user157: By far our most popular tag is meditation with over double the number of questions than the second most popular tag. It seems a shame to me that such a rich topic is lumped under one tag. I'd like to suggest a bit of light retagging to introduce some sub categories. Suggested categories could be
meditation-breath
meditation-metta
meditation-insight
meditation-visualisation
And so on
I would like to keep meditation as the broad category and add the others in as subcategories. I like the idea of the tags been in the format meditation-xxxxxx because people will type in meditation as a tag and see the other categories and it may encourage then to refine their tagging.
Is this a good idea? Does anyone have any other categories? I'm happy to gradually work through and retag and write the tag wikis
EDIT
So after discussion the proposal is

Create a set of tags as subcategories for meditation in the format meditation-xxxx
meditation stays but becomes a tag for questions about meditation that are general or difficult to categorise
Retag existing questions so that have meditation or meditation-xxx but not both
Existing tags such are zazen become meditation-zazen and synonyms are used to repoint and/or questions are retagged


user254: 
its just based on how stack overflow does software versions. So TFS is a tag ( team foundation server) but there are also tags for tfs-2012 tfs-2008 and so on

I think that's a good idea, and is perhaps how tags are meant to be used.
On Stack Overflow, for example, if I enter [tfs*] in the search box, then that automatically expands to [tfs] or [tfs2010] or [tfs2012] or [tfsbuild] or [tfs2013] or [tfs2008] or [tfs-sdk] or [tfs-workitem] or [tfs-power-tools] or [tfs-migration] or [tfs-process-template] or [tfs-web-access] or [tfsintegrationplatform] or [tfs-alerts] or [tfs2005] or [tfs-reports] or [tfs-express] or [tfs11] or [tfs-security] or [tfs-to-tfs-migration-tool].
And, the 'interesting' and 'ignored' tags support wildcards (as of 2009).
We could use two tags for each question e.g. meditation plus meditation-insight, however I might disagree and suggest it's better (for tidiness sake) to minimize the number of non-specific meditation questions, and edit the tag to replace it with a more specific suffixed tag if possible.
Have you looked through the meditation questions: can you think of an appropriate suffix for every one of them?
Does it make sense to say that any meditation, and any question about meditation, is necessarily of a specific type and therefore has an appropriate suffix?
Note that there is a generic or non-specific tfs tag as well as the more specific ones.
Also, when tagging a question typing in prac will bring up personal-practice as a suggested tag. IMO meditation-metta is a better tag than metta-meditation because the former supports wildcards and makes the subcategorization obvious.

157: <p>By far our most popular tag is <a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meditation" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;meditation&#39;" rel="tag">meditation</a> with over double the number of questions than the second most popular tag. It seems a shame to me that such a rich topic is lumped under one tag. I'd like to suggest a bit of light retagging to introduce some sub categories. Suggested categories could be</p>

<p><a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meditation-breath" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;meditation-breath&#39;" rel="tag">meditation-breath</a></p>

<p><a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meditation-metta" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;meditation-metta&#39;" rel="tag">meditation-metta</a></p>

<p><a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meditation-insight" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;meditation-insight&#39;" rel="tag">meditation-insight</a></p>

<p><a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meditation-visualisation" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;meditation-visualisation&#39;" rel="tag">meditation-visualisation</a></p>

<p>And so on</p>

<p>I would like to keep <a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meditation" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;meditation&#39;" rel="tag">meditation</a> as the broad category and add the others in as subcategories. I like the idea of the tags been in the format <a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meditation-xxxxxx" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;meditation-xxxxxx&#39;" rel="tag">meditation-xxxxxx</a> because people will type in meditation as a tag and see the other categories and it may encourage then to refine their tagging.</p>

<p>Is this a good idea? Does anyone have any other categories? I'm happy to gradually work through and retag and write the tag wikis</p>

<p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>

<p>So after discussion the proposal is</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Create a set of tags as subcategories for meditation in the format <a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meditation-xxxx" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;meditation-xxxx&#39;" rel="tag">meditation-xxxx</a></p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meditation" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;meditation&#39;" rel="tag">meditation</a> stays but becomes a tag for questions about meditation that are general or difficult to categorise</p></li>
<li><p>Retag existing questions so that have <a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meditation" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;meditation&#39;" rel="tag">meditation</a> or <a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meditation-xxx" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;meditation-xxx&#39;" rel="tag">meditation-xxx</a> but not both</p></li>
<li><p>Existing tags such are <a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/zazen" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;zazen&#39;" rel="tag">zazen</a> become <a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meditation-zazen" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;meditation-zazen&#39;" rel="tag">meditation-zazen</a> and synonyms are used to repoint and/or questions are retagged</p></li>
</ol>
 254: <blockquote>
  <p>its just based on how stack overflow does software versions. So TFS is a tag ( team foundation server) but there are also tags for tfs-2012 tfs-2008 and so on</p>
</blockquote>

<p>I think that's a good idea, and is perhaps how tags are meant to be used.</p>

<p>On Stack Overflow, for example, if I enter <code>[tfs*]</code> in the search box, then that automatically expands to <code>[tfs] or [tfs2010] or [tfs2012] or [tfsbuild] or [tfs2013] or [tfs2008] or [tfs-sdk] or [tfs-workitem] or [tfs-power-tools] or [tfs-migration] or [tfs-process-template] or [tfs-web-access] or [tfsintegrationplatform] or [tfs-alerts] or [tfs2005] or [tfs-reports] or [tfs-express] or [tfs11] or [tfs-security] or [tfs-to-tfs-migration-tool]</code>.</p>

<p>And, the 'interesting' and 'ignored' tags <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/interesting-and-ignored-tags-now-support-wildcards/">support wildcards</a> (as of 2009).</p>

<p>We could use two tags for each question e.g. <code>meditation</code> plus <code>meditation-insight</code>, however I might disagree and suggest it's better (for tidiness sake) to minimize the number of non-specific <code>meditation</code> questions, and edit the tag to replace it with a more specific suffixed tag if possible.</p>

<p>Have you looked through the <a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/meditation" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;meditation&#39;" rel="tag">meditation</a> questions: can you think of an appropriate suffix for every one of them?</p>

<p>Does it make sense to say that any meditation, and any question about meditation, is necessarily of a specific type and therefore has an appropriate suffix?</p>

<p>Note that there is a generic or non-specific <code>tfs</code> tag as well as the more specific ones.</p>

<p>Also, when tagging a question typing in <code>prac</code> will bring up <code>personal-practice</code> as a suggested tag. IMO <code>meditation-metta</code> is a better tag than <code>metta-meditation</code> because the former supports wildcards and makes the subcategorization obvious.</p>
