I’m starting this thread to gather everyone’s observations about possible tag consolidations.
The best candidate for a tag consolidation is one in which all of the following are true:
- The two tags have a very specific and identical meaning.
- One tag has a much larger “population” of games to which it has been applied.
- There is at least some overlap between the populations of the two tags.
A case study would be the tags one room
and one-room
. These have a conventionalized meaning which (as far as I can see) is the same in both cases. There doesn’t seem to be a compelling reason for both tags to exist.
In this case, both populations were about the same size, but there is also a third tag, single room
, which had a much larger population than both of those and some overlap with each of them. It seems very safe to get rid of one-room
and one room
in favor of single room
, which carries the same conventionalized and commonly-understood meaning.
As a proactive measure, I went and tagged all of the games with either one room
or one-room
as single room
. (It wasn’t fun, but it took under 10 minutes, and a quick glance at title, blurb, competition was enough to confirm that the intended meaning was the same.) Any future hypothetical “tag wranglers” for IFDB will now have an easier time confidently deleting the redundant tags.
Hopefully, other people will notice similar correlations and redundancies. If you do, please bring them up here, for future reference. I would not suggest that anyone take on the task of trying to tag every game with the “better” tag, unless it true both that the numbers involved are comfortably small and the two tags being compared have the same very conventionalized meaning. (If in doubt, raise the question here.)
Also, if anyone can think of good reasons to keep one room
or one-room
in addition to single room
, please lay out your argument here for future reference. I can undo the new single room
tags, if necessary.