What I mean is dinosaurs makes no sense in an "outdoors" context
you not going to meet an dinosaur
fossil which you talking about does, because you will find a fossil
I'm trying to help you head off the off topic votes
I've just realised you've raised multiple dinosaur questions. This seems a bit odd to me being as what your actually asking about is fossils of dinosaurs? no? Dinosaur tracks are fossils not dinosaurs
the wiki looks odd too
> Questions about dinosaurs
We don't want questions about dinosaurs?! That would be really off topic, no? Like if I asked what does a T. rex eat?
This comes out off a topic in chat. I don't see how this has a place. Being as we couldn't agree I'm opening it out to the wider community to vote on.
The dinosaur tag is just misleading and it's wiki:
Questions about dinosaurs
Is just confusing. We don't want questions about dinosaurs. T...
You have editing powers, go change the tag wiki and add the fossil-identification tag to the dinosaur questions while leaving dinosaur tag on them so that dinosuar fossils stay grouped together
I spend a lot time rock climbing and walking and generally being around rocks. But I've never seen a fossil. I've always liked the idea of finding a nice fossil.
How would I go about doing this? Any beginners guides?
@Liam No because I added the fossil identification tags to the questions and left the dinosaur tag there because that way all of the dinosaru questions are grouped together
Evening all - sorry, just popped in and having a read through. Seems like I'll probably simplify a couple of tags (create synonyms probably) as fossil, fossil hunting and fossil identification seem awfully similar, and dinosaur may be unnecessary. Give me a few minutes
All the current dinosaur-tagged questions are also tagged animal-tracks and fossil-identification - which implies redundancy
I think that seems okay - it is always a weird one if all the questions in a particular tag are also all the questions with a different tag - it implies one of the tags should go
I just have the concern that really this site is about the outdoors. Fossils are one tiny part of it, and dinosaurs a tiny part of that - so having all these tags is not going to help
I personally feel dino tag is not really required. If we are going to target only fossil based questions under dino tag, then we might as well merge it under fossil. Or maybe a dino-fossil tag
I wonder if series of self answered questions on one topic is the way to go. Better have one good question which covers more than a small detail and then go on to the next subject. Or ask a good question which you do not answer yourself. That gets others involved and if nobody answers, you can still answer it.
I have seen what happens when you start changing tags, (on travel.) Chaos, too many questions which needed new tags as well and a board with several pages of small edits, hiding the new activity from those checking it (to keep the site healthy.)
Lets make a new proposal: Split animals into wildlife and cattle. Then a year from now we can remerge :)
@Willeke That's the main problem. I believe if you want a new tag, you should simply create it on new questions. It's different for changing an entire tag or merging, AFAIK that can be done by a mod without bumping questions
I like it when questions have more than one tag, if you can find 5 fitting ones, use all 5 in my view. Others disagree and did prefer as few as possible.
I went through all the knot tagged questions and got a few bumped to the top of the list over a few days. Might do a few more now I can edit without needing approval.
European hammock, almost flat, you can roll off. South American hammock, big deep bag, hooks up at shoulder level but drops down to knee level in the middle.
@Willeke Yeah.. Imagine a friendly dino sleeping below the hammock and in the night you roll off and fall on him and he gets aggressive and eats you off. Very dangerous.
This comes out off a topic in chat. I don't see how this has a place. Being as we couldn't agree I'm opening it out to the wider community to vote on.
The dinosaur tag is just misleading and it's wiki:
Questions about dinosaurs
Is just confusing. We don't want questions about dinosaurs. T...
