There are 6 questions tagged "talking" right now. The tag has no excerpt to explain its purpose.
In my opinion, the tag should become a synonym for the "speech" tag instead. Should we do this? What arguments can be put against this change?
While we're at it, some of the questions tagged "talking" could use more tags -- either "language" or "language-development" -- which I'd add at the same time.
talking now contains 14 questions, and none of them greatly benefit from having that tag:
I propose editing the tags of the small number of existing questions to use the above tags instead, and making talking a synonym for speech for future questions.
Please note the limited use of the tag, and how it has not grown over the past 3 years. In fact, there have been no new talking questions in over a year, whereas speech has had 14 new questions since March alone, not to mention the other 3 similar tags.
I would undertake this myself, but I've already flooded the "active questions" list with a removal of a small number of "discussion" tags, and would like help spreading out these changes over time, and creating the synonym (you need at least 5 rep in the other tag, and I've answer/asked no "talking" questions, but I have rep in the other tags).
The tag wiki for speech currently is:
What is speech?
Speech is the vocalized form of human communication. The subject of speech includes many subskills, such as vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, enunciation.
What questions should have this tag?
- Questions about teaching your child to speak.
- Questions about speech disabilities.
- Questions about improving any area of speech skills.
- General questions about speech disabilities.
Looking at the talking questions, most of them seem to me to fall squarely under "questions about teaching your child to speak". However, the focus of some are more precisely under the category of milestones.
We can address this by expanding the tag wiki for speech to include "Questions about speech and communication milestones" to the "What questions should have this tag?" section.
There is one talking question that seem more focused on the behavior of talking, rather than learning/disabilities/improving skills: How to deal with incessant talking?. While it is a good question, I don't see the value of tagging it with either speech or talking. The question is about the behavior, and the fact that the behavior involves speech is secondary to the question.
I'd suggest we simply remove talking from that question.
Once we update the speech wiki, and remove talking from that question, we should make talking a synonym for speech.
