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Is there any guideline to always include a "parent" tag when tagging a question with package/add-on tags?

For instance, there are many tags for specific R packages, such as, . Check the wiki excerpts:

  • ggplot2 is an actively maintained open-source chart-drawing library for R, written by Hadley Wickham, based upon the principles of "Grammar of Graphics". It partially replaces R's basic plot and the lattice package, while providing a clean, powerful, orthogonal and fun API.

  • knitr is an R package for dynamic report generation based on the concept of literate programming.

Does it make sense to have a question tagged any of these but not ?

The same question applies to many other tags, say, for Python, tags "*.js" for Javascript...

Is it valid to edit these questions only to add the "parent" tag?

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In most cases, the language tag should be applied. Sometimes a gem / egg / extension is so established and popular that it's not really needed - even COBOL programmers know that's a Python library, but in most cases it's nice to have. Rarely would the use of the parent language tag block another essential tag for the question, but it does happen once in a blue moon with some very framework specific questions.

Editing to add these tags is appreciated provided that you fix anything else that might need fixing on the post when you save the edit. We appreciate any good edit, we appreciate them a lot more when they're thorough. That's a general guideline and it's not really exclusive to tag edits.

Just edit with care and there shouldn't be a problem :)

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