dnd-all-editions

Question

Brian suggested, as part of an answer to the D&D Next/5e dilemma, that dungeons-and-dragons be changed to dnd-all-editions, and dungeons-and-dragons be used for 5e (since that’s how WotC’s branding it). That was quite unpopular, particularly since 6e will likely also be branded as Dungeons & Dragons without specifier, and then we have the same problem again.

But I think making dnd-all-editions and making dungeons-and-dragons a synonym of it has a lot of merit. It means anyone who tries to tag their question dungeons-and-dragons will have that change to dnd-all-editions, immediately making it clear what the tag actually means, and potentially saving us some fixing. It’s also consistent with the rest of the D&D tags, which is nice.

Answer 1

Do not do this, it is counterintuitive (basically removes one of the most common terms ever from the tag space) and damaging to SEO.

Worse than the cons - there is no reason for it. As mentioned in the other Q, 4e also brands itself as non versioned "D&D" and that has not been an issue. Tag wikis and autocomplete and synonyms have resulted in a handful of mistags over years of RPG.SE operation. There is currently no problem, and it is speculation that there will be a problem, and that speculation would have been equally valid for 4e and did not turn out that way. So I decline if and until this is a real problem manifesting on our site.

Answer 2

Realized that without an answer to vote on, this isn't really going anywhere.

Anyway, proposal: migrate dungeons-and-dragons questions to dnd-all-editions, make dungeons-and-dragons a synonym of dnd-all-editions.

Potential problems:

• It messes with the site’s SEO; dungeons and dragons are more significant search terms than dnd

• dungeons-and-dragons questions aren’t necessarily about all editions; it’s about Dungeons & Dragons in general, or across multiple editions, but it wouldn’t be unreasonable to tag a question specifically about TSR’s D&D or specifically WotC’s D&D with it, and dnd-all-editions might seem to contradict that practice.