BrokenEagle98 said:
-1 Seems like a dangerous trend. Next I can envision military_uniform being aliased away to military, then school_uniform being aliased away to student. Also, unlike the other job professions, I equivocate police and their uniforms with the same level of officialness and prestige as carried by those in the military.
school_uniform is one of the most popular clothing tags on the site with almost 500k posts. I don't think it would be a good idea to alias it to student, but I'm finding it hard to put my reasoning into words. Something to do with canon mistagging, arguments over what counts as a student and the fact that I feel people are more likely to search for "school_uniform" over "student".
As for military_uniform -> military, that's a different kettle of fish. The catch-all term for those who work in a police uniform is "police officer"; as far as I'm aware there's no equivalent term for those who work in a military uniform. In any case, military is an all-encompassing tag for all things military; there'd be little point in aliasing military_uniform to it because they're very different tags.
Additionally, police officers can be police officers without the patrol uniform. Just having their police badge visible, whether it be on a lanyard, on their clothing, or in their hand, would be enough to identify someone as such.
I would wager that those kinds of posts are outnumbered by posts with police uniforms a hundred to one. They're hardly going to flood the police_officer tag to the point of inconvenience.