The bulk update request #10693 is active.

remove alias land_shark (2) -> garchomp (3162)

Reason: First of all, this alias should not exist, people are gonna call things other than garchomps land sharks.

land_shark_(species) was created to circumvent this alias, and seems to be well-defined as a feral shark with legs:

post #3403253 post #5333503 post #3403258 post #5244586

This concept should for sure have a tag, but IDK if land shark is the best option, let me know what you think.

EDIT: The bulk update request #10693 (forum #442600) has been approved by @spe.

I don't know why this got approved, no one on the origial discussion even supported it.

pleaseletmein said:
This concept should for sure have a tag, but IDK if land shark is the best option, let me know what you think.

"<species> but with legs on land" doesn't seem like a good tag to me. It would then follow we should have tags for "<species> but with wings in the air" or "<species> but without arms/legs in the water".

Looking at the history of the land_shark_(species) being added, it was first used by someone 2 years ago who was banned for ban evading, who was originally banned for tagging abuse. Other than 4 more uses, it wasn't used again until 5 months ago once, 3 months ago once, then the majority were added 2 months ago, largely by one user (with a couple other users regularly adding them to multiple posts).

Some posts have a description calling them "shark puppies", i.e. shark/canine hybrids. post #3403253 has a source calling it a "Did a little series of shark puppies. Here's my first one - a great white puppy!", while post #5237779 has a source where it's tagged "shark, pup, puppy". If these are just random shark/dog hybrids and not some specific species someone created, we shouldn't be tagging them with unique species tags.

(I don't disagree that the alias is bad, but these should still be aliased away as generic hybrids.)

watsit said:
"<species> but with legs on land" doesn't seem like a good tag to me. It would then follow we should have tags for "<species> but with wings in the air" or "<species> but without arms/legs in the water".

I think there definitely should be a tag for land-ified marine (and maybe anvian) ferals overall, though. someone did ask a question about this in the dwhatft thread a while ago and I never could think of anything decent, best I ever managed was just "mismatched_feral" or "mismatched_limbs" which both sound too much like just chimera.

.Legged_shark ? Legged_fish? Legged_marine? (That last would obviously not include creatures like sea otters.)

clawstripe said:
Legged_shark ? Legged_fish? Legged_marine? (That last would obviously not include creatures like sea otters.)

the problem is that people might just tag these on anthro characters which are already expected to be legged, for the most part.

and, for legged_marine I'd be cautious about having an inconsitent definition for a concept that isn't clear; we already got rid of the similarly named furred_marine.

... I was under the impression Landshark was also just well known as a running joke spawned by SNL.

The bulk update request #10693 (forum #442600) has been approved by @spe.

A lot of these should be moved to land_shark_(marvel) as that is an actual species in the Marvel universe.