So, I recently asked a question about whether a specific character could be considered an "unreliable narrator." I did notice that we now have a number of questions about this. That being said, can this be considered an actual topic that someone might have knowledge of? That being the case, should we create a tag for this? Or is this too "meta"?
Put another way, would anyone be interested in being able to easily find questions specifically about unreliable narrators?
In fact, we already have an unreliable-narrator tag, which was created on 28 November 2017, and which currently has four questions. We also have a narrator tag, which was created on the same day and which currently has three questions.
Looking back at this, I think that narrator should be sufficient. There are many kinds of narrations—first person, second person, third person, omniscient third person, first person plural, etc.—and I doubt we would want to create a specific tag for each.
Narrators are one aspect of literature that can be studied in the context of narratology, but I wouldn't create a narratology tag for narrators. If we were to create such a tag at all, it would be for questions about the study of narrative structures.
So why don't we synonymise or merge the tags unreliable-narrator and narrator?
Update: The unreliable-narrator tag was synonymised with the narrator tag on 19 August 2020.
unreliable-narrator into narrator. The three affected questions were this, this, and this.
– Rand al'Thor♦
Aug 19 '20 at 13:21
