
We may want to keep these tags in a more limited role. When you add the base harry-potter tag, that's more than we're allowed. The problem is that there can plausibly be questions with more than four of the above elements simultaneously. Individual major characters, or groups of them ( hp-golden-trio, fred-and-george, hogwarts-staff, etc.).Horcruxes generally (but probably not a separate tag for each).Each of the Deathly Hallows, separately.The Sword of Gryffindor ( might be lumped in with the Hat, but I'd be skeptical of that arrangement).If we tag items with the same level of importance and complexity as the Marauder's Map, we'd probably need tags for all of the following:

No, because the five-tag limit makes it impractical to tag at this level of granularity.Ī user has just gone and made 17 tag edits in 2 minutes adding marauders-map to all the questions that come up when you search the term Marauders Map. Different fandoms have different needs, different things they want to know, and different types of source material. This seems a more reasonable approach to me than voting on a Harry Potter tag the same way you would for a Game of Thrones tag. Is the tag unlikely, when used appropriately, to interfere with other Harry Potter tagging (such as the 5 tag limit)?.Is it reasonable to assume some people might want to know about just that subject?.Is a Marauder's Map a reasonably helpful tag for people of the Harry Potter Fandom?.So, I would encourage people to vote based on: We have the flexibility to make our own tag map, and have our experts help curate and guide new users, write usage guidance, etc. We've never really tagged individual Harry Potter films or books, but for Star Wars we have a need to create those individual tags before the movies are even released! Story Identification is a whole different beast from Star Trek.

They're different bodies of work, and we shouldn't try to force a one-size-fits-all tagging policy around them. The structure and conventions that work for Lord of the Rings is different than Marvel properties. We have different levels of granularity and grouping in these tags, and should keep that in mind when discussing whether or not to keep a tag.

Our top tags on this site are so large that they and their related tags are often curated by "specialists", people that take an interest in that work and are knowledgeable about it. Aside from perusing out of personal interest, we have a strong history of citing other answers to strengthen new ones, or to find duplicates. Tagging helps facilitate not just answering the question, but later finding the question and it's answers. Want to know just about Slytherin? Did you mean Salazar himself or the Hogwarts House? How do you filter out every time a user merely mentions "Slytherin" when they're just talking about a Slytherin, like Draco? Want to know more about just Hermione? Good luck narrowing that down. These questions can be hard to filter by simple text searches, because searchable terms are often used in questions that aren't about that term. This is not a yes or no answer, but a point of discussion.
