For the purpose of tagging, should we treat the Mega Evolutions as their own species and tag for only the Mega Pokémon present in an image, or should we treat them as alternate forms and tag both the original and Mega Evolution of the Pokémon present?

For example, should a post with just Mega Absol in it have both the "absol" and "mega_absol" tags, or just "mega_absol" alone?

I think it cold go either way and is tough to call. It seems to be that in canon the Mega Evolutions are temporary and happen only in battle, indicating that they are merely different forms. However, the same could be said about Agumon Digivolving into Greymon for battle and then back again, yet we seem to tag Greymon and Agumon as different species. You don't see the "agumon" tag in pictures where only its evolutions are present.

I'll let whoever it is that has the power to do so decide how this issue should be handled. Just though I'd bring it up to be addressed. :)

https://e621.net/forum/show/79806

FatherOfGray said:
For the purpose of tagging, should we treat the Mega Evolutions as their own species and tag for only the Mega Pokémon present in an image, or should we treat them as alternate forms and tag both the original and Mega Evolution of the Pokémon present?

For example, should a post with just Mega Absol in it have both the "absol" and "mega_absol" tags, or just "mega_absol" alone?

I think it cold go either way and is tough to call. It seems to be that in canon the Mega Evolutions are temporary and happen only in battle, indicating that they are merely different forms. However, the same could be said about Agumon Digivolving into Greymon for battle and then back again, yet we seem to tag Greymon and Agumon as different species. You don't see the "agumon" tag in pictures where only its evolutions are present.

I'll let whoever it is that has the power to do so decide how this issue should be handled. Just though I'd bring it up to be addressed. :)

See the existing thread.
But, to address your point, Digimon games don't usually involve in-battle digivolving(some do, but not most).
Also, while there are cosmetic changes to the pokemon, they still look like the same pokemon.

Well thanks for the link. I never would have suspected that to contain the question I had seeing as the thread name was so ambiguous. So it seems as though we are indeed treating the megas as their own species after all, correct?

FatherOfGray said:
Well thanks for the link. I never would have suspected that to contain the question I had seeing as the thread name was so ambiguous. So it seems as though we are indeed treating the megas as their own species after all, correct?

No, that's the opposite of what that thread said.
Unless you only read the top 3 or 4 posts.

Halite said:
No, that's the opposite of what that thread said.
Unless you only read the top 3 or 4 posts.

What? I think maybe you're the one that's confused. If the opposite is true, then why is it that every post tagged mega_evolution has only the mega Pokémon listed and not just the regular Pokémon or both?

FatherOfGray said:
What? I think maybe you're the one that's confused. If the opposite is true, then why is it that every post tagged mega_evolution has only the mega Pokémon listed and not just the regular Pokémon or both?

Me and Butter fix'd some images but then we stopped due to Halite's concern

TheHuskyK9 said:
Me and Butter fix'd some images but then we stopped due to Halite's concern

I see, so those tags should be "unfixed" to have both the regular AND mega species tags right? I can help with that.

FatherOfGray said:
I see, so those tags should be "unfixed" to have both the regular AND mega species tags right? I can help with that.

Yes