Planet of the Apes tags

Question

There are some questions about various movies in the Planet of the Apes franchise, in particular about the original as well as the 2001 remake, both directly titled Planet of the Apes, and some about the new franchise, i.e. the movies Rise of the... and Dawn of the.... Seeing that they were all tagged planet-of-the-apes I retagged the questions about the new movies with rise-planet-of-the-apes and dawn-planet-of-the-apes respectively, to reflect the actual titles more thoroughly.

But I see that this strategy is not that optimal regarding precision and reading pleasure (though, neither would rise-of-planet-of-apes be) and not too future proof either, given that it already scratches the 25 charater limit and previous (and possible future) movies in the franchise would already blast it with this minimal strategy.

So what would be the best strategy to tag those questions?

• Should the current (or by me prematurely employed) strategy of using rise-planet-of-the-apes and similar tags be left as is and adapted when the need arises (or for individual movies only)?
• Should they just all be tagged with a general planet-of-the-apes applying to the whole franchise?
• Or should we chose a completely different tagging strategy (dropping more filling words, abbreviation (oh, please not), or pleading the SE staff for a less stupid tag name limit (probably the best but least fruitful strategy))?

Answer 1

I deliberately ignored the Planet of the Apes tag when going for Research Assistant because of this issue. Personally I think we should use planet-of-the-apes for the franchise, and create new more specific tags for everything that has the same name:

• planet-of-the-apes-1968 For the original
• planet-of-the-apes-2001 For the remake
• planet-of-the-apes-tv For the TV show, if we ever get a question about it.

Which all fit with the limit. As for the sequels, unfortunately I think every solution is a bad one. People are probably going to start typing "Rise of" or "Dawn of" and get nothing.

There's got to be some leway with the tag names though, because as you can see from the data explorer tags are stored in a nvarchar (150), and as there's a limit of 5 tags per question, which are each stored in between angle brackets (< and >) (as you can verify by looking at this exported query result from a data exchange query). So the used characters for each row are at most:

(25 chars per tag + 2 brackets) * 5 tag limit = 135 chars

Which means there's 15 chars which are free in the tag section and could be allocated with some special longer tags which I believe mods should be able to create. This would allow us to create a single longer tag for those movies, such as escape-from-the-planet-of-the-apes and conquest-of-the-planet-of-the-apes which are tied for the longest names in the series. These would then be:

(34 char special tag + 2 for brackets) + ((25 chars per tag + 2 brackets) * 4 additional tag limit) = 144 chars

Which will still allow the tags to safely fit in the database without any changes required to the structure.