Imply Red_Eyepatch->Eyepatch

The bulk update request #9484 has been rejected.

create implication red_eyepatch -> eyepatch

post #5193667
Posts like this don't come up searching for eyepatch even though red_eyepatch is a subset of eyepatch.

Can I ask why the downvotes? Tags like black eyepatch and heart eyepatch already imply eyepatch, so why shouldn't red eyepatch do the same?

As for me, I really don't think it's necessary to tag eyepatch colors, especially black ones which are essentially the default color for eyepatches.

I took a look at the color_eyepatch tags and we only have three with meaningful numbers - black_eyepatch with 1.5k, white_eyepatch with 413 and red_eyepatch with 276.
—Black is the color of the default/generic eyepatch popularised by pirates and would apply to 95% of eyepatch posts, making its utility questionable at best.
—White is only there as it's the color of medical_eyepatches, the second most common kind of eyepatch.
—Finally, red is only close to 300 due to Baidou; she comprises almost 90% of red_eyepatch posts (and half of the remainder are Megumin).
These numbers are dwarfed, however, by the eyepatch tag itself, which stands at 50k posts. Excluding greyscale posts and the meagre 2k we already have, that gives us about 43,000 posts featuring untagged eyepatch colors, the majority of which are going to be black.

What I suggest instead is to have a colored_eyepatch tag for all eyepatches that are not black or white, rather than fragmenting this information between several tiny color-specific tags (which would not even be useful for searching due to their minuscule counts).

The bulk update request #9486 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

nuke black_eyepatch
nuke white_eyepatch
create alias red_eyepatch -> colored_eyepatch
create alias orange_eyepatch -> colored_eyepatch
create alias yellow_eyepatch -> colored_eyepatch
create alias green_eyepatch -> colored_eyepatch
create alias blue_eyepatch -> colored_eyepatch
create alias purple_eyepatch -> colored_eyepatch
create alias pink_eyepatch -> colored_eyepatch
create alias brown_eyepatch -> colored_eyepatch
create alias aqua_eyepatch -> colored_eyepatch
create implication colored_eyepatch -> eyepatch

As above.

Wouldn't be a mass update from white to medical eyepatch be appropriate?

If the only thing that makes an eyepatch medical is its color then we may as well just keep white_eyepatch. If not then a mass update is unneeded.

I added medical eyepatch where missing from white eyepatch, there's a few results under white_eyepatch -medical_eyepatch -flower_eyepatch -sakamoto_mio that aren't medical eyepatches (and sakamoto_mio's would fall under colored_eyepatch) but frankly I don't think they justify having a dedicated white eyepatch tag.

note to self: post #4337661 and post #3926682 should also be moved to colored eyepatch when this is approved.

The bulk update request #9486 (forum #208593) has been approved by @nonamethanks.

The bulk update request #9484 (forum #208582) has been rejected by @nonamethanks.