Have "Ratchet and Clank" specific tags appear when you type "Ratchet"?

Question

When I went to search for Ratchet & Clank related questions, it only shows the tag ratchet-and-clank As shown in the screenshot.

However, most Ratchet and Clank games have their tag in the form of rnc-a-crack-in-time (due mostly to this question)

Could we somehow link these tags, so that when someone is searching for "Ratchet and Clank" the other tags come up as well?

Also, there were two questions with the ratchet-and-clank, I retagged an obvious one to rnc-a-crack-in-time (awaiting approval), the other is more generically about "Ratchet & Clank: Future" which could be re-tagged to the three separate games in this series, but I was unsure if it was appropriate to do so.

Note, at the moment the only Ratchet and Clank tags that exist are

• ratchet-and-clank
• rnc-all-4-one
• rnc-crack-in-time

Answer 1

The appropriate solution is probably to create synonyms that reverse the acronyms. As we've seen, ratchet-and-clank-a-crack-in-time is far too long for the tag limit, so we use rnc-a-crack-in-time. I see no reason that we couldn't have a synonym of ratchet-and-clank-cit there to provide for better autocomplete functionality to those typing 'Ratchet' into the tag field.

Going forward, we should probably look to do this with most series where we end up acronymizing the leading title, where possible. It is actually of great use to have a synonym that properly spells out the first word fully in most cases.

Answer 2

Going by LessPop's proposal, limiting myself to tags that exist at this point in time, this is what I have done:

• created rnc-crack-in-time → rnc-a-crack-in-time
• created ratchet-and-clank-cit → rnc-a-crack-in-time
• created ratchet-and-clank-a41 → rnc-all-4-one
• removed the ratchet-and-clank tag from its only question that really is only about the PSN anyway

Answer 3

If we were to make long-form synonyms, that would probably fix the issue.

• ratchet-and-clank
• ratchet-and-clank-all-4-one as a synonym for rnc-all-4-one
• ratchet-and-clank-crack-in-time as a synonym for rnc-crack-in-time

Answer 4

If I understand you right, you want to synonymize ratchet-and-clank with the other three tags. This is not how we use synonyms on this site. When you synonymize two tags, all questions with either tag only show the target tag in the synonym, so creating these synonyms would destroy any distinction between the games in the tagging system.

Most people look for questions with the search (or Google), so it should be sufficient that the question text has the full game name.