I decided not to rename, because (iiuc) the address of the “logical uncertainty” tag would then be https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/logical-induction, which would be weird given that there would also be a “logical induction” tag.
Instead I created the new tag and tagged everything under “logical induction” to also be under “logical uncertainty”.
What I wasn’t able to do was remove the inappropriate stuff from the logical induction tag. There are a number of things with that tag which are not really about logical induction, only logical uncertainty.
By default, if you rename a tag, the url will change to match the new name and the old url will be redirected to the new one (thus preserving any existing links to it). In the case we want to use an old url for one tag as the url for another (this has happened), we’d need to do some manual database stuff (but it can be done) and then ensure all existing links go to the right place. We can also delete tags easily.
At this point, would it just make sense to delete the logical induction tag and have its url redirect to the new logical uncertainty tag?
Or if you prefer, we can remove help remove tags. Eventually, assuming tagging continues to get used enough, I think we’ll build proper tools to handle these splitting/merge situations.
I don’t think just deleting the logical induction tag is the right thing. I did what I did because I think there should be two separate tags.
I think the next step is to remove the logical induction tag from any posts which aren’t LI-specific.
I have personally upvoted the logical induction tag on the items I think should be tagged “logical induction” and downvoted it on things which I especially think aren’t appropriate. So (assuming you can see which things I personally upvoted) you could use that as a basis for removing tags.
Ah, my bad, wasn’t clear to me that you thought Logical Uncertainty should be a superset of Logical Induction, and that Logical Induction should still exist separately. I misread it as being about maintaining url addresses.
Yeah, I can look at those votes and then vote with you (maybe help from another LW team member).
I decided not to rename, because (iiuc) the address of the “logical uncertainty” tag would then be https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/logical-induction, which would be weird given that there would also be a “logical induction” tag.
Instead I created the new tag and tagged everything under “logical induction” to also be under “logical uncertainty”.
What I wasn’t able to do was remove the inappropriate stuff from the logical induction tag. There are a number of things with that tag which are not really about logical induction, only logical uncertainty.
By default, if you rename a tag, the url will change to match the new name and the old url will be redirected to the new one (thus preserving any existing links to it). In the case we want to use an old url for one tag as the url for another (this has happened), we’d need to do some manual database stuff (but it can be done) and then ensure all existing links go to the right place. We can also delete tags easily.
At this point, would it just make sense to delete the logical induction tag and have its url redirect to the new logical uncertainty tag?
Or if you prefer, we can remove help remove tags. Eventually, assuming tagging continues to get used enough, I think we’ll build proper tools to handle these splitting/merge situations.
I don’t think just deleting the logical induction tag is the right thing. I did what I did because I think there should be two separate tags.
I think the next step is to remove the logical induction tag from any posts which aren’t LI-specific.
I have personally upvoted the logical induction tag on the items I think should be tagged “logical induction” and downvoted it on things which I especially think aren’t appropriate. So (assuming you can see which things I personally upvoted) you could use that as a basis for removing tags.
Ah, my bad, wasn’t clear to me that you thought Logical Uncertainty should be a superset of Logical Induction, and that Logical Induction should still exist separately. I misread it as being about maintaining url addresses.
Yeah, I can look at those votes and then vote with you (maybe help from another LW team member).