Aliasing bioweapon → invalid_tag
Link to alias

Reason:

broken weapon -> invalid tag
superweapon -> invalid tag
bioweapon -> invalid tag
energy weapons -> invalid tag
weapon arms -> invalid tag
projectile weapon -> invalid tag
edged weapon -> invalid tag
oversized weapon -> invalid tag

All of these tags have a really low amount of posts attached to them and generally don't really serve a purpose other than being too specific or useless.
Am I doing it right?

None of these seem useful, but "Projectile weapon" at least could just be aliased to ranged_weapon

Most should be aliased to weapon, to avoid creating more invalid tags to clean up.

I wonder if that energy_weapon tag would be useful, though. Those are pretty different from traditional weapons.

...or maybe some futuristic_weapon tag? That's kind of covered by science_fiction + weapon, but scifi is undertagged and often difficult to tag. ^{_{Do aliens automatically count as science fiction, for instance?[/sup]}Also, while we're on this topic:
Implicate flail -> melee_weapon?}

Genjar said:
Most should be aliased to weapon, to avoid creating more invalid tags to clean up.

I was originally thinking of aliasing them to weapon yeah, but then I didn't know if that would clog up the Wiki section of things it is aliased to?

Addendum: There are also a lot more of weapon tags that are too specific or infrequently occurring.
Just check them out here.

Genjar said:
Most should be aliased to weapon, to avoid creating more invalid tags to clean up.

I wonder if that energy_weapon tag would be useful, though. Those are pretty different from traditional weapons.

...or maybe some futuristic_weapon tag? That's kind of covered by science_fiction + weapon, but scifi is undertagged and often difficult to tag. ^{_{Do aliens automatically count as science fiction, for instance?[/sup]}Also, while we're on this topic:
Implicate flail -> melee_weapon?}

Weapons like the Plasma Cutter, Plasma guns, Lightsabres, etc should be energy_weapons, yeah.

I'll get the easy ones out of the way:

• Alias: projectile_weapon -> ranged_weapon (approved)
• Implication: flail -> melee_weapon (approved)
• Implication: lance_(weapon) -> polearm (approved)
• superweapon - Only tagged once, and it fit better in oversized_weapon, so I moved it there for now.
• Related: superweapon_(artist)
• bioweapon - Was used only once to refer to this, which is actually a licker, so I just removed it.
• bio_weapon - Only tagged by one person, and they didn't make much sense even in context so I just removed them.
• edged_weapon - There were a few pointless tags on the only one this was tagged on, so I just removed it.

Here's what's left:

• energy_weapon <- energy_weapons - Based on Genjar's reasoning, we might be able to move this.
• broken_weapon - I don't see much of a reason to invalidate this
• oversized_weapon - This is a really common trope. Whether or not it belongs here...that's another story.
• weapon_arms - Also a common trope. Dunno if we should keep it or not but there you are.

parasprite said:
I'll get the easy ones out of the way:

• Alias: projectile_weapon -> ranged_weapon (approved)
• Implication: flail -> melee_weapon (approved)
• Implication: lance_(weapon) -> polearm (approved)
• superweapon - Only tagged once, and it fit better in oversized_weapon, so I moved it there for now.
• Related: superweapon_(artist)
• bioweapon - Was used only once to refer to this, which is actually a licker, so I just removed it.
• bio_weapon - Only tagged by one person, and they didn't make much sense even in context so I just removed them.
• edged_weapon - There were a few pointless tags on the only one this was tagged on, so I just removed it.

Here's what's left:

• energy_weapon <- energy_weapons - Based on Genjar's reasoning, we might be able to move this.
• broken_weapon - I don't see much of a reason to invalidate this
• oversized_weapon - This is a really common trope. Whether or not it belongs here...that's another story.
• weapon_arms - Also a common trope. Dunno if we should keep it or not but there you are.

Oh, when you remove them from posts, they just "disappear"?
You learn something every day :p
Sorry for wasting your time, all.

HotUnderTheCollar said:
Oh, when you remove them from posts, they just "disappear"?
You learn something every day :p
Sorry for wasting your time, all.

More/less. Sometimes they stick around because they don't get removed from deleted posts, but I make a point to clean those up when I remember.