Donmai

Creating "Piston fighter" tag and a catchall tags for all kinds of fighter aircraft

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BUR #30895 has been rejected.

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create implication fighter_jet -> fighter_aircraft
create implication piston_fighter -> fighter_aircraft
mass update p-38_lightning -> piston_fighter
mass update p-40_warhawk -> piston_fighter
mass update p-47_thunderbolt -> piston_fighter
mass update p-51_mustang -> piston_fighter
mass update f4u_corsair -> piston_fighter
mass update f4f_wildcat -> piston_fighter
mass update f6f_hellcat -> piston_fighter
mass update f7f_tigercat -> piston_fighter
mass update f8f_bearcat -> piston_fighter
mass update supermarine_spitfire -> piston_fighter
mass update hawker_hurricane -> piston_fighter
mass update a5m -> piston_fighter
mass update a6m_zero -> piston_fighter
mass update a7m_reppu -> piston_fighter
mass update ki-43_hayabusa -> piston_fighter
mass update ki-84_hayate -> piston_fighter
mass update yak-3 -> piston_fighter
mass update fw_190 -> piston_fighter
mass update bf_109 -> piston_fighter

For whatever reason, we have a tag for jet-powered fighter aircraft ("fighter jet") yet no tag for piston-powered fighter aircraft yet, despite they can be easily distinguished from one another. This doesn't help by the fact that the current wiki of "fighter jet" has the Pixiv tag equivalent of "fighter aircraft" aka fighter that is powered by any source of power.

Because of this, I'd like to propose creating a new "piston fighter" tag for these type of aircraft, and then creating an umbrella tag called "fighter aircraft", which will cover any type of fighter aircraft regardless of power source. I've also adding a mass update BUR for some of the best-known examples of piston fighters for the sake of findability. I will made new mass update for other lesser-known piston fighters later when this BUR is approved.

"Piston fighter" does not appear to be a well used term.

Google search results:
"piston fighter" - About 9,230 results (0.46 seconds)
"piston-engine fighter" - About 18,300 results (0.51 seconds)
"piston engine fighter" - About 18,100 results (0.35 seconds)
"propeller fighter" - About 39,100 results (0.37 seconds)
"propeller-driven fighter" - About 6,970 results (0.34 seconds)
"propeller driven fighter" - About 6,970 results (0.44 seconds)

GreyOmega said:

"Piston fighter" does not appear to be a well used term.

Google search results:
"piston fighter" - About 9,230 results (0.46 seconds)
"piston-engine fighter" - About 18,300 results (0.51 seconds)
"piston engine fighter" - About 18,100 results (0.35 seconds)
"propeller fighter" - About 39,100 results (0.37 seconds)
"propeller-driven fighter" - About 6,970 results (0.34 seconds)
"propeller driven fighter" - About 6,970 results (0.44 seconds)

I think propeller fighter could work too, but the differences in numbers aren't that big, plus all the other ones would make for really clunky tag names. Whichever way it goes, some utlity aliases wouldn't hurt.

岩戸鈴芽 said:

I think propeller fighter could work too, but the differences in numbers aren't that big, plus all the other ones would make for really clunky tag names. Whichever way it goes, some utlity aliases wouldn't hurt.

I guess we could add "piston engine fighter" as an alias for "piston fighter" for the sake of findability, other than that I don't know if there's any better word to describe this type of aircraft.

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