I keep tabs pinned for the JavaScript section of StackOverflow as well as Code Review in my browser. During free time, I browse through some questions. Especially in Code Review, where it's a desert and no one posting that often, I go over to check on jQuery tagged questions. Lo and behold! More questions! They're not tagged as JavaScript!
I was wondering at first if it's right to tag them with JavaScript. I mean, jQuery is a JavaScript library after all. But sometimes I think that the user could only want a jQuery-only solution, which would make sense. Then again, jQuery is a JS framework, and a non-jQuery answer could have been better suited, thus the question needs to be exposed as JavaScript.
There are a lot of reasons the language tag isn't tagged. Most of the time, users think jQuery is a whole new language or syntax. Others tag only jQuery because they want jQuery-only solutions, which might not always be the case. Others might be thinking jQuery is JS, to come what may, even JS is acceptable.
So, should I tag the language when I only see the library tag? Will or will it not affect the sense of the question?