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Hierarchical Tags Short Rules

Here are listed condensed versions of the tagging suggestions from the Hierarchical Tags page. These are intended to be easy to reference and use accordingly for users/members with tag perms and so are very concise; for the full detailing of how these tags are used, their history, and other things of that nature, see again the main page.

Generally group-specific tags

~health

health. and medicine.

• Use health. and medicine. when there are applicable branches of medicine (i.e. medicine.veterinary) or modifiers (i.e health.public and medicine.alternative).
• health.mental and mental health are both acceptable.

~humanities

religion.

• Religions always take the form [religion name].[denomination] (i.e. judaism.orthodox, christianity.catholic, islam.sunni).
• Languages, where needed, take the form [language].[dialect] (i.e. english.british, english.american, espanol.peninsular, espanol.mexicano).

~science

socialscience.

• When posted in science, all social science related posts take socialscience.[discipline] tag (i.e. socialscience.psychology, socialscience.sociology,socialscience.anthropology).

Non-group specific tags

recurring.

• Use recurring. for threads on a specific, consistent interval; otherwise, just use standalone recurring.

economics.

• Use hierarchical tags for branches and sub-branches of economics and modifiers like policy and trade (economics.macro for example).
• If posting in ~science use socialscience. as the parent tag instead of economics.

law.

• Use subtags whenever there's a modifier, with the modifier being the subtag (law.labor for example).
• If a location tag is needed, tag it separately (law.labor and usa for example).
• Do not use law.martial for martial law or law.enforcement for law enforcement/policing.

nsfw. and trigger.

• Use trigger. (if desired) to specify the potentially triggering content (trigger.rape for example).
• Use nsfw. in the same way as trigger. for actively graphic content or links which could expose people to actively graphic content.

hurricanes., cyclones., typhoons.

• Use the relevant parent tag for the storm, with the storm name being a subtag even if it's not a formal hurricane/typhoon/cyclone (i.e. hurricanes.patricia, cyclones.tracy, and typhoons.yutu).
• If the storm only has a nickname or best known name, try a truncation of that name (such as hurricanes.1938 new england)