Spinning weapon VS Twirling weapon

BUR #38495 has been rejected.

create alias spinning_weapon -> twirling_weapon

Is there any difference between spinning weapon and twirling weapon?
If there is no difference, alias the spinning_weapon to twirling_weapon which already has a wiki.

Whatever is happening in post #8438957 seems indeed best-described as "spinning weapon" but otherwise this looks like a safe alias

How will spinning weapon be different from swinging weapon like in post #8728744

Cpt_Skippy said:

Whatever is happening in post #8438957 seems indeed best-described as "spinning weapon" but otherwise this looks like a safe alias

That's it! This is the precise differential! Why didn't we think of it earlier?

Cpt_Skippy said:

Whatever is happening in post #8438957 seems indeed best-described as "spinning weapon" but otherwise this looks like a safe alias

Not sure if orbited or orbiting would work for this case.
Other like post #2700834 post #6553552 can also be regarded as examples.

BUR #38768 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create alias twirling_weapon -> spinning_weapon
create alias twirling_gun -> spinning_gun

Reverse BUR.
I noticed that twirling has been aliased to spinning.
So maybe it would be better to aliased to spinning weapon.
Also the twirling gun in wikipedia is Gunspinning. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunspinning)

Then can also imply spinning weapon to spinning.

Cpt_Skippy said:

Whatever is happening in post #8438957 seems indeed best-described as "spinning weapon" but otherwise this looks like a safe alias

I'd say that falls under orbited, a tag we created a few years ago for a character being orbited by objects, though I suppose both tags apply.

finalwar said:

Also the twirling gun in wikipedia is Gunspinning. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunspinning)

The problem here is that "spinning gun" could also be mistaken for the trope of characters spinning a gun on a table for russian roulette, whereas twirling gun is specifically for the trick.

Thinking about it, twirling gun is so small that it doesn't matter for now. We'll worry about it if we'll ever see this issue.

The bulk update request #38768 (forum #342007) has been approved by @nonamethanks.

The bulk update request #38495 (forum #341141) has been rejected by @nonamethanks.