Tag Alias: e=mc² -> e=mc2

Aliasing e=mc² -> e=mc2

Reason: Because it's the same thing except e=mc2 is much easier to type.

e=mc2 is an artist.

should e=mc2 be labeled as e=mc2_(artist) in that case?

i would suggest "Mass–energy equivalence equation" instead

But that's just me.

The artist should get a qualifier, either "peacemaker" (blog) or "mosimosi" (pixiv). Mass-edit instead of alias.

z905844 said:
i would suggest "Mass–energy equivalence equation" instead

But that's just me.

I would also support using mass-energy_equivalence_equation or mass-energy_equivalence_formula as the tag name. We could have like /e=mc2 as the shortcut if needed.

Seriously? But e=mc² / e=mc2 is so iconic; those verbose forms are too unwieldy, plus you'd need several extra aliases to cover the variations (mass-energy or mass_energy, equation or formula).

If the shortcut is in place, I'm pretty damn sure that is what everyone would use. So saying all the variations are necessary isn't true at all. Long names are only unwieldy when there isn't a shortcut, I've proposed a shortcut so that argument holds no weight.

I know the formula is iconic, but I don't see why using the actual name of what the formula represents is a problem.

Lots of people know the phrase "E=mc^2" without knowing what the variables actually are.

NWF_Renim said:
If the shortcut is in place, I'm pretty damn sure that is what everyone would use.

No, everyone would still just use e=mc2 (and then realize their mistake everytime... or not), because they don't know about the shortcut, because this doesn't come up enough to become widespread knowledge.

NWF_Renim said:
I know the formula is iconic, but I don't see why using the actual name of what the formula represents is a problem.

Because people don't know the "actual name", and e=mc2 is what would be written out in the image.

Is this a theoretical matter, by the way, or do we actually have existing posts with this equation?

A single post is tagged with it in the OP: post #13474

I'd imagine there are more of them, just not properly tagged.

Both e=mc² and e=mc2 are referring to an artist, the same artist.

I didn't mean the actual equation I just want it so that if someone puts e=mc² as the artist it will change it to e=mc2 so there isn't a split between the two formats.

So you want an artist alias? Like they request here forum #46810 ?

The artist ought to get a qualifier; the equation is more notable than the artist of the same name.

In terms of importance though, I'd say the artist would significantly outweigh the equation in this case. I would have no issues forcing the equation to use something else and keep the artist with the tag (with a note in the wiki directing to the equation).

NWF_Renim said:
In terms of importance though, I'd say the artist would significantly outweigh the equation in this case.

Einstein's equation is kind of a big deal...

Yes, but in terms of art that will appear here it is not.

RaisingK said:
Einstein's equation is kind of a big deal...

On a booru meant for high quality anime art?

Yes, given its iconic status and frequent use as a motif.

Given the equation's pointed specificity on a topic very far removed from Danbooru's area of focus, I was sort of inclined to let the artist keep it.

Reading Hazuki's response though makes me consider the possibility of pollution (where the equation might appear on a chalkboard for a "genius" Cirno post or something like that, get tagged by a less-informed user and then left as a mis-attributed artist citation).

Since this is a plausible (though still somewhat unlikely) circumstance, I suppose we should qualify the artist, and give the base tag to the equation (as is our policy for relatively general concept tags).

I would definitely leave it in its common form though, implying to a spelled out description takes an already esoteric concept for Danbooru even farther away from it's likely visual depiction.