Timeline for Tagging Up: edits, synonyms, requests, and other tag-related work
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| Jan 8, 2019 at 13:48 | comment | added | user16112 | Thanks for the history lesson, Ben. I can see the cause of confusion, the need for change, and the process to achieve change due to the infancy of the site 5 years ago. I found an even earlier post about tags for American football/football/soccer which had more sustained and prevalent consensus. I guess I brought this up to determine if tags needed renamed and if so, is the means of consensus a discussion (as this post promotes) or a complaint (as the wages/financials tag promotes). | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 20:07 | comment | added | Ben Miller | Yes, the meta question didn't have much consensus, but it also didn't have any dissent. There wasn't a lot of meta participation on Sports 5 years ago. :) In my opinion, the answer and decision there are still good. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 20:02 | comment | added | Ben Miller | "Wages" was made a synonym tag, but remember that "synonym tag" in Stack Exchange does not really mean the same as the word "synonym" in English. In Stack Exchange, "synonym tags" are simply pointers to the tags that we actually want users to use. No, the words "wages" and "finances" are not synonyms, but by making "wages" a synonym tag, the system automatically replaces any use of the "wages" tag with the "finances" tag, which is what we want. If we simply deleted the "wages" tag altogether, someone might create it again in the future, splitting finance questions into multiple tags.(cont.) | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 19:56 | comment | added | Ben Miller | I can provide a little context for this one. At some point in the site's past before I arrived on the scene, the tag "wages" was defined as the tag to use for all questions related to the finances of sports. This caused confusion, because, as we all know, there is more to sports finances than simply the players' contracts. This caused confusion, which resulted in a minor edit skirmish and the aforementioned meta question. As a result, the tag we are now using for this is named "finances," which makes much more sense and is less confusing. (continued...) | |
| Dec 20, 2018 at 15:16 | history | answered | user16112 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |