Aliasing speech_balloon → dialog
Link to alias

Reason:

speech_bubble is also aliased.

If we're going to get that one, then we should also do the same for speech_bubbles (the plural was never got aliased and is now 325 strong and growing).

It makes sense to alias them all to the same place.

Why not alias speech_balloon and speech_bubbles to speech_bubble? That way there's only one tag, and the alias works for everything.

Aliasing to dialog is a bad alias, you can have a picture with an empty speech bubble, which means no dialog.

Halite said:
Aliasing to dialog is a bad alias, you can have a picture with an empty speech bubble, which means no dialog.

Is this a good example for being a bad alias?

post #81385

Dragon648 said:
Is this a good example?

post #81385

Perfect example.

so thats a no then

Should the alias of speech_bubble → dialog be removed as well?

post #496754

There's no text in this post, only a picture of a bone.

ippiki_ookami said:
so thats a no then

Indeed, also speech_bubble should be de-aliased, and speech_bubbles and speech_balloon should both be aliased to speech_bubble.

If you don't mind.

Halite said:
Indeed, also speech_bubble should be de-aliased, and speech_bubbles and speech_balloon should both be aliased to speech_bubble.

If you don't mind.

+1 to this.

Halite said:
Indeed, also speech_bubble should be de-aliased, and speech_bubbles and speech_balloon should both be aliased to speech_bubble.

If you don't mind.

Exactly this. +2

Sorry for the necro, but I saw this got approved. Could someone delete this alias and fix it like Halite said?

Halite said:
Indeed, also speech_bubble should be de-aliased, and speech_bubbles and speech_balloon should both be aliased to speech_bubble.

If you don't mind.

And since dialog implies text, there's now posts with empty speech bubbles that are tagged as text. And a lot of images such as these too:
post #15401 post #2994 post #4032 post #5177

With over 22000 images, this one isn't going to be any fun to clean up.

Jatix said:
Sorry for the necro, but I saw this got approved. Could someone delete this alias and fix it like Halite said?

It looks like someone fixed part of it.
speech_bubbles isn't aliased to =/= dialog so that's good.
So far though:
speech_balloon is still aliased to dialog
speech_bubble is still aliased to dialog
and
speech_balloon and speech_bubbles still need to be aliased to speech_bubble

So maybe they're still processing it. It'll be hard to start the cleanup until it's all done though.

Genjar said:
And since dialog implies text, there's now posts with empty speech bubbles that are tagged as text. And a lot of images such as these too:
post #15401 post #2994 post #4032 post #5177

With over 22000 images, this one isn't going to be any fun to clean up.

Yikes. It's too bad this even got processed in the first place.
It's also too bad that pictographics isn't more widely used because could have been handy when cleaning up this mess. In any case, when the alias end of it is finished, I'll help with the clean up. I think a project this big is gonna need several people working on it to get it all fixed.

I picked some poor examples above, since some of those actually have some text. But yeah, the gist was that there's a lot of pictographs and empty bubbles mixed in.

At least many of them can be found by searching for 'dialog -english_text -japanese_text'.

'course, there's other stuff mixed in since not everything is properly tagged with the language tags. Not to mention that we need to tag all the bubbles from the scratch.

And what about these?:
post #493402 post #494492

I've already seen a few while sorting these out. My first instict was to tag those as speaking, but that's aliased to dialog, which implies text. Do we have any tag for, er, textless chatting?

jesus balls what a mess. Speech balloon(s), speech bubbles aliased to speech_bubble, text de-implied from dialog, dialog de-implied from speech_bubble. Missing anything?

Thanks. Everything seems to be taggable now, as far as I can see.
I'll start on the cleanup, though with 22000+ posts, I don't expect to be finished with it anytime soon.

Genjar said:
Thanks. Everything seems to be taggable now, as far as I can see.
I'll start on the cleanup, though with 22000+ posts, I don't expect to be finished with it anytime soon.

I'll help when I have the time.