PvZ Character Tags

BUR #42274 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

The character tags for the Plants vs. Zombies series are a mess. This BUR fixes three things:

1. Removing qualifiers from tags with unambiguous names.
2. Keeping the qualifiers of tags with ambiguous names, but fixing their punctuation.
3. Changing (plants_vs._zombies_heroes) qualifiers to simply (plants_vs._zombies). The Heroes qualifier is only really necessary for Citron and Nightcap, as they share their names with plants from PvZ2.

If there are any edits you'd like me to make to this BUR, such as adding or removing qualifiers from certain tags, feel free to suggest them.

last I checked the period after vs is an unnecessary type of punctuation usually not practiced on the site. but I might be wrong

and it probably would be better to split the BUR up based on the type

c_spl said:

last I checked the period after vs is an unnecessary type of punctuation usually not practiced on the site. but I might be wrong

You must've missed topic #31740 (there's also topic #18365 if you want something older).

Damian0358 said:

You must've missed topic #31740 (there's also topic #18365 if you want something older).

I see thank you

Add stinky the snail (plants vs zombies) and wasabi whip (plants_vs_zombies) there

alexr05 said:

Add stinky the snail (plants vs zombies) and wasabi whip (plants_vs_zombies) there

Done.

Most of them have qualifiers, so imo there's no much point in removing them from less than half of the tags.

nonamethanks said:

Most of them have qualifiers, so imo there's no much point in removing them from less than half of the tags.

I'm inclined to disagree. For most franchises, qualifiers are typically reserved for tags with ambiguous names. For something like Sunflower or Cherry Bomb, using qualifiers makes sense, as they'd be ambiguous otherwise. That's not the case for a lot of these; they're specific enough that they're unlikely to be confused for anything else.

BKaz20 said:

I'm inclined to disagree. For most franchises, qualifiers are typically reserved for tags with ambiguous names. For something like Sunflower or Cherry Bomb, using qualifiers makes sense, as they'd be ambiguous otherwise. That's not the case for a lot of these; they're specific enough that they're unlikely to be confused for anything else.

We've been holding firm for the past several years to the principle that if the majority of characters in a franchise have qualifiers for their character tags, especially in cases like this where the characters in question have a single name, then they should all be qualified. Dequalifiying a bunch of tags that previously had qualifiers would only cause confusion, and we've had cases where previous attempts at that were reverted, such as in forum #331559. Dequalifying also opens up an opportunity where a copyright in the future might use that same name for their work and result in mistags for the PvZ character, as unlikely as that might seem to you.

Damian0358 said:

We've been holding firm for the past several years to the principle that if the majority of characters in a franchise have qualifiers for their character tags, especially in cases like this where the characters in question have a single name, then they should all be qualified. Dequalifiying a bunch of tags that previously had qualifiers would only cause confusion, and we've had cases where previous attempts at that were reverted, such as in forum #331559. Dequalifying also opens up an opportunity where a copyright in the future might use that same name for their work and result in mistags for the PvZ character, as unlikely as that might seem to you.

Okay, fair enough. I wasn't aware of any series besides Pokémon that this was the policy for, but if this is how things should be done with PvZ as well, so be it. I've gone ahead and changed all of the dequalifications to ones that just fix the punctuation (I removed the ones for Grimrose and Red Stinger, due to their tags already having correct punctuation.)

The bulk update request #42274 (forum #360503) has been approved by @nonamethanks.

BUR #43364 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create alias primal_potato_mine_(plants_vs_zombies) -> primal_potato_mine_(plants_vs._zombies)

Forgot one

The bulk update request #43364 (forum #364896) has been approved by @nonamethanks.