The bulk update request #4108 is pending approval.

mass update robotic_arm -> automatic_arm

Reason: A robotic_arm is "A mechanical device for performing simple tasks such as manipulating, moving, holding or restraining things e.g. a Robot that is an arm."

In the last four months, there have been 36 images added to this tag that follow that definition out of 151 new images. More than 75% of the images being added to this tag are mistags that should go to cybernetic _Arm or are robots with arms that shouldn't be tagged. A new name should reduce these mistags.

oozeenthusiast said:
In the last four months, there have been 36 images added to this tag that follow that definition out of 151 new images. More than 75% of the images being added to this tag are mistags that should go to cybernetic _Arm or are robots with arms that shouldn't be tagged. A new name should reduce these mistags.

This update would cause those posts with cybernetic arms or robots with arms to be mistagged as automatic arms, wouldn't it? It would need to be cleaned out manually before this or something else to better distinguish its meaning can be applied.

watsit said:
This update would cause those posts with cybernetic arms or robots with arms to be mistagged as automatic arms, wouldn't it? It would need to be cleaned out manually before this or something else to better distinguish its meaning can be applied.

I didn't want to remove the images before posting this as that would hide the case for changing it. I do plan to fix the tag myself.

Just finished cleaning up the tag.

Just got through cleaning the tag out again, got 18 this time. This tag is misused often enough that unless I check and fix the tag every day, there will be a few mistaged images that will go through with the update and need to be fixed later. The sooner this goes though the better.