Topic: Guys, Guy is a guy named Guy

The bulk update request #10338 is active.

remove alias guy (0) -> male (2966603)

Reason: While it makes sense that "guy" is currently aliased to "male" since "guy" is synonymous with a male, guy, however, is also a name that is used by several characters and artists.

So I suggest turning it into a disambiguation tag instead.

Follow up: alias guy -> guy_(disambiguation) category guy_(disambiguation) -> invalid

EDIT: The bulk update request #10338 (forum #438259) has been approved by @spe.

The bulk update request #10338 (forum #438259) has been approved by @spe.

The bulk update request #12440 is pending approval.

create alias guy (0) -> guy_(disambiguation) (0)
change category guy_(disambiguation) (0) -> invalid

Reason: Just copy-pasting the follow-up

tee hee

I feel guy is most likely to refer to male and should've stayed aliased to it. All other tags starting with "guy" have at most only a couple dozen uses, and as a male name the character is likely to be male for the tag to be correct in most of those cases too. As a disambiguation, every (mis)use of the tag will require manual cleanup when it's probably just a misuse of male (but you can't be sure it wasn't meant as a name, meaning you either have to go digging to see if any of the characters are named Guy, or best to just leave it for someone who knows the characters), whereas being aliased to male will be correct 99% of the time.

watsit said:
... a disambiguation, every (mis)use of the tag will require manual cleanup

I don't know how prevalent use of *_(disambiguation) tag are, so I can speak of how much of a concern it really is.

watsit said:
..., and as a male name the character is likely to be male for the tag to be correct in most of those cases too.

As far as I know, Proper Noun tag needs some sort of context or disambiguation to begin with (e.g guy_<franchise>, guy_<artist>) . That is, notwithstanding the fact that guy is a common English noun, the tag Guy would not be considered valid.

I think like watsit. It shouldn't has been unalised

[EDIT]
That said, disambiguation wiki page should never be empty