Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions
The bulk update request #766 is active.
remove alias bird_dragon (41) -> hybrid (175026)
Reason: Bird dragons are not hybrids. They are and look like little, bird-sized dragons sporting colors taken from birds. They were never intended to be hybrids and, according to TWYS, shouldn't be tagged as such. Yet, bird_dragon has been aliased away to hybrid.
EDIT: The bulk update request #766 (forum #306989) has been approved by @Millcore.
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So they're just smol colorful dragons, and it should be aliased to dragon instead?
watsit said:
So they're just smol colorful dragons, and it should be aliased to dragon instead?
They're colorful, usually small dragons whose colors specifically mimic those of a particular species of bird in a fantasy equivalent of real life mimicry in the animal kingdom. As said above, they are not hybrids and were never meant to be such. They are indeed referred to as "bird dragons" by their artists (primarily Heather Bruton although others have made their own).
Ideally, I'd like bird_dragon to be its own separate tag again and to implicate dragon. However, if people are hostile to this, then aliasing bird_dragon to dragon would be more accurate than aliasing it to hybrid. Still, neither can happen until the current alias is removed.
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vulkalu said:
I don't know if there were ever instances of the tag being used outside of mimicry dragons... Or invalid category if it really was a problem of having multiple uses.
As far as I know, there were none other than those for the mimic dragons. My guess is that someone saw the tag and assumed it referred to a bird/dragon hybrid rather than a dragon pretending to be a bird. It's a reasonable assumption, if in this case, incorrect.
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The bulk update request #766 (forum #306989) has been approved by @Millcore.
