recently the "urocyon" tag was made to be automatically added to a post when the "grey_fox" tag is used. my issue with this is that the grey fox tag is very commonly used for "grey colored red fox" characters, and the urocyon tag was my only way of finding actual grey fox characters. now that the tags are linked, both tags are now filled with "grey colored red foxes" instead of actual grey foxes, making it difficult and annoying to find what I'm looking for. I'd personally much prefer if the tags weren't linked, and also believe it would help with tagging more accurately, as these characters are not grey foxes, which "urocyon" would describe.
Topic: unlink urocyon tag from grey fox tag
Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions
solarflaresystem said:
my issue with this is that the grey fox tag is very commonly used for "grey colored red fox" characters, and the urocyon tag was my only way of finding actual grey fox characters.
A grey fox is a grey fox, if someone sees a grey fox they should be able to tag it. If people mistag grey_fox when meaning an off-color red_fox you can remove the tags, and let the tagger know politely or report the post for mistagging if a particular user keeps doing it (we don't otherwise have tags for <color>_<species> if it's not its own particular species). I don't think many people are familiar with the urocyon species name (e6 was where I first heard of it, FWIW), so if grey_fox was aliased to fox to avoid mistags, you'd end up with a lot of grey foxes being tagged as just fox without either the grey_fox or urocyon tag.
Would aliasing grey_fox to grey_fox_(species) help with the mistags maybe?
The urocyon tags description even specifies that grey foxes are not part of the Vulpes genus and should not be tagged with fox.
ergo, either this implication has to go, or the tags description needs to remedied.
slattery_in_the_mix said:
The urocyon tags description even specifies that grey foxes are not part of the Vulpes genus and should not be tagged with fox.ergo, either this implication has to go, or the tags description needs to remedied.
That note was made before the creation of the true_fox tag, which IIRC, freed up fox to be used a bit more liberally (e.g. for grey foxes). Since urocyon implies fox, the wiki should probably be updated.