Did someone merge "sea pony" and "seapony"?

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Because I think I remember those being separate tags with separate scopes about a month ago when I did clean-up there. Also, the contents of “sea pony” are a mess again.
 
Relevant links:  
sea pony (seahorse ponies with seahorse body, pony head)  
seapony  
seapony (G4)  
merpony
 
also:  
“sea ponies”/:tags/sea+ponies
 
and this type of quadruped aquatic-tailed pony which has no mastertag although subtags like shark pony, whale pony, dolphin pony exist  
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@saby
 
As far as i know:
 
sea pony/seapony is for the G1 seaponies or things that are close to that design, which were what you described.
 

 
merpony is for when the pony has a pony upper half and a piscine lower half.
 

 
seapony (g4) is for the merpony-like seaponies of this generation.
 
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I think so many people are used to just labelling any of the examples @Mildgyth posted as “seapony” that you’ll never stop them, because it’s such an intuitive term, y’know?
 
A fix, I think, would be to tag the G1 ones as “seapony (g1)” and then just let them have at ’er with tagging the rest as “seapony” :P
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Nothing, Sea Pony is the correct spelling, for the G1 versions, the toys for the movie versions calls them Seapony iirc tho they look more like merponies, which existed in late G1 and G3.5.
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So, just stumbled on this issue because of a recent post, and gotta say I find the current seapony tags to be really convoluted and not user friendly at all. We are asking users to tag the new norm for sea ponies, as in the sea ponies that appear in the movie, with “seapony (g4)”, while we reserve the “seapony” tag for old school sea ponies.
 
This is backwards thinking.
 
We should use “seapony” as a tag for all encompassing seaponies, new and old, then add “seapony (g1)” for the old-school fishies. The old-school seaponies are not the norm anymore, reserving the general tag for the exception will just lead to confusion and misstagging. Look at the “seapony” tag, it’s all over the place because the tag tried to go against the flow.
 
I say we remove the restriction on the “seapony” tag, let it be the general tag as it should be, and tag the “seahorse” looking ones with “seapony (G1)”, it will make things a lot easier than the current set up.
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Yeah.. I think it should be switched. Whatever the “correct” spelling of them is, Seapony/Sea pony. People don’t really know the difference. And since tags are supposed to be for ease of searching, I don’t think we need to focus on the importance of a space.
 
So with  
sea pony  
sea ponies  
sea pony (g4)
 
I’m thinking:  
Tag the G1 ones with sea pony (g1).  
Then alias sea ponies into sea pony. And alias sea pony (g4) into sea pony.
 
Use sea pony for the over all, every possible pony of the sea, tag. And let the sea pony (g1) tag be the filtering one.
 
As for that merpony tag. I’m thinking just have it imply sea pony. And it’s another filterable specification.
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@Mildgyth  
They would still be tagged “sea ponies”, the “merpony” tag would just be for the seaponies that look half fish and half pony. As Zebs said: seapony is for all of them, then you can have specifics. We can keep “seapony G4” tbh, as long as it implies “sea pony”.
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The original tagging scheme made some sort of sense once upon a time when we thought we’d never be getting seaponies in G4.  
Begin the changes.
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