Topic: [APPROVED] Tag alias: m&m -> m&m's

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

ListerTheSquirrel

Member

I like this aliasing to M&M's ... since wikipedia article titled "M&M's"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26M%27s

But there are a few m&m copyright tags now.

There is m&m's copyright tag with one post. (surprising low with alias at start of thread approved)

There is m_m_(candy) copyright tag with 51 posts. (I don't like that is "m_m" instead of "m&m")

There is m&ms copyright tag with 5 posts.

Alias m_m_(candy) and m&ms TO m&m's ??

spe

Admin

gattonero2001 said:
I thought we were removing ampersands to minimize the amount of special characters in tags? Kira's thoughts on the issue

Hmm.
Well, that leaves us with m_m’s, m_and_m’s, or mm’s, all of which are pretty ugly.

The last one would probably be the best, though.

ListerTheSquirrel

Member

scaliespe said:
Hmm.
Well, that leaves us with m_m’s, m_and_m’s, or mm’s, all of which are pretty ugly.

The last one would probably be the best, though.

If we really want to avoid ampersand(s) in tags, than of the three suggested by scaliespe,
I think I prefer m_and_m’s.

(I wondered if some version of m+m would work but + is apparently a special character:
URL version of ctrl+alt+del is https://e621.net/posts?tags=ctrl%2Balt%2Bdel )

Other related tags:
1) 2 posts . . . blue_m&m
2) 2 posts. . . orange_m&m
3a) 1 post. . . red_m&m
3b) 2 posts . . . red_(m&m's)
4) 3 posts . . . yellow_m&m

{by the way: 1 post . . . m&m's_boy (ARTIST tag) }

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26M%27s#M&M's_characters
the characters are just named Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Orange, etc.
So Red could be tagged as red_(m_and_m's)

faucet

Member

Did something go wrong here? The target tag doesn't seem to have any posts, nor the original tag.

bitWolfy

Former Staff

faucet said:
Did something go wrong here? The target tag doesn't seem to have any posts, nor the original tag.

Those seem to have been moved manually to m_and_m's.
It was likely part of the effort to phase out the & symbol in tags, but I'm not sure why there isn't a BUR changing the aliases over.

bitWolfy

Former Staff

The bulk update request #1796 is active.

remove alias m&m (0) -> m&m's (111)
remove implication m&m's (111) -> candy (23996)
remove implication m&m's (111) -> mars_incorporated (206)

Reason: Changing m&m's relations to m_and_m's.

Part 2:

alias m&m -> m_and_m's
alias m&m's -> m_and_m's
imply m_and_m's -> candy
imply m_and_m's -> mars_incorporated
alias green_m&m -> ms._green_(m_m)
imply green_m&m -> mascot
imply green_m&m-> m_and_m's
alias brown_m&m -> ms._brown_(m_m)
imply brown_m&m -> mascot
imply brown_m&m-> m_and_m's

EDIT: The bulk update request #1796 (forum #323839) has failed: Implication for ms._green not found

EDIT: The bulk update request #1796 (forum #323839) has been approved by @slyroon.

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ListerTheSquirrel

Member

bitwolfy said:
...
Part 2:

alias m&m -> m_and_m's
alias m&m's -> m_and_m's
imply m_and_m's -> candy
imply m_and_m's -> mars_incorporated
alias green_m&m -> ms._green_(m_m)
imply green_m&m -> mascot
imply green_m&m-> m_and_m's
alias brown_m&m -> ms._brown_(m_m)
imply brown_m&m -> mascot
imply brown_m&m-> m_and_m's

First four lines of part 2 look ok to me,
but tweaking some of the later lines.

Bolding the suggested changes (example: change some brown_m&m TO ms._brown_(m_m) ):
imply ms._green_(m_m) -> mascot
imply ms._green_(m_m) -> m_and_m's
alias brown_m&m -> ms._brown_(m_m)
imply ms._brown_(m_m) -> mascot
imply ms._brown_(m_m) -> m_and_m's

(although technically there have been two green m&m's.
There was a male green almond M&M (example: green male M&M in old advert at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxPkAVJws6c : starting at 12seconds until 20seconds.)
I don't see male green m&m at e621, but if he does get on e621 ... maybe start of tag should be mr._green.)

*_(m_m)

tags sound ok,
but wondering if *_(m_and_m) might be clearer. (example ms._green_(m_and_m) , red_(m_and_m), etc.

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