Should we retag this question?

Question

Riddle within a fantasy book about 3 men, one with money, one with might and one with a weapon?

This question was self-answered. While the OP thought they were looking for a story by Terry Pratchett and tagged it thus, it turned out to be something from A Song of Ice and Fire.

In general, we don't retag story ID questions when an answer has been found, but in this case it was already tagged, but wrong (because the OP misremembered where the story came from).

Should we now retag the question?

1. Should we remove the terry-pratchett and discworld tags?
2. Should we add a-song-of-ice-and-fire and related tags?

Answer 1

I vote in this case (the OP mistakenly tagged the question AND the tag was incorrect, as demonstrated by the accepted answer) that we remove the tag and also fix the title.

• If we believe titles are helpful for finding questions/answers, then incorrect titles are less helpful.
• There is no relation between Discworld and A Song of Ice and Fire, except both being fantasy worlds with a sometimes cynical world view.
• If we accept the Discworld tag, why not The Lord of the Rings? Both are works of fantasy, both could have a cynical character telling the story.

Answer 2

I'm not familiar with either of these franchises, so I can't answer the question myself, but here's how I see it:

• If the two franchises are similar enough that someone else is likely to make the same mistake as this OP did, it makes sense to leave the tags as they are, or at the most, add ASoFaI tags.

• If there is little or no possibility that someone else will make the same mistake as the OP did, then it would be acceptable to change the tags, and probably even remove any references to Pratchett/Discworld/any titles, locations, characters, etc, associated with this franchise.

• It probably isn't that important either way. Story ID questions are often duplicated, and site policy is to leave the new question open until/unless both the new question and the old question have accepted answers. The prevalence of Story ID dupes suggests that previous questions about the same story are rarely discovered by the person posting the new question before said question is posted. In other words, it is unlikely that someone who has a Story ID question about ASoFaI will find this question before he or she posts the new question, and it won't make any difference whether we change the tags or not.

As such, we can change the tags if we think that it might be beneficial to do so, or we can leave the tags as is if we think that it might be beneficial to do so. But whatever we do, it probably won't matter anyway, so if we simply ignore it altogether, it probably won't make a difference.