midair tag overlapping with airborne

BUR #19816 has been rejected.

create alias airborne -> midair

There was a previous attempt at this change at BUR #14645, it sort of died without discussion 8 months ago.

Reiterate the previous point discussed a little, the now 388 post tag airborne is used in the same way as midair which has 4.1k posts. For the act or parachuting or describing airborne forces, there are actual parachute and paratrooper tags for it, so the tag airborne is not particularly applicable in the military sense, nor was it appears to have been used that way considering majority of the tags with airborne -midair aren't military themed. Still open to other inputs though.

Thank you for your time.

Airborne will just need some gardening before this goes through, I found things like post #6684478 in there because it was misinterpreted as a tag for airborne troops

HeeroWingZero said:

Airborne will just need some gardening before this goes through, I found things like post #6684478 in there because it was misinterpreted as a tag for airborne troops

Yeah, I suggested deprecating it instead.

This bulk update request is pending automatic rejection in 5 days.

This bulk update request has been rejected because it was not approved within 45 days.

The bulk update request #19816 (forum #253652) has been rejected by @DanbooruBot.

BUR #25891 is pending approval.

deprecate airborne

Unbreakable said:
Yeah, I suggested deprecating it instead.

+1
Alternative to forum #231275. Airborne has been used on posts describing different concepts. Such as floating object (all floating_* tags feature inanimate objects), character being midair, or a soldier of an airborne unit even when he is on ground (post #6849561). Even worse, it has been used for describing spitroast (post #6584541).
It can be rendered ambiguous so far, and brings no more descriptive value.