Regarding the gundam tag

According to the wiki entry (gundam), the gundam tag is not meant to implicate all the Gundam series so my question is how should it be used? Should it be used as temporary tag until a picture receives a more specific copyright tag?

Also, I've noticed that for some time when a picture is tagged with one of the major gundam series tag (gundam_00 or gundam_seed), the gundam tag is no longer added automatically. If a picture is tagged with the appropriate series, should the gundam tag be removed?

I, personally, think that all Gundam related images, regardless of series, should be tagged "Gundam", and then also tagged with whatever specific series they contain images from.

There was a discussion about this in the now-locked Tag Alias discussion thread:

http://danbooru.donmai.us/forum/show/7689?page=14 (bottom 2 posts and the next page)

albert in post #9695 said:
In that case, I'll use the following rule for copyright -> copyright implications: only accept if they share most of the major cast.

kristallimeri said:
There was a discussion about this in the now-locked Tag Alias discussion thread:

http://danbooru.donmai.us/forum/show/7689?page=14 (bottom 2 posts and the next page)

Just to clarify, does "most of the major cast" only refer to the major cast within one specific series?

Fencedude said: I, personally, think that all Gundam related images, regardless of series, should be tagged "Gundam", and then also tagged with whatever specific series they contain images from.

I agree, and it used to, but albert didn't like it and it got removed.

I thought like Fencedude that gundam should be a metaseries tag for the Gundam franchise as a whole, because in it's current state, it's kind of a dead tag.

I'm not sure what you'd actually use it for right now as original Gundam uses mobile_suit_gundam, and the actual robots themselves typically just use the mecha plus the tag of their particular series.

Seem said:
I thought like Fencedude that gundam should be a metaseries tag for the Gundam franchise as a whole, because in it's current state, it's kind of a dead tag.

I agree with both these sentiments. I too, like the idea of the gundam tag covering the entire franchise. However, one problem I've encountered with the gundam tag is that some images that haven't been tagged properly get lost very easily because it contains so many images.

I've reverted my decision about copyright -> copyright implications because I did find myself wishing it existed for things like Wild Arms. So you can submit them (via the forum still) and if people approve I'll add them.

Then someone will have to tag posts with wild_arms_1 for the first game. I can't because I did not play these games.