Topic: [Part 1] Felid cleanup

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

DRLa

Janitor

The bulk update request #772 is pending approval.

remove implication north_american_cougar (2) -> cougar (574)
remove implication south_american_cougar (0) -> cougar (574)
remove implication siberian_tiger (9) -> tiger (2622)
remove implication bengal_tiger (21) -> tiger (2622)
remove implication african_leopard (0) -> leopard (649)
remove implication amur_leopard (2) -> leopard (649)
remove implication javan_leopard (0) -> leopard (649)
create alias mountain_lion (9) -> cougar (574)
create alias catamount (0) -> cougar (574)
remove alias florida_panther (0) -> north_american_cougar (2)

Reason:

  • Feline subspecies are overly specific and depiction are almost never accurate enough to even make them worth distinguishing. Most of them are really hard to tell apart unless you're an expert. The lists are very incomplete, most of them are already aliases. Just remove the current ones.
  • Add more common names for cougars (it's a species with many different regional names), some are already in use

Part 2

alias north_american_cougar -> cougar
alias south_american_cougar -> cougar
alias florida_panther -> cougar
alias siberian_tiger -> tiger
alias bengal_tiger -> tiger
alias african_leopard -> leopard
alias amur_leopard -> leopard
alias javan_leopard -> leopard

Kaleth

Janitor

There so much of those subspecies implications, it's going to be a large undertaking to standardize all tags if we take the road of simplification

DRLa

Janitor

kaleth said:
There so much of those subspecies implications, it's going to be a large undertaking to standardize all tags if we take the road of simplification

It's probably easier then to take it one family at a time then. But what bothers me most about the felid subspecies is which are implications and which are aliases (if any) is completely arbitrary. "tiger" is the worst culprit, it has a lot of subspecies aliases but for whatever reason two of them are implications.