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Yeah, so tags could use some cleaning

[nyxmidnight]

Tags have sometimes multiplied because people wrote the fandom differently, switched the names in the pairing around, wrote a new tag instead of taking the one that was there, or made a typo.

All the firsts tags could be merged into the seconds:

Devil May Cry

devil may cry (sparda/eva) same as → devil may cry: sparda/eva
devil may cry 3: dante/vergil same as → devil may cry: dante/vergil
devil may cry: vergil/dante same as → devil may cry: dante/vergil

Digital Devil Saga

digital devil sgaga: gale/demi-fiend same as → digital devil saga: gale/demi-fiend
digital devil saga serph/demifiend same as → digital devil saga: serph/demi-fiend
digital devil sage: gale/cielo same as → digital devil saga: gale/cielo
digital devil sage: gale/roland same as → digital devil saga: gale/roland

smt: digital devil saga: argilla/sera should be → digital devil saga: argilla/sera
smt: digital devil saga: naoki/seraph should be → digital devil saga: demi-fiend/seraph

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
This is made difficult by the nameless hero...

smt: nocturne: dante/hitoshura should be → smt: nocturne: dante/demi-fiend
smt: nocturne: hitoshura/futomimi should be → smt: nocturne: demi-fiend/futomimi
smt: nocturne: hitoshura/sakahagi should be → smt: nocturne: demi-fiend/sakahagi
smt: nocturne: isamu/protagonist should be → smt: nocturne: isamu/demi-fiend

There's also a superfluous date tag:
oct 9 same as → october 9

I'm sure if one looked through the big fandoms like FF and Bleach it'd be possible to shave off more tags...

Re: Yeah, so tags could use some cleaning

[animadri.livejournal.com]

I'll work on it tonight. Thanks, love.

Re: Yeah, so tags could use some cleaning

[nyxmidnight]

*bows* Glad I could help, if only a little ^^

Re: Yeah, so tags could use some cleaning

[snipervalentine.livejournal.com]

I'll be more than happy to give you a clean-up listing for Final Fantasy VII tags. There's a lot of weeding out that can be done there. Let me know if nobody else is working on this already.

Do we really need the special 'ac' tags for Advent Children fic? Half the fics out there under vanilla Final Fantasy VII tags are AC era anyway, so it seems kinda pointless.

Also, do we really need reverse images of the same pairing? I see no need to have both cloud/vincent and vincent/cloud, since there's no hard and fast rule that it actually signifies top/bottom in the fics anyway. There's a bunch that could be weeded out that way (since apparently most everyone on Gaia is a switch-hitter, lol).

Re: Yeah, so tags could use some cleaning

[animadri.livejournal.com]

I've removed over 100 tags and it still won't let me add any new ones. WTH? Want to give it a try?

Re: Yeah, so tags could use some cleaning

[snipervalentine.livejournal.com]

Well, that sucks. Did you try posting a question on a LJ help journal to find out why that is? If it keeps a ghost count even when you delete tags, seems kinda pointless to continue deleting them.