category theatre_(medium) -> general

BUR #44283 is pending approval.

category theatre_(medium) -> general

I was trying to find a tag specifically for stage plays and this underpopulated tag was the closest thing I could find. However, while it seems to be used like a gentag (being used for the play occurring in the image), its category is meta for some reason.

Not sure if this tag should also be renamed. Its spelling is inconsistent with theater, though maybe there's a valid reason for it to be spelled differently.

The pattern for general tag (medium)s seem to be for images that are meant to be used for specific purposes like dakimakura (medium) or sticker (medium), so I don't really think it should be (medium) if it's meant to be for depictions of stage plays.

Perhaps the new name could be theatrical_performance? None of those images have theatre as the medium, so I think a rename has to happen for the tag to remain accurate.

About the spelling, in this case a theater is a building in which performances take place, and theatre is the art form itself. Does it make sense for the names to be the same except spelled differently? Not really, but there it is.
With that in mind you could even make a case for the rename to just "theatre", but no one is going to apply that properly vs. theater (and who could blame them?)

CrossbowArcanePlus said:

Perhaps the new name could be theatrical_performance? None of those images have theatre as the medium, so I think a rename has to happen for the tag to remain accurate.

+1 to this. These are just posts depicting a performance on stage, there's nothing meta or "medium" about them.

Might also be worth renaming theater to theater_(place) or _(location) to be less ambiguous.

Yeah the tag currently makes you think it's about a literal anime related theater play that someone took a picture of, or a theater set piece. Nothing under the tag works like that at all.

CrossbowArcanePlus's theatrical_performance proposal sounds good to me.

BUR #44292 is pending approval.

create alias theatre_(medium) -> theatrical_performance

as proposed above

I think having *_(medium) as an alias for something that doesn't fall under what the other medium tags do is flawed.

tamuraakemi said:

I think having *_(medium) as an alias for something that doesn't fall under what the other medium tags do is flawed.

After I cast my vote I thought that it should probably in fact be a mass update/rename rather than an alias.
However, people seem to be interpretting the tag to mean this specific thing, so maybe it is OK to pave that cowpath rather than keep it accurate for a case that has yet to occur. (An artwork on danbooru where the medium really is theatre.)