General topic for character tag categorization

@Dragonpone
Fair enough, though I’m not too sure there are that many characters with those kinds of unnecessary double tags outside of Count Caesar, Bulk Biceps, Curly Winds, and maybe a few others (outside of cases like Bon Bon/Sweetie Drops where both names are canon, or cases like Watermelody and Drama Letter where both names are commonly used honestly most people use Watermelody nowadays so maybe she isn’t the best example but I can’t think of others right now)

Cratetoss and Ancient Beast Dealer are the same character. Plus Ancient Beast Dealer isn’t a name. Also his real name is Cratus and should probably be tagged as such.

merry melody and purple rainbow both appear to refer to the same particular background pony, but both tags were created by anonymous users so they might not really be names.

Those are both nice names :) but you’re right :o

Maybe they can be shared in the Naming Background Ponies Thread. :)

@☬ ᏝᏆᏁᏨᎾᏝᏁᏰᏒᎬᎳᏕᎿᎬᏒᎱᎯᏁ ☬
I’ve got it covered

stella lashes and pretty vision imply stella and elise, respectively, but the latter two tags aren’t blue. (There are other characters named Stella, like the one from Angry Birds, but we can just use tags differentiating them.)

(They could also be merged, due to the aforementioned double name tags issue.)
(There’s also the tag elsie which is blue and implies pretty vision, so “elise” could just be a simple clerical error.)

Thanks c:

Not sure if this goes here but shouldn’t Zipporwhill be the default tag with Zippoorwhill being aliased into it? Wiki says that the “poor” spelling was only used in the script, while the “por” spelling is used in the credits, card game, and Gameloft game

Why does Hoofdini imply Rufus? Who is Rufus?

@MonochromeWallflower
Obviously Rufus is a pony from G5. I assume he’s implied by Hoofdini since that’s his stage name and whoever set up the implication didn’t notice it’s already a G4 pony’s name. The implication probably should be removed or replaced by a new Hoofdini (G5) tag if we want/need that.

@Yoshimon1
I’m pretty sure alternate names don’t get blue tagged. I mean if Midnight Sparkle isn’t blue then Hoofdini (G5) certainly shouldn’t be.

@MonochromeWallflower
I never said it had to be blue.

@Yoshimon1
Fair enough then, agree in that case

@MonochromeWallflower
You know, this is actually something I’ve wondered about for some time. What if there were a new category of tag for official or unofficial character variations? Flutterbat, Evil Pie Hating Rainbow Dash, and even the Midnight Sparkle example you gave. They’re not all fully characters, yet they sort of are, and they can have a significant presence.

Couldn’t there be a different character tag category for them? There’s others out there too, like maybe the Rule 63 named versions of characters, like Elusive for Rarity. They’re quasi-characters, things that seem a little more significant than being just just regular tags.

@Toastypk
That sounds like a really good idea!

Though now that I’m thinking about this subject; what is the deal with characters like Nightmare Moon? What is the difference between Nightmare Moon and Midnight Sparkle tag wise? Both act very differently from their originals and both Luna and Sci-Twi show signs that their respective “evil versions” are inherently different personalities. If such a tag category was created, would Midnight gain a blue tag or Nightmare fall to the new tag?

@MonochromeWallflower
Yeah and same with Daybreaker! She’s a character tag, and I honestly thought Midnight Sparkle was too.
If they’re all alter egos and technically other characters, I guess they should all be blue.

Oh hey!
We have an official name for a fan-named character!

Looks like we call her Valley Glamour, but on the Gameloft game, she is named Valley Trend!
https://mlp-gameloft.fandom.com/wiki/Valley_Trend

@Toastypk
Surprised I didn’t notice that since I play the game constantly

No idea who it is though.

@Wiimeiser
Looks like this guy

Don’t know where the name came from, it’s tagged almost entirely by 1 user.

The purple and white pony’s name is confirmed to be Violette Rainbow!
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2023/03/the-new-g5-ponys-name-is-violette.html?m=1
Gonna add this to those images of her. We’re gonna need a character tag now!

@Toastypk
Done.

Should we preemptively add character tags for the 3 new ponies featured on >>3069535 ?

Those three tags would be:
*Ruby Jubilee
*Electric Blue
*Dreamlands

@Jonny Manz
Done.