Implicating jack-o'-lantern → pumpkin
Link to implication

Reason:

I'm honestly amazed that this implication doesn't already exist- the wiki page for the jack-o-lantern tag even specifically defines them as and links back to pumpkin.

EDIT: The tag implication jack-o'-lantern -> pumpkin (forum #263172) has been rejected by @gattonero2001.

-1. Jack-o-lanterns, while mostly pumpkins in our common day, actually originated with carving things like turnips, originating from Ireland I believe. And even now on occasion modern ones can be made with gourds rather than strictly pumpkins. (the pokémon Gourgeist, for example, is based upon gourd jack-o-lanterns). It isn't pumpkin exclusive.

DiceLovesBeingBlown said:
-1. Jack-o-lanterns, while mostly pumpkins in our common day, actually originated with carving things like turnips, originating from Ireland I believe. And even now on occasion modern ones can be made with gourds rather than strictly pumpkins. (the pokémon Gourgeist, for example, is based upon gourd jack-o-lanterns). It isn't pumpkin exclusive.

I love getting ready to make an informative post only to realize someone's already done it :D YAY Jack-o-knowledge

SnowWolf said:
I love getting ready to make an informative post only to realize someone's already done it :D YAY Jack-o-knowledge

Ehehe looks like I beat you to it this time ;P Jack-o-lantern history is indeed fascinating!

But yeah, OP, they're not pumpkin exclusive, even if they're most commonly pumpkins in modern day.

Haha, I guess I shouldn't have deleted that smart-alec 'are we waiting for someone to upload a turnip or something?' remark, after all. ;p

Seriously though, the site wiki does define it as exclusive to pumpkins. If we're going to be technically accurate and leave things open to other jack'd vegetables, that should probably get edited to reflect that they're not the only option.

Is there any way to add a tag to more than one post at a time? When I searched with -pumpkin, I didn't see any jack-o-lanterns of other varieties, but tagging them individually by hand just feels like a tedious prospect.

Cryptic_Cryptid said:

Haha, I guess I shouldn't have deleted that smart-alec 'are we waiting for someone to upload a turnip or something?' remark, after all. ;p

Seriously though, the site wiki does define it as exclusive to pumpkins. If we're going to be technically accurate and leave things open to other jack'd vegetables, that should probably get edited to reflect that they're not the only option.

Well I mean one example I can, and have seen happening at least on some occasion is a jack-o-lantern meant to resemble gourgeist's body, which would be gourd based aka not pumpkin. (I mean in itself gourgeist is based on the gourd lantern, but I've seen artistic interpretations of gourd lanterns based on gourgeist itself)

But yeah, the wiki should be edited to note that, while most commonly pumpkins, they aren't always pumpkins.

Cryptic_Cryptid said:

Is there any way to add a tag to more than one post at a time? When I searched with -pumpkin, I didn't see any jack-o-lanterns of other varieties, but tagging them individually by hand just feels like a tedious prospect.

If you have a privileged or higher account, you can utilize tag scripts to mass tag. If you want to, you could probably request someone privileged or higher to do this for you.

Cryptic_Cryptid said:
Seriously though, the site wiki does define it as exclusive to pumpkins. If we're going to be technically accurate and leave things open to other jack'd vegetables, that should probably get edited to reflect that they're not the only option.

The wiki can be edited by anyone. Believe me, I've fixed up some awful looking wiki...

Is there any way to add a tag to more than one post at a time? When I searched with -pumpkin, I didn't see any jack-o-lanterns of other varieties, but tagging them individually by hand just feels like a tedious prospect.

Fixed it.

I did add it to post of the pictures, but post #552456 just didn't seem pumpkiny to me.

On the other hand... if 99.9% of posts are pumpkins.... maybe that remaining .1% is worth the mistag? I dunno.

I feel rather pumpkin ike myself tooday

SnowWolf said:
The wiki can be edited by anyone. Believe me, I've fixed up some awful looking wiki...

Fixed it.

I did add it to post of the pictures, but post #552456 just didn't seem pumpkiny to me.

On the other hand... if 99.9% of posts are pumpkins.... maybe that remaining .1% is worth the mistag? I dunno.

I feel rather pumpkin ike myself tooday

Gourgeist is supposed to look like a generic Gourd more than a pumpkin specifically.

I just want to know if we can simplify the tag, why can't it just be jack_o_lantern? I can't tell you how many times I've miss spelled jack-o'-lantern or looked up a picture with a pumpkin just to copy the tag for transfer. I bet a lot of other people have ran into the same problem and just kiboshed the tag from their posts. Probably a whole trove of posts with the possibility for the tag that just don't have it because it is a pane to get the tag

Versperus said:
I just want to know if we can simplify the tag, why can't it just be jack_o_lantern? I can't tell you how many times I've miss spelled jack-o'-lantern or looked up a picture with a pumpkin just to copy the tag for transfer. I bet a lot of other people have ran into the same problem and just kiboshed the tag from their posts. Probably a whole trove of posts with the possibility for the tag that just don't have it because it is a pane to get the tag

An alias would be best in this case, aliasing the various different spellings (such as lacking the apostrophe and/or hyphens) to the proper spelling, a la pokemon to pokémon and the like

, jack-o-lantern, jack_o'_lantern, etc would alias to the proper spelled, singular tag.

DiceLovesBeingBlown said:
An alias would be best in this case, aliasing the various different spellings (such as lacking the apostrophe and/or hyphens) to the proper spelling, a la pokemon to pokémon and the like

jack_o_lantern

, jack-o-lantern, jack_o'_lantern, etc would alias to the proper spelled, singular tag.

I'm honestly open to just about any alternative. It might be the most complicated tag to write out in its current form

DiceLovesBeingBlown said:
An alias would be best in this case, aliasing the various different spellings (such as lacking the apostrophe and/or hyphens) to the proper spelling, a la pokemon to pokémon and the like

jack_o_lantern

, jack-o-lantern, jack_o'_lantern, etc would alias to the proper spelled, singular tag.

Absolutely +1000 to this part. That tag is far more complicated to guess the spelling of then it really needs to be. It would save a lot of stress to have those spelling aliases in place.

The tag implication jack-o'-lantern -> pumpkin (forum #263172) has been rejected by @gattonero2001.