user24: We have three tags related to the "When they Cry" franchise: when-they-cry, higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni, and umineko-no-naku-koro-ni. Are all three of these necessary? And if not, which should we keep, and what synonyms should we use?

user24: In my opinion we do not need all three tags.
There is very little in common between Higurashi and Umineko. The characters are almost entirely different, and the plots are basically unrelated. Almost all the in-universe questions that make sense to ask are specific to one or the other. Plenty of people (including to some degree myself) are an expert on one but not the other. Wikipedia doesn't even have a real entry for the series; what they have is a disambiguation page pointing to Higurashi and Umineko. Hence, we should probably have different tags for the two.
As for whether we need a third tag for the series as a whole, this seems unnecessary right now. It's not prohibitive to just use tags for both Higurashi and Umineko for the few questions about the series as a whole. More importantly, this tag risks being used on questions which are specific to one or the other, like What exactly are the rollbacks in Higurashi?. If that happens, this tag will be the most used, which will be bad for SEO since "Higurashi" and "Umineko" are likely to be the most common search terms. If the franchise expands significantly it might eventually be necessary, but for now such a tag is counterproductive and harmful to SEO.
As for what tags to use, all things being equal we should prefer the English language version of the names. The most common search terms are just "Higurashi" and "Umineko" which will be caught by either the English or Japanese titles. Hence we should use higurashi-when-they-cry and umineko-when-they-cry. Synonyms should be made for the Japanese names higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni and umineko-no-naku-koro-ni.
tl;dr:

Add higurashi-when-they-cry with synonym higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni.
Add umineko-when-they-cry with synonym umineko-no-naku-koro-ni.
Kill when-they-cry. Questions about the series should be tagged with both higurashi-when-they-cry and umineko-when-they-cry.


24: <p>We have three tags related to the "When they Cry" franchise: <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/when-they-cry" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;when-they-cry&#39;" rel="tag">when-they-cry</a>, <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni&#39;" rel="tag">higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni</a>, and <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/umineko-no-naku-koro-ni" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;umineko-no-naku-koro-ni&#39;" rel="tag">umineko-no-naku-koro-ni</a>. Are all three of these necessary? And if not, which should we keep, and what synonyms should we use?</p>
 24: <p>In my opinion we do not need all three tags.</p>

<p>There is very little in common between Higurashi and Umineko. The characters are almost entirely different, and the plots are basically unrelated. Almost all the in-universe questions that make sense to ask are specific to one or the other. Plenty of people (including to some degree myself) are an expert on one but not the other. Wikipedia doesn't even have a real entry for the series; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_They_Cry" rel="nofollow noreferrer">what they have</a> is a disambiguation page pointing to Higurashi and Umineko. Hence, we should probably have different tags for the two.</p>

<p>As for whether we need a third tag for the series as a whole, this seems unnecessary right now. It's not prohibitive to just use tags for both Higurashi and Umineko for the few questions about the series as a whole. More importantly, this tag risks being used on questions which are specific to one or the other, like <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/181/what-exactly-are-the-rollbacks-in-higurashi">What exactly are the rollbacks in Higurashi?</a>. If that happens, this tag will be the most used, which will be bad for SEO since "Higurashi" and "Umineko" are likely to be the most common search terms. If the franchise expands significantly it might eventually be necessary, but for now such a tag is counterproductive and harmful to SEO.</p>

<p>As for what tags to use, all things being equal we should prefer the English language version of the names. The most common search terms are just "Higurashi" and "Umineko" which will be caught by either the English or Japanese titles. Hence we should use <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/higurashi-when-they-cry" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;higurashi-when-they-cry&#39;" rel="tag">higurashi-when-they-cry</a> and <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/umineko-when-they-cry" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;umineko-when-they-cry&#39;" rel="tag">umineko-when-they-cry</a>. Synonyms should be made for the Japanese names <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni&#39;" rel="tag">higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni</a> and <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/umineko-no-naku-koro-ni" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;umineko-no-naku-koro-ni&#39;" rel="tag">umineko-no-naku-koro-ni</a>.</p>

<p><strong>tl;dr</strong>:</p>

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<li><p>Add <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/higurashi-when-they-cry" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;higurashi-when-they-cry&#39;" rel="tag">higurashi-when-they-cry</a> with synonym <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni&#39;" rel="tag">higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Add <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/umineko-when-they-cry" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;umineko-when-they-cry&#39;" rel="tag">umineko-when-they-cry</a> with synonym <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/umineko-no-naku-koro-ni" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;umineko-no-naku-koro-ni&#39;" rel="tag">umineko-no-naku-koro-ni</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Kill <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/when-they-cry" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;when-they-cry&#39;" rel="tag">when-they-cry</a>. Questions about the series should be tagged with both <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/higurashi-when-they-cry" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;higurashi-when-they-cry&#39;" rel="tag">higurashi-when-they-cry</a> and <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/umineko-when-they-cry" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;umineko-when-they-cry&#39;" rel="tag">umineko-when-they-cry</a>.</p></li>
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