Topic: Tag Alias: bike -> bicycle

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

Aliasing bike → bicycle
Link to alias

Reason:

lol

Edit: Okay, this is a fair bit more complicated than I expected. It seems that a minority of taggers used both bike and motorcycle for posts with motorcycles, so I have to resolve these before an alias can be made. I'll comment when this is done.

Updated by user 59725

A fair amount of instances of this tag refer to motorbikes-- though arguably still bicycles, "bicycle" is more commonly associated with the pedal-driven transport rather than the motor-driven variant.

Updated by anonymous

Good catch. I've changed the relevant posts to motorcycle only. I don't think we need bike as a catchall tag for bicycles and motorcycles, so I'm going continue voting for the bike -> bicycle alias.

Updated by anonymous

Genjar

Former Staff

It was frequently tagged for motorcycles. Motorcyclists are usually called bikers, and bike can refer to either a bicycle or a motorcycle. So that alias will result in mistags. Maybe it'd be better to disambiguate it.

Updated by anonymous

Genjar said:
It was frequently tagged for motorcycles. Motorcyclists are usually called bikers, and bike can refer to either a bicycle or a motorcycle. So that alias will result in mistags. Maybe it'd be better to disambiguate it.

Good point. I'll move the alias -> bike_(disambiguation)

Updated by anonymous

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