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[BUR] wild_boar -> boar

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BUR #2707 has been approved by @Hillside_Moose.

mass update wild_boar -> boar

They're exactly the same thing, as the boar wiki makes clear. Wild_boar stands at only 22 posts so I could have easily nuked it via tag script, but it's a commonly used term outside of Danbooru (Wikipedia redirects from "boar" to "wild boar") and nuking it without discussion might be bad for my karma.

If we're concerned about confusing users who don't read the forum, I'd be willing to make this an alias instead.

EDIT: The bulk update request #2707 (forum #166857) has been approved by @Hillside_Moose.

Updated by DanbooruBot

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Shinjidude Unbreakable Travley acidtestguy ion288
iridescent slime

Claverhouse said:

Wild boars are not exactly the same as domestic boars.

Plus they, understandably enough, can kill people who are trying to kill them.

That might actually be relevant if the two tags hadn't been consistently used for exactly the same thing.

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Shinjidude

Claverhouse said:

Wild boars are not exactly the same as domestic boars.

Plus they, understandably enough, can kill people who are trying to kill them.

I think the idea behind topic #15858 was to preserve this. Where boar is used for "wild boar" and pig is used for domestic pigs and domestic boars. Reading about how pigs get domesticated, most of the traits people associate with "boar" go away or are physically removed when pigs are being raised domestically: "tusks, coarse brown fur, etc", and come back when domestic pigs go feral for a generation or two. I think boar vs. pig is probably fine for our purposes here without adding wild boar to the mix.

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