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[Outdated] Implications and wiki pages - parent/child tag sections confusing

EDIT: Since posting this, after learning more about the features discussed here I realize now that the ideas in this post are not well founded. You can still see the conversation below.

Hello administration!
Let's talk for a minute about tag implications, wiki pages, and the parent/child fields in the tag edit menu. When I first found these fields, I believed I could use them to edit a tag's implication structure directly, saving admin some time. (As I learned later, this isn't the case--The Tag implication help page is clear on admin's involvement, and how to propose implication edits.) What these fields do instead is to publish parent/child information to the tag's wiki page, with no respect to the tag's actual, source implication structure.

Users who are confused by the tag edit menu like I was are, misguidedly, spreading misinformation among tag wiki pages.

The above illustrates two problems, and an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. The problems:

  • The role of the parent / child fields in the tag edit menu are unclear, with no nearby guiding documentation
  • Parent and child information in wiki pages need not match the actual parent structure, as shown in the example cupless_bra and its implication source page

If tag wiki pages could be systematically populated with parent/child documentation as it's laid out in the system, there would be no need for the parent/child fields in the tag edit menu, and each of these problems would be solved.

A quicker fix might be to document the function of the parent/child tags on the tag edit screen--that is, updating the tag's wiki page--and to guide users on that page as to how they can properly propose implication changes.

Admins - Thank you for taking the time to check out this post! What are your thoughts on this issue? How would you deal with it?

Implications and tag relationships are separate things. If that’s not obvious, uh…

What tag relationships aim to do I’m not quite sure. I just see it as filler information you can get on a given tag. You may want to contact System about this.

ALAKTORN said:
What tag relationships aim to do I’m not quite sure. I just see it as filler information you can get on a given tag. You may want to contact System about this.

Hi Alak,
I've seen sections for tag relationships in the wiki, such as "Related" and "See Also". If the parent/child sections in the wiki have nothing to do with tag implications, I wonder what they are used for.
How would I go about contacting System about this? I'm sure they're a busy person, like we all are.

Find his profile and send him a private message. He may or may not respond.