The bulk update request #11347 is pending approval.
remove implication pokemon_transformation (107) -> pokemon (557710)
remove implication pokemon_transformation (107) -> transformation (86602)
Reason: These implications were originally added in topic #36441 as part of a massive set of BURs to change some pokémon tags to pokemon, which went by without discussion (the original pokémon_transformation tag didn't have any aliases or implications). Because of a typo in the original implication, it came up in topic #39967 where I did notice it and questioned it's usefulness, but there was no real response. Recently, I started seeing it added to more posts, so I'm making these BURs to kickstart a discussion or change.
pokemon_transformation doesn't seem useful as it's essentially just "pokemon transformation". Even if it's supposed to mean non-pokemon-to-pokemon (which the tag name is ambiguous, there's no wiki to say, and it would leave nothing for pokemon-to-non-pokemon or pokemon-to-pokemon transformations), there are a number of implied transformations where the original form/species is not apparent:
post #5606167 post #5604539 post #4679035 (text, descriptions, and other posts aren't supposed to factor into a given post's tags)
Even still, it seems the vast majority of "pokemon transformation" posts would apply to pokemon_transformation regardless, making it largely redundant. And in cases where a distinction is warranted, we typically tag the less common cases (pokemon-to-non-pokemon and pokemon-to-pokemon) rather than the more common one (non-pokemon-to-pokemon).
This first BUR removes the implications, so a follow-up can alias it:
alias pokemon_transformation -> pokemon