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More Godzilla tags (sigh)

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BUR #35226 has been rejected.

rename type-3_kiryuu -> kiryu_(godzilla)
rename godzilla_against_mechagodzilla_(2002) -> godzilla_against_mechagodzilla
rename godzilla_final_wars -> godzilla:_final_wars
deprecate mechagodzilla_(godzilla:_city_on_the_edge_of_battle)

No one calls him Type-3 Kiryu in the movies, they just call him Kiryu or Mechagodzilla.
We don't need the year of the movie, there's really only one movie with that title.
Godzilla: Final Wars has a ":" in it's title.
...Jesus Christ we don't need a million tags for one character, just type "godzilla:_city_on_the_edge_of_battle" and "mechagodzilla" if you want that specific Mechagodzilla.

LivingCorpse said:

...Jesus Christ we don't need a million tags for one character, just type "godzilla:_city_on_the_edge_of_battle" and "mechagodzilla" if you want that specific Mechagodzilla.

They're a consequence of topic #25526 and the normalization of a specific user's tagging choices (godgun), since if we were abandoning the "use the relevant copyright tag with the character tag" rule for Anime Godzilla and MonsterVerse then all the cards were on the table, allowing the recent trend of alternate design skintags (most commonly seen with gacha games and VTubers, but spreading far further in the past years) to make its mark here too. I'm half-surprised we didn't see chartags appear for the most popular Godzilla suit variants, since sometimes people draw Godzilla in a style-agnostic fashion and the suit designs will often be used in multiple movies (which, speaking of, why aren't all the current Godzilla copyright tags listed in Godzilla (series) for accessibility's sake...).

rename type-3_kiryuu -> kiryu_(godzilla)
deprecate mechagodzilla_(godzilla:_city_on_the_edge_of_battle)

The Mechagodzilla tag has six subtags for different appearances. If we don't want them, we should get rid of all of them, or at least figure out which ones we want to keep instead of getting rid of ones at random.

The problem with just using copyright tags to distinguish them is that it expects people to know what each version of Mechagodzilla looks like and which copyright it's from. I don't like having a million little character tags, but I don't like having to memorize which version goes with which copyright either. At the very least, the wiki needs to show example images of what each appearance looks like so you know which tag to use.

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