The bulk update request #8702 is pending approval.

remove alias hippo (0) -> common_hippo (0) # missing

Reason: Followed by alias hippopotamid -> hippo

Both hippopotamid species- the pygmy hippo and common hippo- are referred to as hippos, so it fits with replacing technical language with common terms.

The concept isn't bad, but using hippo propbably won't work. The tag we use is the full common_hippopotamus, so we can't unalias hippo from it.

Tag tree:

• mammal
• hippopotamid
• common_hippopotamus
• pygmy_hippopotamus

What I presume you're meaning to suggest is to rename hippopotamid as hippopotamus. The problem here is that common_hippopotamus is also what is generally meant when users tag hippopotamus. By rerouting hippopotamus to the place of hippopotamid, we'd end up undertagging common_hippopotamus. We can't really merge hippopotamid and common_hippopotamus because there's those pesky pygmy hippopotami left over.

clawstripe said:
The concept isn't bad, but using hippo propbably won't work. The tag we use is the full common_hippopotamus, so we can't unalias hippo from it.

Tag tree:

• mammal
• hippopotamid
• common_hippopotamus
• pygmy_hippopotamus

What I presume you're meaning to suggest is to rename hippopotamid as hippopotamus. The problem here is that common_hippopotamus is also what is generally meant when users tag hippopotamus. By rerouting hippopotamus to the place of hippopotamid, we'd end up undertagging common_hippopotamus. We can't really merge hippopotamid and common_hippopotamus because there's those pesky pygmy hippopotami left over.

I keep bouncing between "yeah fair" and something else. Hippopotamid -common_hippopotamus is pretty much only common hippo posts (which begs the question of WHO is using hippopotamid instead of hippo and why) and meanwhile there are 23 pygmy_hippopotamus posts. It's not the most taxonomically correct, but merging hippopotamid and common_hippo to just hippo/hippopotamus while allowing pygmy_hippopotamus to be implicated to it might be fine.