Donmai

mechanical_arms/hands/legs singular vs plural

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BUR #4262 has been approved by @evazion.

create alias mechanical_arm -> single_mechanical_arm
create implication single_mechanical_arm -> mechanical_arms
create alias mechanical_leg -> single_mechanical_leg
create implication single_mechanical_leg -> mechanical_legs
create alias mechanical_hand -> single_mechanical_hand
create implication single_mechanical_hand -> mechanical_hands

We have both plural and singular variant of all of these tags.
Doesn't make much sense to keep them separated.

This does this match better with our current naming scheme (and seemingly depiction counts), but I do have say it is still rather other odd that we're making the assumption that prosthetic limbs naturally come in pairs and that the oddity is for a singular prosthetic limb. Normally I would think the assumptions would be reversed.

Updated

For legs, it seems the most common variant is the plural.

For arms, it's hard to tell. From a cursory search I've found a lot of mistags in just two pages, and a lot of cleanup is needed (which I cannot currently do since I'm in the middle of moving houses, so I'll try to do it next week if nobody gets to it before that), but we could very well end up with single arm being the smaller variant.

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