user7141: Snaskara or Sankhara is a commonly used term in both questons and answers so wouldn't it be nice to have a Tag for it?

user295: You cannot create tags independently on this site. They should be created when asking the question by users who has enough privileges to do this. I believe you wanted this tag added to the following question: What is the process that creates "Saṅkhāra", which I have done. This would add the tag to the list of tags for future use. 

user254: I'm not sure I have an answer but here are a few thoughts.

Tags aren't really important for single well-defined words. Take "dukkha" for example: you can find lots of posts by searching for 'dukkha' ... because it's easy to search it isn't very necessary to have a tag.
Tags are useful though for the following purposes:

Searching doesn't work because of translations -- a post might contain the word 'dukkha' or 'suffering' so it's good to have a tag (see also What language should our tags be in?)
Tags are good for categorizing -- for example a question about alcohol might be tagged with 'addiction', 'precepts', 'sila', etc.
Tags are good for schools -- we try to use 'theravada' or 'mahayana' etc. for example when we want the answers to reflect the orthodox perspective from one specific school
Tags might be useful for users to 'favourite' or 'ignore' -- for example I might decide I never want to read questions which are tagged 'science' or 'kamma', in which case I could add those tags to the list of topics I won't see, in my user profile

A while ago I sanitized the tags on meta (i.e. reviewed and edited every topics to ensure its tags made sense) so I think that all the tags on meta are used in a regular/predictable way.
People haven't done that same job on the main site, so the use of tags there is hap-hazard and random, with people adding tags whenever they feel like it, not using existing tags, not knowing what the existing tags are, not having a grand plan for the way in which tags ought to be used, and so I don't find the existing tags-in-general there very useful/understandable/reliable.
The one bit of clean-up that has ever happened so far is that @CrabBucket reviewed and retagged all the meditation topics/tags (see Proposal for retagging meditation questions and corresponding chat in the chat room plus CrabBucket's corresponding edits to topics).

7141: <p>Snaskara or Sankhara is a commonly used term in both questons and answers so wouldn't it be nice to have a Tag for it?</p>
 295: <p>You cannot create tags independently on this site. They should be created when asking the question by users who has enough privileges to do this. I believe you wanted this tag added to the following question: <a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/12891/what-is-the-process-that-creates-sa%E1%B9%85kh%C4%81ra">What is the process that creates &quot;Saṅkhāra&quot;</a>, which I have done. This would add the tag to the list of tags for future use. </p>
 254: <p>I'm not sure I have an answer but here are a few thoughts.</p>

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<p>Tags aren't really important for single well-defined words. Take "dukkha" for example: you can find lots of posts by <a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/search?q=dukkha">searching for 'dukkha'</a> ... because it's easy to search it isn't very necessary to have a tag.</p>

<p>Tags are useful though for the following purposes:</p>

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<li>Searching doesn't work because of translations -- a post might contain the word 'dukkha' or 'suffering' so it's good to have a tag (see also <a href="https://buddhism.meta.stackexchange.com/q/2/254">What language should our tags be in?</a>)</li>
<li>Tags are good for categorizing -- for example a question about alcohol might be tagged with 'addiction', 'precepts', 'sila', etc.</li>
<li>Tags are good for schools -- we try to use 'theravada' or 'mahayana' etc. for example when we want the answers to reflect the orthodox perspective from one specific school</li>
<li>Tags might be useful for users to 'favourite' or 'ignore' -- for example I might decide I never want to read questions which are tagged 'science' or 'kamma', in which case I could add those tags to the list of topics I won't see, in my user profile</li>
</ul>

<p>A while ago I sanitized the tags on meta (i.e. reviewed and edited every topics to ensure its tags made sense) so I think that all the tags on meta are used in a regular/predictable way.</p>

<p>People haven't done that same job on the main site, so the use of tags there is hap-hazard and random, with people adding tags whenever they feel like it, not using existing tags, not knowing what the existing tags are, not having a grand plan for the way in which tags ought to be used, and so I don't find the existing tags-in-general there very useful/understandable/reliable.</p>

<p>The one bit of clean-up that has ever happened so far is that @CrabBucket reviewed and retagged all the meditation topics/tags (see <a href="https://buddhism.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1551/254">Proposal for retagging meditation questions</a> and corresponding chat in the chat room plus CrabBucket's corresponding edits to topics).</p>
