Tag Alias: mikan <-> tangerine

Aliasing mikan <-> tangerine

Reason: It is debatable whether or not we should have mikan <-> orange alias/implication. However, the two species, Tangerine (Citrus tangerina) and Mikan (Citrus unshiu), are closely related to each other.

Personally I do not see a reason to differentiate these from other oranges and would side with simply aliasing these to the orange tag.

If for some reason there is a reason to retain differentiation, then I would have to say alias both mikan and tangerine to mandarin_orange or mandarin, as both are listed as varieties of mandarin oranges. Digging around, there are several sites that list mikan/satsuma as Citrus reticulata subspecies unshiu.

In fact the mandarin tag is already currently be used for the orange as well.

Yes, alias everything to orange.

+1.

There's really no visual difference between orange and tangerine, mikan, etc.

I'm up for aliasing mikan, mandarin, and tangerine to orange as well. But I'll give the thread more than a day before aliasing away 260 images of tags.

mikan can refer to a name, but from what I have seen so far, all characters named Mikan either have surnames or have qualifiers.

mandarin can refer to the Chinese language (in particular the one spoken widely around the world based on the one spoken in Beijing). But hearing Mandarin Chinese will automatically elicit a response of simply Chinese with no reference to it being Mandarin Chinese.

So unless we do some more digging to tell the odd man out, then it's a go for the alias.

There's a difference in size. Tangerines, mandarins, clementines and mikans are all the same to me, but an orange is much bigger (and usually a lot more round than the other 4, which are squashed or red blood cell shaped often).

I second Serlo on this one. Tangerines, mandarins, clementines, and mikans all look about the same (small oblate spheriods), while oranges are larger and rounder.

So then alias tangerine, mandarin, clementine and mikan to [something] and leave orange as-is? What tag should we use for the others?

How about tangerine? It's certainly more familiar to most people than mikan or clementine.

Anyways, I still think the difference in size and shape is insignificant. They all look the same to me.

For the most part the term mandarin or perhaps maybe mandarin_orange is used broadly to cover them all. If you google around with like mandarin orange varieties, they'll generally list all these types as a type of mandarin.

Tangerine is in common enough use that it is its own colour

Tangerines don't have significant color difference, actually. Not one that artists pay any real attention to, anyway.

I also don't see a point in separating orange. They might typically be bigger but it's not like they're often side-by-side so how are you really supposed to tell the difference unless it's on a kotatsu or something? Specific tags for fruit just seems to be outside the scope of the site.

Well, for now I'm aliasing tangerine, mandarin, clementine and mikan to mandarin_orange just so they're all under one tag. If there's a consensus to just go with orange, we can do that later.