The [soothing] [school] of [thumb-sucking]

Question

Another miscellany of tags.

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1) Soothe

We have 6 questions tagged soothe.

I suggest to change it to soothing, like swaddling or bed-sharing.

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2) School

• school: 177 questions
• high-school: 2 questions

I'm a bit surprised to see that high-school is being used rarely. 26 questions are tagged school teen. I guess that school comes more natural to people because this is an international site. Other countries have different school systems and different names. And OPs may not feel the need to be that specific about the type of school.

I also came across school-selection with 5 questions. I could imagine its use in principle, but looking at the questions, school should do the job.

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3) Thumb-sucking

We have 7 questions tagged thumb-sucking and

22 questions tagged pacifier.

The tag wiki excerpt of pacifier:

Questions about use of pacifiers, dummies, and thumb sucking

We even have two questions tagged pacifier and thumb-sucking

• Should I stop my infant from sucking his thumb?
• When should an infant stop sucking on her hands?

So either

1. get rid of thumb-sucking (e. g. make it a synonym of pacifier) or
2. change the tage wiki excerpt of pacifier.

I'm rather in favor of option 2, since a tag specifically for thumb sucking makes sense and was already used several times. I'd rather restrict pacifier to artificial pacifiers.

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Q1: Change soothe to soothing?

Q2: Change high-school to school?

Q3: Change school-selection to school?

Q4: Keep thumb-sucking or change the pacifier tag wiki excerpt?

Answer 1

Q1: Change soothe to soothing?

I suggest to change it to the -ing form as it's common on Parenting.SE (search for "ing") and also other stacks.

Q2: Change high-school to school?

It seems that high-school never gained traction and so doesn't fulfill its role as a filter for questions. You'll either miss out on the many school-questions (searching for high-school), the few high-school-questions (searching for school) or we'd have to add these two tags to questions (note that no more than 5 tags are allowed). Hence I believe we should only use school.

Q3: Change school-selection to school?

Like high-school above school-selection sounds good in theory, but there are few questions with it and even less where it seems spot on. school is just doing fine here.

Q4: Keep thumb-sucking or change the pacifier tag wiki excerpt?

I suggest to

1. keep thumb-sucking (enough questions for it to make sense as its own tag)
2. change the pacifier tag wiki excerpt so it no longer includes thumb-sucking.