Tag Discussion: antenna

The antenna tag is currently defined to cover both the electrical and biological antenna, so it seems like it should be split to separate the biological antennae and the mechanical antenna. Both types have a different appearance in the image, so they really shouldn't be clumped together.

The biological kind are currently the dominate type of image under the tag. If the biological type is given the antenna tag, then the alias of antennae -> antenna should be reversed, as biological antenna normally come in pairs. Even if we don't give antenna to the biological kind, antennae should be the label for the them.

I agree that the biological kind should be antennae, as they (as far as I know) always come in pairs.

Perhaps radio antenna for the other kind?

Revised alias to antennae. And yes the electrical kind can use another tag. Radio antenna is find as long as that's not too specific.

why not just separate the tags?

unicogirl said:
why not just separate the tags?

That's what we were going to do. We just need a name for the non-biological kind.

And using antenna for one and antennae for the other, if that's what you meant, can be a bit confusing. If we can think of a less ambiguous alternate tag we should go with that.

jxh2154 said:
And using antenna for one and antennae for the other, if that's what you meant, can be a bit confusing. If we can think of a less ambiguous alternate tag we should go with that.

bug_antennae or insect_antennae?

I meant a less ambiguous tag for the non-biological ones (radio antenna, tv antenna, etc).

jxh2154 said:
I meant a less ambiguous tag for the non-biological ones (radio antenna, tv antenna, etc).

Just go with radio antenna. That's the qualifier Wikipedia uses.

There is the aerial tag, which (outside of one image) is being used for the tv antenna (tv aerial) depictions.

How are we handling suit antennae or such in the style of biological antennae?

Lokispawn said: How are we handling suit antennae or such in the style of biological antennae?

I think we could stick them under antennae. Same visual effect.

RaisingK said: Just go with radio antenna. That's the qualifier Wikipedia uses.

That's fine then.

Did something go wrong during the alias run? Searching antennae shows 79 pages, only the first 3 of which have posts. Yet there are no changes on the tag history pages (the tag lists on the posts themselves reads "? + - antenna 2"). Antenna still shows a page of results, but nothing past that.

Lokispawn said: Did something go wrong during the alias run? Searching antennae shows 79 pages, only the first 3 of which have posts.

Maybe there was a temporary glitch? I seem to be able to access all pages at the moment.

jxh2154 said:
Maybe there was a temporary glitch? I seem to be able to access all pages at the moment.

I suppose so; I can access the full tag search now. I only noted this after I edited a post and the system added an antenna (singular) edit I hadn't inputted. It's still there. It was after you'd run the alias, so how it got changed back is beyond me.

Lokispawn said:
I suppose so; I can access it now. I only noted this after I edited a post and the system added an antenna (singular) edit I hadn't inputted. It's still there. It was after you'd run the alias, so how it got changed back is beyond me.

No idea, this seems to happen sometimes. I guess all I can do is run it again.