The tag alias #61183 anonymous -> anon has been rejected.

Reason: the other's tag is bigger

EDIT: The tag alias anonymous -> anon (forum #356567) has been rejected by @gattonero2001.

i think this should be aliased to anonymous_(disambiguation) or even anonymous_(invalid) rather than the anon character tag, it's a tag that someone can easily use under the assumption that it's for anonymous art or one of the couple other uses that the wiki mentions:

an ambiguous tag. Use one of these instead:

ambiguous_species
anon
anonymous_character
anonymous_artist
unknown_artist

honestly i don't even know why it's a character tag in the first place or who locked it into one

dripen_arn said:
i think this should be aliased to anonymous_(disambiguation) or even anonymous_(invalid) rather than the anon character tag, it's a tag that someone can easily use under the assumption that it's for anonymous art or one of the couple other uses that the wiki mentions:

honestly i don't even know why it's a character tag in the first place or who locked it into one

it's because Anon is a character.

dripen_arn said:
i think this should be aliased to anonymous_(disambiguation) or even anonymous_(invalid) rather than the anon character tag, it's a tag that someone can easily use under the assumption that it's for anonymous art or one of the couple other uses that the wiki mentions:

honestly i don't even know why it's a character tag in the first place or who locked it into one

"Anon" is imageboard slang that is meant to signal one of the anonymous users. It is customary to replace your name with "anon" if you quote somebody who is calling you by name, for example.
I do, nevertheless, favor disambiguating anonymous instead of the straight alias to anon.

"Anon" as a character tag is meant to distinguish deliberately featureless characters intended to be used as viewer stand-ins. They have multiple variations, such as no face, a basic face, a cross for a face, a question mark for a face, or a website's icon for anonymous users for a face, although one thing they never seem to be is female.

The nature of this tag means that the anons in question are almost always deliberately de-emphasised in posts in which they appear, making spotting them from a glance at a list of thumbnails unusually difficult. That said, I can't see any evidence that the anon tag has become significantly polluted. anonymous should probably be disambiguated though.

There's also some overlap with ych_(character)

The tag alias anonymous -> anon (forum #356567) has been rejected by @gattonero2001.