Donmai

alias police_uniform -> police_officer

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-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.

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.

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.

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.

post #513182. Tomo 'cosplaying' as an interpol police officer in plain clothes but with badge.

Also endless Ingram mechas tagged police under patlabor police.

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.

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