Replace 'zoom' tag with 'magnification' (synonymise + merge)?

Question

Six months ago, SurvivalMachine asked Should “zoom” tag also apply to the videoconferencing software? At the time, it seemed that relatively few questions about the Zoom meeting app used the zoom tag. Today, however, it seems that a larger share of questions tagged zoom are about the Zoom meeting app; if fact, some use both zoom and zoom-meeting [1].

For this reason, I would like to reduce the risk of incorrectly tagged Zoom app questions by doing the following:

1. Create the tag magnification,
2. Synonymise zoom (source) with magnification (target),
3. Merge the tags,
4. Clean up the questions about the Zoom meeting app that are tagged magnification.

As a result, the number of future questions about the Zoom meeting app that are tagged zoom should significantly decrease.

[1] Since zooming or magnification is an important accessibility features, these two categories of software should obviously be kept clearly separated.

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Update 13.01.2021: muru's suggestion turned out to be better than mine. See Zanna's comment:

The zoom tag has been renamed to zooming and I think all the questions about Zoom have been removed from it. Thanks to muru for the idea and to everyone who helped with editing work. Also thanks Tsundoku for the question!

Answer 1

Alternate suggestion: use zooming for zooming in and out and continue using zoom-meeting for the meeting app. Nuke the zoom tag, don't keep it, don't synonymise it and don't allow it to be created again.

Answer 2

I'm not sure this is a good idea, because the feature of being able to zoom is usually called zoom and not magnification. I think that dedicating the zoom tag to the zoom application would not solve the problem of the tag being used inconsistently - it would continue to be used for both zooming in and out, and the particular software application.

I think the only thing we can do here is to make the usage guidance of the zoom tag say something like:

THIS TAG IS FOR QUESTIONS ABOUT ZOOMING IN AND OUT, NOT FOR THE ZOOM APP (use the zoom-meeting tag instead).

Answer 3

From a user experience, it would be very bad to do the magnification idea or even remove zoom. And this is getting too complicated just because of the zoom app. I would suggest, to simplify this to:

1. Keep zoom as is. This is used if you see the questions at hand for zooming in general. (Zoom in, zoom out). Very few will be actually typing zooming for this or even worse, magnification. Imagine applying the whole -ing to other tags. It would be a mess.

2. Keep zoom-meeting for the zoom app and explain it in the description.

The actual tag of zoom would always be zoom tag. The use of the zoom meeting would be the zoom-meeting tag. This way it is simple.