Danbooru

Renaming "list of weapons" to "tag group:weapons"

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Hillside_Moose said:
list_of_weapons isn't the only tag with "list" in it (see: list_of_animals, list_of_pokemon_characters, etc.), and changing the 100+ wiki articles to reflect this superficial change is more trouble than it's worth.

After these months of contributions and extensive experience with tag groups, I repeat my proposal above.

If nobody objects, I'm going to rename just list of weapons to tag group:weapons, including updating all the backlinks.

There's no need to rename "list of animals", too, just now. This work can be extended to multiple tag groups, eventually, piecemeal, for consistency.

Nobody objecting does not mean a green light. Especially with a change that requires 100+ edits.

Nobody objecting means nobody cared enough to raise concern, not that enough people agreed that the change is free to go through. Unless you get an explicit yes on things that are a huge amount of changes that are purely superficial and benefit nobody and nothing except your wiki edit count don't do them.

Log said:
Nobody objecting does not mean a green light. Especially with a change that requires 100+ edits.

Nobody objecting means nobody cared enough to raise concern, not that enough people agreed that the change is free to go through. Unless you get an explicit yes on things that are a huge amount of changes that are purely superficial and benefit nobody and nothing except your wiki edit count don't do them.

Unlikely. Provided that proposals are well-explained and sparse — and objectionable —, someone is going to object them soon enough.

And I don't think anybody cares about the edit count of someone else; but I may be wrong. If anything, many futile contributions would only make an unsightly edit list.

I end up having to rush to object to things when it involves you, Danielx21. You're the kind of person who will rush off to make changes because no one bothered to respond to your post thinking that's some sort of green light, when it is not.

As for changing the name, I don't know. I can't say that I feel horribly strongly one way or the other. Though it does not seem to be something of an issue to exert effort on, especially when it is only a superficial change that could cause larger problems.

The reason it is a list is because when I made it I figured it made more sense as a list, as opposed to a tag group. Initially everything under the list was something that fell under only one tag, which is the weapons tag. It wasn't a grouping of related tags, but intended to be a specific list of items that fell under the one tag. Its creation was to remove a rather large build up of specific weapons tags that were being listed under the weapon and more so the gun wiki.

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Danielx21 said: Unlikely. Provided that proposals are well-explained and sparse — and objectionable —, someone is going to object them soon enough.

Sorry, Log is right. Lack of response should not necessarily be considered a green light. It's partly my fault for having so little time to check these forums anymore thanks to work being insane, but in general it's best not to assume silence is consent. In this specific case I'd say the change isn't necessary.

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