Aliasing ping_pong -> table_tennis
Reson: The former is a marketing tool turned nickname; the latter is the internationally recognized name for the sport.
Updated by kumarei
Posted under General
Doesn't really matter in my mind. Looking through the history of it, Ping-Pong was one of the original nicknames for the game that just got trademarked. Judging from it, the usage of Table Tennis only really became dominate because the owners of the trademark were being asses and requiring use of only their brand of equipment in "Ping-Pong" games and so organizations switched to calling it Table Tennis.
While we're at it, I take it you want to alias frisbee to flying_disc as well?
In Chinese, ping pong is called "乒乓球"/"pingpang qiu" meaning "ping pong ball". As far as I know, the characters 乒 and 乓 have no other use than in the word 乒乓, and yet they're a part of the Unicode standard. In any case, I'm sure usage of the phrase "ping pong" is widespread enough to make the trademark iffy.
I hadn't looked into the history prior to my suggestion, but to my mind it's all the more reason to call it table tennis. As opposed to the makers of the frisbee, who invented and developed a demand and were rewarded with a commanding market share, the ping pong people almost killed their market insisting clubs use expensive proprietary equipment. There wouldn't be 'ping-pong' tables and such to sell nowadays had organizers of the game during it's revival not decided to outsource it's equipment suppliers.
With no other use in the language, the Chinese characters likely only came into existence as a borrowed word from the American press following the 1971 "ping pong diplomacy" initiatives.
Well, if you want to punish the ping-pong people, it would be better to use 'ping-pong' as the tag, since it would degrade their trademark.
Kidding aside, I don't think it matters which we use. We should just go with whatever is more popular. From Google, that does seem to be table tennis, with 28 million results as opposed to 14 million. So I would say we should use that.