Nuke Cosplay Photo Tag into Cosplay Photo (medium)

BUR #6845 has been rejected.

mass update cosplay_photo -> cosplay photo_(medium) real_life -cosplay_photo

It's a literal bypass or circumvent of the cosplay photo_(medium) real_life tag search, unless I found out any objections.

That tag in theory exists so that someone might be able to search for post #3893176 and similar with cosplay photo_(medium) -cosplay_photo. The truth is however that often cosplay_photo is not tagged, and better results can be achieved with cosplay photo_(medium) traditional_media... Though that excludes stuff like photo_inset (post #4330769).

Travley said:

It's a literal bypass or circumvent of the cosplay photo_(medium) real_life tag search, unless I found out any objections.

It really isn't, tags like these exist to make standard users be able to search for certain things without doing a 3+ tag search.
The usual guideline is that if a tag which is a combination of elements can be searched with two or less tags, it shouldn't be a tag.
There's no need to have such indignation at people who don't want to (or can't) pay for gold+ and are trying to look for something specific in a site designed to look for something specific.

This would make it impossible for regular users to search for cosplay photos without lots of false positives and make it entirely impossible to search for cosplay photos of a specific character.

Well, someone needs to go through cosplay photo_(medium) -cosplay_photo and add cosplay photo where it needs to be (and that's not going to be me), otherwise any argument for keeping it are moot given that there's more results under that search than the tag for the concept itself, which tells me people don't care about the tag enough to use it.

nonamethanks said:

Well, someone needs to go through cosplay photo_(medium) -cosplay_photo and add cosplay photo where it needs to be

Done.

The bulk update request #6845 (forum #194885) has been rejected by @nonamethanks.