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BUR #10348 has been rejected.
mass update official_art alternate_costume -> -alternate_costume official_alternate_costume
250 pages worth of posts that are official art, and yet use the tag for fanart costumes. Sure, it won't be a permanent fix, and it won't affect the mess in fanart, but it should at least help a little.
There is plenty of official promotional art with characters wearing generic one-off genetic outfits that I wouldn't consider an official alternate costume (e.g. post #5306577 post #5237899 post #5194480 post #130542).
I do agree that the tag needs a major cleanup, tho. There are still plenty of posts from before alternate costume was changed to exclude official costumes.
Mexiguy said:
There are still plenty of posts from before alternate costume was changed to exclude official costumes.
Correction, alternate costume for all intents and purposes always excluded official costumes, "characters wearing costumes other than the ones they are typically depicted in" suggests non-canon costumes (i.e. forum #16242 and forum #41710; though for some, it only suggested non-officially-named/tagged costumes, see topic #1316 and topic #3699; and even then you had cases like topic #2487 which just tags it on official costumes). This is further compounded by enmaided implying the tag (forum #39492). It's only since 2019 that, in order to resolve the issue of folks tagging canon stuff that official alternate costume was created (topic #15975, which I then brought up in topic #17206), though a tag like it had been proposed since late 2010 (topic #7217). You could say that we've only resolved to explicitly stating that they aren't included since 2020.
The bulk update request #10348 (forum #212719) has been rejected by @KagayakuShiningGate.
