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alias flying_saucer -> ufo

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DownWithTheThickness

The bulk update request #14678 has been rejected.

create alias flying_saucer -> ufo

The majority of flying saucer pictures are also already tagged ufo (167/ 245), and conversely, skimming through ufo -flying_saucer, it's a pretty small minority of UFOs that aren't a stereotypical flying saucer even when lacking the tag (the first page doesn't have any), so I think we can probably just do away with the distinction.

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    DownWithTheThickness said:

    I'm inclined to agree with TrueKringe in the other thread; since there are a (very, very small) handful of UFOs that aren't shaped like flying saucers, it would be best to keep the UFO tag so it isn't unintuitive on things like post #4676323

    Tagging something as an unidentified object doesn't make much more sense though, it basically means you tag that you don't know what it is which was mentioned back in topic #15759.

    Regardless, we definitely don't need both of these tags.

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    Unbreakable said:

    Tagging something as an unidentified object doesn't make much more sense though, it basically means you tag that you don't know what it is which was mentioned back in topic #15759.

    While that's true, colloquially "UFO" has kinda just come to mean "weird-looking alien spacecraft", to the point where people seem to default to the term even if it isn't actually "unidentified". If nothing else, people are already in the habit of using UFO (2311 ufo tags vs 245 flying_saucer).

    But yeah, I agree, it's less important which one we stick with and more that we just get rid of the redundancy.

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