Tag Aliases: wooden_sword -> bokken; bamboo_sword -> shinai

Tag Alias: wooden_sword -> bokken

Reason: 15/18 posts seems to fall under bokken and it's variants and many people might not be familiar with the japanese term.

the other 3 posts (post #462387, post #828784, post #892238) seem to be more of a wooden_dagger.

Tag Alias: bamboo_sword -> shinai

Reason: all posts seem to be shinai but many people might not be familiar with the word.

EDIT: i'm also fine with aliases moving the other direction akin to sakura_blossoms -> cherry_blossoms

thanks.

ghostrigger said:
the other 3 posts (post #462387, post #828784, post #892238) seem to be more of a wooden_dagger.

Those are wooden swords, particularly the old type you would see with kids playing "pirate" or similar. Wood_dagger wouldn't make sense to me, as they are called "wooden swords." They're short because they're made for children.

^ i see your point. post #828784 and post #892238 can be called old school "wooden_sword" by children despite of their small sizes.

i'm unaware if post #462387 has an exclusive term for that particular type.

i'm not sure if cleaning and setting wiki definitions be a better option. moving everything to bokken and the 3 posts be left to wooden sword. fresh wiki entries to differentiate the terms.

but if not, i'm fine with implicating bokken -> wooden sword

EDIT:
i found toy gun. maybe we can use toy sword for the 3 posts in question regardless of material, though i'm not sure which is more popular among children toy sword or wooden sword?

EDIT2:
checked list of weapons and discovered that since the beginning wooden sword, bokken, and shinai are listed under training weapons. this enforces the idea that the 3 posts in question are mistagged. but if toy sword is not better for them, i would settle for wooden_sword_(toy).

thanks.

toy_sword is probably fine.

I'll implicate bokken -> wooden sword because a I'm sure you could have wooden sword of a non-Japanese type. Though I suppose not many for a site like danbooru.