Topic: Tag alias: mal0 -> malo

The tag alias #62136 mal0 -> malo is pending approval.

Reason:
Mal0 (spelled with a zero) is a common misspelling of the SCP. People mistake the capitalized 'o' in its name as the number zero, rather than the letter 'o'. It's a understandable mistake, due to MalO's relationship to cyberstuff.
There's quite a handful of tags that uses this incorrect tag, so it's best to make an alias to clarify to future submissions.

Source:
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1471
SCP-1471 is a free 9.8MB application for mobile devices named "MalO ver1.0.0"

hold on, how is this tag different from scp-1471, which is a character tag...

cutefox123 said:
hold on, how is this tag different from scp-1471, which is a character tag...

malo is easier to remember than the scp number, at least for me :p

And the malo character is scp-1471-A, which I think doesn't have a name, while scp-1471 is just an app called malO.

For a tagging purposes, they're pretty much the same thing.

cutefox123 said:
hold on, how is this tag different from scp-1471, which is a character tag...

It's rather messy. Along with the scp-1471-a tag, there've been a few threads about it:
topic #32165
topic #18487
topic #36112
topic #37416
topic #37627

It seems scp-1471 and mal0/malo it the name of the app (and not really something often if ever depicted), but people use it interchangeably referring to the character, while scp-1471-a is actually the (unnamed) character.

Selfbump, because this small issue still stands. 70 entries with the incorrect tag, way too much of a hassle to individual fix each one.

I give my thumbs down since malo isn't a unique name. It also seems there are different versions of Malo, some are species, some are characters. So a disambiguation may be in order.

the entire Mal0 tags needs to be consolidated, whether its about the app or the actual creature. there are a few forum posts floating around specificaly about this.

cutefox123 said:
the entire Mal0 tags needs to be consolidated, whether its about the app or the actual creature. there are a few forum posts floating around specificaly about this.

Bump

Are there any differences in the other malo species tags? If not we could alias those to this tag too.

cutefox123 said:
the entire Mal0 tags needs to be consolidated, whether its about the app or the actual creature. there are a few forum posts floating around specificaly about this.

Yup. I did not even know that there are other versions of SCP-1471-a. I know that Mal0 is technicallyi s an app name which is SCP-1471 but nobody really tags an app anywhere and many people call SCP-1471-a Mal0 because it's simply easier to remember and say.

Species/character name malo and Mal0 is weird. It's a bit like with Renamon. It's basically character species and also name they go by. Certain instances of Mal0 can have different names/nicknames but they look mostly the same. Making different tags for each one is stupid. Going with this logic every single one variation of character like species swap or turning from sci-fi to fantasy or something should also have separate tags.

IN topic #18487 Furrin Gok shown differences between at least some more popular/known variations. I think that 0.9 may be distinct enough to maybe warrant separate tag but I've seen bigger differences between characters just because of artstyle than the ones mentioned between 1.0 and 1.1 there

I don't know. Alias SCP-1471-a with Mal0 because many people call her like that. Make it imply malo species. Change malo 0.9 tag from species to character and imply malo species?
I think that would clear most of the mess.

I've read SCP-1471 (the story); if I recall/understand correctly, each SCP-1471-A instance is (implied to be) its own being, so unless I'm mistaken, "scp-1471-a" should probably be recategorized as a species, with "malo" being aliased to it.

pcaelifera said:
I've read SCP-1471 (the story); if I recall/understand correctly, each SCP-1471-A instance is (implied to be) its own being, so unless I'm mistaken, "scp-1471-a" should probably be recategorized as a species, with "malo" being aliased to it.

yeah, additionally according to the tale Capone its heavily implied that William's SCP-1471-A instance appears with a more masculine appearance while Sara's instance is more feminine. then again due to the scp wiki not necessarily having a canon AND with no description of changing appearances in the original SCP-1471 page its kinda hard to conclusively determine

thegoonguardian said:
yeah, additionally according to the tale Capone its heavily implied that William's SCP-1471-A instance appears with a more masculine appearance while Sara's instance is more feminine. then again due to the scp wiki not necessarily having a canon AND with no description of changing appearances in the original SCP-1471 page its kinda hard to conclusively determine

The e621 wiki entry for SCP-1471-A says that "Due to the intangible perspective-based nature of SCP-1471-A, it is ambiguous if they are a singular pluripresent entity, or multiple instances created with each individual exposed to SCP-1471. As a product of this (and SCP-1471-A's popularity), there are several fan characters of people's own "MalOs", being regarded as a species. Supporting the species interpretation, there are four named SCP-1471-A instances in Tales: Cassandra (an instance who inadvertently caused their user distress to the point of suicide), Capone (belonging to the brother of Cassandra's user), Merle (a mischievous instance who has been taught sign language), and Vera (an instance hired by the Foundation)."

pcaelifera said:
The e621 wiki entry for SCP-1471-A says that "Due to the intangible perspective-based nature of SCP-1471-A, it is ambiguous if they are a singular pluripresent entity, or multiple instances created with each individual exposed to SCP-1471. As a product of this (and SCP-1471-A's popularity), there are several fan characters of people's own "MalOs", being regarded as a species. Supporting the species interpretation, there are four named SCP-1471-A instances in Tales: Cassandra (an instance who inadvertently caused their user distress to the point of suicide), Capone (belonging to the brother of Cassandra's user), Merle (a mischievous instance who has been taught sign language), and Vera (an instance hired by the Foundation)."

on a serious note yeah, to be honest it would be really inconvenient if we tagged malo as being a singular character, especially with the posts on this site featuring several SCP-1471-A instances. the species interpretation works and shouldnt have any drawbacks i believe, especially with how the species interpretation is actually kind of expanded upon in Target Audience which is also where Vera comes from

Perhaps making the combined species tag either malo_scp-1471-a or scp-1471-a_malo would work as a compromise of accuracy and recognizability?
Then have that tag imply scp_1471 and specify on the wiki page that it is a blanket tag for both the creatures and the app?