The tag alias #77778 ark_survival_evolved -> ark_survival_(series) has been approved.

Reason: There are several ARK games which reuse a multitude of assets, and all of them (except PixARK I guess? but that's by a different studio entirely) are completely indiscernible through TWYS except for content Ascended has that Evolved never got. Having Ascended and Evolved as separate tags is really messy.

I am really not sold on the tag name, though, so if anyone has any better ideas please by all means throw them at me.

EDIT: The tag alias ark_survival_evolved -> ark_survival_(series) (forum #456609) has been approved by @spe.

The tag alias ark_survival_evolved -> ark_survival_(series) (forum #456609) has been approved by @spe.

The bulk update request #11594 is pending approval.

Reason: Following up with the alias for the other game in the series and species implications from the franchise

- Rock Drakes are nonspecific reptilian critters
- Ravagers are implied to be canines, but they do have very hyena-esque characteristics so I think having them just be mammals is perfectly fine
- ARK Jerboas are not real world jerboas, and honestly they don't even look like rodents at all (the head is a Fennec Fox, so)
- ARK Basilisks are fictional snakes, but they are very clearly snakes
- ARK Snow Owls are very literal SNOW Owls, but they're also very clearly owls so them implicating directly to that as opposed to bird should be fine, I think?
- ARK Thorny Dragons are based off the real-world Thorny Devils to some extent but are pretty distinct both in physiology, size, and design. Honestly I wouldn't call them lizards at all, hence attaching them directly to scalie instead
- The Dodorex is probably the first (fictional) mascot of the franchise. Not sure if it should imply hybrid or not since I don't think it's canonically a hybrid?
- The Reapers are weird, and I am not sure how to tag them properly. In the games males and females are coded as separate entities, but other than size the designs are painfully similar (I have never been able to tell them apart) so I am not sure if adding an additional layer of reaper_queen and reaper_king is necessary or if it's safe to alias those two away. NOTE: The Wiki also says they're called Xenomorphs. This is only true in the internal working of the game. They are very clearly based off Xenomorphs from the Alien franchise, but they are a separate creation.
- Featherlights are apparently also weird but I only learned that today. For all intents and purposes they're birds, but the wiki page calls them synapsids for some reason (it appears this is the ONLY page that does so, however?). Either way, they do fit the bill for avian, so that's safe enough
- Shinehorns are fictional nonspecific ungulates. Some people say they're goats some people say they're deer. Whatever they are they're mammals

I am unsure whether ark Wyverns and the Dragon boss deserve their own tags or not.

The bulk update request #11595 is pending approval.

create alias ferox_(ark_survival_evolved) (9) -> ferox_(ark) (0)
create implication ferox_(ark) (0) -> mammal (3710527)
create implication ferox_(ark) (0) -> ark_survival_(series) (479)
create implication enforcer_(ark) (6) -> robot (80024)
create implication enforcer_(ark) (6) -> ark_survival_(series) (479)

Reason: Part 2

- Feroxes are fictional mammals
- Enforcers are a 'species' of robots

There's also a single post with the Mek but I do not know whether that should be a species tag, a character tag, or something else entirely. Meks are a weird grey area