Tag Aliases

A tag alias makes one tag automatically become another. It is how duplicate spellings of the same idea get merged.

If @blonde@ is aliased to @blonde_hair@, then anyone who types @blonde@ gets @blonde_hair@ instead, on both uploads and searches. The old tag keeps working as a shortcut forever.

When an alias is right

Use an alias when two tags mean exactly the same thing:

• different spellings — @grey_hair@ and @gray_hair@,
• singular and plural — @cat@ and @cats@,
• an abbreviation and its full form,
• an artist's old handle and their new one.

If one tag is a kind of the other rather than the same as it, you want a tag implication instead.

Requesting one

Aliases affect every post at once, so they go through a bulk update request and are applied by a moderator.

See also: Tags, Tag implications.