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It seems odd to have both "bikes" and "biking" as top-level tags

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Should [biking] and [bikes] be synonymized or perhaps "bikes" made a child of "biking"?

I'm not very familiar with Codidact's hierarchical tags and what they imply for cases like this. Do you do something like this?

  • biking
    • bikes
      • maintenance
    • commuting
    • offroad
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I believe [biking] and [bikes] should be synonymous indeed (or we can probably just remove one tag or the other). I don't think any deeper considerations were made when picking tags and a lot of them also appeared as part of post imports from Stack Exchange.

There is no obvious need to use tag hierarchies either, they are a neat feature but hardly mandatory. Although since this site has a very broad scope, it might not be such a bad idea to consider hierarchies starting at some main activity: biking, hiking, climbing, hunting, animals etc etc. This would help if we at some point want to split off a certain tag to a category of its own, if we find that the rules for posts below that tag might differ - animal/insect/place identification questions for example.

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If we merge, which tag should survive? (I added an answer for more visibility, but I also want to ma... (3 comments)
If we merge, which tag should survive? (I added an answer for more visibility, but I also want to ma...
Monica Cellio‭ wrote 10 months ago

If we merge, which tag should survive? (I added an answer for more visibility, but I also want to make sure you see it since it's related to your answer.)

Lundin‭ wrote 10 months ago · edited 10 months ago

Monica Cellio‭ No strong opinion, but "biking" probably. That is, the activity, not the things. Gear recommendation, bike repairs etc should be on-topic still, but it is not the main focus of the site - compared with for example SE Bicycles which has a pretty strong focus on bike mechanics & repairs.

Michael‭ wrote 10 months ago

Lundin's position is reasonable, especially as a part of Outdoors.