Timeline for Titles should be stand-alone summaries of questions *without* depending on tags
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| May 13, 2013 at 20:08 | comment | added | slugster | While you may have a valid argument, you don't show in any way why that means a tag should be artificially introduced into the title of the question. By all means disambiguate in the text of the question or the tags, but keep the title natural. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 19:41 | comment | added | Grant Thomas | @BartSilverstrim If you want the tags to speak for the title, then UX should be considered, because in its current state, as per my comment on Ben's answer, this isn't necessarily immediately obvious, this answer and its validity notwithstanding. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 19:23 | comment | added | Adam Lear StaffMod | Point taken, although I think you're being a bit too literal with this example. Perhaps that title would benefit from a more specific "in Heart of the Swarm" or something, but just adding "in Starcraft" wouldn't be adding a heck of a lot. I also think it's fairly safe to say that nobody is asking questions about the best use for zerglings in Warcraft 3. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 19:19 | comment | added | Powerlord | @BartSilverstrim The point was that Zergling only limits the list of games it could be, you'd still have to check the tags to see which of the 5 (6 sometime next year) games/expansions it actually applies to. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 19:18 | comment | added | Powerlord | @Rachel The second StarCraft 2 expansion isn't out yet, which is why you don't remember its name. WarCraft 3 also contains Zerglings as a hidden unit on at least one of the game's maps. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 19:12 | comment | added | Bart Silverstrim StaffMod | If you're playing one of those games and do a search because you have a question, you already know what you're looking for, and in the question the tags could refine it to verify it's the game you're trying play, though. Your point that it would perhaps need a specific Starcraft in the title might be more for people just browsing the site, without a context in mind. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 19:10 | comment | added | Rachel | @djechlin There is Starcraft, SC: Broodwars, SC 2:Heart of the Storm, SC 2: Wings of Liberty, one more SC2 expansion I can't remember the name of, and then there are other games based on the starcraft universe which may have Zerglings... Warcraft or Warhammer comes to mind, but I didn't play many of those so don't remember if they have zerglings or not. The point is, "Zerglings" could apply to any one of those games. The title doesn't make it clear about which game the question is about - all it does is narrow it down to a group of games which may or may not share the same audience. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 19:09 | comment | added | Servy | @djechlin Either the point of this answer is that tags should always be in titles, because the example given of a question that doesn't need a tag in it's title was bad, or he's just saying Jaydles picked a poor example; probably the latter, making this just a comment. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 19:05 | comment | added | djechlin | This answer just seems to be about Starcraft to me. Can you explain this metaphor? | |
| May 13, 2013 at 19:04 | comment | added | Rachel | This is a very good point about that example. It shows just how blurry the lines are between when you want to add the principal tag to the title or not. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 19:02 | history | answered | Powerlord | CC BY-SA 3.0 |