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Mario series implications (also TF2)

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BUR #5511 has been rejected.

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create alias mario_kart -> mario_kart_(series)
create implication dr._mario_(game) -> dr._mario_(series)
create implication dr._mario_(series) -> mario_(series)
create implication dr._mario_world -> dr._mario_(series)
create implication mario_&_luigi:_partners_in_time -> mario_&_luigi_(series)
create implication mario_&_luigi:_superstar_saga -> mario_&_luigi_(series)
create implication mario_&_luigi_(series) -> mario_(series)
create implication mario_&_sonic_(series) -> mario_(series)
create implication mario_&_sonic_(series) -> sonic_(series)
create implication mario_&_sonic_at_the_london_2012_olympic_games -> mario_&_sonic_(series)
create implication mario_&_sonic_at_the_olympic_games -> mario_&_sonic_(series)
create implication mario_&_sonic_at_the_olympic_games_tokyo_2020 -> mario_&_sonic_(series)
create implication mario_&_sonic_at_the_olympic_winter_games -> mario_&_sonic_(series)
create implication mario_&_sonic_at_the_rio_2016_olympic_games -> mario_&_sonic_(series)
create implication mario_&_sonic_at_the_sochi_2014_olympic_winter_games -> mario_&_sonic_(series)
create implication mario_golf -> mario_golf_(series)
create implication mario_kart:_double_dash!! -> mario_kart_(series)
create implication mario_kart:_super_circuit -> mario_kart_(series)
create implication mario_kart_(series) -> mario_(series)
create implication mario_kart_64 -> mario_kart_(series)
create implication mario_kart_7 -> mario_kart_(series)
create implication mario_kart_8 -> mario_kart_(series)
create implication mario_kart_8_deluxe -> mario_kart_(series)
create implication mario_kart_ds -> mario_kart_(series)
create implication mario_kart_tour -> mario_kart_(series)
create implication mario_kart_wii -> mario_kart_(series)
create implication mario_party -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_party-e -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_party:_island_tour -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_party:_star_rush -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_party:_the_top_100 -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_party_(series) -> mario_(series)
create implication mario_party_10 -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_party_2 -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_party_3 -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_party_4 -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_party_5 -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_party_6 -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_party_7 -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_party_8 -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_party_9 -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_party_advance -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_party_ds -> mario_party_(series)
create implication mario_strikers_(series) -> mario_(series)
create implication mario_strikers_charged -> mario_strikers_(series)
create implication mario_tennis -> mario_tennis_(series)
create implication mario_tennis_(series) -> mario_(series)
create implication new_super_mario_bros. -> new_super_mario_bros._(series)
create implication new_super_mario_bros._(series) -> mario_(series)
create implication new_super_mario_bros._2 -> new_super_mario_bros._(series)
create implication new_super_mario_bros._u -> new_super_mario_bros._(series)
create implication new_super_mario_bros._u_deluxe -> new_super_mario_bros._(series)
create implication new_super_mario_bros._wii -> new_super_mario_bros._(series)
create implication paper_mario -> paper_mario_(series)
create implication paper_mario:_color_splash -> paper_mario_(series)
create implication paper_mario:_the_origami_king -> paper_mario_(series)
create implication paper_mario:_the_thousand_year_door -> paper_mario_(series)
create implication paper_mario_(series) -> mario_(series)
create implication super_mario_bros. -> super_mario_bros._(series)
create implication super_mario_bros._(series) -> mario_(series)
create implication super_mario_bros._2 -> super_mario_bros._(series)
create implication super_mario_bros._3 -> super_mario_bros._(series)
create implication super_mario_galaxy -> super_mario_galaxy_(series)
create implication super_mario_galaxy_(series) -> mario_(series)
create implication super_mario_galaxy_2 -> super_mario_galaxy_(series)
create implication super_mario_kart -> mario_kart_(series)
create implication super_mario_land -> super_mario_land_(series)
create implication super_mario_land_(series) -> mario_(series)
create implication super_mario_maker -> super_mario_maker_(series)
create implication super_mario_maker_(series) -> mario_(series)
create implication super_mario_maker_2 -> super_mario_maker_(series)
create implication super_mario_party -> mario_party_(series)
create implication super_mario_rpg -> mario_(series)
create implication super_mario_strikers -> mario_strikers_(series)
create implication super_paper_mario -> paper_mario_(series)
create implication team_fortress_2 -> team_fortress_(series)
rename mario_&_luigi_rpg -> mario_&_luigi_(series)
rename paper_mario_64 -> paper_mario

Pretty straightforward stuff! We got a lot of Mario game tags that don't imply the series as a whole, resulting in people (read: me) tagging things with individual games and forgetting to tag it with the big ol' encompassing series tags.

Also Team Fortress 2 implying Team Fortress (series), for obvious reasons.

For reference, this is the proposed tag hierarchy:

There are a lot of issues here:

  • It's hard to follow what you're asking for here. I had to make a chart to make sense of it. Please, if you have a complicated request, make a chart or something so people can tell what you're doing.
  • A lot of these tags don't exist. Most of these "Mario & Sonic at the Olympics games" don't exist. Most of these Mario Party games don't exist. We don't need implications for tags that don't exist.
  • A lot of these these subseries tags seem excessive. Why do we need tags for every Mario Party game when the whole series only has like 35 posts? Why do we need tags for every Mario Kart game when the whole series has maybe 150 posts? Compare this to Super Smash Bros. and notice how we have only a single tag for the whole Smash Bros. series.
  • Why do need a extra series tag for things like Mario Golf or Super Mario Land, when they're the only game in these series on Danbooru?
  • All these subseries tags would basically make it so that every Mario game gets 3 copyright tags minimum. Every Rosalina post gets Super Mario Galaxy -> Super Mario Galaxy (series) -> Mario (series), all because Super Mario Galaxy 2 exists, even though it only has like 10 posts. Add Super Smash Bros. on top and a simple Rosalina post might get 4 or 5 copyright tags. Why not just fold Super Mario Galaxy 2 into Super Mario Galaxy and be done with it?
  • For some of these tags, like Paper Mario versus Paper Mario (series), it's easy to confuse the game tag with the series tag. We have enough of this with Super Mario Bros. (the tag for the original NES game, frequently misused for the Mario series as a whole), we don't need to make it worse.
  • Lastly, please don't put unrelated requests in the same BUR. I can't approve your Team Fortress 2 -> Team Fortress (series) request if I have to make sense of a hundred Mario implications first. I much prefer small simple BURs over mega BURs with a million points of potential disagreement.

I wholeheartedly agree in the case of the Mario Party and Mario & Sonic games (and other series with similarly same-y releases). These sub-franchises have few posts and even fewer good reasons to separate the individual releases. To most people they are just "Mario Party" and "Mario and Sonic Olympics"; those who care enough to differentiate between the individual games are few and far between.

For argument's sake the Mario & Sonic games do have some sportswear costumes unique to specific M&S releases, but at the same time there are other sportswear costumes that appear in multiple M&S releases. The same can be said for Mario Party's minigames. Expecting any casual user (or even most contributors) to pay attention to these minute and confusingly inconsistent details, however, is a fool's errand that only really has a place on the various Wikia sites.

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