Should we have FAQ style questions for tag related terms coined by the community that are commonly used across SE sites?

Question

I have being participating and reading discussions about tags. On some of these discussions the OP included a tag term that looks easy to understand like "hyphenated tag" (a tag having an hyphen) but sometimes the same term is used to refer to a "new meaning" like a hyphenated tag is a tag made of multiple "tags" separated by hyphens but there are other questions that use a different term for the same meaning like "composite tag".

Rather than discussing this particular case I would like your help about how to proceed when a new meaning arises for a term that has an accepted meaning between SE tag experts but might not be so obvios for others.

I.E. here we have What is a blocked tag? (now about "blocked tag" but originally was about "blacklisted tag". Either of these terms is included in Stack Exchange Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-Used Terms.

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Some discussions on this site about tag terms

Not so commonly used (ordered by Q id)

• Sub-tag -> Should questions be tagged with both a tag and a "sub-tag"?

• Root tag -> "Root" tags to organize larger sites with multiple categories

• Compound tag ->

  • How can we address compound badge tags on Meta? (i.e. let's group [epic] and [legendary])
  • How should "compound" tags be handled?
  • "[open]" + "[source]" versus "[open-source]" (the answer uses the referred term)
  • What are the Technical and Usability Limitations of the Tag System? (the answer uses the referred term)
  • Compound tags: Do we need them? (from Islam Meta)
  • Is the [date] tag useful? (from Web Applications, the answer uses the referred term)
  • Should an ORACLE-SPATIAL tag be created? (from DBA Meta, the answer uses the referred term)

• Superset-tag -> Tag policy: include superset tags?

• Hyphenated tag ->

  • When should I create a hyphenated tag?
  • A new hyphenated tag can be created when an unhyphenated version exists as a synonym
  • A new unhyphenated tag can be created when a hyphenated version exists as a synonym
  • How to split hyphenated tag-strings?

• Composite tag ->

  • Why can you put a single + in the tags field?
  • How to deal with redundant composite tags
  • Query about the tag to use for Questions on SSIS Data Flow tasks (from SO, one of the answers use the referred term)

• Hybrid tag -> We should NOT have hybrid tags

• Overloaded tag ->

  • scribe is an overloaded tag
  • Someone overloaded tag; how should we "unload"? (from SO Meta)
  • Proposal to remove tags like brick-wall and road-block (from Genealogy & Family History, one of the answers use the referred term)

Commonly used

• Combination tags
  • Combination tag wiki pages
  • Email subscription to a combination of tags (using AND operator)
  • Watch combination tags?
• Redundant tags
  • Please remove some redundant tags from the list of default tags on child metas

"Marvelous" terms

• Redundant composite tag -> How to deal with redundant composite tags

Related

• How are new users expected to learn about the "tag philosophy" of each SE site, and how to tag properly on that site?

Answer 1

Regarding

how to proceed when a new meaning arises for a term that has an accepted meaning between SE tag experts but might not be so obvious for others.

post a comment to the question to help the OP to learn the SE jargon, if there is a question about the related term / meaning, include a link to it.

Regarding creating a FAQ style question for tag related terms only do this is when it's really needed, like, when there is a term used in the UI that requires clarification and / or guidance. In these cases use terminology not glossary.

Related

• Make [glossary] a synonym of [terminology]