Expand The Elder Scrolls game tags to include [the-elder-scrolls] prefix

Question

There was a previous meta request to Rename [skyrim] → [elder-scrolls-skyrim], but that was rejected because of two concerns:

• The 25 character tag limit would mean some games in the series would be too long.
• Search engine optimization may be compromised

I think that it's time to revisit these concerns.

Character tag limit

The first concern is no longer relevant, since we have a 35 character tag limit, which is long enough for all games in the series (except The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard, but we don't currently have any questions about that).

Search engine optimization

I'm not sure that SEO is as big of a concern if we use the full game names. Right now, searching for skyrim has about the same level of traffic as searching for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Furthermore, I get pretty much the same results in Google if I search for either term, suggesting there is some sort of synonymization going on.

Consistency of Tags

Of course, one of the big benefits of renaming these will be that we will have consistent tags for all the games in the series. Anyone unfamiliar with the series knows that they are all related because they all start with the-elder-scrolls.

Proposal

Therefore, I propose that we have all The Elder Scrolls games be tagged as follows:

• the-elder-scrolls → the-elder-scrolls-series (to be consistent with how other series tags work]
• the-elder-scrolls-arena (already exists)
• daggerfall → the-elder-scrolls-2-daggerfall
• morrowind → the-elder-scrolls-3-morrowind
• oblivion → the-elder-scrolls-4-oblivion
• skyrim → the-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim
  • skyrim-dawnguard → the-elder-scrolls-skyrim-dawnguard (or the-elder-scrolls-5-dawnguard)*
  • skyrim-hearthfire → the-elder-scrolls-skyrim-hearthfire (or the-elder-scrolls-5-hearthfire)*
  • skyrim-dragonborn → the-elder-scrolls-skyrim-dragonborn (or the-elder-scrolls-5-dragonborn*
• the-elder-scrolls-legends (already exists)
• the-elder-scrolls-online (already exists)

_{* Unlike the Morrowind and Oblivion expansions, the official name for these addons include both the number and the name "Skyrim", but adding both to the tag name exceeds the 35 character tag limit.}

While we're at it, there are two tags for total conversion mods that probably should be renamed to their proper names, since they aren't "official" Skyrim addons.

• Enderal: The Shards of Order skyrim-enderal → enderal-the-shards-of-order
• Falskaar skyrim-falskaar → falskaar

Of course, the old tags would remain as synonyms, but I think that the existing tag synonym elder-scrolls-skyrim would be unnecessary.

Request for feedback

Would it be okay to make these changes? Are there any concerns over something like this?

Answer 1

This is the state of these renames so far:

Game Tags

All base game tags and the series tag have been renamed:

• the-elder-scrolls → the-elder-scrolls-series
• daggerfall → the-elder-scrolls-2-daggerfall
• morrowind → the-elder-scrolls-3-morrowind
• oblivion → the-elder-scrolls-4-oblivion
• skyrim → the-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim

Mod Tags

While Enderal does appear to be a 'new game' built on top of Skyrim, Falskaar doesn't appear to be the same - rather, it adds new story and a new area to the base game (much like some official expansions do) - it's closer to 'Unofficial DLC' than to 'Total Conversion'.

As such, I renamed the Enderal but left Falskaar:

• skyrim-enderal → enderal-the-shards-of-order
• skyrim-falskaar

Official DLC tags

As mentioned in the comments above, I'm not entirely convinced that expanding these is the right approach, given they should always be used with the base game tag anyway. Their purpose is more to provide a logical grouping of content. As such, these tags were left alone for now:

• skyrim-dawnguard
• skyrim-hearthfire
• skyrim-dragonborn

However I'd be happy to action these at a later date if we get enough community support for the change.