Only one of these needs to exist, but...which one?

Waking is the most used tag of the three you listed. I also like awaking.

TheVileOne said:
Waking is the most used tag of the three you listed. I also like awaking.

waking_up has like seven times as many posts as waking does.

I feel like most people would say "wake up!" when trying to rouse a sleeping individual, along with other uses of the phrase. All of them are fine, but "waking up" seems to be the most current.

darryus said:
waking_up has like seven times as many posts as waking does.

Oh, silly me. I missed that one. I checked awaking instead of waking_up.

I still like the waking tag, because it is consistent with tags like waking_self and waking_another.

Kemonophonic said:
I've gone ahead and replaced waking, awakening and awaking with waking_up as it's the most commonly used tag.

I suggest aliasing those three tags to waking_up.

I'm not sure 'awakening' should be aliased. While one of its definitions can mean to wake up, whenever I see it in casual or formal language it's usually used for its other meanings (that being 'a revival of interest in something (such as religion)' or 'a coming into awareness').

I was going to start a new topic asking about this, but found this one. So, I was tagging and saw several tags with almost exact same meaning. Then went ahead and collected a bunch of other results in tag search. Sigh. Stats provided for convenience. Also, is there a way to make it automatically update those? I mean, besides the obvious and hackish BUR method that'll get you banned from BURs. XD
Woken: 8
Woken_up: 3
Sexy_awake: 1 No idea why they did this.
Wake_up_sex: 3
Wakeup: 3
Lewd_awakening: 2 Haha, this pun on rude_awakening figure of speech.
Wake_up: 48
Awake: 207 Is this even a valid tag name? Lulz, isn't this like eyes_open?
Awakening: 24
Wake: 31 This is actually a character tag.
Just_woke_up: 24
I_can't_sleep: 2
Icantfallasleep: 1
Faking_sleep: 14
Sleep_talking: 46
Sleep_walking: 25
Sleep_paralysis: 13
Sleep_deprivation: 2
Sleeping_sex: 3
Sleep_rape: 2
Sleep_molestation: 273
Sleeptalking: 4
Sleep_deprived: 6
Sleep_sex: 1808
Sleepwalking: 2
Half_asleep: 22
Awakened: 0

So, I guess this is my next project? XD

alias sleeping_sex -> sleep_sex

Variations of walking/talking and so on...