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BUR #21349 has been approved by @evazion.
remove alias gaiamon -> gaiamon_(appmon)
There's a Digimon and a Appmon called Gaiamon, two different characters, so it's better to unalias the regular "gaiamon" tag with "gaiamon_(appmon)" to avoid future problems.
The bulk update request #21349 (forum #260525) has been approved by @evazion.
evazion said:
I still don't understand the difference between these two characters, but okay.
As far as I know, the Digimon Gaiamon doesn't even exist. It's mentioned by name in a single game, but never makes a physical appearance there or anywhere else. In fact, the Digimon literally just doesn't exist at all within the series. It only exists conceptually as something that could exist as part of Digimon World 3's story.
I don't think there's any reason to have a separate tag for something that outright doesn't exist.
blindVigil said:
As far as I know, the Digimon Gaiamon doesn't even exist. It's mentioned by name in a single game, but never makes a physical appearance there or anywhere else. In fact, the Digimon literally just doesn't exist at all within the series. It only exists conceptually as something that could exist as part of Digimon World 3's story.
I don't think there's any reason to have a separate tag for something that outright doesn't exist.
OK, let me explain.
Digimon is an extremely unorganized franchise.
We literally have official Digimon that we only have the name, Gaiamon is just one of them, other examples are: Earthdramon, BesoBombmon, Danmon, Kandoushichaudamon, Nikkorimon, Zombiemon, PunchNarabimon, Huntermon, MirrorBallmon, Okunimon, KitaKitsunemon, Kyukanchoumon, JikoTyumon, CheerGalmon, Urashimamon, etc.
Some of them only appears in Drama CDs, some of them are straight up confirmed to be canon from Bandai Namco but never got an official art, the fans often make fandesigns for them so the tag can be used to refer to these fanarts until BN hopefully make official art for them.
The reverse also happen, we have official art for some Digimon that don't even have a name, the biggest example is Meicoomon's pre-evolutions:
https://wikimon.net/Meicoomon%27s_Unnamed_Child_Form
https://wikimon.net/Meicoomon%27s_Unnamed_Baby_Form
The later even appeared in the last episode of Digimon Ghost Game but like I said before, these two Digimon don't even have a official name!
In summary, being a Digimon fan is suffering.
Updated by Chaos11
None of that is really relevant. Gaiamon has no official appearance and has never even been mentioned outside of DW3. When I said Gaiamon literally didn't exist, I meant it. Gaiamon in DW3 was a conceptual digimon that another character was trying to create, but never does. The character exists in name only and in lore is no more than an idea.
More relevant to this discussion, Danbooru has no art of any fan designs. We don't even have any fanart of the appmon, just two posts featuring the same official art. None of the other digimon you mentioned have posts on the site, either. We don't need tags for characters that don't exist (as far as Danbooru is concerned).
Frankly, I don't even know why Gaiamon (appmon) has a qualifier, when it's always been the only Gaiamon on the site, or anywhere else, for that matter.
