What is the Dark Knight tag intended to be used for?

Question

The dark-knight tag reads as follows:

The Dark Knight is one the nicknames for the DC Comic superhero Batman and the name of a 2008 live action feature film. Also refered to as the Caped Crusader and the Darknight Detective, Batman is a founding member of the Justice League.

Based on this description I'm not sure what this tag is used for. Is it be supposed to a synonym for the the batman tag, or about the 2008 movie, The Dark Knight?

It's current usage would indicate it's for questions about the The Dark Knight film, but my suggested edit to make the tag better reflect this was rejected because:

This edit changes too much in the original post; the original meaning or intent of the post would be lost

If it's supposed to be a synonym for the batman tag then it's currently lacking one. The synonym should be created, and a new tag for The Dark Knight needs to be created. Either way the tag should be edited to clearly state what it's intended to be used for. Having the additional information about other uses of the term in the excerpt is just confusing.

Answer 1

Synonymizing "Dark Knight" to "Batman" might not make sense (and consequently, the tag wiki needs to be changed), but at the same time, "Dark Knight" does not unambiguously refer to the 2008 movie. It also refers to a current comic series featuring the Caped Crusader, to say nothing of the confusion with the Frank Miller series from the 80s, which was also published under the "Dark Knight" moniker.

In trying to keep with the other tags that have this problem, I tried to find other examples in our tagging, but I only found stargate-movie with two questions. Somewhat curiously we don't even have a separate tag for Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lord of the Rings.

So why not just disambiguate the tag and create dark-knight-movie? Or perhaps dark-knight-film, since there's barely a precedent for overlapping tags right now. dark-knight should just be kept empty, or if that's really not amenable, synonymized to batman since you're not going to go wrong tagging a question about a Batman property batman.

Answer 2

Whatever its current usage is intended to be I suggest it be made into the tag for the movie The Dark Knight.

dark-knight is the most natural name for the tag, and also follows the convention of other tags on the site (including dark-knight-rises) where leading the "the" was removed. Naming it to something else would just be confusing for users.

Furthermore, having a shared tag, one intended to be used for both the film and as a generic Batman tag is both redundant and bothersome.

The redundancy comes from the fact we already have batman as an overarching Batman tag. Having a second tag for this which isn't a synonym is just confusing, and makes it harder for users to track down relevant questions (do users really need to perform a separate searches for batman and dark-knight?). Making it into a synonym wouldn't work, since the tag is also intended to be used for The Dark Knight.

The latter problem arises from the fact only way a user can filter questions about the movie with a shared tag is if all questions about the film are tagged with dark-knight movie. Although I can see the merit for this in some situations, it's completely unnecessary when we have a perfectly good tag available to use for questions about the film (dark-knight). I don't see any reason why we should require users to bother searching dark-knight movie for questions about The Dark Knight unless we absolutely have to. We should be making things easy for users, not more difficult.

tl;dr: There's no reason for this to be a shared tag, so let's just make it a tag solely for The Dark Knight.