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This is a call for community discussion on the matter of manufacturer/brand specific tags with relation to Ask Ubuntu.

History

It was brought up in chat and Meta requests to merge the and tags to and set up tag synonyms. The justification was that we do not need additional Asus tags for tagging Asus-related questions.

Another user has made an argument that the and tags are more useful than the Asus tag, and are quoting this question on Super Userthis question on Super User.

The editing of questions to add in and have been getting negative attention in review queues. That is, reviews of suggested tag revisions such as these have been receiving rejections recently.

It can be generally argued that there are cases where a generic manufactuer tag are bad. This applies for Logitech, for instance, in which they make mice, keyboards, webcams, and many other peripheral devices. This may also apply for cases such as Intel or AMD, in which they all create CPUs, GPUs, and other devices which need handled individually.

There are also cases where having individual product tags is poor compared to having an all-inclusive tag. Consider, if we made a tag for every single Dell computer model, we'd have a thousand tags that don't add anything. The same applies for Apple devices. That said, if a company only produces computers, it may not necessarily be a good idea to explicitly separate it into laptop, desktop, server, etc. subcategories.

To quote the "Do we need brand/manufacturer tags" question's answers from three years ago, a core question comes to mind with regards to these types of flags:

Who would filter using (the tag)? Who would think this is an expertise area?

With this question in mind, there is argument for either side of the discussion - whether it's keeping the tags merged which has been done today, or whether we start separating this tag out.

The Question

This discussion thread here brings up a very specific question for the community to answer to decide how to proceed on this individual case:

With regards to the tag, should we leave them all lumped together under the manufacturer general tag, or should we split them up into individual subcategory-tags (such as , , etc.)?

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This is a call for community discussion on the matter of manufacturer/brand specific tags with relation to Ask Ubuntu.

History

It was brought up in chat and Meta requests to merge the and tags to and set up tag synonyms. The justification was that we do not need additional Asus tags for tagging Asus-related questions.

Another user has made an argument that the and tags are more useful than the Asus tag, and are quoting this question on Super User.

The editing of questions to add in and have been getting negative attention in review queues. That is, reviews of suggested tag revisions such as these have been receiving rejections recently.

It can be generally argued that there are cases where a generic manufactuer tag are bad. This applies for Logitech, for instance, in which they make mice, keyboards, webcams, and many other peripheral devices. This may also apply for cases such as Intel or AMD, in which they all create CPUs, GPUs, and other devices which need handled individually.

There are also cases where having individual product tags is poor compared to having an all-inclusive tag. Consider, if we made a tag for every single Dell computer model, we'd have a thousand tags that don't add anything. The same applies for Apple devices. That said, if a company only produces computers, it may not necessarily be a good idea to explicitly separate it into laptop, desktop, server, etc. subcategories.

To quote the "Do we need brand/manufacturer tags" question's answers from three years ago, a core question comes to mind with regards to these types of flags:

Who would filter using (the tag)? Who would think this is an expertise area?

With this question in mind, there is argument for either side of the discussion - whether it's keeping the tags merged which has been done today, or whether we start separating this tag out.

The Question

This discussion thread here brings up a very specific question for the community to answer to decide how to proceed on this individual case:

With regards to the tag, should we leave them all lumped together under the manufacturer general tag, or should we split them up into individual subcategory-tags (such as , , etc.)?

Related:

This is a call for community discussion on the matter of manufacturer/brand specific tags with relation to Ask Ubuntu.

History

It was brought up in chat and Meta requests to merge the and tags to and set up tag synonyms. The justification was that we do not need additional Asus tags for tagging Asus-related questions.

Another user has made an argument that the and tags are more useful than the Asus tag, and are quoting this question on Super User.

The editing of questions to add in and have been getting negative attention in review queues. That is, reviews of suggested tag revisions such as these have been receiving rejections recently.

It can be generally argued that there are cases where a generic manufactuer tag are bad. This applies for Logitech, for instance, in which they make mice, keyboards, webcams, and many other peripheral devices. This may also apply for cases such as Intel or AMD, in which they all create CPUs, GPUs, and other devices which need handled individually.

There are also cases where having individual product tags is poor compared to having an all-inclusive tag. Consider, if we made a tag for every single Dell computer model, we'd have a thousand tags that don't add anything. The same applies for Apple devices. That said, if a company only produces computers, it may not necessarily be a good idea to explicitly separate it into laptop, desktop, server, etc. subcategories.

To quote the "Do we need brand/manufacturer tags" question's answers from three years ago, a core question comes to mind with regards to these types of flags:

Who would filter using (the tag)? Who would think this is an expertise area?

With this question in mind, there is argument for either side of the discussion - whether it's keeping the tags merged which has been done today, or whether we start separating this tag out.

The Question

This discussion thread here brings up a very specific question for the community to answer to decide how to proceed on this individual case:

With regards to the tag, should we leave them all lumped together under the manufacturer general tag, or should we split them up into individual subcategory-tags (such as , , etc.)?

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Tag Separation and Handling: The Asus tag and separating it out into subcategories instead (asus-pc, asus-laptop, etc.)

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This is a call for community discussion on the matter of manufacturer/brand specific tags with relation to Ask Ubuntu.

History

It was brought up in chat and Meta requests to merge the and tags to and set up tag synonyms. The justification was that we do not need additional Asus tags for tagging Asus-related questions.

Another user has made an argument that the and tags are more useful than the Asus tag, and are quoting this question on Super User.

The editing of questions to add in and have been getting negative attention in review queues. That is, reviews of suggested tag revisions such as these have been receiving rejections recently.

It can be generally argued that there are cases where a generic manufactuer tag are bad. This applies for Logitech, for instance, in which they make mice, keyboards, webcams, and many other peripheral devices. This may also apply for cases such as Intel or AMD, in which they all create CPUs, GPUs, and other devices which need handled individually.

There are also cases where having individual product tags is poor compared to having an all-inclusive tag. Consider, if we made a tag for every single Dell computer model, we'd have a thousand tags that don't add anything. The same applies for Apple devices. That said, if a company only produces computers, it may not necessarily be a good idea to explicitly separate it into laptop, desktop, server, etc. subcategories.

To quote the "Do we need brand/manufacturer tags" question's answers from three years ago, a core question comes to mind with regards to these types of flags:

Who would filter using (the tag)? Who would think this is an expertise area?

With this question in mind, there is argument for either side of the discussion - whether it's keeping the tags merged which has been done today, or whether we start separating this tag out.

The Question

This discussion thread here brings up a very specific question for the community to answer to decide how to proceed on this individual case:

With regards to the tag, should we leave them all lumped together under the manufacturer general tag, or should we split them up into individual subcategory-tags (such as , , etc.)?