The History tag is for posts that are strongly focused on historical events or trends which don’t necessarily connect to other tags (e.g., a post on the history of nuclear weapons should go in that tag instead), or that discuss or make heavy use of historical research methods.
Either way seems ok to me. My thinking was that, if overlap was allowed, a large portion of all posts could be seen as “History” posts. But maybe that’s inaccurate or ok. You and other people can feel free to edit any descriptions on tags I made :)
Meta: This discussion makes me realise it’s possible it’d be valuable to have some equivalent of Wikipedia’s “talk” pages for tags. (But maybe that’d take more work than it’s worth.)
ETA: I now think you’re right about the History tag, and have adjusted the description accordingly.
I feel like it’s fine for them to overlap.
Either way seems ok to me. My thinking was that, if overlap was allowed, a large portion of all posts could be seen as “History” posts. But maybe that’s inaccurate or ok. You and other people can feel free to edit any descriptions on tags I made :)
Meta: This discussion makes me realise it’s possible it’d be valuable to have some equivalent of Wikipedia’s “talk” pages for tags. (But maybe that’d take more work than it’s worth.)
ETA: I now think you’re right about the History tag, and have adjusted the description accordingly.
I expect that’s on LW’s roadmap.
Narrator: “He was right.”