Timeline for Do we want to start creating tag synonyms
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| Feb 5, 2014 at 15:14 | history | edited | Beofett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 5, 2014 at 15:13 | comment | added | Beofett | @starsplusplus The tag wiki, at the time I wrote this, was what is quoted in my answer. I'm not sure "keeping your pet clean" doesn't include the pet's environment. We do have an enclosure tag. Perhaps using hygiene by itself would work for grooming and hygiene questions regarding the pet, and hygiene combined with enclosure or bedding would cover the other types of hygiene you raised? I think perhaps you are right that grooming is a subset of hygiene, not the other way around, and I will edit accordingly. | |
| Feb 5, 2014 at 12:43 | comment | added | starsplusplus | Either that or abolish hygiene altogether and have two subtags: grooming (referring to cleaning the animal) and environment-cleaning (referring to cleaning the cage/tank) - hopefully with something a bit less cumbersome for the latter, but you get the idea. | |
| Feb 5, 2014 at 12:41 | comment | added | starsplusplus |
I was disagreeing with since the tag wiki on grooming clearly covers hygiene. IMO it doesn't. The examples I gave would clearly be covered by the hygiene tag but not by the grooming tag. There may well be, on the other hand, a case for all grooming-tagged questions being covered by the hygiene tag.
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| Feb 5, 2014 at 12:12 | comment | added | Beofett | @starsplusplus yes, the words have distinct nuances of meaning, but that doesn't necessarily mean they need two tags. Is it likely that someone will be interested in only questions that deal with hygiene, but not grooming? Vice versa? That should be the criteria for whether they are made synonyms. | |
| Feb 5, 2014 at 10:45 | comment | added | starsplusplus | Or how often to clean the cage for any number of small animals: hamsters, geckos, gerbils, frogs, stick insects. It can refer to keeping the pet in a hygienic environment, not just cleaning the pet itself. | |
| Feb 5, 2014 at 10:42 | comment | added | starsplusplus | Hygiene could cover the cleanliness of the water in a fish tank, but "grooming" doesn't really cover that. | |
| Oct 14, 2013 at 14:41 | history | answered | Beofett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |