Tag Alias: a bunch

LaC said: But sweet potatoes and yams are different things.

I was wondering about that. But for the purposes of this thread, since the alias was already there I was changing what it aliased to, rather than questioning if it should or shouldn't alias to yams of any number.

I see some definitions on dictionary.com implying they're the same. Is this a regional difference maybe? I've never really thought much about it myself.

unicogirl said: ^_^ mostly just suggesting alias. in case someone uploads, so it automatically changes.

I know, but aliases are most important when theres an expectation that people will *often* tag with the wrong tag. If it's never really happened, it's not a job so much for aliases (which by their nature raise the chance of tag conflict) as it is just tag maintenance.

weird. wonder why teacup and cup is together.

When I went to disconnect them, someone else had already cleared that up and properly tagged all the teacup images (thanks to whoever). So that one is okay now.

when i think of Jelly on danbooru
i think of those little drop monsters.
and most likely characters are eating jam, which is red.

That's why I just changed the tags rather than aliased them, so we can still use the 'jelly' tag for some other purpose if need be.

Anyway, enough thinking about tags for me for now, off to watch Gundam.

/gg → guilty_gear
The only other possible candidate would be gunslinger_girl but it only has one fifth of the posts guilty_gear has.

EDIT: /gsg → gunslinger_girl then also.

Wikipedia says some americans call sweet potatoes "yams". Not sure what they call yams; perhaps also "yams".

memegui said:
The only other possible candidate would be gunslinger_girl

Besides, the usual abbreviation is GSG.

LaC said:
Wikipedia says some americans call sweet potatoes "yams". Not sure what they call yams; perhaps also "yams".

I'd have been in that class. After looking up what a yam actually is apparently, I can safely say I've never seen one in my life, but I've eaten plenty of sweet potatoes and referred to them as "yams". I guess it's like "robin" or "turkey" where the same term refers to different species across the Atlantic.

LaC said: Wikipedia says some americans call sweet potatoes "yams". Not sure what they call yams; perhaps also "yams".

::looks at what a yam really is:: I'm guessing they don't call them anything, on account of never seeing them. I certainly haven't anyway.

It seems that *real* yams will never appear on danbooru, so we should still alias sweet potatoes and yams together in one direction or the other. I can pretty much guarantee almost anyone who types either of those words into danbooru will be expecting to see the things anime characters shove in a burning pile of leaves and then eat.

I'm honestly indifferent, as they've always been synonyms to me.

memegui said: /gg → guilty_gear
EDIT: /gsg → gunslinger_girl then also.

I don't have a problem with these, as there's no chance of conflict (since the start with the '/') but do people use these often?

Guess I'm just kind of wondering what criteria is being used for what series get these shortcuts when the vast majority never get one.

jxh2154 said:
I don't have a problem with these, as there's no chance of conflict (since the start with the '/') but do people use these often?

I use them all the time, at least for the series I'm aware of having such shortcuts. Both for tagging and searches.

So do I. I'll try things at random to see if there are shortcuts, and then use them for tagging later if they exist. Last one I tried that we didn't have was:
/hk → houraisan_kaguya

I use the shortcuts. Since they're short, common tags should get priority on 2-letter and 3-letter shortcuts.

knife→knives

It's aliased the other way around for some reason.

roastbeefy said: knife→knives
It's aliased the other way around for some reason.

Probably just an old alias. I've deleted and reversed it.

I also added /gg and /gsg.

i'm just being lazy ^_^
sometimes people spell Gray like Grey.

grey_hair → gray_hair

The alias should probably be gray_hair → silver_hair, since there is already a gray_hair → grey_hair alias and then a grey_hair → silver_hair alias.

silver and gray come off as two different colors to me.
one is lighter than the other.

Grey hair and silver hair are distinctly different colors

Yeah, I'm not sure why the grey → silver_hair alias was introduced (gray hair = aged in my mind). I never quite liked it, but didn't care enough to say anything. If anything I'd nuke that, and the gray_hair → grey_hair alias will work again as it used to, taking care of unicogirl's issue.

crouching → crouch

(Am I supposed to start a new thread for suggestions like this?)

I was the one almost a year ago who put the grey_hair to silver_hair alias in the system for approval, mostly because I was finding a lot of images with the same color being tagged one or the other (especially with variants of the same image). There didn't seem to be a distinction between the two in use, so I suggested the alias.

legga said:
(Am I supposed to start a new thread for suggestions like this?)

Yes.