Aliasing smilodon → saber_tooth_tiger
Link to alias

Reason:

This is one and the same thing.

I read the wiki page for smmilodon, direct quote :
"Smilodon is the name of the most prominent genus of saber-toothed cats (often incorrectly called saber-toothed tigers)"
So either the wiki page is wrong or this alias isn't a good idea

implication would be more accurate

saber tooth tiger should be aliased to saber tooth cat

That should probably be the other way around

Also, smilodon is only one genus, not an alias (there are supposedly 5 other genera)

If anything, sabre_tooth_tiger should be aliased to sabre_tooth_cat, which should be implicated to smilodon. i.e.

alias sabre_tooth_tiger -> sabre_tooth_cat
implicate smilodon -> sabre_tooth_cat

Actually, after taking a look, most of these tags are pretty unorganized

We currently have in order or prevalance:

• sabertooth (ambiguous)
• saber_tooth_tiger
• saber_teeth
• saber_tooth
• saberteeth (general)
• sabre_toothed_tiger
• saber-tooth_tiger

Wikipedia has saber_tooth_tiger redirected to smilodon though. Probably because it's a common misunderstanding

titanmelon said:
alias sabre_tooth_tiger -> sabre_tooth_cat
implicate smilodon -> sabre_tooth_cat

+1 to this, and we should probably alias those to other variations to sabre_tooth_cat

Wikipedia calls it a saber-toothed cat, which sounds a lot less awkward than saber tooth cat.

There's also dirk-toothed cats (Megantereon), scimitar-toothed cats (Homotherium), false saber-toothed cats (Eosmilus), nimravids (Nimravus – almost a cat, but not quite), and saber-toothed marsupials (Thylacosmilus – not even close to a cat). As if anyone's going to be making anthros out of those anytime soon. :p (No, I'm not suggesting implications or aliases for those. :p )

Seriously, I'd say Smilodon ought to be aliased (or be implicated to) to saber-toothed_cat since it's only one variety of saber-tooth and likely to be the only one people think about anyway. Saber-toothed_tigers should also be so aliased because it's not very accurate.

I'm not really sure what to do with sabertooth at the moment since it is currently a species tag and has a wiki description of this:

Sabertooth refers to the physical trait of having teeth similar to a saber-toothed cat, i.e., canine teeth which extend outside the mouth and typically past the jawline.

It does not refer to saber-toothed cats specifically. The tag for that is smilodon. Note that the tags are not mutually exclusive; a picture tagged smilodon is quite likely to require the sabertooth tag as well.

Based on this, I have a feeling people aren't using it for the physical trait, but I'm not familiar enough with them to suggest an alias/implication/etc.

Edit: It looks like the decision was made after a brief discussion in forum #48285.

This is a headache. sabertooth both implies smilodon and fangs, which means the feature has been getting tagged with feline regardless of species. Bah, there's no good way to search through this mess without starting from scratch anyways. There's also a lot of ambiguous cases where "well, they're feline so it might apply in that hybrid sort of way...".

That being said, since there is no easy decision on this, I'm going to go ahead and put a plan through to at least let us fix this mess going forward.

Changes:

• Implication: sabertooth -> fangs (deleted) - Because the feature tag is a mess and this doesn't help.
• Implication: smilodon -> sabertooth (deleted) - The latter tag is getting disambiguated instead.
• Implication: sabertooth_(feature) -> fangs (approved)
• Did a mass edit to add sabertooth_(feature) to all posts tagged smilodon - while this isn't 100% correctly tagged, it seems to need a good cleanup anyways and this gets rid of the bulk of it. However, this gives a decent hit rate since it intentionally leaves sabertooth -smildon as-is.
• Aliased out as many saber/sabre-related tags as I could find.
• For the species: smilodon/saber_tooth_cat/saber_tooth_tiger/etc. are now aliased to saber-toothed_cat
• For the feature: Some easy ones like saberteeth have been aliased to sabertooth_(feature). They aren't getting used for much anyways.
• Alias: sabertooth -> sabertooth_(disambiguation) (approved) - To throw everything that gets tagged sabertooth because it's getting used for all sorts of stuff

Tags:

• sabertooth_(disambiguation)
• saber-toothed_cat - All saber-toothed feline species
• sabertooth_(feature) - The curved tooth feature seen in smilodons and the like