Timeline for Should helicopter really be a synonym for air-travel?
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| Apr 2, 2012 at 19:06 | comment | added | Ankur Banerjee Mod | I looked at the old tag issues thread, where it seems consensus was high speed rail and trains should be separate. | |
| Apr 2, 2012 at 19:03 | comment | added | Ankur Banerjee Mod | I would counter that by saying we have separate tags for 'high-speed-rail' and 'trains'. Isn't the rationale the same here in having separate tags? | |
| Apr 2, 2012 at 15:26 | comment | added | Scott McIntyre | Oops, crossed comments... Maybe this is the correct fix: keep "air-travel" and add "air-sightseeing" or "aerial-tours"? | |
| Apr 2, 2012 at 15:24 | comment | added | hippietrail | I'm definitely not against splitting and renaming the tag by the way, I'm just in favour of avoid knee-jerk reactions. Especially in one of our oldest and most heavily used tags. | |
| Apr 2, 2012 at 15:22 | comment | added | Scott McIntyre | To be clear, I don't think it is useless at the moment, I think it is a useful category that would better be called "airplane-travel". Calling it "air-travel" just to include helicopters and hot-air balloons is the part that doesn't seem to help anyone, since the uses of those types of air travel are not really for travel. | |
| Apr 2, 2012 at 15:18 | comment | added | hippietrail | It could be but you haven't convinced me that we have "ended up with a category that is useless". Can you provide some illustration of how it serves no purpose? | |
| Apr 2, 2012 at 13:39 | comment | added | Scott McIntyre | My feeling is that people are using the "air-travel" tag to mean "general questions about airplane flights" rather than "travel through the air". That's why the helicopter questions don't seem to fit, and it would be a real stretch to include a hot-air balloon question under that tag. So perhaps it would be better to rename the "air-travel" tag as well to something like "airplane-travel", and maybe we don't need a "helicopter" tag at all. But I'm not sure the old way of grouping transport together just because they fly makes much sense either. You end up with a category that is useless. | |
| Apr 2, 2012 at 11:29 | history | answered | hippietrail | CC BY-SA 3.0 |