There is also cephalopod, currently 23 posts, which would have thousands if fully populated since it encompasses at least 5 other tags, including octopus and squid. Arthropod technically applies to every bug, spider, crab, shrimp, and more. There are probably countless taxonomic umbrella tags that could be created, but I'm not sure how useful any of them would be.
These might be too diverse. I suggested gastropod not because of taxonomy but because it plays a role similar to crocodilian in that it is linking two very types of animals that probably fulfill a similar "trope" in art. I'm not so sure about say, linking shrimps and spiders.
Slug OR snail has a over a hundred pages of results. That's not really the attitude we have with tagging stuff with so many posts.
Most of your proposals have received mostly negative reception, you persistently argue with anyone trying to explain how our policies work, including admins, and on multiple occasions have insisted on repopulating deleted tags or going ahead with changes that were rejected. I really don't think you're the best person to be telling the rest of us what "attitude we have with tagging."
We don't make tags just because a particular search returns a lot of results. That is our attitude on tagging. ~snail ~slug is a two tag search. Members are the only people gastropod would be any tangible benefit to, and you would still need to prove that a relevant percentage of users would actually use the tag. The fact that the tag went entirely unused until one user decided to populate it on one specific pokemon less than a year ago is proof that no one cares about the existence of this tag. If an implication is the only way a tag would actually see use, then it's probably not a very good tag.
zetsubousensei said:
Crocodilian isn't an umbrella tag for two similar looking animal it's replacing them because there is no point in separately tagging them.
Most of your proposals have received mostly negative reception, you persistently argue with anyone trying to explain how our policies work, including admins, and on multiple occasions have insisted on repopulating deleted tags or going ahead with changes that were rejected. I really don't think you're the best person to be telling the rest of us what "attitude we have with tagging."
We don't make tags just because a particular search returns a lot of results. That is our attitude on tagging. ~snail ~slug is a two tag search. Members are the only people gastropod would be any tangible benefit to, and you would still need to prove that a relevant percentage of users would actually use the tag. The fact that the tag went entirely unused until one user decided to populate it on one specific pokemon less than a year ago is proof that no one cares about the existence of this tag. If an implication is the only way a tag would actually see use, then it's probably not a very good tag.
Hi vigil, no need to get weirdly personal about BURs like you did in that warhammer thing ages ago (editok that might have been harsh). I'm not "persistently persistently argue with anyone trying to explain how our policies work" it's a normal discussion which is what the forum is for, this also ignores the other user who wanted this change. The Bridget thread is probably a better example of people arguing needlessly.
What you mention about going ahead with burs still in progress is precisely WHY the tag is so small, as I didn't go ahead and populate the slug and snails because it had been deleted before and there was an ongoing bur people were discussing.
As for the point of the how the tag was used before, that has been mentioned nurmerous times as not really being a good metric to judge the implication.
Honestly, I could see myself using gastropod in a search, but I'd probably be looking for "sciencey" posts. Implicating it to stuff like post #6685585 or post #6976907 seems excessive.
Honestly, I could see myself using gastropod in a search, but I'd probably be looking for "sciencey" posts. Implicating it to stuff like post #6685585 or post #6976907 seems excessive.
So could I. There's also apparent a "trope" of anime girls being covered with slugs/snails to signify ickyness or some kind of fetish so there another, albeit weird, use case.
