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Alias white_dove -> dove

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Dodo1 said:

BUR #22690 has been rejected.

create alias dove -> white_dove

Honestly I would rather do it the other way around. Make white dove the tag, more intuitive.

Similar to the raven/crow discourse. Species tend to just be named pigeon when bigger and doves when smaller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbidae

So, you wanna make an alias from less specific to more specific.
If anything, you'd want to request an implication. And even then it's the wrong way round. I don't see the point.
Gray dove when?

nonamethanks said:

Look at the dove tag. It's all white birds.

Having a tag for white doves would be akin to having a tag for black crows: it'd be redudant, completely pointless from a searching standpoint. Instead, you should be tagging the exceptions with their own tags, such as mourning dove.

Not compareable, dove was specifically used on the forum to mean a white pigeon/dove which I always thought was dumb. We never had a rule of say "all black corvids are crows" but equated crows and ravens to each other. I would prefer aliasing dove and pigeon for the same reason and keeping white dove for white birds.

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