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So, as Mojang announced at E3, Minecraft is merging Pocket edition, Console edition and Windows 10 edition as one cross-compatible edition.

Currently, we have tags for each one of them.

Here's some ideas for it:

Some similar meta posts:

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    Has this merge already happened? If not: then this post is too early, merging the stuff now would just cause issues for everyone who plays any of the currently different games.
    – Arperum
    Jul 10, 2017 at 7:46
  • The server stuff has been merged for a while now, but the names aren't.
    – Tassu
    Jul 10, 2017 at 7:48
  • The Tag "Minecraft" for everything is a good idea - I feel that Minecraft-java would be better because Minecraft-PC is somewhat Windows specific but Mac OS, Linux also uses the JAVA edition.
    – Kingsley Zhong
    Jul 10, 2017 at 16:46
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    The main reason for the differences in names is because all the different versions have diferent features that make them unique. One tag as "Minecraft" would lead to major confusion on a question about something unique to a specific version. Until the so called "Better Together" update (I did some reading on it), which combines ALL versions, seperate tags should be kept.
    – The Mattbat999
    Jul 15, 2017 at 19:42
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    We should figure out what we're going to do sooner rather than later so that when the update drops, we can quickly, easily, and efficiently make those changes. Which isn't to say that I 100% agree with the proposal you've laid out here. IMHO, minecraft should remain the tag for the original java version, for instance.
    – MBraedley
    Jul 17, 2017 at 13:38
  • As the beta of this update has come out (minecraft.net/en-us/article/beta-test-better-together), we should figure what are we going to do.
    – Tassu
    Aug 2, 2017 at 14:55
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    The PC Edition of Minecraft is now officially called "Minecraft Java Edition"
    – user170887
    Sep 14, 2017 at 14:54
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    Possible duplicate of Minecraft Bedrock Edition
    – Fabian Röling
    Sep 5, 2018 at 12:54
  • @FabianRöling Actually it is duplicate of this.
    – Tassu
    Sep 6, 2018 at 5:20

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After learning more about the different versions, I no longer agree with this listing. A new discussion is here: Pocket Edition is now Bedrock. Why PE is not a synonym? When should the PE tag be used?

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(Posting as answer, because it's long, has formatting and at least offers a partial solution.)

I would say we should allow as much specification as possible without getting name collisions. This is a complicated topic and there are a lot of things the same between all versions, but also a lot of things different between them, so I would say: The more tags, the better. Otherwise people would have to specify this in every question anyway.

One more question: What to do with the questions that already have these tags? For example some of those that have the tag now are e.g. on the Wii U, which will be the "together" edition, but some are about PlayStation that won't get that update.

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  • That sounds fine for me.
    – Tassu
    Sep 28, 2017 at 18:12
  • I edited it a bit, please look at the diff. And what about the questions that already have these tags? Any idea? Should someone go through them manually? Should we accept that some old questions have the wrong tag? Is there some clever way to automatically update them?
    – Fabian Röling
    Sep 29, 2017 at 6:25
  • The "minecraft" tag has always been used to point at the java version, changing this suddenly is going to cause confusion.
    – Arperum
    Dec 13, 2017 at 11:02
  • Mojang changed it. It's the new official name, while only "Minecraft" is supposed to refer to Bedrock Edition.
    – Fabian Röling
    Dec 13, 2017 at 14:53
  • Another year of inactivity. Should my suggestion now be implemented? This constantly wrong tagging is driving me mad more and more, so I'll go on a retagging spree soon anyway. Might as well use a finalised and agreed upon ruleset for that rather than changing everything now based on the old rules and then changing it all again later.
    – Fabian Röling
    Jan 16, 2019 at 9:50
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Maybe "Minecraft-BTU" or "MC-BTU" for MC BTU?

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  • P.S. BTU is Better Together Update.
    – ImaginaryNeon
    Nov 22, 2017 at 22:31

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