Vietnam War tags

BUR #40902 has been rejected.

create alias viet_cong -> national_liberation_front_of_south_vietnam
create alias viet_cong_flag -> national_liberation_front_of_south_vietnam_flag

"National Liberation Front" is the actual name of the organization of communist guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam; "Viet Cong" ("Red Vietnamese") was the insult created by the South Vietnamese government to refer to them. However, because Viet Cong is the way the larger world has learned to refer to them, I want to provide a utility alias instead of simply renaming the tags.

"national liberation front" is extremely unclear and ambiguous as far as tag names go, and "viet cong" is what most people know them as. Even Wikipedia uses that term. I think it would be quite pointless and confusing for us to do this.

That's not even considering the various other national liberation fronts of the world. From a cursory and very incomplete search:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Front_for_Liberation
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberation_Front_of_Corsica
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberation_Front_of_Angola

nonamethanks said:

"national liberation front" is extremely unclear and ambiguous as far as tag names go, and "viet cong" is what most people know them as. Even Wikipedia uses that term. I think it would be quite pointless and confusing for us to do this.

That's not even considering the various other national liberation fronts of the world. From a cursory and very incomplete search:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Front_for_Liberation
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberation_Front_of_Corsica
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberation_Front_of_Angola

The fact that most people know it as Viet Cong is exactly why we should do an Alias instead of a rename. As for the name confusion, its full name is "National Liberation Front of South Vietnam", so I can have the tag be that if you'd rather.

Ordinarily I'd agree, but we seem to be renaming several tags to more official names, why should Viet Cong be left the outlier?

Because "viet cong" is short, unambiguous and everyone knows what it means. You're proposing going from that to a term that only historians interested in the Vietnam war and Vietnamese users (a small portion of our traffic) will know, and for no benefit. There's no point.

BUR #40924 is pending approval.

create alias national_liberation_front_of_south_vietnam -> viet_cong
create alias national_liberation_front_of_south_vietnam_flag -> viet_cong_flag

I think this is a good compromise.

The bulk update request #40902 (forum #351089) has been rejected by @Historyanon.