Topic: Tag aliases: *_fish -> *fish

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

Was updating the species list, and came across these

Reasons:

  • Shorter, easier to type
  • Seems to be the standard format, at least on Wikipedia
List:

angler_fish -> anglerfish
clown_fish -> clownfish
gold_fish -> goldfish
puffer_fish -> pufferfish
lantern_fish -> lanternfish
viper_fish -> viperfish
devil_fish -> devilfish
cat_fish ->catfish

Unsure/other

lion_fish_(species) -> lionfish_(species)
lionfish -> lionfish_(species)

Not sure why this gets a disambiguation suffix

rip_van_fish -> ???
No idea what this is or why it's a species

mola_fish -> molafish / mola / ??

This should probably be aliased to sunfish, but I don't know much about them

Wikipedia says, "A sunfish (or mola) is any fish in the Mola genus (family Molidae)."

Updated by user 59725

A similar set of aliases could probably be done for all other [unique name]_[generic name] species like *_bird or *_wolf etc, but those are gonna probably look very odd and don't seem to be the standard format

Updated by anonymous

Rip Van Fish is a subspecies of cheep cheep from the Mario series. They're lazy and sleep almost all the time, only waking up when something disturbs the water around them by swimming too close.

Updated by anonymous

Sounds good to me. I'll take care of the easy ones right now:

  • Alias: angler_fish -> anglerfish (approved)
  • Alias: clown_fish -> clownfish (approved)
  • Alias: gold_fish -> goldfish (approved)
  • Alias: puffer_fish -> pufferfish (approved)
  • Alias: lantern_fish -> lanternfish (approved)
  • Alias: viper_fish -> viperfish (approved)
  • Alias: devil_fish -> devilfish (approved)
  • Alias: cat_fish -> catfish (approved)
  • Implication: Any in this_form -> fish (deleted)
  • Implication: All inthisform -> [[fish]] ([color=lime]approved[/color]) h4. Pending: * Alias: [[lion_fish_(species)]], [[lionfish]], [[lion_fish]] -> [[lionfish_(species)]] * Alias: [[mola]]/[[molafish]]/[[mola_fish]] -> [[sunfish]] * Implication: [[rip_van_fish]] -> [[cheep_cheep]] ? [quote]"titanmelon":/user/show/41009 said: A similar set of aliases could probably be done for all other [unique name]_[generic name] species like *_bird or *_wolf etc, but those are gonna probably look very odd and don't seem to be the standard format [/quote] At the very least we should be able to go through them and alias whatever the nonstandard name is to the standard name (e.g., greywolf -> grey_wolf). Not much we can do about it being in a standard format though (aside from ignoring naming conventions).

Updated by anonymous

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