Implicating Obese ---> Overweight

Reason: Most picks have both tags and the definition of obese falls into overweight. While it is true that you may not be obese if you are overweight, you are overweight if you are obese.

No.
That'd alias obese to fat, and they're supposed to be separate. As explained in the wiki entry.

Your reason reads more like an implication than an alias: they're not the same, but in one direction they do imply each other. Hence, an implication.

I do think it's useful to separate degrees of overweight. And since "fat" has already been aliased to --> overweight, aliasing obese into overweight would make overweight too broad of a catch-all for anyone who's more than just a little chubby around the edges. I know some people see all overweight people as the same, but for searching purposes that's not very useful.

Bottom line: I could see an implication maybe, but not an alias for this one.

Ya, this came up before and people don't want an umbrella term for everything. People seem to search for specific levels of chubbiness (?) and wouldn't want super fat showing up

That makes sense. An implication does sound better.

So there is:
Chubby - little plump but healthy
overweight - over the optimal health range
Obese - dangerously overweight

Where obese equals overweight but overweight doesn't equal obese.

Ko-san said:
That makes sense. An implication does sound better.

So there is:
Chubby - little plump but healthy
overweight - over the optimal health range
Obese - dangerously overweight

Where obese equals overweight but overweight doesn't equal obese.

Yeah, that sounds good to me. You might want to edit your original post to change the title so that it says implication instead. Just to clarify things for when a mod gets to reviewing the idea.

furrypickle said:
Yeah, that sounds good to me. You might want to edit your original post to change the title so that it says implication instead. Just to clarify things for when a mod gets to reviewing the idea.

Will do.

Um...
I'd just like to point out that obese is already implicated to overweight. Has been for years.