The bulk update request #2839 is active.

create alias crossing (0) -> crossing_(disambiguation) (0)
change category crossing_(disambiguation) (0) -> invalid
create alias pedestrian_crossing (1) -> crosswalk (142)

Reason: Currently, all posts tagged crossing were supposed to be tagged animal_crossing instead. I have extracted the few that referred to anything else into the new tag pedestrian_crossing. Other potential meanings include crossing_river and railway_crossing.

All the posts that used to have the tag

EDIT: The bulk update request #2839 (forum #339843) has been approved by @slyroon.

kora_viridian said:
There were still a few posts with the plain crossing tag; you might not have seen them due to your personal blacklist or rating settings. I saw 11 posts, 9 of which were already also tagged animal_crossing, so I removed the plain crossing tag from those. The other two needed to be switched to the pedestrian_crossing tag, so I did that.

I left those on purpose in the interests of both illustrating my case for the alias and not doing more work than strictly necessary. My blacklist is quite extensive so I never undertake tagging projects without turning it off first. That said, I'm not sure how I managed to miss post #3211713.

Just cleaned up another 3 posts. 1 crossing of the Animal variety, 1 of the pedestrian variety, and I'm not sure about post #3844466 but I think it was probably meant to be tagged crossed_arms.

Since creating this BUR, I have also learned of the existence of the crosswalk tag. Apparently that's what the other type of crossing was supposed to be tagged all along. The tag I created has continued to slowly gain posts since then, so might as well formally merge them together.

The bulk update request #2839 (forum #339843) has been approved by @slyroon.