If there are many questions centering around a specific amendment to the Constitution, why don't we create a tag for said amendment?

Question

Background

Recently, I help to initiate the creation of a tag called seventeenth-amendment. There are a total of 3 questions that pop up when you enter "seventeenth-amendment" into the search bar, as well as 3 tagged at the time of this question. Right now the only other amendments that exist as tags are:

1. The first amendment, which has 5 questions which has first amendment in the title and 6 tagged under it.
2. The second amendment, which has 9 questions with second amendment in the title and 13 tagged under it.
3. The twelfth amendment, which has 3 questions tagged under it.

There also happen to be several other amendments that have numerous questions around them. I am surprised these do not have their own specific tags yet, these include:

1. The fifth amendment, which has 6 questions with fifth amendment in the title.

2. The fourteenth amendment, which also has 6 questions with fourteenth amendment in the title.

3. The twenty-second amendment, which has 5 questions with 22nd-amendment in the title.

4. The twenty-fifth amendment, which has 8 questions with 25th-amendment in the title.

I could go on, or maybe enter the queries slightly differently, but my question remains the same...

Question

Given the prevalence of the non-tagged compared to the tagged amendment-based questions above, why don't we make tags for said amendments, (and others in the future, should they garner a larger amount of questions)?

Answer 1

discussion (not really an explicit approach here, just some thoughts on the question)

I think it may not be ideal in terms of finding questions. First of all, these tags are specific to the USA. So all second-amendment questions are also guns questions. On the other hand, not all guns questions are second-amendment questions (because of other countries). Country-specific tags are also rather ambiguous, because some may think about a different country (e.g. almost all countries have an article 1, but they probably mean different things in different texts).

As such, it would be better to use the generic tags so we categorise by subject rather than some rather abstract (for many people who don't know what each amendment is for) tag.

Of course, I used the guns and second-amendment as an easy example, it may well be that there are subjects which are covered by amendments without an appropriate tag. My preference would be to create new subject-based tags (preferably with after consulting on Meta) because they can also be used for questions relating to other countries.

I should note that I did something different when creating the [article-50] tag. On the one hand it works well and many other sources just refer to it as article 50, but there are obviously other articles 50, too. I guess it works fine until the ambiguity actually catches up to the site (i.e. more than one subject seemingly covered by the same tag).

One solution would be to make them more explicit, for example article-50-teu and second-amendment-us-const, but that's quite a mouthful (which could be shortened by using numerals rather that writing them in full).

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After giving it some thought, it's very similar to this question about country specific election tags. Then, the consensus was that it's better to combine multiple general tags as opposed to one very specific tag. I think the same reasoning applies here.

Answer 2

How many countries have a X Amendment. Why should we restructure Stack Exchange to have a bias for US politics?

Expansion: How many nations have a Constitution. Throughout the world, must First amendment only apply to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution?