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Comments on How should we indicate non-Q&A categories for Incubator posts?
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How should we indicate non-Q&A categories for Incubator posts?
Some proposals include categories beyond the defaults of Q&A and Meta. We don't have all those categories here on the proposals site, but we need a way to indicate which category a post is intended for if it's not the default of Q&A. In addition to communicating more clearly in the incubator, labeling them in some consistent way will make it easier for us to move things to the right places when a proposal is launched.
I propose that we use tags named category- plus the category name, such as category-workshop for the "workshop" category on the Worldbuilding proposal. I've taken the liberty of applying such a tag to one question, but if folks want to do this some other way, that's easy to change.
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Tags are definitely the right choice, and I don't see many other practical options. Every tag specifying a category other than Q/A, should be a descendant of a "category" tag. I do think a better alternative to prefixing each tag name with "category-" would be to make the parent tag special, in that these tags are rendered specially, similar to how the set of required tags in the Meta category are rendered differently from the rest.
Because the incubator is one of the tools we use to build an understanding of how we structure a community, it won't always be clear out of the gate which category a post should definitely belong to. That's fine. We can tag for multiple categories (we should have a Q/A tag in that case, too), or take note of the uncertainty with some meta-commentary in the question itself (eventually to be edited out), or a comment. Alternatively, a new discussion in this Meta category is often a good choice.
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