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Gold Tag Badge Issue
The correct answer is that the two tags should be made synonyms - whichever is preferred being the main tag, and the other tag a synonym of it. uk and united-kingdom should not exist as separate tags,...
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Suggesting to swap tag [kyiv] and its synonym [kiev]
Update: renaming to Kyiv now that Wikipedia is updated
I am going to decline this request as Kiev is still a much more common spelling than Kyiv. Tags don't necessarily have to follow the official ...
JonathanReezMod
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12
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On the new(ish) [drugs] tag
Not all non-medical drugs are illegal. For example, alcohol is generally legal, and is popular enough to get its own tag. Tobacco is similarly legal (though without the tag), and marijuana is legal ...
11
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Request: un-synonym-ize "clothing" and "footwear" tags
Poll answer:
Please vote up this answer if you agree with the proposal as made in my meta question and downvote if you disagree.
For a discussion please post another answer.
Please note that this ...
8
votes
Accepted
Suggesting to swap tag [kyiv] and its synonym [kiev]
The established standard is to follow Wikipedia's names; after more than 17 years of discussion and 13 years of failed proposals to resolve the matter, they have elected to go with Kyiv for the main ...
7
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Reorganize the "mountain-climbing" and "climbing" tags
Please upvote this answer if you agree with the suggestion to make "mountain-climbing" and "climbing" two separate tags and down-vote if you disagree.
For other suggestions please post another ...
7
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Suggesting to swap tag [kyiv] and its synonym [kiev]
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from
Personally, I cede to a country/city/region the right to dictate its name; that is, to choose how it is pronounced, and ...
5
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Request: un-synonym-ize "clothing" and "footwear" tags
I actually disagree with this for a couple reasons.
This stack exchange is about travel. Clothing is secondary to travel. For a large percentage of the questions, the question is about clothing to be ...
5
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Merging [tag:hotel] with [tag:hotels]
Thanks for bringing this up. It's done
updating post history, 9 rows affected (pipe delimited)
posts, 7 rows affected (pipe delimited)
destroying 'hotel': [hotel] removed from
Tag Synonym hotel -> ...
JoErNanOMod
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4
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Merge "left-luggage" and "luggage-storage" tags
Sounds like people are in favour, so, if you've got "more than 2500 reputation and a total answer score of 5 or more on the tag", head to https://travel.stackexchange.com/tags/luggage-storage/synonyms ...
4
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Should "drinking" be synonym for "nightlife" or "alcohol" (or something else)?
I am not convinced 'drinking' should be a synonym at all but am certain it should not be a synonym of nightlife. Looking at all the questions tagged alcohol (I can't differentiate whether that was ...
4
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Accepted
Please merge the "child" tag into the "children" tag
All done. Thanks for bringing this up. I think we should revamp the good old seasonal tag handling post we used to have.
JoErNanOMod
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4
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Request: un-synonym-ize "clothing" and "footwear" tags
This has now been done: clothing and footwear are no longer synonyms.
4
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locate-this v. identify-this vs. where-on-earth
Have you tried clicking the tags? The wikis seem to answer your question perfectly clearly
locate-this: You know the name of a cafe, a church, etc. but you don't know where it is. Help!
identify-this:...
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Should "drinking" be synonym for "nightlife" or "alcohol" (or something else)?
I don't know about night life, but drinking as a synonym for alcohol seems to me as arbitrary and unjustified as if we change "eating" into a synonym for "pizza".
3
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Do we need both tags "event travel" and "events"?
I agree they should be merged.
In addition, I think the tag "event-based-effects" should be renamed "incident-based-effects" to make it more distinct.
3
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Accepted
Is "denied-entry" a synonym of "denial-of-entry"?
Done. I deleted denied-entry, replaced it with denial-of-entry, and made the first a synonym of the second. Thank you for bringing this up. Keep up the good work.
JoErNanOMod
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3
votes
Accepted
Coronavirus designation
Done! Renamed the tag to sars-cov-2-virus to make it more scientific.
JonathanReezMod
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2
votes
Accepted
Now have tag "ski" - should fix?
ski is now synonym to skiing, and they are both synonyms to winter-sports. We can possibly remove the synonym, though this will cause some old questions to float to the top of the current questions ...
2
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Health tag, vaccinations, modify tag description?
vaccination as well as health does not seem necessary to me at this time. Nor a separation of health into 'administrative' and say 'physical/mental' aspects.
So what is left basically would be ...
2
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On the new(ish) [drugs] tag
Just for clarification reasons, do our rules allow the discussion of illegal drugs on the site?
I am for splitting drugs for health reasons from drugs for 'highs' or 'recreational' reasons.
But a ...

WillekeMod
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2
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Merge bank-statements into proof-provenance-of-funds
Your wish is my command :) Done!
JonathanReezMod
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2
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Tag synonyms standard-visitor-visa and standard-visitor-visas
I have undeleted your question. Even though the synonym already existed, I looked into the tags and managed to clean-up and merge them so that they now appear as one. Therefore, I am answering here to ...
JoErNanOMod
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2
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Accepted
Adding "delta" as a synonyme for "delta-air-lines"
Done and done. Thanks!
I briefly wondered about 'delta' as in difference between, but ... after 8 years if we haven't had a use for it, I suspect we can deal with that if it comes up.
2
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Inconsistent tag naming for insurance
I'll debate against using the "travel-" prefix.
This is a travel site and the domain is travel.stackexchange.com. I think that makes travel implicit and there's no need for explicit prefixes, like ...
2
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Inconsistent tag naming for insurance
I think that travel-insurance and insurance are different tags which can refer to different things: car insurance whilst on a road trip comes to mind. I think the two are distinct topics and should be ...
JoErNanOMod
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1
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Suggesting to swap tag [kyiv] and its synonym [kiev]
Stack Exchange doesn't seem allow for non-A-Z tags.
If we'd do the same for Bangkok the tag would be, and I'm not joking: กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลก ภพนพรัตน์ ราชธานีบุรีรมย์ ...
1
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Merge tags "baltic-sea" and "ostersjon"
Thank you for the heads-up. Tags were merged and synonym added. I have not added the other synonyms yet. I would rather wait to see if anyone actually creates those tags. The reason being that as of ...
JoErNanOMod
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1
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Merge "left-luggage" and "luggage-storage" tags
We have a tag rename question. Post this request there and it'll be handled by moderators. Relying on tag synonyms is borderline utopian.
JoErNanOMod
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