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Shouldn't a question strictly about Kievan Rus get its own tag and not one about Russia (or Ukraine)?

This question (When did Kievan Rus' rulers become culturally Slavic?) has become subject to a comments war because of a Russia tag added and/or removed. I have created a tag kievan-rus in order to ...
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Japanese Period Names

There was a similar topic recently on China and I was confused trying to tag my Japanese question so I figured this could be helpful. Presently, Japan-classed tags include japan, classical-japan, ...
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What exactly does minimalism in tagging hope to achieve?

Recently, one of the "lifers" of History SE has engaged in mass removal of tags from questions. Perhaps many consume content on Stack Exchange by visiting the front page of a particular SE site and ...
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Shouldn't these two tags be synonyms?

Is there any difference between tag flags and tag vexillology? If not, shouldn't they be synonyms?
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Creating / adding new tags for existing questions without swamping the home page

I am currently doing a little research into some aspects relating to the Sasanian Empire for another project, and I thought it might be useful to see what questions have been asked and answered here. ...
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What is the difference between fashion and clothing tags?

After asking this question I realized, that there is a clothing tag (I used that one) and a fashion tag. And now I wonder, whether I should retag my question. To make this question more useful ...
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Some mistakes in Persia's tag information

Persia's tag information: "The land and people in southwestern Asia from the ancient Sassanian empire to the modern nation state of Iran, prior to 1935" The land and people: Wrong! Because Persia is ...
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How about adding "ancient-Iran" tag?

I found some questions about or related to ancient-Iran and think it can be an appropriate guide for users who are searching this category of questions. I don't have enough reputations to create it ...
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What to do with tags that have multiple meanings?

I was going to put a tag on this question of karl-iv. On wikipedia, it says that his name in english is Charles IV. A simple google search shows that there is also a Charles IV in Spain and France. ...
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tag-synonyms and tagging to attract experts/journalists/students of history?

I was thinking about how we can use superiour features of Stackexchange to attract those people to this site. I made already the suggestion to tag historically, not only thematically. Another thing ...
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Possible problem with country and language tags

I'm not sure about this, so I'm posting it here. We have some tags that also have language tags. e.g: germany and german we also have a french tag. Should this kind of tagging be allowed? I do believe ...
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