Aliasing mobian -> sonic_(series).

Reason: Mobian means from the planet Mobius, which is a setting in the Sonic universe. Therefore, Mobian = part of the Sonic series.
http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Mobians

Not an alias, but an implication surely?

But then what if they're in another setting?

Anomynous said:
But then what if they're in another setting?

Being in another setting/location doesn't change what they are... please elaborate further on what you mean by this.

Riversyde said:
Being in another setting/location doesn't change what they are... please elaborate further on what you mean by this.

Mobian is a worthless tag. Why would anyone search for it?

Aurali said:
Mobian is a worthless tag. Why would anyone search for it?

Dunno. People tag it though.

Looking through mobian -sonic_(series) it seems using mobian without sonic_(series) means a Sonic fan character. So we should remove mobian and add sonic_(series) and fan_character to those posts.

Riversyde said:
Dunno. People tag it though.

Looking through mobian -sonic_(series) it seems using mobian without sonic_(series) means a Sonic fan character. So we should remove mobian and add sonic_(series) and fan_character to those posts.

Disagree. If it is 100% non-canon (i.e. only fan character alone without any actual sonic series characters/settings/etc) it should not be considered in the series, period. Allowing non-canon characters would probably open up too many problems.

As far as I'm concerned.. the text on the mobian wiki page says 'of or pertaining to the sonic_(series) universe.'

Which to me sounds like mobian is a redundant tag.

mobian -sonic_(series) results in *4* pictures.

1 is on sonichu (who has 26 other pictures 6 of which are tagged sonic_(series), 3 of which are tagged mobian (including the errant image -- the other two look like they were drawn by an 8 year old.) and most of which are obvious lolsonichu)

1 (post #110710) is on a piece of mel_the_hybrid's work and I have no earthly idea if any of the characters in question are from the sonic-verse, but I suspect it's a 'one of this species' sort of thing.

1 appears to be an official sonic character (post #370854) and as such, I am adding sonic_(series) to it, but please correct me of I'm wrong. my sonic knowledge is limited)

the last is pretty clearly in the sonic style and is a drawing of Maverick_skye. the other 63 pictures of him do NOT have the mobian tag.. . so I'm going to take it as a random discrepancy and remove the tag. :)

for those of us keeping score at home, this reduced mobian -sonic_(series) to two posts: 1 sonichu, one mel the hybrid.

Considering the state of the sonichu tag, (which really should be friggin nuked from orbit -- really, WTF is post #19705 doing here?) I'd just as happily untag mobian from all sonichu images, as people looking for mobians probably won't be looking for this.

As for Mel's drawing... well.. I dunno. we could just slap sonic_(series) on it, be done with it, or ask her how 'mobian' applies to the image and find a better tag to apply to it.

and with that, the mobian -sonic_(series) is empty, and we could alias, or jsut get rid of the mobian tag entirely.

Also, while digging, I discovered the sonic_style tag, which maybe should be used more to cover fan_characters in that style. (even though sonic style is also used on cannon characters too. Hmm..)

oh well. my 2..... 3... eh.. tha'ts probably about a quarter, now.

Lyokira said:
Disagree. If it is 100% non-canon (i.e. only fan character alone without any actual sonic series characters/settings/etc) it should not be considered in the series, period.

"Mobians are the inhabitants of the planet Mobius from various Sonic the Hedgehog continuities." This means they're only Mobian if they're featured in a Sonic continuity. So proclaimed Sonic "fan characters" should not be tagged with mobian OR sonic_(series). I do agree with sonic_style, though.

SnowWolf said:
As far as I'm concerned.. the text on the mobian wiki page says 'of or pertaining to the sonic_(series) universe.'

Which to me sounds like mobian is a redundant tag.

Exactly!