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As I was writing up the Topic Challenge for this week, I noticed that we currently have these tags relating to burials and cemeteries:

  • has 9 questions and no usage guidance
  • has 3 questions and this description "For questions about finding or interpreting records of burials."
  • has 10 questions and no usage guidance
  • has 10 questions and is for "Artifacts or symbols that denote the burial of someone."

I think all of these tags could be useful, but at the moment, the questions attached to each of these tags aren't necessarily questions that belong together.

Here are my initial thoughts on what kind of tagging might be most useful, assuming we want to keep all three of these tags.

Proposal one: reserve for questions that pertain to entire cemeteries:

Proposal two: reserve for questions about how to interpret parish records of burials and the records about individuals created by cemeteries and undertakers

The tag is straightforward enough and is useful for questions that discuss the actual stones or other markers.

Other questions that don't fall under these three tags, including finding records of burials, could be tagged with the more generic . (We also have the tag which could apply to those questions.)

At the moment, the tagging of questions is nothing like the proposal I've outlined above. We have problems like this question:

which is currently tagged and along with its place.

It makes more sense to me to have a on this question along with , and to make a synonym of . And I see from the suggestions given by the site that we already have a prior question on that topic from 2013:

I would like to see the tags bring together the questions which are functionally the same -- with noting the questions pertaining to research about cemeteries, for individual burials, about the stones, and so on.

Please look over the questions we have, and post your suggestions below.

As I was writing up the Topic Challenge for this week, I noticed that we currently have these tags relating to burials and cemeteries:

  • has 9 questions and no usage guidance
  • has 3 questions and this description "For questions about finding or interpreting records of burials."
  • has 10 questions and no usage guidance
  • has 10 questions and is for "Artifacts or symbols that denote the burial of someone."

I think all of these tags could be useful, but at the moment, the questions attached to each of these tags aren't necessarily questions that belong together.

Here are my initial thoughts on what kind of tagging might be most useful, assuming we want to keep all three of these tags.

Proposal one: reserve for questions that pertain to entire cemeteries:

Proposal two: reserve for questions about how to interpret parish records of burials and the records about individuals created by cemeteries and undertakers

The tag is straightforward enough and is useful for questions that discuss the actual stones or other markers.

Other questions that don't fall under these three tags, including finding records of burials, could be tagged with the more generic . (We also have the tag which could apply to those questions.)

At the moment, the tagging of questions is nothing like the proposal I've outlined above. We have problems like this question:

which is currently tagged and along with its place.

It makes more sense to me to have a on this question along with , and to make a synonym of . And I see from the suggestions given by the site that we already have a prior question on that topic from 2013:

I would like to see the tags bring together the questions which are functionally the same -- with noting the questions pertaining to research about cemeteries, for individual burials, about the stones, and so on.

Please look over the questions we have, and post your suggestions below.

As I was writing up the Topic Challenge for this week, I noticed that we currently have these tags relating to burials and cemeteries:

  • has 9 questions and no usage guidance
  • has 3 questions and this description "For questions about finding or interpreting records of burials."
  • has 10 questions and no usage guidance
  • has 10 questions and is for "Artifacts or symbols that denote the burial of someone."

I think all of these tags could be useful, but at the moment, the questions attached to each of these tags aren't necessarily questions that belong together.

Here are my initial thoughts on what kind of tagging might be most useful, assuming we want to keep all three of these tags.

Proposal one: reserve for questions that pertain to entire cemeteries:

Proposal two: reserve for questions about how to interpret parish records of burials and the records about individuals created by cemeteries and undertakers

The tag is straightforward enough and is useful for questions that discuss the actual stones or other markers.

Other questions that don't fall under these three tags, including finding records of burials, could be tagged with the more generic . (We also have the tag which could apply to those questions.)

At the moment, the tagging of questions is nothing like the proposal I've outlined above. We have problems like this question:

which is currently tagged and along with its place.

It makes more sense to me to have a on this question along with , and to make a synonym of . And I see from the suggestions given by the site that we already have a prior question on that topic from 2013:

I would like to see the tags bring together the questions which are functionally the same -- with noting the questions pertaining to research about cemeteries, for individual burials, about the stones, and so on.

Please look over the questions we have, and post your suggestions below.

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As I was writing up the Topic Challenge for this week, I noticed that we currently have these tags relating to burials and cemeteries:

  • has 9 questions and no usage guidance
  • has 3 questions and this description "For questions about finding or interpreting records of burials."
  • has 10 questions and no usage guidance
  • has 10 questions and is for "Artifacts or symbols that denote the burial of someone."

I think all of these tags could be useful, but at the moment, the questions attached to each of these tags aren't necessarily questions that belong together.

Here are my initial thoughts on what kind of tagging might be most useful, assuming we want to keep all three of these tags.

Proposal one: reserve for questions that pertain to entire cemeteries:

Proposal two: reserve for questions about how to interpret parish records of burials and the records about individuals created by cemeteries and undertakers

The tag is straightforward enough and is useful for questions that discuss the actual stones or other markers.

Other questions that don't fall under these three tags, including finding records of burials, could be tagged with the more generic . (We also have the tag which could apply to those questions.)

At the moment, the tagging of questions is nothing like the proposal I've outlined above. We have problems like this question:

which is currently tagged and along with its place.

It makes more sense to me to have a on this question along with , and to make a synonym of . And I see from the suggestions given by the site that we already have a prior question on that topic from 2013:

I would like to see the tags bring together the questions which are functionally the same -- with noting the questions pertaining to research about cemeteries, for individual burials, about the stones, and so on.

Please look over the questions we have, and post your suggestions below.

As I was writing up the Topic Challenge for this week, I noticed that we currently have these tags relating to burials and cemeteries:

  • has 9 questions and no usage guidance
  • has 3 questions and this description "For questions about finding or interpreting records of burials."
  • has 10 questions and no usage guidance
  • has 10 questions and is for "Artifacts or symbols that denote the burial of someone."

I think all of these tags could be useful, but at the moment, the questions attached to each of these tags aren't necessarily questions that belong together.

Here are my initial thoughts on what kind of tagging might be most useful, assuming we want to keep all three of these tags.

Proposal one: reserve for questions that pertain to entire cemeteries:

Proposal two: reserve for questions about how to interpret parish records of burials and the records about individuals created by cemeteries and undertakers

The tag is straightforward enough and is useful for questions that discuss the actual stones or other markers.

Other questions that don't fall under these three tags, including finding records of burials, could be tagged with the more generic . (We also have the tag which could apply to those questions.)

At the moment, the tagging of questions is nothing like the proposal I've outlined above. We have problems like this question:

which is currently tagged and along with its place.

It makes more sense to me to have a on this question along with , and to make a synonym of . And I see from the suggestions given by the site that we already have a prior question on that topic from 2013:

I would like to see the tags bring together the questions which are functionally the same -- with noting the questions pertaining to research about cemeteries, for individual burials, about the stones, and so on.

Please look over the questions we have, and post your suggestions below.

As I was writing up the Topic Challenge for this week, I noticed that we currently have these tags relating to burials and cemeteries:

  • has 9 questions and no usage guidance
  • has 3 questions and this description "For questions about finding or interpreting records of burials."
  • has 10 questions and no usage guidance
  • has 10 questions and is for "Artifacts or symbols that denote the burial of someone."

I think all of these tags could be useful, but at the moment, the questions attached to each of these tags aren't necessarily questions that belong together.

Here are my initial thoughts on what kind of tagging might be most useful, assuming we want to keep all three of these tags.

Proposal one: reserve for questions that pertain to entire cemeteries:

Proposal two: reserve for questions about how to interpret parish records of burials and the records about individuals created by cemeteries and undertakers

The tag is straightforward enough and is useful for questions that discuss the actual stones or other markers.

Other questions that don't fall under these three tags, including finding records of burials, could be tagged with the more generic . (We also have the tag which could apply to those questions.)

At the moment, the tagging of questions is nothing like the proposal I've outlined above. We have problems like this question:

which is currently tagged and along with its place.

It makes more sense to me to have a on this question along with , and to make a synonym of . And I see from the suggestions given by the site that we already have a prior question on that topic from 2013:

I would like to see the tags bring together the questions which are functionally the same -- with noting the questions pertaining to research about cemeteries, for individual burials, about the stones, and so on.

Please look over the questions we have, and post your suggestions below.

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