Remove tag [my-little-pony]

Question

Science Fiction and Fantasy.

First, some facts. As of this writing, our site has about 30 questions about (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic(, all of which are tagged with [my-little-pony-fim] and about 25 of which are tagged [my-little-pony]. We don't seem to have any questions about My Little Pony before the Friendship is Magic reboot. (No surprise, for Friendship is Magic is what made the franchise really popular.) Using two tags is confusing, and something should be done.

Here's what I propose. I ask the admins to remove the [my-little-pony] tag from all questions. If any new questions remain untagged from this, tag those questions with [my-little-pony-fim] if they are about the Friendship is Magic universe, or with [my-little-pony] if they are about previous generations. At the same time, modify the [my-little-pony] tag wiki to say something like:

My Little Pony franchise of Hasbro before the Friendship is Magic reboot in 2010. For questions about My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, please use the tag [my-little-pony-fim] instead.

A previous tagging question on meta about My Little Pony for reference: my-little-pony and friendship-is-magic

Update: per the discussion below, I revoke the above request. Instead, I will add the [my-little-pony] tag to all these questions, and everyone should try to make sure that the tag is added to questions in the future. I'm not happy with this, because now we have two almost redundant tags we have to maintain.

Answer 1

If the argument against destroying the my-little-pony is that there may be legitimate uses for the tag that don't involve my-little-pony-fim, then the solution is not to remove my-little-pony from the 24 questions tagged with both it and my-little-pony-fim.

Instead, it should be added to the 7 my-little-pony-fim questions currently missing it.

If we do have future questions that are legitimately about My Little Pony, but not about Friendship is Magic, then it becomes even more important that all My Little Pony questions, including the Friendship is Magic series, share a common set of tags.

Your concern is that someone searching for my-little-pony instead of my-little-pony-fim would miss 7 Friendship is Magic questions. If we did as you're proposing, that someone searching would miss all Friendship is Magic questions.

If someone were looking to find only the non-Friendship is Magic questions, they could search on "[my-little-pony] -[my-little-pony-fim]" and get all the questions tagged with the first, but not the second.