BUR #6034 has been rejected.

Aliases, renaming,etc of character tags of the Onmyoji (RPG/Arena MOBA) game.

Quite the long deal for a much ignored gacha in the west.
TLDR: Change all character names to "japanese_name_(onmyoji)" and create "english_name_(onmyoji)" aliases.

I'm a regular at global server, and as a long time lurker here, it's painful to look at the character name tag mess between different versions that somewhat hinders getting the most out of the search engine.

I will be suggesting the japanese names as main tag (as setting is mostly japanese) and english ones as aliases. However,many if not all characters do have chinese names as per a game made by chinese devs, for a chinese community. Dunno if they can be kept or used as another alias (or just kept them in the tag's wiki). Request list made mostly by following the wiki link on onmyoji tag's wiki. TV tropes character page can be also used for reference.

Per rules read time ago,maybe not necessary but adding (onmyoji) would be for the better on names that might bring out search results of the original/inspiration for the characters (poor example but abe_no_seimei for the real guy in comparition to fictional characters based upon him,or local menreiki against other menreiki as more famous Touhou's hata_no_kokoro ) or confused with other franchiese (e,g.: currently available example is suzuka_gozen_(onmyoji), to not be confused with suzuka_gozen_(fate)).

Characters have different skins as per any gacha game, but maybe still too small a post count to deserve different-tag-per-skin treatment. Some characters do have alternate forms which would benefit having different tags (e.g: local pet character Kohaku having a battle form and also a human form called Hakuzousu, fanservice-providing-girl Youtou hime and her past version Akakage Youtou hime/Crimson Yoto, which differ greatly in design that they could be different characters for a newbie into the game).

There are some images with characters that have not yet been tagged properly so if this gets approved, someday those guys would need same treatment (japanese name_(onmyoji) tag+english name_(onmyoji) alias).

Finally, a rather small issue but worth mentioning, local Tamamo no mae is male in this game, but shows himself as a woman, posts showing him might need a revision on that aspect, if specifying male/female tags going by visuals or going by lore.

Some edits have to be done manually but on the already populated tags would rather avoid duplicating tags.

Reached this far? Thanks for reading.

You need to use rename, not mass update.

Also, there's no point in making aliases for empty tags. They will be automatically removed after a week by the system bot.

Mass updates aren't necessary, aliases will automatically replace the tag.

We don't need... aliases for every single possible localized name of a character, especially if they are underpopulated with less than 5 examples.

Much else the ones with zero.

Pick a preferred naming scheme and stick to it. (Most can also be moved over manually) Then consider aliases when they are more examples and those characters are likelier to be tagged and searched for.

And OH GOD please not a quintimillion different skin tags for highly obscure skins on highly obscure characters with painfully generic names and very few posts (on the base char too, not just the specific skin) that will just CLOG UP the entire autocomplete list!

Edit: And... some of the suggested names also look weird, with inconsistent handling of long vowels.

Three things:

• Remove the aliases for tags that don't exist yet.
• Replace the mass updates with renames or aliases. I prefer aliases over renames because otherwise I have to think hard about whether we can get away with just a rename.
• Separate the "add english_name_(onmyoji) aliases" part from the "change everything to japanese_name_(onmyoji)" part. Put these in different requests. I can't tell what's going on here and it sounds like there's some contention over it.

The bulk update request #6034 (forum #189801) has been rejected by @evazion.

@LunaticMadChaser: please fix the issues mentioned above and resubmit.