Looking at the history and history-of tags, it is hard to tell which questions fall into the history-of tag, without also falling into the history tag. What questions would fall into history-of, but not history? If there are none, should we merge the two tags and synonymise them?
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The history tag was only used on one question, which I've now retagged history-of, thus essentially accomplishing a merge. There's no point in synonymising these two tags, since typing history into the tag box will autocomplete to history-of anyway.
How about history-of-literature instead?
This tag will show up in autocomplete for either history or history-of, and it has a clearer name to avoid confusion with historical-context. We need to be careful with "history", since it could refer either to history of literature (themes, ideas, etc.) or to history of the real world outside of literature as it relates to literary works. Using history-of-literature and historical-context separately would solve this issue.
EDIT: I've now edited all the history-of questions to history-of-literature and made a new tag wiki.
answered Feb 9, 2017 at 11:25
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@Benjamin I agree history-of sounds a bit odd. How about history-of-literature instead? Calling the tag just
historywould lead to confusion with the historical-context tag, and typinghistory-ofwouldn't autocomplete to that.– Rand al'Thor ModFeb 9, 2017 at 11:36 -
@Randal'Thor That makes some sense. Could I post it in a separate answer?– BenjaminFeb 9, 2017 at 11:37
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1@Randal'Thor We use [history-of-gaming] on Role-playing Games to positive results. It's been quite unambiguous for us. Feb 9, 2017 at 11:40
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1@Benjamin The easiest way to achieve this would be by a mod-merge of history-of into history-of-literature. We could also retag by hand, since it's only five questions, but let's give it a couple of days first in case someone comes up with something else.– Rand al'Thor ModFeb 9, 2017 at 11:43
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history of literature makes it sounds you asking about the history of all of literature, rather than the "history" of certain work, trope, concept, etc. I think it should remain "history of"– SkoobaFeb 10, 2017 at 16:52
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@Skooba The history of a certain work, trope, concept, etc. is part of the history of literature.– Rand al'Thor ModFeb 10, 2017 at 22:03