How do I add a new tag to my question ?
I wanted to add a tag 'parish' to a question I posted in FamilySearch Places. I typed 'parish' into the Tags box, and it appears to show me a list of existing tags that contain the string of letters I typed. But none of those are appropriate.
If I type a comma or hit enter (which is the usual way to do it as far as I know) it adds the first predefined tag from the list, which is not what I want.
How do I create a new, relevant tag ?
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I added one to this question. Typing the word "parish" does bring some options. If none match what you want, you can click anywhere else on the page and "parish" becomes a tag.
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That doesn't work either.
Since I don't appear to be able to add tags to this comment I had to start a new question here
Test - trying to add a new tag — FamilySearch Community
When I created that I tried to add a new tag townland as you suggested.
It didn't work
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Part of the problem is that only mods like Maile can edit posts any time; mere mortal users like kob3203 and me only have four hours from first hitting "Ask" or "Post".
I've gotta ask, though: what do you expect to do with these tags? I have never found any use for them in this Community: there does not appear to be any method by which one can follow certain topics, or search or filter by certain tags, short of finding an existing post that happens to have the tag in question and clicking it. Or if you know the tag exactly, I suppose you can manually edit the URL... (https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussions/tagged/[your tag here]).
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I don't expect to do anything with them. :)
But if I start a discussion or ask a question about parishes or townlands in Ireland, then adding tags 'parish,Ireland' and 'townland,Ireland' respectively seems logical to me, regardless of whether those tags are currently of any use. If at some future time a proper tag search is implemented then I won't have to trawl through all my discussions/questions to retrospectively tag them.
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