The tag alias #74750 explicitly_stated_love -> i_love_you has been rejected.

Reason: explicitly_stated_love has only 13 posts at present, which points to it being unnecessary. It can be lumped in with the more popular tag for expressing love, i_love_you.

EDIT: The tag alias explicitly_stated_love -> i_love_you (forum #435843) has been rejected by @Beholding.

Wouldn't it be more that I love you implies explicitly stated love? Is there another existing tag for professing love?

flightlessspider said:
Wouldn't it be more that I love you implies explicitly stated love? Is there another existing tag for professing love?

explicitly stated love has only 13 posts at present, so I figured it's not used enough to warrant a separate tag.

Yeah, but I love you is one of those literal quote tags, like heart symbol or [[a ca-
Anyway, love declaration has 33 posts, declaration of love has 8.

Reversing would be better, if either is to be kept. IMO, we should avoid tags that are just copying text/dialog from the image because there tends to be multiple ways to express the same sentiment (to say nothing of non-English languages), so the tag ends up not being what's said in the image anyway, making it less clear what the tagger meant with the tag.

Attempting to alias explicitly_stated_love -> love_declaration gets me the error Antecedent name has already been taken (create alias explicitly_stated_love -> love_declaration). What does this mean?

beholding said:
Attempting to alias explicitly_stated_love -> love_declaration gets me the error Antecedent name has already been taken (create alias explicitly_stated_love -> love_declaration). What does this mean?

Your current alias above is blocking it.
Lemme get you up to speed on AIBUR warnings
Antecedent means the first term in the line. So if your alias/implication is of the form
From: A To: B
(or in BURs)
alias A -> B
A is the antecedent tag. (I call B the consequent tag but there's no "official" term)

means that the tag is currently aliased to another tag, or is present as the antecedent tag in a pending alias.

Also if you're wondering what a Blocking Transitive Relationship (BTR) is, it is a BUR exclusive warning (when trying to alias through a BUR) that appears if the antecedent tag has any pending/active implications/aliases. A good tool to verify if you will encounter a BTR / find what is causing a BTR is MetaSearch
If you spot the word Active or Pending when you search the antecedent tag, you are guaranteed a BTR

snpthecat said:
Your current alias above is blocking it.
Lemme get you up to speed on AIBUR warnings
Antecedent means the first term in the line. So if your alias/implication is of the form
From: A To: B
(or in BURs)
alias A -> B
A is the antecedent tag. (I call B the consequent tag but there's no "official" term)

name has already been taken

means that the tag is currently aliased to another tag, or is present as the antecedent tag in a pending alias.

Also if you're wondering what a Blocking Transitive Relationship (BTR) is, it is a BUR exclusive warning (when trying to alias through a BUR) that appears if the antecedent tag has any pending/active implications/aliases. A good tool to verify if you will encounter a BTR / find what is causing a BTR is MetaSearch
If you spot the word Active or Pending when you search the antecedent tag, you are guaranteed a BTR

I see, thank you. I'll reject this alias and start a new BUR to do as Watsit suggests.

The tag alias explicitly_stated_love -> i_love_you (forum #435843) has been rejected by @Beholding.

The bulk update request #10118 is pending approval.

create alias love_you (5) -> love_declaration (36)
create alias i_love_you (1037) -> love_declaration (36)
create alias declaration_of_love (5) -> love_declaration (36)
create alias explicitly_stated_love (0) -> love_declaration (36)

Reason: Aliasing all variants of love_declaration together. In the case of i_love_you this is aliasing a more popular tag to a less popular one, but this was argued to be the most logical choice in previous discussion.

beholding said:
The bulk update request #10118 is pending approval.

create alias love_you (5) -> love_declaration (36)
create alias i_love_you (1037) -> love_declaration (36)
create alias declaration_of_love (5) -> love_declaration (36)
create alias explicitly_stated_love (0) -> love_declaration (36)

Reason: Aliasing all variants of love_declaration together. In the case of i_love_you this is aliasing a more popular tag to a less popular one, but this was argued to be the most logical choice in previous discussion.

Could you add love you? It got split off because "there tends to be multiple ways to express the same sentiment".

flightlessspider said:
Could you add love you? It got split off because "there tends to be multiple ways to express the same sentiment".

Done.