Questions tagged [tag-synonyms]
Which existing pairs of tags should be merged, which not yet existing tags should be created as synonyms, policies regarding synonyms.
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Tags should be plurals (with a few caveats)
Hey travellers I'd just like to revisit an old issue: Plural tags should be the lead tag in a set of tag synonyms.
At least that's what we seemed to decide from the clickvoting back then.
Somehow at ...
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Suggesting to swap tag [kyiv] and its synonym [kiev]
Updated September 2020
The original request has been declined by a moderator arguing that:
And our current standard is to use Wikipedia for reference, which lists the city as Kiev currently. Once ...
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Merge "left-luggage" and "luggage-storage" tags
So, there's a semi-popular (and obvious what it means) tag, luggage-storage. There's also a much less common tag (and easily confused with lost luggage, even if it is the idiomatic (British English) ...
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Please help with tag wikis if you have some spare time
We had an event in the chat last night, and while not many where there, @Roflcopter and myself spent some time updating tag wikis.
We welcome ANYONE with the required reputation levels to click on ...
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Should the "Korea" tag redirect to "South Korea"?
Now that we have our first North Korea question I decided to check if we previously used korea or south-korea.
So right now we have south-korea and korea redirects to it!
I find this a bit wrong, no ...
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Reorganize the "mountain-climbing" and "climbing" tags
Currently "mountain-climbing" is a master tag and "climbing" an associated synonym. I suggest it should be the other way round or even better two different (but linked) tags and ask you to discuss ...
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Confusing Kiwi citizens
Gah! We have:
new-zealand-citizens and nz-citizens. Suggest the former as a master synonym tag, given people may have missed the NZ one, we don't just want to re-tag.
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We should call it "Uluru" but let people find it when they search for "Ayers Rock"
Not trying to pick on anyone but we have another backwards pair of tag synonyms.
The big red rock in the Centre of Australia has been officially and correctly called "Uluru" for some time now.
But ...
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Do we need both tags "event travel" and "events"?
Well it turns out we have these two apparently very similar tags. I've included their tag wiki excerpts:
event-travel × 19 Travel for the purpose of seeing or experiencing a particular occasion
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Tags for children and infant/baby
It looks like someone combined the infant tag with children. I realise that we probably don't want tags for every age of child, but I'd think that the challenges for travelling with a baby are ...
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Tag descriptions
Just been going through fixing a lot of the tags ('Germany - questions about Germany' is NOT a descriptive tag!), and adding to some of the popular ones. Also fixed a lot of the singular tags, which ...
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Reversed Amazonian tag synonyms
I just noticed a question about the Amazon jungle is specifically mis-tagged amazon-river. Then I noticed on investigation that amazon is a synonym of the more riverish tag.
Since we'll surely be ...
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Gear or travel gadget?
I see that gear has now been replaced by travel-gadget.
But was this a mistake? I had a bit of a chat with Mark in comments on another meta question and thought he was going to add the gadget tag as ...
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Combine "connection" and "transit" tags?
The connection and transit tags cover largely the same ground,
and to me they seem to be used more or less interchangeably.
Should we combine them (make one a synonym of the other)?
(If you think ...
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Merge 'toilet-usage' into 'hygiene'
The tag toilet-usage is obsolete, and is a synonym to hygiene. However, the former tag is visible on several questions, such as Stuck without toilet paper while travelling - what is the best approach? ...
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Merge the "Dutch" and "German" tags into the general "languages" tag we already have?
We already have a languages tag and it already includes arabic and english as synonyms.
We just got a new tag german so I hunted around and found there's also a single-use dutch tag hanging around.
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The "China" tag should refer to both the Republic of, and People's Republic of, China [closed]
So right now we have china and it refers to the People's Republic of China (PROC)!
I find this a bit wrong, no matter the fact that we'll have a lot more questions about the PROC than the Republic of ...
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