Alias and implication requests

@Wcctnoam
I'd be interested — it would make small things easier to deal with haha

That would be helpful, yes.

Also, pending that, artist:katefardros should be aliased to artist:tomness (or vice-versa), since they're the same person (if you click through the source links for the latter's images, they take you to exactly the same twitter account as for the former, and the art style is visibly identical).

@Wcctnoam
Myself included? I wouldn't mind as I'm still working on that huge tag project I mentioned on discord bahaha

@Workable Goblin
Similarly pending — artist:naughtysyrup and artist:colorful-horses are the same person

Found another
artist:jhayarr23ph aliased to artist:jhayarr23
The first one is their new twitter handle it looks like, but they haven't changed their DA handle as far as I can tell

I will now handle the pending alias requests.

@Wcctnoam
Should I get the one I just reported above?

I somehow skipped it, it's done now.

Could you please alias star dancer to character:star dancer? I tried doing it myself, but I can't access the page that would let me do so.

Should space mane, galaxy mane, starry mane, ethereal mane, and ethereal tail be aliased into each other? At the very least, it seems that space mane, galaxy mane, and starry mane basically refer to the same thing, and there are only six images that are tagged ethereal tail and not ethereal mane—and all but one of those actually have ethereal manes (and in the exception, you simply can't see the mane).

That makes sense to me, it is done, and I added descriptions for assistance.

Morning Roast should be aliased to character:morning roast (Moondancer's sister)

For that matter, the moondancer's sister tag should also be aliased to character:morning roast. All images with the Morning Roast tag are also tagged moondancer's sister, and all images with the moondancer's sister tag are tagged morning roast, so they are practically speaking identical.

A couple more I just noticed:

skyscrapers should be aliased to skyscraper (the latter is far more used)
automobile should be aliased to car (ditto)

All four are done.

Some more aliases:

dumbbells → dumbbell (object)
melon mint → character:melon mint
orange sherbette → character:orange sherbette
frosty orange → character:frosty orange
cold forecast → character:cold forecast
crystal lullaby → character:crystal lullaby
diwata aino → character:diwata aino

It seems that ruby red is also an alias of Diwata Aino, so it should probably be aliased to the last tag as well.

ginger owlseye → character:ginger owlseye

Where applicable I created the target tag and put it into the proper category already.

@Workable Goblin
Done!

Another character alias I found:

sky beak → character:sky beak

@Workable Goblin
Done

More character aliases:

pickle barrel → character:pickle barrel
barley barrel → character:barley barrel

Additionally, I changed barrel twins to imply character:pickle barrel and character:barley barrel, as well as barleybetes (character:barley barrel) and picklebetes (character:pickle barrel)

(And fufflebetes to imply character:kerfuffle, but that was a freebie)

Should the "x-betes" and "dia-x" tags also imply "cute" along with the relevant character? Seems like it.

@Workable Goblin
I would give it a go but I don't think we can access that page

@Workable Goblin
i've been putting cute when i see them, since that's the whole point of those tags in the first place =P

Here's a couple more
written script → character:written script
goldenscript → ship:goldenscript (Shipping between Written Script and Golden Harvest)

I haven't messed with the tagging system, mostly out of fear of breaking something, but I'll try to add some implications to the ship tag

Should species:lamia imply snake? A large proportion of lamia images (about 800) aren't tagged with snake, but a reasonable number (about 300) are, and after all lamias are snake-like creatures.

An additional question is what should be done with snake pony? In some cases such as this it seems to be basically equivalent to lamia, but in other cases like this it is just a pony-ish snake. In either case it seems a bit redundant, but I'm not clear what implications or aliases it ought to have.

Related to that, I edited several lamia and snake-related tags with implications. Most of these were "x-lamia" tags indicating that character x was a lamia, to which I added the implication that the character in question was in the image and that there was a character of species:lamia. I was somewhat unsure how to handle the tag fluttersnake, which was approximately evenly divided between images of her as a snake and her as a lamia, so I only added that it implied fluttershy.

What we should probably have is "species:lamia" for the very specific definition of it, and "species:snake pony" for the catch-all term. The first one could imply the second one, but I'm not educated enough on these and I kinda don't want to be, so I trust others' judgements.
I don't think either should imply snake because then "snake" means a literal snake, the animal as we know it, is in the picture, same way you would use the tag dog or cat or dragon.