New Mane Six (G5) Issues

Seeing tags like alternate new mane six (g5) prop up in reference to G5’s Mane 5 + Misty really illustrates to me how cumbersome and unintuitive applying these tags to G5 has become. Of course, we’d never really planned ahead in terms of future Generation tagging, so some of the tags used for grouping have become pretty obtuse. So here’s some thoughts of mine to make them a bit less confusing and easier to manage (Mostly, I’m trying to cut down on all the prefixes and parenthesis here). In doing so, I’m still attempting to leave alone the most relevant G4 “mane X” terminology and tags alone.

1. mane five as it currently exists is used for G4’s Mane 6 sans Twilight. IMO this would be better served in use of G5’s core cast, as it currently uses mane five (g5). G5’s group being more relevant as a group in and of itself (especially as it’s G4 use is not super abundantly tagged to begin with), I think it would go to better use here. The G4 iteration could maybe switch to mane six minus one – similar to the mane six plus one currently aliased into alternate mane seven.
2. Preparing for the inevitable “Misty joins the Mane 5”, we could unalias new mane six from alternate mane six and use that instead of the word salad we’d be left with otherwise (There are already a fair amount of images to tag it to in the meantime).
3. If above happens, the probably premature-in-retrospect new mane six (g5) (Mane 5 + Sprout) could be given the alternate new mane six similar to the aforementioned (This one is still pretty cumbersome but that was going to be inevitable to some extent).
4. This one is less of a concern, but maybe mane six (g5) should get a slightly more accurate tag? (I admit this is in part to have another possible name/alias for G5’s Mane 6, but also because it’s now somewhat of a misnomer) Were this to happen at all, it’d probably wait for a proper Mane 6 to form in G5 anyway.

In a general sense, I don’t mind treating G4 as slightly less of a “default” as time and generations go on. A “Mane Five” group is more relevant to G5 than to G4.

then redefining the tag to mean any “Mane Five plus one” groups and making it an implication of both Misty and Sprout joining.

The suggestion here would be having sprout joins the mane five and misty joins the mane five both imply new mane six (g5), correct?

I am not against this, though I do personally prefer having a new mane six tag with its own set characters it refers to (In this case, likely Misty).

DOn’t know if this has been brought up before, but should the mane five (g5) tag be merged to the old mane five tag?

the G5 tag is the more popular tag of the 2, and also i think more people will associate the term “mane 5” with the g5 cast members and not “the mane 6 but with twilight missing”.

1. Since Misty being the official 6th member over Sprout has been established, she should have a tag like new mane six or some such equivalent apply to the Mane 5 + her. Sprout’s tag would change to a secondary tag like sprout joins the mane five, that is the Mane 5 + him.
2. We have both a misty joins the mane five and a sprout joins the mane five that imply an umbrella mane five plus one/new mane six tag that could apply to either pony joining (and future proof for other ponies, I guess).

I’ve not touched any of the other tags yet, but taking a look at them, these would be the two main directions to move in given other suggestions in this thread:

1. Since Misty being the official 6th member over Sprout has been established, she should have a tag like new mane six or some such equivalent apply to the Mane 5 + her. Sprout’s tag would change to a secondary tag like sprout joins the mane five, that is the Mane 5 + him.
2. We have both a misty joins the mane five and a sprout joins the mane five that imply an umbrella mane five plus one/new mane six tag that could apply to either pony joining (and future proof for other ponies, I guess).

Any preference of choice?

What used to inhabit that tag is now under mane six minus one in part because I couldn’t think of a a better name.

What used to inhabit that tag is now under mane six minus one

Mane 5 + Misty should be referred to as Mane 6, so the tag should simply be mane six (g5)

Except mane six (g5) currently refers to “G4 Mane 6 w/ G5 concept leak designs”.
I think it should be changed to something like old mane six (g5), since it’s not as relevant anymore.

@mdashlw
I think mane six (g5 concept leak) would be the right way to write it, to match the way each character’s g5 concept leak tag is phrased.

Mane 5 + Sprout could be alternate mane six (g5). I don’t think x joins the mane five is necessary.