game, but I figure 99.9% of instances will be a reading of some sort, and that the .1% otherwise is "acceptable error"

plus fortune telling is empty right now, so it's nto like it'll be hard to "fix" if somene raisea a good reason for now <3

Okay, thank you. I've written up entries for playing_card, tarot, tarot_card, and fortune_telling. I also agree with you on the acceptable error of tarot.

I also added all the crystal ball-tagged pictures to fortune telling. In some cases, it's really very iffy and, in one case, highly unlikely there's any fortune telling going on, but I figure viewers are most likely going to associate a crystal ball with that instead of remote viewing and the occult. I guess for crystal ball, "fortune telling" is pretty much a catch-all term.

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By the way, on an unrelated note, spiderman and spider_man should be aliased to spider-man. I think the hyphen is supposed to be part of his name.

yay! so much awesome!

also, spider aliases fixed :)