Chris W Rea was retagging some questions with united-states that were about 401ks. 401k is definitely a us tag. There was some discussion of this over on the chat page and it was brought up that 401k is a distinctly US thing. There will never be a question about 401ks that is not also about the united-states.
Do 401k questions all need the United-states tag?
More generically: Do country specific questions need country tags if the subject is by definition, country-specific?
Yes, because this will allow us to include the tag on our interesting tags, and easily view all the united-states questions.
I think that the best way to do this would be to enforce that at least one regional tag is given for each question. These could be countries, regions (e.g., North America, Europe), or something like global. This will at least make the questioner think about where the question applies. The problem I see with this is how do new regional tags get added? We either have to add all of the countries (at the minimum), even if there are currently no questions with that tag, or supply an other region tag, which the moderators (or users with sufficiently high rep) could use to add new regional tags.
While C. Ross makes a good point about interesting tags, I do have some concerns.
Namely, it reduces the number of tag slots for any 401k question. It also introduces a requirement that the uninitiated may not find intuitive. Finally, it seems like a meta-tag type of an issue to me. That said, one can make the argument that even if it is a meta-tag, it is necessary for this site, and hence not a meta-tag.
Update:
I asked and was told that there is no way to tie tags together so that one tag requires another. We also discussed the idea for a bit and discovered some issues. Namely, what happens if/when that relationship changes.
