I've found no other forum or precedent on these and would like to implement some consistency.

1) dj-->disc_jockey and dj (character) simply prefixed char to avoid the alias
Searching dj gives both disc_jockey posts and posts with characters named dj

2) ammo-->ammunition
I'm seeing posts with both and ammo is just short for ammunition

3) Vehicles (automobiles) This last one is messy to organize
I don't think tagging every specific make and model car is necessary and it's just starting nit-pick fights, maybe we can just tag as follows:
-car
-truck
-van
-bus
-sport/luxury (if it's even needed but I doubt)
-motorcycle
-atv (also probably not needed; only one image)
-tank
-apc? Not sure what to do with this one. Maybe it should be alias to one of the others, probably truck or tank
All these are the most common terms and should be implicated under vehicle, any more and that's just silly unless case exempts.

1) dj could be made into an ambiguous tag,which could then either redirect to the character or profession.
Depends on what's easier/more effective since some people might not tag dj with the "_(character)" qualifier, which puts his/her work as the profession

2) Makes sense to me

3) There seems to be more posts tagged with vehicle (85) than automobile (7) which is probably a case of US & UK spelling. So maybe an alias of
automobile -> vehicle first,then an implication of

bus -> vehicle
car -> vehicle
motorcycle -> vehicle
tank -> vehicle
truck -> vehicle
van -> vehicle

Not sure about APCs,ATVs, or sports cars either.This is what's tagged so far:

apc (1)
atv (0)
sports car (1) Stats say 2 for some reason
luxury car (0)
luxury vehicle (0)

Additional suggestions

Aliases

motorbike (10) -> motorcycle (95)

Implications (should these count?)

motorboat -> vehicle
motorcycle -> vehicle

bike <-> bicycle (strangely enough,there's no bicycle_shorts tag.Heh)

Edit:Forgot some

titaniachkt said:

3) There seems to be more posts tagged with vehicle (85) than automobile (7) which is probably a case of US & UK spelling. So maybe an alias of
automobile -> vehicle first,then an implication of

I think automobile should be aliased to vehicle as it is the more common term. When I said vehicle (automobile) I was referring to a vehicle with a wheeled/treaded body and is driven on land (automobile) as opposed to a boat or aircraft.
I think motorcycle and motorboat count as vehicles. Lastly I really don't want to throw it into the mix but we're here already so-

-construction vehicles (dump trucks, caterpillars, backhoes, and the like)
This seems really nit-pick work and should be handled case by case, tag as you see unless there happens to be a huge explosion of bulldozer fetishes.
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-Limos, these seem specific enough to warrant a vehicle alias but maybe not because it has no posts.
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-Aircraft (jets, planes, gliders, ultralites)
We should simply go like this-
1) glider (anything plane-like flying unpowered such as hang gliders, engineless planes)
2) jet (jet powered plane such as fighter jets)
3) plane (includes prop and passenger planes)
4) helicopter
short, simple, not over doing it
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-boats
ships? boats? pieces of driftwood? I really dunno on this one

as opposed to a boat or aircraft

Does than mean a general separation of transport machines into 3 categories?
I'm not sure what those 3 categories would be, but automobile should cover it, while vehicle could be used for land vehicles alone like you said

So from your suggestions,we get - vehicle (land),boat (sea) & aircraft (air)

A second option - *_automobile to make it easier to remember i.e. land_automobile, air_automobile and sea_automobile .But that looks a bit odd to type,not to mention long
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construction vehicles

Sounds like a distinct category to me
Limo
[/quote]It's bound to be added when a picture of it eventually pops up

You're right,that's a lot of specifics. But if it makes things easier for everyone to find, fetish or not, I'd say why not

Technically a boat and an aircraft are both vehicles but we don't tag based on technicality, we tag based on what's more common.

I think vehicle should just refer to land, aircraft is duh, air but as for boat... I'm not sure, I mean boat is probably the most broad term for sea, but it just sounds kinda weird calling a cruise ship a boat. Oh well a ships a boat. Submarine is just going to be on it's own like limo or rocket except limo needs to go under vehicle. These three classes don't need to be put together under one umbrella term because it's just enough already.

Like you said, if it helps why not? If my fetish is amphibious automobile aircraft then I damn well better be able to find it.

We need to set a distinction to clean up some tags and I'm sure there are many more things that need spelling out. This is just a thought because I don't know what's easier, but maybe we could make like a sticky tag-distinction-log thread for aliases/implications rather than starting a new thread every time. It might be easier for small suggestions (like ammo to ammunition) but might not be a good idea for long suggestions such as gun classifications.

titaniachkt said:
A second option - *_automobile to make it easier to remember i.e. land_automobile, air_automobile and sea_automobile .But that looks a bit odd to type,not to mention long

au·to·mo·bile   /ˌɔtəməˈbil, ˈɔtəməˌbil, ˌɔtəˈmoʊbil, -bəl/
noun
1. a passenger vehicle designed for operation on ordinary roads and typically having four wheels and a gasoline or diesel internal-combustion engine.

There is no such thing as an "air automobile" or "water automobile".

Smoochy_Pooch said:
Oh well a ships a boat.

Only if you'd call an eighteen wheeler a car.

Snowy said:
au·to·mo·bile   /ˌɔtəməˈbil, ˈɔtəməˌbil, ˌɔtəˈmoʊbil, -bəl/
noun
1. a passenger vehicle designed for operation on ordinary roads and typically having four wheels and a gasoline or diesel internal-combustion engine.

There is no such thing as an "air automobile" or "water automobile".

Only if you'd call an eighteen wheeler a car.

Curses,foiled again!
Do you have any suggestions in lieu of that Snowy?

*_vehicle.

Genius!

With Snowy's suggestion in mind,there's

• land_vehicle
• bus
• car
• motorcycle
• tank
• truck
• van

-Unsure-

• construction_* (would vehicle fit there?)
• luxury_*

• air_vehicle
• glider
• helicopter
• jet
• plane

• water_vehicle
• boat
• motorboat ?
• ship ?
• submarine ?

-

And the there's automobile. Presumably being used for..something land-related.
Do we need an automobile tag?

titaniachkt said:

And the there's automobile. Presumably being used for..something land-related.
Do we need an automobile tag?

No, we do not. Automobile is overkill at this point so I suggest aliasing it to vehicle or car.

Considering Snowy's input, (and thanks for it) we would alias all these to their respective vehicle type, (maybe even then to vehicle itself) however a few problems arise-

We already have some types of aircraft being aliased to aircraft so I think that should stay like that rather than using air_vehicle to replace aircraft.

Vehicle usually refers to land in common terms and people search using common terms.

Sea is a litle confusing, it could be put under marine_vehicle, aquatic_transport, water_vehicle, etc, or any like phrase. I'm kinda leaning to just alias common terms together but not have a universal tag over all the water vehicles. Same goes for spacecraft especially since most space vehicles on here are fictitious and/or highly resemble aircraft.

How about 'usually petrol-driven internal combustion machine used for the purpose of moving people, goods, or material from one place to another'?

Mechaniatrix said:
How about 'usually petrol-driven internal combustion machine used for the purpose of moving people, goods, or material from one place to another'?

You want that as the tag?! Sounds good to me. UPDICMUFTPMPGMFOPTA, it makes a nice acronym too.

Or it might be easier to have
Vehicle- land
Aircraft- air
Aquatic/marine_vehicle- sea (both above and below)

rockets, spacecraft, the neighbor's dog, etc. are just going to be alone because they have so little consistency in style/structure due to being mostly fiction, every good wit dis?

Smoochy_Pooch said:
You want that as the tag?! Sounds good to me. UPDICMUFTPMPGMFOPTA, it makes a nice acronym too.

You now realize my post was a joke.