charity seems to be applied to all questions that somehow relate to charity, while two out of the three questions tagged with charitable-contributions deal specifically with tax issues. Should these be merged or left how they are? If they're merged, my opinion would be to preserve the more general charity tag and accompany tax issues with relevant country tags and the taxes tag.
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It's only tangentially related, but is there a better place (chat? one large meta question?) to ask about tag merges? If I get on a fix-the-tags kick in the future and notice a whole slew of other tags (it's happened before) it seems tedious to post a new meta question for each one. However, that might be preferable because it allows for more detailed discussion on each suggestion, and I don't always have the rep to suggest tag synonyms on tags that aren't used as much.– John BensinCommented Jul 30, 2013 at 3:57
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1In general, changes need to be recorded so that they can be found with relative ease. Please resist the urge to gather unrelated changes together. Discussion is indeed the goal and globing several items together into one post makes that difficult. So, um...carry on? ;)– George MarianCommented Jul 30, 2013 at 6:13
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@GeorgeMarian That was my intuition. Separate meta posts it is.– John BensinCommented Jul 30, 2013 at 13:13
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I suggest we keep the charitable-contributions tag for those questions specifically about contributing to a charity, and the charity tag for anything else about charity not specifically involving making a charitable contribution. In other words, questions tagged charitable-contribution shouldn't also require the charity tag.
Consequently, many existing questions tagged charity would need to be re-tagged as charitable-contributions.
IMHO, I wouldn't want to lose the "contribution" concept by having one and only one charity tag.
Mind you, now that I'm thinking about it, why isn't it called charitable-donations instead? What's the more idiomatic expression - a "charitable contributions" or a "charitable donations", or are they equally common? There are search engine ramifications.
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Good question. A quick search turned up this article, which discusses how some payment processors see the terms a little differently. In the context of donor-advised funds, the term "charitable grants" is sometimes used too. It's definitely less common, though. Commented Jul 30, 2013 at 17:33
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@JohnBensin BTW, while we're discussing tags: You don't need to remove single-use tags. The system will eventually purge a tag that is only used once (source). I'm referring to your edit to remove "diamonds" from money.stackexchange.com/questions/23436/… .. the system process that removes low usage tags won't bump the questions unnecessarily. Commented Jul 30, 2013 at 19:35
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Oh, it removes tags that are only used once? For some reason I thought it only removed tags that weren't used at all. Thanks for letting me know. Commented Jul 30, 2013 at 19:38