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Shouldn't it be the other way around? Artificial arm could apply to arms made of wood or plastic, whereas mechanical arm's wiki specifies it's for "biomechanical" arms.
It's possible that some aliases could be needed, considering there's prosthetic arm, robot arm, robot arms, and robotic arms as well.
Suggestion:
Aliases:
robot_arm -> mechanical_arm
robot_arms -> mechanical_arm
robotic_arms -> mechanical_arm
Get rid of the biomechanical description in the mechanical_arm description, as it is a) confusing and b) the word mechanical (without bio)causes people to tag posts like post #2008608 with mechanical_arm even when there it's not directly attached to a biological component.
We reduce the number of tags, so all arms with mechanisms get assigned to mechanical_arm whether they are intended for a robot or not. Same goes with steampunk_arms, which may not qualify as robotic.
Implications:
mechanical_arm -> artificial_arm
prosthetic_arm -> artificial_arm
Separating prosthetic arms from mechanical arms. An arm can be both prosthetic and mechanical, as is the cases of "biomechanical arms" like automail. A simple wooden or plastic arm (or even a metal one without any mechanism) would qualify as prosthetic_arm but not mechanical_arm.
As anything mechanical and/or prosthetic is made artificially (that is, not found naturally), we can link them via implication to artificial_arm.
create alias artificial_arm -> prosthetic_arm
create alias robot_arm -> mechanical_arm
create alias robot_arms -> mechanical_arm
create alias robotic_arms -> mechanical_arm
Every picture in artificial_arm depicts a prosthesis. We should do what NNescio said with implications in a few months.
I refrained from requesting mechanical_arms -> mechanical_arm because there does appear to be a numerical distinction in how those tags have been used. Maybe somebody will want to search only for bilateral prostheses, I dunno.
