Topic: Tag Alias: redwolfxlll -> redwolfxiii

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

Aliasing redwolfxlll → redwolfxiii
Link to alias

Reason:

Uploaded this with the tag "redwolfxiii"...

post #521200

...and found a freshly-made artist tag while RedwolfXIII (likely pronounced Redwolf the thirteenth) already had a bunch of posts present here. Weird, right? No matter what I tried, manually searching for the tag (to see what I should edit mine into) turned up nothing. I could of course have just copy-pasted the tag I linked to above, but I was curious since I thought I'd stumbled upon a bug.

So after a while I went to compare the functioning tag with those of my attempts, and that soon got me thinking that whoever created the tag in the first place had put three numeral ones in place of the usual uppercase "i" (which is what you'd expect with roman numbers). But after more fiddling around it actually turned out to be a lowercase letter L, which in the E621's font looks exactly like a I in other fonts, or a variety of 1. (llllll. See?)

While it's true that putting in LLL keeps the XIII thing looking more recognizable once the tags get defaulted to lowercase, it's nonsensical, because I (01) in the Roman numeric system is an uppercase i. Certainly not an L, because L means 50. It's common knowledge that you simply expect to have been applied. And then it wasn't.

As I've experienced myself, this triple L makes tagging your uploads with this artist needlessly confusing. It should go, and we can do so with an alias.

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