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I think we should stop tagging Saratoga's launcher as a "thompson submachine gun"

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The Kantai collection character Saratoga has an overslung launching device. The lower half of this device is modeled after the Thompson Submachine Gun, and for that reason people have started tagging pictures of her that have the launcher with "Thompson submachine gun". I think this is a bad idea for three reasons:

1. It's not actually a Thompson. Only the lower half looks like a Thompson, and some artists do not choose to replicate this, like for example here: post #2718284 where the proportions are drawn so loosely the launcher bears only a minute resemblance to the actual gun

2. Other kantai collection characters with "adapted weapons" are not tagged with the weapon they're adapted from- for example, the Bismarck uses a MG42's rear stock mounted to a gun turret: post #1842987. this device is not tagged as a MG42, and therefore there's an inconsistency of tags.

3. Tagging it as a "Thompson submachine gun" badly clutters the Thompson tag. I don't think it should be a Thompson for the same reason that kantai collection is no longer tagged as "mecha musume" or "personification"; all the sort-of Thompsons drown out the actual Thompsons. The tag no longer fully helps people find images with actual Thompson submachine guns, now they get mostly kantai collection.

Kikimaru said:

Remove the Thompson submachine gun tag from her wiki entry.

I don't wanna do that because it's good that people know what the launcher is partially based off of.

Chiera said:

Contact the people you notice doing that and point them to this topic and remove the tag manually.

Already doing that obviously, but not everybody cares, or will see, or will read this topic, and I can't be constantly cleaning the tag for Thompson, I'm not even a gold member, much less a mod- I gotta budget my time here!

TheGreens said:

I don't wanna do that because it's good that people know what the launcher is partially based off of.

We can search the term on Google and read the Wikipedia page if we want to.

TheGreens said:

I don't wanna do that because it's good that people know what the launcher is partially based off of.

Already doing that obviously, but not everybody cares, or will see, or will read this topic, and I can't be constantly cleaning the tag for Thompson, I'm not even a gold member, much less a mod- I gotta budget my time here!

why not just report them so they are taken care of, no posts = no problem

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