Currently we have a feeding, nutrition, diet, eating and food tag.
Which of these should we keep and/or synonymize, Suggestions?
2 Answers
I think these are two different groups: nutrition/diet/food, and feeding/eating. The first is about the food itself; the second is about the act of eating. We seem to have some need for both, so those are the synonym groups I'd make.
answered Oct 11, 2013 at 13:01
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6I think those would be sensible groupings. We'd have to ensure that the tag wiki excerpts will reflect the difference between them though, maybe along the lines of
diet = what to eat,feeding = when/how to feed. We'll also have to retag accordingly.– ThomasHCommented Oct 11, 2013 at 13:36 -
3I'm a big fan of tag cross-refernces in tag wikis. ("This tag is about X. See also tags Y and Z.") Commented Oct 11, 2013 at 14:21
As I've asked the same question without recognizing this one, I put my thoughts here, too (and add some more things).
Both diet and nutrition are synonyms, I would prefer nutrition as the main tag as it sounds more professional and doesn't carry the connotation of weight-loss.
feeding should be perceived as the actual process of feeding (and methods used during the process). Which would have to be noted in the tags wiki excerpt.
The tag excerpt of feeding already describes the desired use of the tag, I currently disagree to make eating a synonym. Eating actually refers to the process of the animal eating stuff and feeding refers to the owner offering the pet some food, if the tag wiki excerpt of eating is edited it could make the distinction clear.
diet and food should be made synonyms of nutrition, the tag wiki excerpt of nutrition currently states: "Refers to the question regarding nutritional aspects of diet."; diet reads: "Refers to the question concerning about food diet of their pets."; and foods excerpt is emtpy.
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3I would make diet the main tag and nutrition the synonym. Nutrition is one aspect of diet, but wouldn't cover, e.g., questions about dry vs wet food, or transitioning from one type of food to another, or hypo-allergenic diets. Commented Oct 15, 2013 at 20:40
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Feeding / Eating / Drinking is discussed on this answer, too.– BaarnCommented Oct 15, 2013 at 21:08
[tag:nutrition], it'll link to the actual tag. In this case, it would make it a lot easier to look up whether they all cover questions that should be grouped under one tag.