This needs manual cleanup before aliasing.
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sketch is sort of a garbage tag. I had to remove the translated tags years ago because artists would tag absolutely anything as sketch, but the tag has suffered from years of pollution. If you look at sketch order:score you'll see what I mean.
We also have unfinished, which is for "realer" sketches. Not sure what should be done about this tag. Probably just moving all the true sketches to unfinished and nuke the rest, but it'd be a massive and pretty subjective undertaking given that sketch has nearly 100k posts.
In any case, it doesn't really hurt to alias doodle to sketch given the different size of the tags. I'll wait a few days for doodle to be cleaned up before approving this.
I'm done cleaning up, the tag is now empty. I planned to leave all sketches in the tag but actually there were none. The usage of the tag was pretty evenly split between drawing/child_drawing, lineart/monochrome, and just regular pictures that either the artist called a doodle or were just randomly tagged that way.
Considering this, I don't know if the alias is a good idea since someone wanting to tag a drawing as doodle might think that sketch is an appropriate tag, same with lineart.
The bulk update request #7121 (forum #196243) has been rejected by @nonamethanks.
nonamethanks said:
sketch is sort of a garbage tag. I had to remove the translated tags years ago because artists would tag absolutely anything as sketch, but the tag has suffered from years of pollution. If you look at sketch order:score you'll see what I mean.
We also have unfinished, which is for "realer" sketches. Not sure what should be done about this tag. Probably just moving all the true sketches to unfinished and nuke the rest, but it'd be a massive and pretty subjective undertaking given that sketch has nearly 100k posts.
In any case, it doesn't really hurt to alias doodle to sketch given the different size of the tags. I'll wait a few days for doodle to be cleaned up before approving this.
I did some cleanup of sketch score:>50. The tag is used pretty subjectively, from rough monochrome sketches with guidelines to fully colored and shaded pictures with somewhat rough linework. Unfortunately unfinished seems to be a similar situation, with works like post #4784992 or post #4782115 included, or post #4783883 which would be just flat color were it not for the parent so it's an instance of tagging what we know instead of what we see.