Deambiguifying pipe

BUR #9928 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create alias pipe -> smoking_pipe
create alias holding_pipe -> holding_smoking_pipe
create alias pipe_(smoking) -> smoking_pipe
remove alias pipe -> smoking_pipe
deprecate pipe

Currently ambiguous with the other kind of pipe.

I'd also like to see pipes aliased to something like industrial_pipe. Thoughts?

some prior discussion and unsuccessful BURs here: topic #17854

before someone objects to having bubble pipe fall under smoking pipe — i'd consider a bubble pipe to be merely a toy form of smoking pipe, similar to how a toy car is still a car even if it can't actually drive.

AngryZapdos said:

I'd also like to see pipes aliased to something like industrial_pipe. Thoughts?

Sounds good to me. I can't think of any other term.

It would be strange to tag ordinary residential plumbing (post #4395205) as industrial pipe, but anything less ambiguous than pipes would be an improvement.

iridescent_slime said:

It would be strange to tag ordinary residential plumbing (post #4395205) as industrial pipe, but anything less ambiguous than pipes would be an improvement.

I thought about pipe_(plumbing) but it doesn't cover scenarios like post #3323086 or post #5211426. Couldn't hurt to have a utility alias of pipe_(plumbing) -> industrial_pipe though.

BUR #9941 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create alias pipes -> industrial_pipe
create alias pipe_(industrial) -> industrial_pipe
create alias pipe_(plumbing) -> industrial_pipe

As above.

I think pipes can stay as an alias. I doubt anyone would accidentally use the plural for smoking pipes.

Pipe (plumbing) is what was suggested in the previous topic, I'm fairly neutral about the name we choose as long as it's not too outlandish.

nonamethanks said:

I think pipes can stay as an alias. I doubt anyone would accidentally use the plural for smoking pipes.

Good point. Updated the second BUR.

AngryZapdos said:

I thought about pipe_(plumbing) but it doesn't cover scenarios like post #3323086 or post #5211426.

i think it does cover those; from wikipedia:

Plumbing is any system that conveys fluids for a wide range of applications

and:

a fluid is a liquid, gas, or other material that continuously deforms (flows)

the scenarios it wouldn't cover would be e.g. pipes for hamsters to crawl through, or the slide in the background of post #3789547

i'd choose _(plumbing) over industrial_, which sounds too specific

The bulk update request #9928 (forum #210813) has been approved by @nonamethanks.

The bulk update request #9941 (forum #210858) has been approved by @nonamethanks.