Requesting alias of 'danmei' to 'yaoi'

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BUR #51499 is pending approval.

create alias danmei -> yaoi

I was watching YouTube video and though that I discovered there's an entire Chinese equivalent term for BL, 'danmei' (耽美), that hasn't been covered by the 'yaoi' tag. So it seems like a straightforward and reasonable alias, at least to me. It's big in China just as much as it is mainland Japan apparently. I don't post often, so forgive me if I'm missing something critical here.

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danmei

Yaoi is the significantly more well-known term. Most of the people frequenting Danbooru are going to be more familiar with yaoi than "danmei".

And the few situations I can think of otherwise are covered by "Other Names", so I think this alias isn't needed.

Knowledge_Seeker said:

Yaoi is the significantly more well-known term. Most of the people frequenting Danbooru are going to be more familiar with yaoi than "danmei".

And the few situations I can think of otherwise are covered by "Other Names", so I think this alias isn't needed.

I figured with the other 20 tags that surely those are commonly used? I'm being facetious, but it gave me the impression they're there to cover bases, and not because IRL usage, per se. I also don't do yaoi in any case, so maybe those other terms are actually there for non-utility reasons. Notoriety itself just doesn't seem like the purpose of the aliasing here, from my perspective.

EDIT: Repetition; grammar.

I see it quite a bit in yaoi circles usually in reference to Chinese historical web novels, I think this is a reasonable findability alias. The only concern I would have is people applying the tag to any art of danmai series that aren't necessarily what we'd tag with yaoi like post #9983184. That concern could also apply to non-romantic art of BL series though.

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