@IsaacMoses I wouldn't say that even the latter really sounds like "geography" to me

but I don't really think location is a particularly useful tag

@Daniel @IsaacMoses I was thinking just yesterday that we might want a tag for questions like "kidush here, meal there" and "fulfill m'gila by hearing from another room" and "say kidush l'vana while indoors".

@DoubleAA I think that one is a particularly good use of the tag, whereas this one isn't.

@IsaacMoses Me, too. The latter should have geography, though.

@Loewian you might want to see the above batch of chat messages (the seven before this one).

I was just coming here to raise the location question too.

@MonicaCellio And the level of discourse, no doubt.

@msh210 nah, looks fine to me. :-)

Location isn't exactly the same as geography, but non-geography location doesn't seem to be a particularly meaningful concept for a tag.

I hope Loewian will join us and clarify intent.

@msh210 oh, I missed that.

Ok, I can see that. The Chanukah one (from Isaac's message) does seem to be a good use of such a tag. "Do we know the location of (artifact)" is less clearly so to me, and that was the first instance I saw. So it probably colored my perceptions.

@msh210 Perhaps the best distinction is if we broaden "geography" to include all questions related to absolute positions on the earth's surface; whereas "location" is limited to relative positions (e.g. between objects/structures)...

@Loewian I think that that is a useful distinction.

(And well-expressed, by the way.)

@Loewian that makes sense. I haven't looked at the questions currently tagged "geography"; would that be a big change?

@Loewian Sounds good. Perhaps that wording can be in both tags' explanations.

FYI: The 2016 on-site ads will take effect later than Jan. 1 (or whatever date they took effect last year).

@msh210 When, then?

@IsaacMoses I don't know yet. I don't think they know yet.

@msh210 In any case, we can't take action until SO staff posts the "Community Promotion Ads - 2016" post, right?

@IsaacMoses Correct afaik. I'm just letting you know to forestall wondering why that posting hasn't happened.

@msh210 Thanks.

@IsaacMoses they are, I understand, going to change the size requirements (allowing bigger ones), but we don't know the details yet. I'd hold off on fine-tuning new ads for the moment, though. The overall format shouldn't change too much, but we'll probably need to tweak our existing ads.

@MonicaCellio Ah. Good to know. I'll continue to procrastinate making that new MYPubs ad. :)

@IsaacMoses Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that you're currently amid working on an ad. I'd 'a' mentioned the change in size, since it's in fact relevant (something I hadn't thought to be true). Sorry.

@msh210 No worries. I haven't done anything since I took the photo of C-MY in front of a chanukiya.

This is cool. A super-rich timeline of Jewish history.

TIL: The Tur was closer in time to the Rambam than to the Beit Yosef.

(Not surprising, but it hadn't occurred to me, and it popped out when I looked at the relevant part of the graph.)