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How many tags should incubator Q/A questions get?
Should we tag question in the incubator Q/A with all the tags we expect them to have when used on their own site, or just with a tag for site.
For example, I created the question Will an XML sitemap improve SEO in terms of crawling, indexing, and ranking?. Should it be tagged just:
webmasters
Or should I add topical tags as well?
webmasters, xml-sitemap, seo
For now, I'm just going with the former (one tag) so that I don't create a bunch of tags that would later need to be cleaned up. However, more tags are desired, I can go back through and add tags.
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I think it is useful to add in tags that the question might actually have on the community when launched.
It makes a more realistic "sandbox", which means that we start to figure out how we want to organize tags, and what tags we find useful and not for the proposed community. For instance, Software has gone through numerous tag refinements and discussions (example, example). Or on Linguistics, we discussed whether we want to have topic tags.
As more questions come in, tagging will also provide an in-direct measure of scope. While written on-topic advice is always helpful, having a tag for the topic gives users a tangible scope to work with. And if the tag is unclear, then that's another point in favor of refining either the tag or the scope.
Tagging could even potentially lead to realizing that hey, this tag might actually work as an entire category on the new site! Such as for the Gaming proposal, which encompassed both design/development and strategies. We might use tags to differentiate questions on each topic and find that they are disjoint to the point we might want categories for them. Or we might find some questions that are tagged as both, and reconsider. By tagging early, we can start to address these issues from before the community gets a full launch.
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