Is it Worth Suggesting? (To Combine or Not to Combine)

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Is it Worth Suggesting? (To Combine or Not to Combine)

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1gilroy
Aug 15, 2018, 11:16 am

I thought I'd ask before even offering these, because why waste time if it's going to be voted down, plus everyone then knows not to suggest again. (And if we leave the title vague, it can become a running question thread for future questions.)

My question:
Tag is blueberry pie - https://www.librarything.com/tag/blueberry+pie
But there also exists tags for blueberry pie with attached page numbers.
Everyone claims that lumping doesn't interfere with individual tags, so these could possibly go together. But at the same time, the page numbers make for an argument to keep them apart.

Thought I'd ask for consensus before proposing.

Also of consideration is ones for blueberry muffins - https://www.librarything.com/tag/blueberry+muffins
These have the same types of page number tags.

2lorax
Aug 15, 2018, 11:21 am

I'd probably say no, by the transitive principle, that if you combine "blueberry pie" with "blueberry pie (page 100)" and with "blueberry pie (page 50)", then you've also combined "blueberry pie (page 100)" with "blueberry pie (page 50)", and those two obviously aren't synonymous.

3Stevil2001
Aug 15, 2018, 2:15 pm

>2 lorax: Yeah, I'm a lumper by inclination, but I agree with this.