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10:10 AM

Should most of the questions tagged nba be also tagged basketball? sports.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nba+-basketball

Of course there are exceptions, like questions which are related to several sports. Example: Has a college team ever played against a professional team? But currently less that 2/3 of questions tagged (nba) are tagged (basketball), which strikes me as a bit low.

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user46190

12:59 PM

@MartinSleziak yeah, but if it's about basketball. we do have some questions that are about how the nba operates...so even though two-thirds are tagged as such, basketball is about the sport and the nba is about how the league operates, so that doesn't strike me as odd.

user46190

@MartinSleziak the two tags do go hand-in-hand, but that doesn't require them to be combo-tagged each time...

Martin Sleziak

@ᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀᴍɪɴᴅ_ᴇᴅ Still, I would say that about one half of the questions that make difference is about basketball.

user46190

@MartinSleziak i never said that it didn't...i only said (as did you) that there are exceptions and listed a common exception.

Martin Sleziak

For example I would tag this with (basketball): What is the maximum number of 3 pointers made by Michael Jordan in a single game?

user46190

@MartinSleziak sure

Martin Sleziak

1:10 PM

The situation with ice hockey seems a bit better, but I guess a few questions where ice-hockey tag should be added can be found there, too: sports.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/nhl+-ice-hockey

user46190

@MartinSleziak ultimately, go for the edits as they are reasonable to make. there are some questions that are tagged with the league but could be about technique...and could be tagged with the sport and be about the league. an example of a middle ground is trivia questions.

user46190

@MartinSleziak example, i don't see what tagging ice-hockey does here. nhl and stanley-cup tells you everything you need to know about that question.

Martin Sleziak

1:27 PM

Well, it's up to sports.SE community to decide, I am an outsider here.

In any case, I will edit occasionally. But I definitely do not want to flood the front page with bumped old question.

user46190

@MartinSleziak are you really? you ask the most questions about the site...although they are informal. that said, i understand not flooding, but if you want it to be up to the community, ask on meta. we all should be editing when necessary anyway.

Martin Sleziak

Personally I would see not problem with tagging the example you linked with (ice-hockey). Do Stanley Cup Champions get a replica of the cup?

Seeing sports as wide umbrella tags and leagues as a smaller subtags seems reasonable to me.

@ᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀᴍɪɴᴅ_ᴇᴅ I do not want to get involved in meta and bureaucracy of this site too much.

And to answer your question: Yes, I am.

user46190

@MartinSleziak no problem, but also no reason. i agree that's reasonable...furthermore, it should be based on what's being asked.

user46190

1:44 PM

@MartinSleziak fair enough...but there's no doubting you're the de facto "consultant"...which we need for this site, so thanks for that.

skill patrol

2:20 PM

+1 star

In other news:

A drug test taken six months before the first fight found traces of a nandrolone steroid in Fury’s system and the Klitschko camp want the matter cleared up before the the two boxers square off again.

user46190

@skillpatrol doping is always going to be a part of sports. what i don't understand is some of the sports in which doping was discovered. knowing some about fencing, I'm surprised there is doping in that sport. there's a few other surprises...curling, table-tennis, sailing...but i guess my understanding of "performance-enhancing" is physical strength, not mental or physical precision.

skill patrol

2:37 PM

Good point @ᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀᴍɪɴᴅ_ᴇᴅ even Paralympics is on that graph :-/

user46190

@skillpatrol and at a high number too.

skill patrol

Higher than wrestling

RIP Olympic wrestling

:'(

user46190

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