Having been denied an alias suggestion by the system (it telling me that club is already aliased to something else, which I do not see), I am starting a thread here.

There seems to be a moderate number of (recent) posts with club tagged to represent a nightclub, versus a melee_weapon, as some users do not seem to know of the nightclub tag.

This disambiguation would allow a more thorough cleanup and maintenance, with perhaps a new tag club_(weapon), or somesuch needed to address the whack-a-mole crowd.

The club tag would also need the implication of melee_weapon removed, or flipped to the new tag, if a disambiguation were to happen.

EDIT

Found a cursory discussion of this from a year ago:

forum #96962

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWD9wVPwhH4

That would be because both implications and aliases prevent the suggestion of new aliases.

That only happens if there's unapproved suggestions...
forum #166312

Genjar said:
That only happens if there's unapproved suggestions...
forum #166312

No. That's normal. He was proposing an aliases. And you get the same messages for both aliases and implications

Genjar said:
That only happens if there's unapproved suggestions...
forum #166312

Ah yes. I forgot the backlog of proposals that have been left undealt with eitehr way...

Genjar said:
forum #166312

Hmm. Took a scan of the forum, and totally missed that one.

Great minds think alike, and whatnot ...

Circeus said:
No. That's normal. He was proposing an aliases. And you get the same messages for both aliases and implications

It only does that for aliases actually.

• If tag_A is aliased to tag_B, you can't suggest aliasing tag_B to tag_Z.
• If tag_A is aliased to tag_B, you can't suggest aliasing tag_Z to tag_A.
• If tag_A is aliased to tag_B, you can't suggest aliasing tag_A to tag_B (obviously).

(for simplicity, "aliased" also includes pending aliases)

The implications system only checks whether there is an implication. For instance I have seen implications like this:

• tag_A -> tag_B and tag_B -> tag_A
• tag_A -> tag_A
• tag_A is aliased to tag_B, but tag_Z implies tag_A (the system really doesn't like this one)