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We currently have a and a . Overall, I think that united-nations is clearer, but UN has a wiki excerpt and more questions and followers. There are only three questions that are tagged with both, and I believe that one would be sufficient on those three.

I would like to copy the wiki and excerpt from UN to united-nations and then make UN as synonym for united-nations (such that UN will be replaced with united-nations). I have privileges enough to at least start those processes. I'm not sure what happens with the followers in that case, as I've never done it. I believe the questions get migrated.

My question is if there is any reason why I should not do that? Either to keep them separate or to go the other direction.

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I copied the tag wiki and then merged the tag into using the mod interface. This should retag all the questions, create a tag synonym and also update any subscriptions.

Merge Results

updating post history, 51 rows affected (pipe delimited)
updating posts, 41 rows affected  (pipe delimited)
updating PostTags associations, 38 rows affected
updating Documentation tag proposal commitments, 0 rows affected
removing/renaming old tag, 0 rows affected
updating count for master tag, 1 rows affected
tag remapping of [united-nations] and [un] complete!
remapping 0 synonyms
6 favorite and ignored tags remapped!
0 tracked tag badges were remapped!
Tag Synonym un -> united-nations was approved!
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No problem. A similar case was about the and tags, see details here.

I've been also subscribed to the RSS feed containing the former tag globally across the SE network, and I keep receiving notifications for Politics.SE questions tagged the latter one.

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