Should we make a 2048 tag?

Question

Currently, we have at least 12 questions relating to the game 2048. I think it would be worth creating a 2048 tag, as there are a non-insignificant number of these questions now. We have tags for other games, like chess, boggle, scrabble (many of which have fewer than 10 questions), so there is precedent for these sorts of tags existing.

There is a sliding-puzzle tag, which includes 2048 (this is stated clearly in the excerpt). However, less than half of the 2048 related questions use this tag, and it's not very "discoverable" to those writing questions involving the game.

I'd suggest either creating a 2048 tag and possibly making some adjustments to sliding-puzzle's scope if needed, or just making 2048, as a synonym of it. What do y'all think about this?

Answer 1

Make 2048 an explicit synonym of sliding-puzzle, retag challenges that need sliding-puzzle

I think it's clear that sliding-puzzle fully covers 2048, as all challenges about 2048 are applicable to sliding-puzzle, but there may be challenges about tile games that aren't specifically about 2048.

However, you raise an excellent point about not enough questions being tagged with sliding-puzzle. This is a perfect example of when we should be doing some retagging and editing this tag into applicable questions.

Finally, by explicitly creating the synonym 2048, it means that any new challenges about it can easily find the sliding-puzzle tag, and that, like e.g. koth, we have the tag in the system ready to help find and retag relevant challenges.

Answer 2

Yes

You can add 2048 tag.