How should we tag Rick Riordan's works?

Question

I've just taken a look through the tags that we use for the works of Rick Riordan. For those unfamiliar, there are different series, all of them dealing with mythological gods and monsters in the world today, all of them at least nominally set in the same universe.

Each of the different series at the moment has its own tag:

• percy-jackson¹
• heroes-of-olympus²
• the-kane-chronicles³
• magnus-chase⁴
• the-trials-of-apollo⁵

Also, we have a rick-riordan tag, but since we only use author tags for questions about the author...⁶

These are all set in the same universe³. I'd like a way to keep track of all new questions about this universe, without watching 6 different tags for the same universe - for now, I can search for questions with any of those tags, but it's... slightly clunky. How should we tag this universe as a whole?

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_{¹This is also being used as a sort of general universe tag for the Greek storyline - it's been seen on Percy Jackson & the Olympians questions, The Heroes of Olympus questions, and The Trials of Apollo questions.}

_{²(Why don't we have the 'the' here? Ugh...)}

_{³While The Kane Chronicles is a little less firmly set in the same universe, it's got enough clues and some shared characters that it's in the same universe... plus 3 crossover stories ;)}

_{⁴magnus-chase-and-the-gods-of-asgard fits in the tag character limit, surely that's a better name that can be used...}

_{⁵Okay, there's only one question tagged with this and I created the tag today. I plead guilty.}

_{⁶Not that we have such a great track record of keeping with that policy...}

Answer 1

As per most of our agreed consensuses on the matter this should have a universe tag.

While we're reasonably inconsistent with our use of individual work tags, we normally accept not adding them when they're part of a series, so we don't really need any more specific work tags for the series. This may become a thing we need to readdress in the future but that can come when we've had a good, long, hard think about how we want to deal with our tags long term.

Back to the point, there should definitely be a universe tag here. This would allow us to group the multiple series under one series so it's easier for experts to narrow down their search and find the specific universe they want, after which they can narrow it down further by series. The author tags should stick to our current usage as shown in the links in the title (used only for questions about the author).

For the universe tag I suggest we use the tag percy-jackson as it is the term it is best known as.

For the book series we should therefore rename the tag percy-jackson-and-the-olympians (31 chars). We should continue to use the other series tags when they're required and the author tag for questions exclusively about the author.