In light of the current Weekly Challenge, two questions have been asked so far about pets. These questions used a new tag, pets. We already have a tag animals. Why both? I think questions about pets should go into animals. Anyone disagree?
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1Note: If the community agrees with this proposition, don't retag all pets questions. Rather, a ♦ mod can merge the tags, which is much quicker/easier and doesn't bump the questions to the top of the recently-edited-questions list.– msh210 ModMar 18 '12 at 5:58
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As one of the offenders: I first tagged my post "animals", then saw the other one and said "oh, we have 'pets'" so retagged, and only long after that noticed that these were the only two. I have no objection to merging them.– Monica CellioMar 18 '12 at 17:05
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1@msh210 It seems the community is rather indifferent.– Double AA ModMar 21 '12 at 2:43
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Four months later and I've only seen three questions tagged "pets", the original two and one new one today. I proposed a synonym.– Monica CellioJul 19 '12 at 15:46
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1As this has a net vote score of 3, @MonicaCellio's answer agreeing has a net vote socre of 2, and IsaacMoses's answer disagreeing has a net vote score of 0, I'm merging the tags as proposed and tagging this question status-completed.– msh210 ModJul 24 '12 at 2:35
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This title made me think of this: minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/05/25/…– Seth JJul 24 '12 at 13:06
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I think "pets" is unnecessarily specialized and there aren't that many pet-related questions. (We do have some others that are currently tagged "animals", by the way.) I say merge pets into animals and create a synonym.
answered Mar 18 '12 at 17:25
Aren't pets a special case of animals with their own particular set of issues?
I think the question really is whether there are likely to be a substantial number of pet-specific questions, and whether anyone will ever want to click on a tag to find them all (without having to sift through all the other animal questions). I think the answer to both of these questions is "Yes."
answered Mar 18 '12 at 14:41
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I would only agree that they deserve to be separate if someone can demonstrate a nafka mina: somewhere pets applies but not animals. Otherwise are we tagging every pets question with animals too?– Double AA ModMar 18 '12 at 17:11
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Kind of like your answer here: meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/a/580/759– Double AA ModMar 18 '12 at 17:27
It was I who created "pets" tag. If you think it is overspecialization, feel free to merge it.
