BUR #4960 has been approved by @evazion.
create alias orange -> orange_(food)
To disambiguate it from orange_theme.
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The bulk update request #4960 (forum #182414) has been approved by @evazion.
To reiterate my stance, if we've lived with an ambiguous tag for 15 years, we can live with an alias for a little while longer. We can always remove the alias later, after people have adjusted to the new name. Looking at the tag history, we've had less than 20 mistags removed in the last 2 years, so the amount of recent mistagging is not large.
While I think most of the named fruit tags are going to be food, it might still be better to use *_(fruit) instead of *_(food), particularly because not everyone of them will be food in the sense that we want to eat them if the image is say of fruit on a tree. There are a lot of ornamental fruit trees, like crabapples that are safe to eat but also taste awful, so you wouldn't want to eat them. Always calling them "food" is probably questionable especially if it's just hanging on the plant (post #4126415), but they'll always correctly be "fruit."
Well, orange already implies fruit, and fruit already implies food, so we already have the problem of calling them food even when they're just fruit on a tree.
Peach is even worse, the peach -> fruit -> food implication chain causes nearly every Hinanawi Tenshi post to be tagged as food just because she's wearing a peach on her hat.
This is the problem with very high-level umbrella tags like food, they lead to deep implication chains that cause tag bloat and that add tags in unexpected situations. This is something Albert warned about in topic #12482 when he talked about making implications just to make everything fit into a beautiful hierarchy of data and relationships, instead of to make search easier.
BUR #6597 has been approved by @nonamethanks.
create alias orange_(food) -> orange_(fruit)
I just came across this while wondering why we called it _(food) instead of _(fruit). Regardless of the food argument, I agree it's pretty questionable to have food as the qualifier.
The bulk update request #6597 (forum #193524) has been approved by @nonamethanks.