Topic: Fixing Musteline

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

The bulk update request #11091 is pending approval.

remove implication badger (10476) -> musteline (36863)
remove implication fisher_(animal) (68) -> musteline (36863)
remove implication grison (13) -> musteline (36863)
remove implication ictonyx (9) -> musteline (36863)
remove implication ictonyx (9) -> ictonychine (200)
remove implication ictonyx (9) -> polecat_(mustelid) (254)
remove implication marbled_polecat (179) -> musteline (36863)
remove implication marten (4006) -> musteline (36863)
remove implication neovison (12) -> musteline (36863)
remove implication tayra (16) -> musteline (36863)
remove implication true_musteline (20452) -> musteline (36863)
remove implication wolverine (1988) -> musteline (36863)
remove implication badger_humanoid (47) -> musteline_humanoid (401)
remove implication wolverine_humanoid (10) -> musteline_humanoid (401)
remove implication mink (4065) -> true_musteline (20452)
remove implication weasel (16396) -> true_musteline (20452)
remove implication american_mink (10) -> neovison (12)
remove implication sea_mink (2) -> neovison (12)
remove implication striped_polecat (7) -> ictonyx (9)
remove implication saharan_striped_polecat (0) -> ictonyx (9)

Reason: Followup:

imply badger -> mustelid
alias true_musteline -> musteline
imply mink -> musteline
imply weasel -> musteline
alias neovison -> musteline
imply american_mink -> mink
imply sea_mink -> mink
alias ictonyx -> ictonychine
imply striped_polecat -> ictonychine
imply saharan_striped_polecat -> ictonychine
imply badger_humanoid -> mustelid_humanoid
imply wolverine_humanoid -> mustelid_humanoid
alias mustela_humanoid -> weasel_humanoid

For some godforsaken reason, musteline (the subfamily of weasels, minks, ferrets, stoats, etc.) is defined and set up on this site as "any non-otter mustelid." This is dumb and confusing and does not serve any kind of useful purpose.

4 years ago there was a BUR to set up proper subfamilies like gulonine and ictonychine, but it left in place all the implications to musteline.

This BUR strips all those out and also gets rid of a couple useless (and in one case inaccurate) genus tags.

Afterwards musteline needs to be stripped off the posts its wrongly applied to. Is there a way to tagscript something like -musteline on [musteline -weasel -mink]?

Updated

Frankly the other subfamily tags should just get rolled into mustelid. Is anyone actually using these to search?