Do we need an [authorial-intent] tag?

Question

While there are some question-askers that confuse literary interpretation with authorial intent (dealt with elsewhere), there are also some who ask specifically about authorial intent on a specific topic, like this question.

Do we need a tag for this? A tag might help to ensure that these questions are not misconstrued as questions about analysis divorced from authorial intent, and might also prevent answers that do not address the question asked by the OP.* (This suggestion assumes, of course, that the original poster understood what they were asking, and made certain to indicate the precise nature of the query in the body of the post)

I don't have a specific wording in mind for the tag; authorial-intent might work, but if you have other suggestions please do post an answer.

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*_{Should this be termed the "unintentional fallacy"? :P}

Answer 1

Please no.

Using a tag to say "I'm looking for answers of this type, rather than that type" isn't really what tags are for; it feels a bit meta-taggy, akin to having, say, in-universe and out-of-universe tags.

What's the point of tags, in general? They're supposed to aid searchability and enable experts in a particular topic to easily find a list of all questions on that topic. Well, there are no experts in authorial intent in general, and I doubt anyone would ever want to have a list of all questions asking about authorial intent in any literary work.

I get that you want to have some kind of marker on a question to signify that it's seeking answers based on authorial intent rather than any other possible lens, but I think a tag is the wrong way to do that. Just make it clear in the text of the question itself.