nuke radioactive

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BUR #44660 has been rejected.

nuke radioactive

Radiation is invisible. What the images under this tag show are:

  • the radiation symbol
  • glowing stuff with unknown properties, usually green
  • medical equipment that you might know (but not be able to see) emits radiation
  • biohazards (based on their use of the biohazard symbol)

Since we should tag what we see, not what we know, I think this radioactive tag should be nuked (rimshot).

Unbreakable said:

I agree on all points except the second one, there are most likely some cases where the tag would be appropriate.

Here are the posts in the "glowing green stuff" category that don't feature a radiation_symbol.
post #510628 - This one I think could validly be tagged radioactive.
post #3614192 - (rating:q) Without the commentary I would have had no idea this was supposed to show radioactivity. I don't know if the commentary can influence tagging like that.
post #4237544 - It's green and glowing, but there's no indication that it's actually radioactive. Not even in the commentary.
post #8872627 - Could be radioactive or it could be a biohazard. I don't know enough about Tarkov to say.
post #9378898 - Probably better to find this with fallout glowing.
post #9378918 - Same as above.
There's a couple of Gold account images that I can't comment on.

I think if they have a radiation symbol (which I should mention most of them do), that's a better signal to search by. Of the above, I personally judge 3 of them able to accurately be tagged as radioactive. (The first one and maybe the Fallout ones.)
What do you think?

Kaleidoscoped said:

"glowing green stuff" could be replaced with radiation. (also, shouldn't this be a deprecation bur?)

I wasn't aware of this tag. I have some of the same gripes about required knowledge, like these posts post #8973366 post #5788916 post #5641282, but for the most part it is better tagged than radioactive, which is largely acting as a mistag for radiation_symbol at the moment. Perhaps I will just manually clean up the tags in radiation and remove those Reiuji Utsuho posts if no one disagrees (except ones like this where do actually depict radiation: post #6467148).

On deprecation, maybe. I'm not sure now. I think it is currently being badly misused, but that it isn't impossible for it to be used correctly.

nonamethanks said:

radioactive glow seems fine as a tag idea, but it could overlap with cherenkov_radiation, and we likely want a tag specifically for the green glow. Maybe radioactive green?

I think that either would be a good place for some of the posts in radioactive (and possibly radiation, I haven't checked if there are many glowing green stuff posts in there) to get moved to. I mulled over things like radioactive_goo, and radioactive_sludge, but not all of the glowing green things are sludges or goos, and it would be really silly to have different radioactive_* tags for different consistencies.

A bit of an aside: cherenkov_radiation is a funny one too, because the demon_core (which is what most of the images in that tag use as the radioactive source) wouldn't have given off Cherenkov radiation, because it isn't underwater in any of those images.
That's what the artist intends the light to be though even if it wouldn't work like that, so that's good enough to leave be I think. Not like all of the images on here have to be physically possible.

magcolo said:

You need to make sure all the posts under radioactive are tagged with one of the alternatives before a nuke. Deprecation is usually more appropriate.

At the time I raised this I added all of the appropriate radiation symbol and biohazard symbol tags. I think I did miss some glowing tags. I'll do a quick sweep of posts for that later today. I think there was only a couple of medical equipment knowledge posts and they already had tags but I'll check for that too.

BUR #46827 has been rejected.

deprecate radioactive

CrossbowArcanePlus said:

Radiation is invisible. What the images under this tag show are:

  • the radiation symbol
  • glowing stuff with unknown properties, usually green
  • medical equipment that you might know (but not be able to see) emits radiation
  • biohazards (based on their use of the biohazard symbol)

Since we should tag what we see, not what we know, I think this radioactive tag should be nuked (rimshot).

magcolo said:
You need to make sure all the posts under radioactive are tagged with one of the alternatives before a nuke. Deprecation is usually more appropriate.

Alternatively.

nonamethanks said:
radioactive glow seems fine as a tag idea, but it could overlap with cherenkov_radiation, and we likely want a tag specifically for the green glow. Maybe radioactive green?

I think the more appropriate specific tag proposed for glowing radioactive items, should be radioluminescence. But it is not always green, contrary to pop culture depiction. "green glow" would be better alternative since it sounds more visually intuitive.

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