Topic: Tag alias: torch_light -> flashlight

The tag alias #81818 torch_light -> flashlight is pending approval.

Reason: I noticed the existance of the https://e621.net/wiki_pages/show_or_new?title=torch_light tag. A term that is usually used as a "flashlight" synonym, afaik, and based on a quick google search.
The tag is right now used in just a bunch of images to define "the light emitted by a flame torch". Imho, it's an ambiguous use of the tag. The tag should be removed from those images and replaced with "torch", and this tag aliased with "flashlight".

It should be clean up first because some of them are flaming torches

edit: spelling

Perhaps a disambiguation is needed? There’s also torchlight, the video game, although some of its tags are also just torches or flashlights

manitka said:
Perhaps a disambiguation is needed? There’s also torchlight, the video game, although some of its tags are also just torches or flashlights

I was thinking, do we need a tag for this at all? Like, why are we tagging the light it's emitting?

I think a better tags would be torch, lit_torch, flashlight, and lit_flashlight respectively.

manitka said:
Perhaps a disambiguation is needed? There’s also torchlight, the video game, although some of its tags are also just torches or flashlights

I didn't even noticed there was a version without the space in the middle used for a copyright.
Yeah, 'torchlight' should indeed be changed to torchlight_(videogame) just to be sure. It's veeeeery similar to 'torch_light' and could be easily miss-tagged.

So, Directly from the dictionary: torch light = The light of a torch or torches.
But also, if I search google for 'torch light', I get a bunch of 'flashlight' results from images to webstores, etc.. Also, from my personal english dictionary, I often connect torch_light to flashlight, but english is not my native language.

'torch_light' used to tag the light of a torch is technically correct then, but it's easy to miss-tag imho.

kyiiel said:
I was thinking, do we need a tag for this at all? Like, why are we tagging the light it's emitting?

And it's a very specific term indeed, I don't think there's the need of it too.

Mabe instead of aliasing it to 'flashlight', since it would be technically incorrect, should we alias it to lit_torch as already suggested, or even just light?

raygen said:
So, Directly from the dictionary: torch light = The light of a torch or torches.
But also, if I search google for 'torch light', I get a bunch of 'flashlight' results from images to webstores, etc.. Also, from my personal english dictionary, I often connect torch_light to flashlight, but english is not my native language.

"Torch" as a term for flashlight is more of a British English thing, much less so in American English where it largely means a stick-on-fire.