Title, otherwise we'll need to imply all the rescued dragons to rescued_dragons_(spyro) and imply it to spyro_the_dragon.

theghost123 said:
Title, otherwise we'll need to imply all the rescued dragons to rescued_dragons_(spyro) and imply it to spyro_the_dragon.

ah, another one of this user's creations

My vote's to alias it away. It's not an official name and I assume people would look up individual characters or just scroll through the page rather than need a specific tag.

The bulk update request #7909 is pending approval.

create alias rescued_dragons_(spyro) (1003) -> spyro_the_dragon (9877)

Reason: Rescued dragons is not an official name and it is better to search the character names instead.

I get the reasoning behind aliasing, but I like being able to look them up as a collective rather than needing to search for any one in particular

anon023 said:
I get the reasoning behind aliasing, but I like being able to look them up as a collective rather than needing to search for any one in particular

Yeah, it's hard to remember the names of all of them, so having a shared tag is definitely useful.

The bulk update request #10040 is pending approval.

Reason: As documented on the wiki page, part 1.

The bulk update request #10041 is pending approval.

Reason: As documented on the wiki page, part 2

The bulk update request #10042 is pending approval.

Reason: As documented on the wiki page, part 3.

anon023 said:
I get the reasoning behind aliasing, but I like being able to look them up as a collective rather than needing to search for any one in particular

fifteen said:
Yeah, it's hard to remember the names of all of them, so having a shared tag is definitely useful.

Is there anything grouping them together besides their role in one of the games? What if they appear in a future game where they're not a dragon to be rescued?

watsit said:
Is there anything grouping them together besides their role in one of the games? What if they appear in a future game where they're not a dragon to be rescued?

As far as I recall, almost all of them are only in Spyro 1, with like 3 getting a brief cameo in the intro of Spyro 3. As for future games, that's not looking super likely at this time, so I wouldn't design around that.

As for a pitential alternate name for the collective group, there's not a whole lot of information given that would present all that many good options, no. The best I could see is splitting the tag into each world, like artisan_dragon_(spyro), but that seems like a needlessly elaborate solution for a problem that hasn't come up yet.

fifteen said:
As for a pitential alternate name for the collective group, there's not a whole lot of information given that would present all that many good options, no.

I wasn't thinking of finding an alternate name, but more just finding what links them together. If they're all just normal dragons who's only common feature is Spyro saves them in one of the games, I don't think that warrants a tag to collect them all under any more than a tag for the Toads you rescue in Super Mario, or the Sages you rescue/free in Zelda. Seems superfluous. And usually when we have a tag that refers to a group of characters, it's mainly for when they're all together rather than when any one is present (e.g. team_charm, which isn't implied by any one character in the team), which doesn't seem to be how that tag is getting used.

I'm actually alright with this one because there are 74 of these guys. To search for all of them without this tag, you'd have to painstakingly copy them all into two two different searches due to the 40 tag limit, which would also prevent combining them with any other tags for a more complex search.

I don't love group tags like team_charm because there's only three characters in that group, it's trivially easy to search for all of them together without an umbrella tag. ...or would be if the individuals had character tags, which I just learned right now they don't??