A Game of Thrones is doing double-duty

Question

a-game-of-thrones sits on five questions currently.

• Some are about the d20 system titled "A Game of Thrones."
• Some are about the setting of the A Song of Ice and Fire books and the Game of Thrones television show.
  • Some of those ^^ are about the setting, and about the system song-of-ice-and-fire-rpg (8 questions as of this writing).

So it seems to me that the GoT tag is doing double-duty: covering a published system and covering a setting employed by multiple game (and other) products.

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What to do? I see some options:

1. Nothing.
2. Restrict each tag to its published game and remove it from questions where it seems to only be indicating setting; trust that readers will understand that questions about either game necessarily imply the shared setting.
3. rename a-game-of-thrones to a-game-of-thrones-rpg and apply that to questions about the d20 GoT game; leave the ASoIaF tag as is, and create a new tag name-tbd which describes the setting.

I know it's only a dozen questions, but no path forward strikes me as terribly good. Some of the questions are about each system. Some do really seem to be about the setting. And I, at least, was confused by the dual-usage of the GoT tag.

Are there strong arguments for/against any of the above options? Are there better ideas I haven't thought of? Is this a non-problem, and I should untwist my knickers?

Answer 1

This rename has been done now.

Of the remaining four questions (after Arizan removed the a-game-of-thrones tag on their question), two are game-recs about the d20 GoT game^[a],[b] (which have now been closed), and one is a question in which GoT is just background to a plotting/campaign-dev problem and the tag doesn't describe that problem (which has had the tag removed now).

That leaves a single open question that might just barely deserve the setting tag. However, it's a “how do I make X character from fictional setting Y in D&D 4e” question. We don't make a setting tag for the Y in every “I want to make X character from Y” question we get, so I suspect it may even be an invalid tag on that last remaining question too.

Which would mean there are only a pair of closed questions that merit the tag used as a system tag. In which case, we would have no present need for a GoT/ASoIaF setting tag at all, since we only have a tag if there are questions for it to live on. We would then kick the can down the road on deciding what to name a setting tag.

I propose that we rename a-game-of-thrones to a-game-of-thrones-d20. Although the proper name is A Game of Thrones and we prefer to have a game's tag match the game's title, we do seem to need to add a disambiguating suffix to the tag. Rather than add -rpg, I propose adding the more specific -d20 because it's far less likely to still be misconstrued as “tag about playing RPGs in the GoT setting”.

Answer 2

My apologies. I appear to be one of the perpetrators of this confusion. I have removed the "a-game-of-thrones" tag from my question in an attempt to revert my mistake.

I suggest a mixture of 2 and 3, as that will help make the tags distinct, and to avert further confusion.

In fact, my own mistake was committed out of ignorance: I searched for an "a-song-of-ice-and-fire-rpg" tag, but when I did not find one, I added the "a-game-of-thrones" tag instead. I was oblivious of the fact there was indeed a "song-of-ice-and-fire-rpg" tag (without the "a") until someone else added it.

I do realise it was incompetence on my own part that was the source of this fault, not unclear tags, but I believe it nevertheless to be positive to make the distinction clearer.