Animal Crossing aliases

BUR #3839 has been rejected.

EN -> JP aliases for Animal Crossing characters, as they're quite hard to find otherwise.

EDIT: The bulk update request #3839 (forum #175367) has been rejected by @evazion.

BUR #3840 has been approved by @evazion.

remove alias animal_crossing -> doubutsu_no_mori
remove alias isabelle_(animal_crossing) -> shizue_(doubutsu_no_mori)
remove alias villager_(animal_crossing) -> villager_(doubutsu_no_mori)
remove alias rosie_(animal_crossing) -> bouquet_(doubutsu_no_mori)
remove alias punchy_(animal_crossing) -> binta_(doubutsu_no_mori)
remove alias cyrus_(animal_crossing) -> kaizou_(doubutsu_no_mori)
remove alias reese_(animal_crossing) -> lisa_(doubutsu_no_mori)
remove alias rover_(animal_crossing) -> mishiranu_neko
remove alias bunnie_(animal_crossing) -> lilian_(doubutsu_no_mori)

Just as we did with Pokémon tags, I actually think we should be changing the Animal Crossing tags to their English localisations. The franchise is very popular in the English-speaking community and, given the nature of the games (hundreds of randomly-selected minor NPC characters), there are many tiny Animal Crossing character tags with less than 50 posts. As you mentioned, it's quite arduous for someone who doesn't speak Japanese to have to look up each individual character's Japanese name on some wiki just so they can search for them. There's also issues where some characters' Japanese names are the English names for other characters - English-speaking users looking for the pumpkin-headed Halloween character called Jack will be searching for jack_(doubutsu_no_mori), but instead find posts featuring Raymond because Raymond's JP name is Jack.

I've been putting off suggesting this for a while because it's a lot of work I've been busy lately, but I guess this is as good a time as any to spur myself into action. If this BUR is approved, I will create two other BURs to alias/mass update all Animal Crossing tags from JP to ENG. There needs to be two because, as I mentioned before, a few names are shared between different characters in ENG and JP.

EDIT: The bulk update request #3840 (forum #175372) has been approved by @evazion.

Are we sure that we are going to put a complete "grandfather clause" to this copyright tag?

EDIT: To clarify, I took the "words" from howto:copyright in terms of NGE and such.

Travley said:

Are we sure that we are going to put a complete "grandfather clause" to this copyright tag?

A "grandfather clause" is a way of saying "it's been this way for so long that we're not changing it". This is a proposed change from something that has been one way for a long time, so the term "grandfather clause" doesn't apply here.

If you're asking for a grandfather clause to be implemented for this specific copyright as a reason for it to remain in Japanese, I don't think that will happen. It didn't happen when the Pokémon tags were changed to English, and Pokémon is even more popular than Animal Crossing.

The bulk update request #3839 (forum #175367) has been rejected by @evazion.

The bulk update request #3840 (forum #175372) has been approved by @evazion.

I agree with using English names here. It's always bizarre when you look at a Super Smash Bros. post and everything is in English except for Animal Crossing. The fact that many of our own wiki pages call it Animal Crossing instead of Doubutsu no Mori is also a strong sign we're doing it wrong.

BUR #3863 has been approved by @evazion.

Part 1 of the renaming. This BUR features all of the tags for characters whose Japanese names match a different character's English name. As such, they need to be renamed first in order to vacate these character tags so that their English counterparts may be moved afterwards.

Since discovering that a number of the Animal Crossing character tags use a romanized version of an English name instead of the original name (ie. Chakku instead of Chuck), I have realised that some of the tags in this initial BUR would not actually cause any conflicts. However, in order to lessen the confusion surrounding what is already a huge mess I'm just going to include all of the matching names here regardless of whether the English spelling is being used or not.

EDIT: The bulk update request #3863 (forum #175491) has been approved by @evazion.

My lack of sleep made me forget that, since the qualifier for all of these tags is changing too, there will be no duplicate tags even for name matches. As such, I have edited the BUR to include every alias/mass update at once. I have requested aliases for all tags with over 50 posts and mass updates for everything else.

I strongly suggest using "rename" instead of "mass update" for this BUR, based on topic #17321.

mongirlfan said:

I strongly suggest using "rename" instead of "mass update" for this BUR, based on topic #17321.

Done.

The bulk update request #3863 (forum #175491) has been approved by @evazion.

BUR #3880 has been approved by @evazion.

rename luna_(doubutsu_no_mori) -> ruby_(animal_crossing)
rename totakeke -> k.k._slider_(animal_crossing)
rename mishiranu_neko -> rover_(animal_crossing)
rename sonchou -> tortimer_(animal_crossing)
rename vanessa_(doubutsu_no_mori) -> vivian_(animal_crossing)
rename rodeo_(doubutsu_no_mori) -> rodeo_(animal_crossing)
rename pierre_(doubutsu_no_mori) -> pierre_(animal_crossing)

More characters.

EDIT: The bulk update request #3880 (forum #175605) has been approved by @evazion.

The bulk update request #3880 (forum #175605) has been approved by @evazion.

BUR #3929 has been approved by @evazion.

create alias pyontarou -> zipper_t_bunny_(animal_crossing)

Missed character

EDIT: The bulk update request #3929 (forum #175942) has been approved by @evazion.

The bulk update request #3929 (forum #175942) has been approved by @evazion.

BUR #3935 has been approved by @evazion.

create alias totakeke -> k.k._slider_(animal_crossing)

He's one of the most iconic characters in the franchise, having appeared in every single game to date. I feel this alias should be considered.

EDIT: The bulk update request #3935 (forum #175972) has been approved by @evazion.

The bulk update request #3935 (forum #175972) has been approved by @evazion.